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, ...

A Foster Christmas

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Anthologies, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Comedy

Ethan Claymore
It's a week before Christmas, and struggling egg farmer/artist Ethan Claymore meets a woman who could turn his life around. But things are shaken up when Ethan receives a visit from his ...

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 ...

Canada and the Theatre of War: Volume Two

Edited by Donna Coates & Sherrill Grace
Subjects: History, Theatre of War, Anthologies

This second volume of Canadian war drama focuses on plays about contemporary warfare.

Includes:

Game of Patience by Abla Farhoud, translated by Jill Mac Dougall
A Line In the Sand by Guillermo Verdecchia ...

Outspoken

Edited by Susan G. Cole
Subjects: Anthologies, Scenes & Monologues, LGBT/Queer Theatre, Women Writers

Touching on gender, sexuality, family, pop culture, and history, these pieces range from the hilarious to the poignant, the sexy to the sincere, the truthful to the tongue-in-cheek. Collected by writer ...

Stories from the Bush

Edited by Joe Osawabine & Shannon Hengen
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, Anthologies

The work done by De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre makes a significant contribution to Aboriginal theatre, culture, Canadian theatre and society as a whole. The six plays gathered here were chosen based on their ...

A Certain William

Edited by Leanore Lieblein
Subjects: Shakespeare, Canadian Shakespeare, Anthologies, Adaptations

A collection of plays in English translation by some of Francophone Canada's most distinguished playwrights, chronicling their fraught and changing relationship with Shakespeare, these plays emerge from ...