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 ...

Inspiration Point

By John Garfield Barlow
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Rural Settings
Casting: 4 m

Poised between hope and despair, each man faces how best to move beyond the past and adapt to a future in which cultural legacy seems destined to diminish. Symbolic and politically charged, Inspiration ...

The Forbidden Phoenix

By Marty Chan
Lyrics by Robert Walsh
Illustrated by Derek Mah
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Award Winners, History, By Age — 8–10, Western Playwrights, Alberta, (Im)migration, Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 4 f, 3 m, chorus
Duration: 120 minutes

Sun Wukong’s goal is simple: to feed his son Laoson. Known to his people as the Monkey King, Sun Wukong leaves his home with a promise to return one day and feed the drought-ravaged city of Jung Guo. ...

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, ...

lady in the red dress

By David Yee
Subjects: History, Ontario Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, (Im)migration
Casting: 1 f, 4 m, doubling
Duration: 90 minutes

The turmoil in Max's life was set in motion by Sylvia, an elusive figure who enters his life and charges Max with the task of finding Tommy Jade, a Chinese immigrant from the 1920s. Dragged further into ...

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 ...

Pyaasa & Letters to My Grandma

By Anusree Roy
Introduction by Thomas Morgan Jones
Subjects: Family Life, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Solo Shows, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, (Im)migration
Casting: 1 f

Set in Calcutta, Pyaasa tells the story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more than learning her times tables. When Chaya's mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give ...

Afterimage

By Robert Chafe
Preface by Michael Crummey
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Adaptations, Family Life, Award Winners, Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, Rural Settings
Casting: 4 f, 4 m

Seeing beyond Winston’s disfiguring scars and foreseeing a future with him, Lise falls in love and the couple soon marry. Years later, having inherited Lise’s gift, two of their children, Theresa ...

True Love Lies

By Brad Fraser
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, LGBT/Queer Theatre
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

Sparking a series of further revelations, the sudden reappearance of David exposes suppressed emotions and desires in everyone and the family must renegotiate their relationships with each other and, ...