Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方

By Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Foreword by Jonathan Seinen
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Political Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 2 m, 1 chorus | 3 f, 5 m, doubling

From the author of trace comes two adaptations that transport mythological stories from Ancient Greece to modern-day civilizations. Led by people of colour, these darkly comedic plays depict recognizable ...

a million billion pieces

By David James Brock
By (composer) Gareth Williams
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Death, Grief & Loss, Dating & Sex, Ontario Playwrights, Coming of Age
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

It’s time to make every moment count.

Sixteen-year-olds Pria and Theo—or as they know each other online, the aspiring opera singer PriaSoprano and outer-space aficionado Eagle19—have decided to have ...

Successions

By Michaela Di Cesare
Foreword by Tamara Brown
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Comedy, Award Winners, (Im)migration, Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Quebec Playwrights, Marriage & Divorce, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

After the unexpected death of their parents, two second-generation Italian Canadian brothers must come together to decide whether to hold on to the family home, which is full of secrets and hoarded junk, ...

The Empire

By Susanna Fournier
Afterword by ted witzel, Leora Morris, and Alison Wong
Subjects: Political Theatre, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Women Writers, Anthologies, Ontario Playwrights, Theatre of War, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 2 f, 2 m | 9 f | 1 f, 4 m

Explore a world on the edge of change through three epic stories spanning five hundred years of imagined history, unpacking systems of power and what we are capable of in the pursuit of freedom.

The story ...

The Children's Republic

By Hannah Moscovitch
Foreword by Stephanie Levitz
Afterword by Amanda West Lewis
Subjects: History, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Women Writers, Theatre of War
Casting: 3 f, 3 m (1 f adult, 1 m adult, 2 f kid, 2 m kid)

Confined within the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, Dr. Janusz Korczak struggles to protect the children at his orphanage from the horrors of the Second World War. There is not enough food or pairs of eyes ...

Mortified

By Amy Rutherford
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Dating & Sex, Ontario Playwrights, Feminist Theatre, Coming of Age
Casting: 8 f, 1 m, doubling

A woman runs into her former abuser and is surprised by the power he still holds over her. In an attempt to uncover the truth of what really happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a synchronized ...

Secret Life of a Mother

By Hannah Moscovitch
With Maev Beaty & Ann-Marie Kerr
Foreword by Marinda de Beer
Subjects: Biography, Solo Shows, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 1 f

The raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and mothering are revealed in this true story of motherhood for the twenty-first century.

A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood ...

Too Good to be True

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Comedy, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

From the acclaimed author of Huff & Stitch comes a new dark comedy about the lies we tell each other in order to make the best of a desperate situation.

Maria and her kids—Lisa, a pregnant teenager, ...

Do This In Memory of Me

By Cat Walsh
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Family Life
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

Twelve-year-old Genevieve has been having a hard time at home, and all she really wants is to be an altar server at her church. Except it’s 1963 and Father Paul tells her that’s not allowed. After ...

A Perfect Bowl of Pho

By Nam Nguyen
Subjects: (Im)migration, Asian Canadian Playwrights, History, Ontario Playwrights, Musicals, Comedy
Casting: 12 roles
Duration: 80 minutes

Nam, a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup ...