East of Berlin

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Theatre of War, Jewish Theatre, Canadian Classics, Women Writers, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, History
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 hours

Standing outside his father’s study in Paraguay, Rudi is smoking cigarettes, trying to work up the courage to go in. It has been seven years since he stood in that same spot; seven years since he left ...

Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Volume 3

By Sharon Pollock
Edited by Cynthia Zimmerman
Subjects: Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Canadian Classics, Anthologies

Sharon Pollock is Canada's best-known woman playwright. Produced nationally and internationally, author of a large and varied canon, she has had a long and illustrious career in the theatre. From backstage ...

Love and Human Remains

By Brad Fraser
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights, Horror
Casting: 4 f, 3 m

David McMillan is a former actor, current waiter on the verge of turning thirty. Together with his book-reviewing roommate, Candy, and his best friend, Bernie, David encounters a number of seductive strangers ...

Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Volume 2

By Sharon Pollock
Edited by Cynthia Zimmerman
Subjects: Anthologies, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Canadian Classics

Sharon Pollock is Canada's best-known woman playwright. Produced nationally and internationally, author of a large and varied canon, she has had a long and illustrious career in the theatre. From backstage ...

Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Volume 1

By Sharon Pollock
Edited by Cynthia Zimmerman
Subjects: Women Writers, Canadian Classics, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Anthologies

Sharon Pollock is Canada's best-known woman playwright. Produced nationally and internationally, author of a large and varied canon, she has had a long and illustrious career in the theatre. From backstage ...

'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 ...

The Gwendolyn Poems

By Claudia Dey
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Biography
Casting: 3 f, 3 m

From her meteoric rise to her final unravelling in the grips of alcoholism, we meet a Gwendolyn with a contagious wit, a brave heart, and an endless capacity for self re-invention.

The Drawer Boy

By Michael Healey
Subjects: History, Rural Settings, Comedy, Family Life, Siblings, Award Winners, Ontario Playwrights, Canadian Classics, Mental Health
Casting: 3 m

A young actor from the big city lives with two aging bachelor farmers to gather stories about rural life. The farmers' lives are irrevocably altered when art attempts to imitate life and the line between ...

Perfect Pie

By Judith Thompson
Introduction by Gregor Campbell
Subjects: Rural Settings, Ontario Playwrights, Canadian Classics, Women Writers
Casting: 4 f, doubling

In the course of an afternoon's reunion between two long-estranged women, a buried memory, and two teenagers' wild secret, slams into the present.

When Patsy invites her old friend Francesca, now a glamourous ...

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. ...