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 ...

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 ...

among men

By David Yee
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Rural Settings, Biography
Casting: 2 m

1959, Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward County, Canada. On the edge of spring, two men are finishing an A-frame cabin on Roblin Lake. In the coming decade all three of them—Al, Milt, and the A-frame—will ...

Burning Mom

By Mieko Ouchi
Subjects: Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Solo Shows, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Feminist Theatre, Comedy, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 1 f

A retired suburban wife and mother tragically loses her partner after forty-five years together. So what does she do? The only thing that makes any sense at all. She embarks on her own hero’s journey. ...

Winter of 88

By Mohammad Yaghoubi
Translated by Nazanin Malekan & Mohammad Yaghoubi
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, West Asian Canadian Playwrights, Political Theatre, Mental Health, Award Winners, Translations, Theatre of War
Casting: 4 f, 4 m

A new apartment should be a warm and welcoming signal to a fresh chapter of life. It shouldn’t be where a family waits in the dark, surrounded by unpacked boxes, as missiles rain down around them.

Already ...

Forgiveness

Adapted by Hiro Kanagawa
By Mark Sakamoto
Illustrated by Cindy Mochizuki
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre of War, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Adaptations, Family Life, Biography, (Im)migration, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 5 f, 8 m, doubling

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild ...

Lady Sunrise

By Marjorie Chan
Foreword by Nina Lee Aquino
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, Large Cast, Women Writers
Casting: 6 f

From the glittering high-rise condos to the desperate streets of Vancouver, powerful stories told by women reveal the fraying social fabric among the wealthy and hangers-on in the city’s Asian Canadian ...

Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方

By Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Foreword by Jonathan Seinen
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Political Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 2 m, 1 chorus | 3 f, 5 m, doubling

From the author of trace comes two adaptations that transport mythological stories from Ancient Greece to modern-day civilizations. Led by people of colour, these darkly comedic plays depict recognizable ...

A Perfect Bowl of Pho

By Nam Nguyen
Subjects: (Im)migration, Asian Canadian Playwrights, History, Ontario Playwrights, Musicals, Comedy
Casting: 12 roles
Duration: 80 minutes

Nam, a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup ...

Through the Bamboo

By Andrea Mapili & Byron Abalos
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 8–10, Death, Grief & Loss, By Age — 11–14, Women Writers
Casting: 7 f, 3 m
Duration: 75 hours

Twelve-year-old Philly is literally pulled into an action-packed adventure while mourning the loss of her lola when she opens an old book and finds herself tossed into the fantastical land of Uwi.

In Uwi, ...