From the Ashes

Edited by Shauntay Grant
Subjects: Solo Shows, Women Writers, Anthologies, Black Playwrights, Feminist Theatre

From the Ashes collects solo plays by Black Canadian women and womxn that together celebrate the hope, humour, and healing that can come after devastation and loss. From lighthearted comedies to heavy ...

Black Boys

By Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide
With Virgilia Griffith, and Jonathan Seinen
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3 m

Black Boys by Saga Collectif (Virgilia Griffith, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide, and Jonathan Seinen) uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black experience. Text, ...

Calpurnia

By Audrey Dwyer
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Political Theatre, Women Writers, Family Life, Black Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 3 f, 3 m

Julie, a young Jamaican Canadian screenwriter, is passionately working on an adaptation of one of the most beloved American novels of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird, telling the story from the perspective ...

Blackout

By Tamara Brown, Kym Dominique-Ferguson, Lydie Dubuisson, and Mathieu Murphy-Perron
Subjects: History, Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights, Black Playwrights, Political Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre

In February 1969, hundreds of students occupied a computer centre at what is now Montréal’s Concordia University to protest the mismanagement of a racism complaint lodged by Caribbean students against ...

Body So Fluorescent

By Amanda Cordner & David Di Giovanni
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Solo Shows, Comedy, Women Writers, Mental Health
Casting: 1 f

What happened last night on the dance floor? Gary knows he went to the club with his friend Desiree, but now all he has is a fuzzy memory and a text saying, “We’re done.” Desiree has known something’s ...

The Negroes Are Congregating

By Natasha Adiyana Morris
Subjects: Women Writers, Comedy, Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

In this unapologetic and sharp-witted perspective about the evolving Black experience in Canada and around the world, a rhythmic fusion of spoken word, satire, and soulful dialect emerges steady as a ...

Reaching for Starlight

By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Foreword by Mike Payette
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Ontario Playwrights, By Age — 8–10, Women Writers, Black Playwrights
Casting: 8 f, 2 m
Duration: 75 minutes

Reenie wants to dance, following in her mother’s footsteps. Just like the rest of her ensemble, she believes she has what it takes to earn the coveted solo at the year-end recital. But when she notices ...

Simone, Half and Half

By Christine Rodriguez
Foreword by Quincy Armorer
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights, (Im)migration, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Fourteen-year-old Simone is caught between cultures: Canadian, Québécois, and Trinidadian. She’s also torn between friends and the projects they want her to take part in. Her best friend Sarah wants ...

Every Day She Rose

By Andrea Scott & Nick Green
Subjects: Political Theatre, Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

After the Black Lives Matter protest at the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade, two friends find their racial and queer politics aren’t as aligned as they thought, and the playwrights behind them must figure ...

Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers

By Makambe K Simamba
Subjects: Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Award Winners, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 1 role
Duration: 60 minutes

Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through ...