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 ...

Truth in Play

By Debbie Nyman, Jill Lloyd-Jones, and David S. Craig
Subjects: Scenes & Monologues, Theatre Studies, Acting & Technique, Anthologies

Geared towards high-school students, Truth in Play: Drama Strategies for Building Meaningful Performances features a curated collection of short scenes from Canadian plays, complete with learning activities ...

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Edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard & Yvette Nolan
Subjects: South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre Studies, Indigenous Playwrights, Acting & Technique, Scenes & Monologues, Black Playwrights, Jewish Theatre, Anthologies

A collection can be used both as a monologue source for actors and students, or as a primer on diverse Canadian theatre and an entry point into new works, many of which are not yet widely available. Includes ...

Once More, With Feeling

Edited by Erin Hurley
Subjects: Anthologies

This anthology brings together plays that highlight different types of affective experience—thematically in their content, dramaturgically in their structure, or technically in their production. They ...

Age of Minority

By Jordan Tannahill
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Award Winners, Biography, Anthologies, Scenes & Monologues, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f | 1 m

Winner of the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award

Based on a true story, Get Yourself Home Skyler James follows the harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when she is outed by ...

Two-Spirit Acts

Edited by Jean O'Hara
Subjects: Anthologies, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Indigenous Playwrights

In this collection of short but powerful two-spirit plays, characters dispel conventional notions of gender and sexuality while celebrating Indigenous understandings. With a refreshing spin, the plays ...

Maggie and Pierre & The Duchess

By Linda Griffiths
Subjects: Anthologies, Solo Shows, Women Writers, Canadian Classics, Biography, History
Casting: 1 f | 3 f, 4 m

Winner of the first Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Maggie and Pierre chronicles the public and private relationship between Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau from 1974-1980. In this ...

Skin & Liars

By Dennis Foon
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Anthologies, Drugs, Alcohol & Substance Abuse, Family, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Coming of Age
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Skin introduces us to a group of Canadian teenagers who are coming of age in the late 1980s. Faced with racial discrimination, Phiroza, Jennifer, and Tuan must navigate the choppy waters of high school, ...

Fronteras Vivientes

Edited by Natalie Alvarez
Subjects: Anthologies, Latinx Canadian Playwrights

This book is the first to showcase the work of established and emerging Latina/o playwrights in Canada, charting the range and depth of Latina?/o Canadian theatre—its radical experimentations with form; ...

The Cave Painter & The Woodcutter

By Don Hannah
Subjects: Anthologies, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Award Winners, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 m | 1 f
Duration: 75 minutes

Dianne is a printmaker who derives her imagery from pre-history—Neanderthal teeth, the Jericho skulls, old bones. Too many people close to her have passed away, and her only son has rebelled by embracing ...