Between Breaths

By Robert Chafe
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, Biography
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 ...

A Man of Letters

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

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: Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Comedy, Political Theatre, History, Biography, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3+ actors

A fast-paced political comedy from Michael Healey, the critically acclaimed author of The Drawer Boy and Proud, that examines the space between ideals and political reality during a monumental moment ...

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 ...

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: 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 ...

Maggie and Pierre & The Duchess

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

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 ...

The Real McCoy

By Andrew Moodie
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Biography, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, History, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 5 m

The story of inventor Elijah McCoy, whose name became a byword for quality, as in "the real McCoy." The play explains why we've never heard of him and reclaims a fascinating man's life from undeserved ...

The Drowning Girls and Comrades

By Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, and Daniela Vlaskalic
Introduction by Liz Nicholls
Subjects: Anthologies, Biography, History, Women Writers, Award Winners
Casting: 2 m | 3 f

The Drowning Girls

Bessie, Alice, and Margaret have two things in common: they are married to George Joseph Smith, and they are dead. Surfacing from the bathtubs they were drowned in, the three breathless ...

Mieko Ouchi: Two Plays

By Mieko Ouchi
Introduction by Vanessa Porteous
Subjects: Biography, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, History, Anthologies
Casting: 2 f, 3 m, doubling | 1 f, 1 m

The Blue Light: Leni Riefenstahl, one hundred years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive. Leni's reason to be there is clear: to make one last desperate pitch to direct her ...