Theory

By Norman Yeung
Subjects: Award Winners, Political Theatre, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 4 m
Duration: 90 hours

Is there a limit to free speech? Who gets to decide?

Isabelle’s film theory students are stunned that she would open an unmoderated online discussion group to complement a controversial syllabus. Her ...

Bunny

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers
Casting: 3 f, 4 m

“In one school year she kissed nineteen boys and won all the science awards.”

From one of Canada’s boldest playwrights comes an intimate look into the sexual life of a young woman as she struggles ...

Maggie and Pierre & The Duchess

By Linda Griffiths
Subjects: Anthologies, Solo Shows, Women Writers, Canadian Classics, Biography, History
Casting: 1 f | 3 f, 4 m

Winner of the first Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Maggie and Pierre chronicles the public and private relationship between Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau from 1974-1980. In this ...

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 ...

Angélique

By Lorena Gale
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Canadian Classics, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, History, Biography
Casting: 3 f, 4 m

"And in seventeen thirty-four a Negro slave set fire to the City of Montreal and was hanged..."

With this bald statement of history as a basis, Lorena Gale constructs a vivid portrait of a time when captive ...