Marriage

By Rick Chafe
Subjects: Romance, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Comedy, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

You know, I think probably half the world’s fights started in kitchens.

What could help patch up a marriage better than a home renovation? Wayne thinks he’s doing his wife Julie a favour by hiring ...

New Canadian Kid & Invisible Kids

By Dennis Foon
Introduction by Marcus Youssef
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, (Im)migration, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 8-10, Canadian Classics, By Age - 11-14
Casting: 2 f, 3 m | 2 f, 2 m

Two of the most produced, popular, and important Canadian plays for young audiences are back in an updated edition.

In New Canadian Kid, Nick has just moved to Canada from a country called Homeland, where ...

This Is How We Got Here

By Keith Barker
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Rural Settings
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

It’s been a year since Paul and Lucille’s son Craig committed suicide, and their once-solid family bonds are starting to break down. While the now-separated couple tries to honour their son, Lucille’s ...

The Wanderers

By Kawa Ada
Subjects: History, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, South Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

As the Soviet army invades Afghanistan, Aman and Mariam flee to Canada in hopes of putting an ocean between themselves and the daily horrors of war. A championship chess player in Kabul, Aman finds himself ...

The Gentleman Clothier

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

Experienced tailor Norman Davenport has barely opened the doors to his new clothing store in downtown Halifax when Sophie, an exuberant young woman, barges in looking for work, followed by Patrick, a ...

Pig Girl

By Colleen Murphy
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Award Winners, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

At 4:00 a.m. on a secluded farm, a woman fights to take her life back from a serial killer as her desperate sister and a haunted police officer reach across time and distance in an attempt to rescue her. ...

The Thrill

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Disability Theatre
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Elora Dixon is a vibrant, middle-aged lawyer and disability-rights activist who has never walked a step in her life. A neuromuscular disease left her with a curved spine and a reliance on around-the-clock ...

Yukonstyle

By Sarah Berthiaume
Translated by Nadine Desrochers
Subjects: Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Family Life
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Garin was two years old when his mother disappeared from a rundown East Vancouver neighbourhood. Now that the Robert Pickton trials are gaining national attention, Garin wonders if his mother, a First ...

Sequence

By Arun Lakra
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Western Playwrights, Alberta, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Science & Scientists, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Theo has been named Time Magazine's Luckiest Man Alive. For twenty consecutive years he has successfully bet double or nothing on the Super Bowl coin toss. And he's getting ready to risk millions on the ...

Willow Quartet

By Joan Burrows
Subjects: Rural Settings, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

In the aftermath of a tragedy that ends Kim and Ben's marriage, Kim finds herself back in her childhood home, a quiet farm away from the city. Here, she invites Jim, a visiting musician, to stay with ...