The Bombay Plays

By Anosh Irani
Subjects: Anthologies, Family Life, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, South Asian Canadian Playwrights

From renowned author Anosh Irani comes an updated edition of The Bombay Plays featuring two plays that explore the depths of the back alleys of Bombay. Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding ...

Huff & Stitch

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Anthologies, Family Life, Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f | 1 m

In huff, brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father’s abusive whims and their mother’s recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pull ...

Long Story Short

Edited by Rebecca Burton
Subjects: Theatre Studies, Acting & Technique, Anthologies, Scenes & Monologues, Super Short Shows

Ideal for a range of readers, from drama students to aspiring theatre practitioners, and for those working in community and professional theatres, Long Story Short gathers from acclaimed and emerging playwrights ...

Double Exposure

Edited by Stephen Orlov & Samah Sabawi
Subjects: Anthologies, Jewish Theatre, Theatre of War, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Award Winners

The first of its kind, Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas is a groundbreaking anthology about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict penned by Diaspora playwrights of Jewish and ...

Try

By Daniel MacIvor
Subjects: Family Life, Anthologies, Community Theatre Picks, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia

In Communion, a recovering alcoholic and her estranged daughter try to negotiate a new relationship in spite of vastly different lifestyles; Was Spring tells the story of three women who suffered a tragic ...

Ignite

By Heather Fitzsimmons-Frey
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Anthologies
Casting: 2 f, 2 m + 1 actor | 2 f, 1 m | 5 f

A groundbreaking new collection, Ignite: Illuminating Theatre for Young People gathers three plays for young audiences that feature “messy” and complicated creation processes: The Middle Place by ...

Love, Loss, and Longing

Edited by Dalbir Singh
Subjects: Anthologies, South Asian Canadian Playwrights

Love, Loss, and Longing is a collection of six plays from acclaimed and award-winning South Asian Canadian playwrights that explore themes of family, love, trauma, race, and more. Featuring introductions ...

Performing Back

Edited by Dalbir Singh
Subjects: Anthologies
Casting: 12 actors | 3 f | 3 m, doubling

The area of post-colonial studies is primarily concerned with how societies and cultures have been affected through the processes of colonization, and Canada is considered by many literary and cultural ...

Little One and Other Plays

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Women Writers, Anthologies, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Dating & Sex, Mental Health
Casting: 1 f, 1 m | 2 f | 2 f, 1 m

A chilling psychological thriller, Little One is the haunting story of adopted siblings Aaron and Claire—one the definition of normal, the other deeply disturbed and unpredictable—and the strange lives ...

White Biting Dog and Other Plays

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Anthologies, Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners, Women Writers

This book collects some of Judith Thompson’s earlier, hard- to-find plays, including White Biting Dog, a poetic black comedy about a divorced lawyer who prepares to kill himself by jumping off the Bloor ...