Half Life

By John Mighton
Subjects: Romance, Family Life, Award Winners, Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 4 f, 3 m, doubling

Two nursing home residents, both in their eighties, meet and fall in love, rekindling what might have been a wartime romance.

Had they previously met somewhere else under different circumstances? Why is ...

The Drawer Boy

By Michael Healey
Subjects: History, Rural Settings, Comedy, Family Life, Siblings, Award Winners, Ontario Playwrights, Canadian Classics, Mental Health
Casting: 3 m

A young actor from the big city lives with two aging bachelor farmers to gather stories about rural life. The farmers' lives are irrevocably altered when art attempts to imitate life and the line between ...

The Book of Jessica

By Linda Griffiths & Maria Campbell
Subjects: Award Winners, Women Writers, Canadian Classics
Casting: 2 f, 4 m

Part dialogue, part narrative, part playscript, this unique book contains the award-winning play Jessica, as well as the extraordinary story of its making.

Three in the Back, Two in the Head

By Jason Sherman
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners, Canadian Classics
Casting: 1 f, 4 m

The issue of loyalty and betrayal is dramatized through dialogue in the Governor-General's-Award-winning Three in the Back, Two in the Head, which appears to have been based on the assassination of Gerald ...