Eraser

By Bilal Baig, Sadie Epstein-Fine
With Christol Bryan, Marina Gomes, Yousef Kadoura, Tijiki Morris, Anthony Perpuse, and Nathan Redburn
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Bullying, (Im)migration, By Age — 11–14, Death, Grief & Loss, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Disability Theatre, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 6 roles
Duration: 60 minutes

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 ...

This is Beyond

Edited by Evan Tsitsias & Bilal Baig
Subjects: Nonfiction / Essays, Theatre for Young Audiences, Dating & Sex, Coming of Age, Political Theatre, Essays, Theatre Studies, History & Criticism, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre

In this rapid moment of expansion in queer theatre, when everything is exposed, interrogated, and investigated, This is Beyond is a time capsule of where we are now and a map for where we might go next. ...

Black Boys

By Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide
With Virgilia Griffith, and Jonathan Seinen
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Black Playwrights
Casting: 3 m
Duration: 90 minutes

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, ...

Calpurnia

By Audrey Dwyer
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Family Life, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Women Writers, Political Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 3 f, 3 m

Julie, a young Jamaican Canadian screenwriter, is passionately working on an adaptation of one of the most beloved American novels of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird, telling the story from the perspective ...

Blackout

By Tamara Brown, Kym Dominique-Ferguson, Lydie Dubuisson, and Mathieu Murphy-Perron
Subjects: History, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Political Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre

In February 1969, hundreds of students occupied a computer centre at what is now Montréal’s Concordia University to protest the mismanagement of a racism complaint lodged by Caribbean students against ...

Body So Fluorescent

By Amanda Cordner & David Di Giovanni
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Comedy, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f

What happened last night on the dance floor? Gary knows he went to the club with his friend Desiree, but now all he has is a fuzzy memory and a text saying, “We’re done.” Desiree has known something’s ...

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 ...

Duecentomila

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

Is My Microphone On?

By Jordan Tannahill
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, By Age — 15–18, Environmental Issues, Environment, Political Theatre

In another life I was a small bubble of foam on a wave coming to shore, and the wave broke, and I burst, and that was it. Before that I was a small stream, for centuries. And in another life I was a mortal ...

Forget Me Not

By Ronnie Burkett
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Romance, Ontario Playwrights, Puppets & Puppetry
Casting: 1 m
Duration: 120 minutes

Welcome to the New Now, a time in which written language has been forbidden and forgotten. Those who desire to have their love letters written and read must make a dangerous journey to the secret and ...