cockroach (曱甴)

By Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners, (Im)migration, Shakespeare, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Adaptations
Casting: 3 roles m/nb

You can call him Cockroach, or Roach for short. He’s a catnip-smoking city slicker living in the dark corners of our homes. A bard (yes, that one) longs for rest as he contends with his legacy. In their ...

The Black Drum

By Adam Pottle
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Political Theatre, Disability Theatre, Dance, Deaf Theatre, Musicals
Casting: 5 f, 2 m, 3 dancers

Hailed as the world’s first Deaf musical—told entirely in American Sign Language and Signed Music—The Black Drum revolves around Joan and her journey to healing after the death of her wife, Karen. ...

Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy)

By Michaela Washburn, Joelle Peters, and Carrie Costello
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Northern Ontario Playwrights, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Environmental Issues, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 8–10, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations
Casting: 3 f

Exploring reconciliation and connection through a story that spans seven generations, Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy) tells the story of two eleven-year-olds through the eyes of Grandmother Moon. Eilidh ...

The Green Line | خطّ التماس

By Makram Ayache
Translated by Hiba Sleiman
Subjects: History, Family Life, Siblings, (Im)migration, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Award Winners, Asian Canadian Playwrights, West Asian Canadian Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

A poetic, heartbreaking story of intergenerational queer history in Lebanon, The Green Line weaves together civil war Beirut with a contemporary nightclub, following one family’s journey to discover ...

Everything I Couldn't Tell You

By Jeff D'Hondt
Subjects: Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Science & Scientists
Casting: 3 f

Revived from a coma after a traumatic event, Megan’s injuries leave her capable of great violence, forcing her desperate physician Cassandra to recruit Alison, an Indigenous clinician, as her consultant. ...

New

By Pamela Mala Sinha
Subjects:
Casting: 4 f, 3 m

It’s 1970s Winnipeg—a time of revolution and radical possibilities—and an apartment building of Indian immigrant friends is about to be transformed by their latest arrival. A young Bengali Muslim ...

The Party & The Candidate

By Kat Sandler
Subjects: Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy, Political Theatre
Casting: 5 f, 5 m

In these two entwined, fast-paced plays, the hilarious goings-on behind the scenes of a controversial election chaotically unfold first at the fundraiser that will decide the party’s nominee and then ...

There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow

By Caleigh Crow
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Horror
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

Grocery-store clerk Beth has had a hell of a week. A hell of a life, actually, full of people squashing her soul. And after pushing back at life—stabbing a steak to her boss’s desk and lighting a ...

Shorelines

By Mishka Lavigne
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Environment, Family Life, Siblings, Family, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Environmental Issues
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

A small military-occupied community sits, waiting, parched of natural water while nearby levees hold the rising global shoreline. Seventeen-year-old twins Alix and Evan pass the time in an empty, abandoned ...

Metamorphosis (stage version)

By Franz Kafka
Adapted by Lemn Sissay
Subjects:
Casting: 3 m, 2 f

Gregor Samsa wakes up each morning, quietly leaves the house to take the same train, and works to pay off the family debt.

But that world explodes one morning, when Gregor awakes to find himself changed. ...