Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers

By Makambe K Simamba
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Award Winners, Death, Grief & Loss, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 1 role
Duration: 60 minutes

Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through ...

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Award Winners, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 120 hours

The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking new play by the acclaimed author of What a Young Wife Ought to Know and Bunny.

Jon, a star ...

When Words Sing

Edited by Julie Salverson
Subjects: Award Winners, Musicals, Anthologies, Theatre Studies

Meet the creators behind the words of Canadian opera in this exciting new collection of contemporary libretti. Featuring Ours by Robert Chafe, Rocking Horse Winner by Anna Chatterton, Beatrice Chancy by ...

The Bridge

By Shauntay Grant
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Rural Settings, Black Playwrights, Award Winners, Family Life, Siblings, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 4 f, 3 m
Duration: 90 hours

Set in a rural Black Nova Scotian community, The Bridge explores the complex relationship between two brothers strained over twenty years of secrecy, deception, and dishonour. Secrets are revealed one ...

Theory

By Norman Yeung
Subjects: Award Winners, Political Theatre, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 4 m
Duration: 90 hours

Is there a limit to free speech? Who gets to decide?

Isabelle’s film theory students are stunned that she would open an unmoderated online discussion group to complement a controversial syllabus. Her ...

New Magic Valley Fun Town

By Daniel MacIvor
Subjects: Award Winners, Community Theatre Picks, Family Life, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 hours

From the acclaimed playwright behind A Beautiful View, The Best Brothers, and This is What Happens Next comes a moving portrait about what we choose to forget and how we decide to move on.

Cape Bretoner ...

Bears

By Matthew MacKenzie
Foreword by Christine Sokaymoh Frederick
Subjects: Award Winners, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Environmental Issues
Duration: 70 hours

As the prime suspect in a workplace accident, Floyd has to get out of town fast. Pursued by the RCMP, he heads through the Rockies for Burnaby, BC, along the route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. By the ...

Bar Mitzvah Boy

By Mark Leiren-Young
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Award Winners, Jewish Theatre, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Comedy
Duration: 85 hours

Joey Brant needs to have a bar mitzvah immediately. Like, next Tuesday. Except he’s not thirteen, the usual age for the Jewish milestone. He’s in his sixties. A task he thinks he could quickly cross ...

Sequence (Second Edition)

By Arun Lakra
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Western Playwrights, Alberta, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Science & Scientists, Canadian Classics, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 80 hours

“Luck is like irony. Not everybody who thinks they got it, got it.”

Theo has been named Time Magazine’s Luckiest Man Alive. For twenty consecutive years he has successfully bet double or nothing ...

Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom

By Jordan Tannahill
Foreword by Kirsten Bowen
Subjects: History, Award Winners, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Anthologies
Casting: 2 f, 4 m

Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom presents wildly apocryphal retellings of two events—one historic, one mythic—that reconsider the official record through decidedly queer and feminist lenses. ...