Eraser

By Bilal Baig, Sadie Epstein-Fine
With Christol Bryan, Marina Gomes, Yousef Kadoura, Tijiki Morris, Anthony Perpuse, and Nathan Redburn
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, (Im)migration, Theatre for Young Audiences, Bullying, Disability Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, By Age — 11–14, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 6 roles

An immersive experience, Eraser delves into the memories and fantasies of a classroom of students as they figure out who they want to be. Six students guide readers through their different journeys, taking ...

Power Moves

Edited by Seika Boye & MJ Thompson
Subjects: Dance, Non
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre

This collection of essays focuses how dance and movement engage and enact political questions around agency, mobility, pedagogy, and resistance. Committed to crossing disciplinary boundaries, Power Moves ...

Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Translations, Family Life, Feminist Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights
Casting: 4 f, 1 m

For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal’s Espace GO as part of an artistic residency that would profoundly shake her outlook on words, theatre practice, ...

From the Ashes

Edited by Shauntay Grant
Subjects: Solo Shows, Women Writers, Anthologies, Black Playwrights, Feminist Theatre

From the Ashes collects solo plays by Black Canadian women and womxn that together celebrate the hope, humour, and healing that can come after devastation and loss. From lighthearted comedies to heavy ...

The Party & The Candidate

By Kat Sandler
Subjects: Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre, Women Writers
Casting: 5 f, 5 m

In these two entwined, fast-paced plays, the hilarious goings-on
behind the scenes of a controversial election chaotically unfold first at the
fundraiser that will decide the party’s nominee and then ...

The Jungle

By Anthony MacMahon & Thomas McKechnie
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Political Theatre, (Im)migration, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

Can Jack and
Veronyka ever get ahead? In this all-too-relatable love story in a city
suffocating under late-stage capitalism, a young couple is pitted against odd
after odd in a way that isn’t about ...

Black Boys

By Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide
With Virgilia Griffith, and Jonathan Seinen
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3 m

Black Boys by Saga Collectif (Virgilia Griffith, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide, and Jonathan Seinen) uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black experience. Text, ...

Fall On Your Knees

Adapted by Hannah Moscovitch & Alisa Palmer
By Ann-Marie MacDonald
Subjects: Women Writers, Romance, Adaptations, Feminist Theatre, Family Life, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 8 f, 5 m, doubling

In an adaptation of the classic Canadian novel, this epic play follows three generations of a Cape Breton Island family in a tale of forbidden love, inescapable bonds, and devastating betrayals, all while ...

among men

By David Yee
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Rural Settings, Comedy, Biography, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 m

1959, Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward County, Canada. On the edge of spring, two men are finishing an A-frame cabin on Roblin Lake. In the coming decade all three of them—Al, Milt, and the A-frame—will ...

Burning Mom

By Mieko Ouchi
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Comedy, Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Death, Grief, & Loss, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f

After nearly a year of mourning her husband’s death, sixtysomething Dorothy needs to feel alive. So she pitches a road-trip idea to her family—attending Burning Man, the massive arts festival known ...