Einstein's Gift

By Vern Thiessen
Subjects: Award Winners, Science & Scientists, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Biography, Theatre of War, Canadian Classics, Western Playwrights, Alberta, History
Casting: 2 f, 5 m
Duration: 135 minutes

A revolutionary chemist, Dr. Fritz Haber discovered too late that when his knowledge was put in the hands of the wrong people, millions would die; his efforts to serve humanity futile against political ...

The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble

By Beth Graham
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Award Winners
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Iris Trimble is trying to hold it all together. She may very well fly off the face of the earth if she doesn’t hang on to the kitchen counter. At least that’s how she feels after her mother, Bernice, ...

White Biting Dog and Other Plays

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Anthologies, Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners, Women Writers

This book collects some of Judith Thompson’s earlier, hard- to-find plays, including White Biting Dog, a poetic black comedy about a divorced lawyer who prepares to kill himself by jumping off the Bloor ...

carried away on the crest of a wave

By David Yee
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners
Casting: 1 f, 5 m+
Duration: 100 minutes

From the shore of Ko Phi Phi in Thailand to a suburb in Utah to a mysterious Kafkaesque hole in the ground, carried away on the crest of a wave gives us brief glimpses into the lives of a sphinx-like escort, ...

Age of Minority

By Jordan Tannahill
Subjects: Award Winners, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Biography, Anthologies, Solo Shows, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Scenes & Monologues
Casting: 1 m | 1 f

Winner of the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award

Based on a true story, Get Yourself Home Skyler James follows the harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when she is outed by ...

This Is War

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Award Winners, Women Writers, Theatre of War
Casting: 1 f, 3 m
Duration: 80 minutes

Master Corporal Tanya Young, Captain Stephen Hughes, Private Jonny Henderson, and Sergeant Chris Anders have lived through an atrocity while holding one of the most volatile regions in Afghanistan. As ...

Blood

By Meg Braem
Subjects: Horror, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Family Life, Siblings, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Twin sisters Poubelle and Angelique are bonded in both biology and shared tragedy after a car accident leaves them orphaned along a prairie highway in a pool of blood. But the young twins are brought ...

Latina/o Canadian Theatre and Performance

Edited by Natalie Alvarez
Subjects: Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Award Winners, Non-Fiction / Essays
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre

Featuring exciting and provocative new essays by leading and emerging scholars in Canada and the US, this foundational collection begins a conversation about Latina/o theatre and performance in Canada. ...

The Cave Painter & The Woodcutter

By Don Hannah
Subjects: Anthologies, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Award Winners, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 m | 1 f
Duration: 75 minutes

Dianne is a printmaker who derives her imagery from pre-history—Neanderthal teeth, the Jericho skulls, old bones. Too many people close to her have passed away, and her only son has rebelled by embracing ...

Brothel #9

By Anusree Roy
Introduction by Iris Turcott
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Award Winners, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

A deal has been struck between two men in India—twenty-one hundred rupees in exchange for a young village woman named Rekha. Sent to Calcutta without knowing why, Rekha finds herself in the confines ...