Linda Griffiths

Edited by Jacqueline Petropoulos
Subjects: Biography, Non-Fiction / Essays, Women Writers
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 ...

Between Breaths

By Robert Chafe
Subjects: Biography, Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

Dr. Jon Lien is a risk-taker and respected researcher, working for over twenty years in the dangerous waters off Newfoundland to rescue massive humpback whales and save the fishing gear in which they’re ...

Gertrude and Alice

By Evalyn Parry & Anna Chatterton
With Karin Randoja
Subjects: LGBT/Queer Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Biography, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f

Visiting the audience in the present day, Gertrude and Alice come to find out how history has treated them. The couple recounts stories of their forty-year relationship; of meetings with iconic artists ...

A Man of Letters

Edited by Jessica Riley
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Theatre Studies, History & Criticism, Non-Fiction / Essays, Playwriting, Biography

The late Urjo Kareda was renowned for his commitment to respond personally to the hundreds of mostly unsolicited scripts received by Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, where he served as artistic director ...

1979

By Michael Healey
Subjects: Comedy, Biography, Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, History
Casting: 3+ actors

It's December 1979 and Clark's minority Progressive Conservative government is under threat of dissolution before it has a chance to accomplish anything — even pass a budget. But Clark is young and ...

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

By Robert Chafe
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, Biography, Adaptations, History, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 3 f, 8 m

Spanning two decades, Smallwood’s story is anchored and propelled by one of Johnston’s most memorable creations: the fictitious Sheilagh Fielding, a caustic newspaper columnist whose own battles with ...

Einstein's Gift

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

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 ...

Daniel MacIvor

Edited by Richie Wilcox
Subjects: Non-Fiction / Essays, Biography
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre

This volume of essays is the first solely dedicated to the work of Daniel MacIvor. It aims to contextualize and analyze the work of this highly prolific theatre artist who is consistently produced and ...

Age of Minority

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

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 fellow soldiers. The award-winning rihannaboi95 centres ...

Maggie and Pierre & The Duchess

By Linda Griffiths
Subjects: Biography, Anthologies, Women Writers, Solo Shows, Canadian Classics, History
Casting: 3 f, 4 m | 1 f

Winner of the first Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Maggie and Pierre chronicles the public and private relationship between Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau from 1974-1980. In this ...