The Little Years

By John Mighton
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Mental Health
Casting: 5 f, 2 m

Kate possesses the makings of a gifted mathematician with an enthusiasm for exploring the mysteries of space and time. But this is the 1950s and women are routinely laughed out of scientific circles. ...

The Melville Boys

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Rural Settings, Death, Grief & Loss, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Canadian Classics, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 110 hours

A relaxing weekend trip full of fishing, football, and beer is on the agenda for the Melville brothers. Unfortunately, so is confronting eldest brother Lee's terminal illness. But weekend plans are suddenly ...

Tinka's New Dress

By Ronnie Burkett
Introduction by Liz Nicholls
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre, Theatre of War, Canadian Classics, Puppets & Puppetry
Casting: 1 actor

Two old friends become puppeteers, each performing with the same beloved folk characters, Franz and Schnitzel. Fipsi, ambitious and naive, aligns herself with the rule government, the Common Good. Carl, ...

Mad Boy Chronicle

By Michael O'Brien
Introduction by Liz Nicholls
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Family Life, Adaptations, Shakespeare, Canadian Shakespeare, Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 4 f, 10 m
Duration: 135 minutes

Set in the final days of the first millennium, Mad Boy Chronicle hauls the Hamlet story howling back to its origins. Join the Mad Boy as he sets out in fierce pursuit of his destiny, in a world where wolves, ...

The Monument

By Colleen Wagner
Introduction by Richard Rose
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners, Women Writers, Theatre of War, Canadian Classics
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 80 minutes

Stetko is the model boy next door and the son of middle-class parents, but when war arrives it forever changes his life. Although he does nothing more than follow his commanding officer's orders, when ...

The Crackwalker

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Women Writers, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

Teresa is sexy, seductive, and mentally challenged. Worshipped by her boyfriend, she turns tricks at $5, is addicted to Tim Hortons' doughnuts, lies without thinking, and overflows with endless kindness, ...

Scorched

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Theatre of War, Canadian Classics, Family Life, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Translations, (Im)migration, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 7 actors

Wajdi Mouawad's writing is powerful; a beautifully penned story that paves a path to a mother's unspeakable pain. The closer Janine and Simon get to finding the source of her silence, the closer they ...

Pure Gold

Edited by Brian Kennedy
Subjects: Theatre Studies, Acting & Technique, Scenes & Monologues, Canadian Classics, Anthologies, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18

Culled from a wide variety of award-winning plays, the pieces presented here are sure to delight both those new to Canadian plays and those familiar with some of this country's most memorable stage shows ...

String Quartet

By Ronnie Burkett
Introduction by Liz Nicholls
Subjects: Puppets & Puppetry, Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights

A collection of four plays by internationally renowned puppeteer Ronnie Burkett. This anthology includes the three plays of the Memory Dress Trilogy: Tinka's New Dress, Street of Blood, and Happy, ...

One Voice

By Daniel MacIvor
Introduction by Daniel Brooks
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Solo Shows, Death, Grief & Loss, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 1 m

Giving his characters life in a whirlwind of words, Daniel MacIvor showcases his talents as a writer and performer in two of his most celebrated solo shows. Published here for the first time in their ...