Forgiveness

Adapted by Hiro Kanagawa
By Mark Sakamoto
Illustrated by Cindy Mochizuki
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre of War, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Adaptations, Family Life, Biography, (Im)migration, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 5 f, 8 m, doubling

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild ...

Dividing Lines | Líneas Divisorias

By Beatriz Pizano
Subjects: Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Solo Shows, Death, Grief & Loss, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, (Im)migration
Casting: 1 f

The one thing everyone knows is that we’re all going to die. Which means our loved ones are going to die. So how can we prepare for, experience, and honour their deaths? And does that look different ...

William Shakespeare's As You Like It, A Radical Retelling

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Award Winners, Adaptations, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Ontario Playwrights
Duration: 90 minutes

The title of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It holds a double meaning that teasingly suggests the play can please all tastes. But is that possible? With his subversive updating of the Bard’s classic, ...

Wasp

By Rhiannon Collett
Subjects: Rural Settings, Political Theatre, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Feminist Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 5 roles
Duration: 90 minutes

In a town ruled by a shadowy cult, outliers Wasp and Janey nurture a dwindling community of queer resistance. Faced with social isolation and medical barriers, they remain determined to make things work ...

Reasonable Doubt

By Joel Bernbaum, Lancelot Knight, and Yvette Nolan
Introduction by Maria Campbell
Subjects: Verbatim Theatre, Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Musicals, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Death, Grief & Loss, History, Rural Settings
Casting: 6 roles

A significant moment in Canadian history is portrayed in this documentary musical about race relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Weaving hundreds of real interviews conducted with ...

Wildfire & The Shoe

By David Paquet
Translated by Leanna Brodie
Subjects: Mental Health, Translations, Award Winners, Quebec Playwrights, Family Life, Siblings, Comedy
Casting: 2 f, 1 m, doubling | 2 f, 2 m

With spark and spunk, these two dark yet absurdly charming comedies offer a kaleidoscopic perspective of those who are destined to go down a lonely path and those who choose to share the weight of others’ ...

The Enchanted Loom

By Suvendrini Lena
Translated by Dushy Gnanapragasam
Introduction by Sharryn Aiken & R. Cheran
Subjects: Science & Scientists, Theatre of War, (Im)migration, Family Life, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Mental Health, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Translations
Casting: 3 f, 3 m

The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of ...

Duecentomila

By kai fig taddei
Foreword by Paula Wing
Subjects: Family Life, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, (Im)migration, Theatre for Young Audiences, Dating & Sex, By Age — 15–18, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 4 roles

Estranged teenage cousins Eli and Kat have recently met online and bonded over their queer identities, but they have a limited understanding of each other’s very different realities. In Italy, soft-spoken ...

Simone, Half and Half

By Christine Rodriguez
Foreword by Quincy Armorer
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, By Age — 15–18, (Im)migration
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Fourteen-year-old Simone is caught between cultures: Canadian, Québécois, and Trinidadian. She’s also torn between friends and the projects they want her to take part in. Her best friend Sarah wants ...

Bluebirds

By Vern Thiessen
Introduction by Cynthia Toman
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Theatre of War, History, Community Theatre Picks, Biography, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 3 f

Étaples, France, 1918. Nurses Christy, Maggie, and Bab have crossed oceans to care for wounded Canadian soldiers in the Great War. Despite the terrible injuries they must deal with, they manage to stay ...