Refractions: Solo

Edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard & Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Black Playwrights, Theatre Studies, Acting & Technique, Indigenous Playwrights, Anthologies, Scenes & Monologues, Jewish Theatre

A collection can be used both as a monologue source for actors and students, or as a primer on diverse Canadian theatre and an entry point into new works, many of which are not yet widely available. Includes ...

Shakespeare's Nigga

By Joseph Jomo Pierre
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, Shakespeare
Casting: 1 f, 4 m

Shakespeare holds the fate of several black slaves in his hands. Among them are the rebellious Aaron and the obedient Othello, who each have complicated relationships with Shakespeare's daughter, Judith. ...

Gas Girls

By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Subjects: Award Winners, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Black Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Gigi and Lola live by one motto: love for gas, gas for cash, cash for living, living for love. Living in Zimbabwe's depressed economy, both women live day-by-day, plying their trade with the truck drivers ...

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 ...

Afrika, Solo

Edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Anthologies, Solo Shows

The plays in this anthology pit individual against community and cause readers to rethink the associations placed on skin colour, language, and assumptions regarding someone’s past. “Home away from ...

Toronto the Good

By Andrew Moodie
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 3 m, doubling

When top Crown attorney Thomas Matthews, a victim of racial profiling himself, is assigned to prosecute the accused against a Left-leaning white attorney, tensions mount and personal politics bubble to ...

'da Kink in my hair

By Trey Anthony
Foreword by Djanet Sears
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Canadian Classics
Casting: 12 f + musicians

Set in a West Indian hair salon in Toronto, da Kink in my hair gives voice to a group of women who tell us their unforgettable, moving, and often hilarious stories. Mixing laughter and tears—and told ...

African-Canadian Theatre

Edited by Maureen Moynagh
Subjects: Nonfiction / Essays, Black Playwrights
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available. The series publishes the work of scholars and critics who have ...

The Adventures of A Black Girl in Search of God

By Djanet Sears
Afterword by Leslie Sanders
Subjects: Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 4 f, 4 m, doubling, chorus

From Governor General's Literary Award–winning playwright Djanet Sears comes a beautiful and deeply moving story set in present-day Negro Creek, a two-hundred-year-old black community in Western Ontario. ...

Angélique

By Lorena Gale
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Canadian Classics, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, History, Biography
Casting: 3 f, 4 m

"And in seventeen thirty-four a Negro slave set fire to the City of Montreal and was hanged..."

With this bald statement of history as a basis, Lorena Gale constructs a vivid portrait of a time when captive ...