Reaching for Starlight

By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 8–10, By Age — 11–14, Ontario Playwrights, 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 ...

The Negroes Are Congregating

By Natasha Adiyana Morris
Subjects: Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 120 minutes

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 ...

Black Boys

By Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide
With Virgilia Griffith, and Jonathan Seinen
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 3 m
Duration: 90 minutes

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, ...

Simone, Half and Half

By Christine Rodriguez
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, By Age — 11–14, (Im)migration, Black Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 1 m
Duration: 50 minutes

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: Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Political Theatre
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 80 minutes

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: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Solo Shows, 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 ...

The Bridge

By Shauntay Grant
Subjects: Award Winners, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Rural Settings, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 4 f, 3 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Set in a rural Black Nova Scotian community, The Bridge explores the complex relationship between two brothers strained over twenty years of secrecy, deception, and dishonour. Secrets are revealed one ...

$Refractions: Scenes$

Refractions: Scenes

Edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard & Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, Black Playwrights, Scenes & Monologues, Indigenous Playwrights, Jewish Theatre, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Anthologies

Refractions: Scenes is a collection of scenes from diverse contemporary works by Canadian playwrights that reflect the country’s artistic landscape through a breadth of themes, styles, cultures, regions, ...

Sound of the Beast

By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Introduction by Kern Albert
Afterword by Andy McKim & Jivesh Parasram
Subjects: Solo Shows, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Black Playwrights, Women Writers
Duration: 75 minutes

"Compassion is good, but it’s just motivation. Cars need engines. Movements need mobilization."

Through spoken word, storytelling and hip hop, acclaimed wordsmith Donna-Michelle St. Bernard illuminates ...

Other Side of the Game

By Amanda Parris
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 3 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

I don’t think you can expect society to change if you’re not ready to take the first step.

In the 1970s Beverly walks into an office of Black activists, wanting to join the Movement, and has to prove ...