See Bob Run & Wild Abandon

By Daniel MacIvor
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Anthologies, Canadian Classics, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f | 1 m

Bob is on the road. Bob is on the run. But from what, or whom, is she running? Follow Bob as she hops from car to car telling her story to unsuspecting drivers as she tries to put her life in the rear-view ...

paper SERIES

By David Yee
Subjects: Super Short Shows, Solo Shows, Anthologies, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 3 m
Duration: 70 minutes

An unhappy orphan who finds solace in paper cut-outs of her parents, an Indian doctor who displays his medical degree in his taxi cab, and waiters who tamper with fortune cookie are some of the vibrant ...

New Canadian Realisms: Eight Plays

Edited by Roberta Barker & Kim Solga
Subjects: Anthologies

New Canadian Realisms: Eight Plays collects works of contemporary theatre, each of which may be defined as "realist" through both a crucial link to the past and a zest for re-tooling old definitions. Grounded ...

The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs & Thinking of Yu

By Carole Fréchette
Translated by John Murrell
Subjects: Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights, Anthologies

In The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs Grace finds herself irresistibly drawn to the mystery of the room her husband has forbidden her to enter. Will she let her curiosity get the best of her and ...

The Mill

Created by Daryl Cloran, Matthew MacFadzean
By Matthew MacFadzean, Hannah Moscovitch, Tara Beagan, and Damien Atkins
Subjects: Anthologies, History, Horror

It's 1854 at the start of Now We Are Brody. The mill is boarded up as the townsfolk attempt to bury a dark shame from their past, but the arrival of a young woman with the deed to the mill threatens to ...

Afrika, Solo

Edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Solo Shows, Black Playwrights, Anthologies

The plays in this anthology pit individual against community and cause readers to rethink the associations placed on skin colour, language, and assumptions regarding someone’s past. “Home away from ...

Rites of Passage

By David S. Craig & Chris Craddock
Subjects: Anthologies, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 11-14, Drugs, Alcohol & Substance Abuse, By Age - 15-18
Casting: 1 f, 2 m | 1 m | 2 f, 2 m

In Smokescreen and Wrecked, David S. Craig and Chris Craddock explore the values of truth and denial between father and son with the adolescent drug culture as a backdrop. In Napalm the Magnificent, a ...

Give Voice

Edited by Rita Shelton Deverell
Subjects: Super Short Shows, Black Playwrights, Anthologies

Give Voice is an anthology of twenty-minute plays created between 2006 and 2009 with the coaching, guidance, and support of artistic director Philip Akin. The book is divided into three sections: Families, ...

Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation Volume Three

Edited by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Anthologies, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Translations

Covering a diverse range of subject matter, many of these plays are published in English for the first time.

Includes:

When Books Come Tumbling Down (Le bibliothèque de Constance) by Marie-Eve Gagnon, ...

Pure Gold

Edited by Brian Kennedy
Subjects: Theatre Studies, Acting & Technique, Scenes & Monologues, Canadian Classics, Anthologies, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18

Culled from a wide variety of award-winning plays, the pieces presented here are sure to delight both those new to Canadian plays and those familiar with some of this country's most memorable stage shows ...