Dear Santa

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 8–10, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, By Age — 11–14, Comedy
Casting: 2 f, 4 m+
Duration: 120 hours

Santa Claus tries to fulfill a child's special Christmas wish while his staff attempts to overcome a supply shortage at the North Pole. This is a laugh-filled holiday play innocent enough for the youngest ...

Mending Fences

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Rural Settings, Community Theatre Picks, Family Life, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

Harry Sullivan hasn't seen his son Drew in thirteen years, and now Drew is coming to Harry's Saskatchewan ranch for a visit. This poignant comedy tells the story of two men who are too stubborn to give ...

Bone Cage

By Catherine Banks
Subjects: Environmental Issues, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Award Winners, Rural Settings, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Women Writers
Casting: 3 f, 4 m

Jamie is twenty-two years old and works twelve-hour shifts operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured ...

One-Actmanship

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Romance, Anthologies
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

My Narrator

Imagine what would happen if that little voice inside your head—the one that tells you how to behave and what choices to make—suddenly took on a life of its own? For Lacy and Miles, love ...

Palace of the End

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Theatre of War, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

A searing triptych of three monologues all exposing the ugly truth behind the headlines of the Iraq War.

Based around the lives of three distinct characters—a young soldier imprisoned for her misconduct ...

10 Days on Earth

By Ronnie Burkett
Subjects: Solo Shows, Family Life, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Puppets & Puppetry
Casting: 1 actor

He lived alone with very little and more than enough, and preferred it that way. "Simply simply," he was oft heard to say. He was alone, on his own, and that was okay. ..

Darrel is a middle-aged intellectually ...

Outlaw

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick
Casting: 4 m

A fantastic Western comedy from Norm Foster. If you liked Jenny's House of Joy, you'll love Outlaw!

A young Canadian homesteader travelling far from home finds himself accused of murder in the state ...

Dreary and Izzy

By Tara Beagan
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

1975, Lethbridge Alberta. When the Monoghan sisters lose their parents in a car accident, Deirdre remains as the sole caregiver to her older sister, Isabelle. Just as Deirdre is poised to enter university ...

Shakespeare's Will

By Vern Thiessen
Subjects: Solo Shows, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Shakespeare, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 90 hours

An exploration of one of the most silent characters in history: Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare.

The play sheds light on unexplored aspects of Hathaway's life by looking through the eyes ...

Mieko Ouchi: Two Plays

By Mieko Ouchi
Introduction by Vanessa Porteous
Subjects: Biography, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, History, Anthologies
Casting: 2 f, 3 m, doubling | 1 f, 1 m

The Blue Light: Leni Riefenstahl, one hundred years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive. Leni's reason to be there is clear: to make one last desperate pitch to direct her ...