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, By Age — 11–14, Ontario Playwrights, Bullying, Death, Grief & Loss, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, (Im)migration, Disability Theatre
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 ...

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

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, ...

cockroach (曱甴)

By Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, (Im)migration, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Adaptations, Award Winners, Shakespeare
Casting: 3 roles m/nb

You
can call him Cockroach, or Roach for short. He’s a catnip-smoking city slicker
living in the dark corners of our homes. A bard (yes, that one) longs for rest
as he contends with his legacy. In their ...

I Forgive You

By Scott Jones & Robert Chafe
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Family Life, Disability Theatre, Rural Settings, Mental Health, Verbatim Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 m, child dancer, and chorus

In October 2013, Scott Jones was leaving a bar in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, when he was attacked, stabbed in the back, and left paralyzed from the waist down. In the months following his attack, Scott ...

The Green Line | خطّ التماس

By Makram Ayache
Translated by Hiba Sleiman
Subjects: History, Family Life, Siblings, (Im)migration, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Award Winners, Asian Canadian Playwrights, West Asian Canadian Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

A poetic, heartbreaking story of intergenerational queer history in Lebanon, The Green Line weaves together civil war Beirut with a contemporary nightclub, following one family’s journey to discover ...

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. ...

Calpurnia

By Audrey Dwyer
Subjects: Women Writers, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Family Life, Political Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Black Playwrights
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: Black Playwrights, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, History, Political 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: Mental Health, Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Solo Shows, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
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 ...