among men

By David Yee
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Biography, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy, Rural Settings
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 ...

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 ...

Bluebirds

By Vern Thiessen
Introduction by Cynthia Toman
Subjects: Theatre of War, Community Theatre Picks, History, Death, Grief & Loss, Biography, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 3 f

Étaples, France, 1918. Nurses Christy, Maggie, and Bab have crossed oceans to care for wounded Canadian soldiers in the Great War. Despite the terrible injuries they must deal with, they manage to stay ...

Secret Life of a Mother

By Hannah Moscovitch
With Maev Beaty & Ann-Marie Kerr
Foreword by Marinda de Beer
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights, Biography, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f

The raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and mothering are revealed in this true story of motherhood for the twenty-first century.

A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood ...

Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell

By Trina Davies
Foreword by Peter Hinton-Davis
Subjects: Romance, History, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Women Writers, Biography, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 4 f, 2 m
Duration: 110 minutes

It only takes one spark of love to change the world forever.

Mabel Hubbard Bell was a strong, self-assured woman—bright, passionate, and a complete original. Despite a near-fatal case of childhood scarlet ...

Brontë: The World Without

By Jordi Mand
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Biography, History, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 3 f
Duration: 135 minutes

What happens when a passion is turned into a means to survive?

Sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë have always enjoyed writing and storytelling, but so far, it’s been for their own personal enjoyment. ...

trace

By Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Family Life, (Im)migration, Biography, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 m
Duration: 75 minutes

"I support you when you need, so that you support me when I need. "

An elegant and sweeping story of a Chinese family’s history, trace follows the footsteps of four generations as their homes and identities ...

Straight Jacket Winter

By Esther Duquette & Gilles Poulin-Denis
Subjects: Family Life, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Biography, Translations
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

When Esther and Gilles decided to move from Montréal to Vancouver, they didn’t expect their lives to change so starkly. All they wanted was to start a new life for themselves, to find new artistic ...

Mother's Daughter

By Kate Hennig
Subjects: Women Writers, Biography, Political Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Feminist Theatre, History
Casting: 6 f, 1 m
Duration: 120 minutes

In this stunning third part to Kate Hennig’s powerful Queenmaker series, England’s first queen regnant finds herself fighting xenophobia, religious nationalism, and strained familial bonds in the ...

Linda Griffiths

Edited by Jacqueline Petropoulos
Subjects: Women Writers, Non-Fiction / Essays, Biography
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre

For more than three decades, Griffiths worked tirelessly and passionately to redefine drama and performance in Canada, constantly pushing artistic boundaries in her quest to tell new and unconventional ...