Skin & Liars

By Dennis Foon
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Anthologies, Drugs, Alcohol & Substance Abuse, Family, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Coming of Age
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Skin introduces us to a group of Canadian teenagers who are coming of age in the late 1980s. Faced with racial discrimination, Phiroza, Jennifer, and Tuan must navigate the choppy waters of high school, ...

The Melville Boys

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Canadian Classics, Death, Grief & Loss, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Rural Settings, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 110 minutes

A relaxing weekend trip full of fishing, football, and beer is on the agenda for the Melville brothers. Unfortunately, so is confronting eldest brother Lee's terminal illness. But weekend plans are suddenly ...

Brothel #9

By Anusree Roy
Introduction by Iris Turcott
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Award Winners, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

A deal has been struck between two men in India—twenty-one hundred rupees in exchange for a young village woman named Rekha. Sent to Calcutta without knowing why, Rekha finds herself in the confines ...

Gas Girls

By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners, Women Writers, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Black Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Gigi and Lola live by one motto: love for gas, gas for cash, cash for living, living for love. Living in Zimbabwe's depressed economy, both women live day-by-day, plying their trade with the truck drivers ...

Rites of Passage

By David S. Craig & Chris Craddock
Subjects: Anthologies, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 11-14, Drugs, Alcohol & Substance Abuse, By Age - 15-18
Casting: 1 f, 2 m | 1 m | 2 f, 2 m

In Smokescreen and Wrecked, David S. Craig and Chris Craddock explore the values of truth and denial between father and son with the adolescent drug culture as a backdrop. In Napalm the Magnificent, a ...

Seesaw

By Dennis Foon
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Bullying, Family, Class Differences
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Charla is the new girl at school, nervous about her shabby clothes and mourning her parents' break-up. Paige, Charla's new friend, is only concerned with fashion, gossip, and her good-looking boyfriend, ...

One-Actmanship

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Romance, Anthologies, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick
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 ...

Real Estate

By Allana Harkin
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Women Writers, Rural Settings
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Enter Emma—an incredibly determined realtor—who decides that Joel is as much of a "fixer-upper" as the house he lives in. With the addition of Joel's soon-to-be-ex looking to get divorce papers signed ...

Danny, King of the Basement

By David S. Craig
Introduction by Walter Pitman
Preface by Richard Greenblatt
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 8–10, Class Differences, Family, By Age — 11–14
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 70 minutes

In two years, Danny and his mom have moved more often than most kids lose teeth. ..

When Danny moves into a new basement apartment, the kids he meets seem to have way more problems than just being hungry. ...

Robert Chafe: Two Plays

By Robert Chafe
Introduction by Denise Lynde
Subjects: Family Life, Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, History, Anthologies, Biography
Casting: 1 f, 1 m | 2 f, 2 m

Butler's Marsh

Thirty years ago Nora's mother disappeared into the small, dense forest of Butler's Marsh. She emerged three days later, covered in blood, badly shaken, and completely silent about what ...