among men

By David Yee
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Biography, Rural Settings, Comedy
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: Feminist Theatre, Solo Shows, Women Writers, Comedy, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Death, Grief, & Loss, 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. ...

Forgiveness

Adapted by Hiro Kanagawa
By Mark Sakamoto
Illustrated by Cindy Mochizuki
Subjects: (Im)migration, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Family Life, Death, Grief, & Loss, Theatre of War, Adaptations, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Biography
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: Large Cast, Ontario Playwrights, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 6 f
Duration: 105 minutes

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, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Political Theatre, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 5 m, doubling | 1 f, 2 m, 1 chorus

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 ...