Half-Cracked

By Mary-Colin Chisholm
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Women Writers, Rural Settings, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

Sisters Sissy and Yewina have been on their own for who knows how long exactly. It’s just them (and their hens) in a weathered farmhouse miles from town. Their rural, woodsy East Coast community has ...

Bluebirds

By Vern Thiessen
Introduction by Cynthia Toman
Subjects: Theatre of War, Community Theatre Picks, History, Death, Grief & Loss, Biography, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 3 f

Étaples, France, 1918. Nurses Christy, Maggie, and Bab have crossed oceans to care for wounded Canadian soldiers in the Great War. Despite the terrible injuries they must deal with, they manage to stay ...

Blow Wind

By Daniel Macdonald
By (composer) Eileen Laverty
Foreword by Angus Ferguson
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Rural Settings, Family Life, Siblings, Community Theatre Picks, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 3 f, 2 m

After years of running from her dysfunctional past, Sarah returns home to the family farm in Saskatchewan to find her mom Kathleen yelling into the wind, setting off a turbulent new chapter in her life. ...

The Empire

By Susanna Fournier
Afterword by ted witzel, Leora Morris, and Alison Wong
Subjects: Theatre of War, Feminist Theatre, Anthologies, Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
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 ...

Voices of a Generation

Edited by Michelle MacArthur
Subjects: Anthologies, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Quebec Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Comedy, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Feminist Theatre, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Adaptations

Voices of a Generation gathers three Canadian plays that crack open millennial stereotypes to reveal a generation’s complex and varied experiences.

zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan follows Namid through ...

Do This In Memory of Me

By Cat Walsh
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Family Life, Comedy, Community Theatre Picks
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 ...

WROL (Without Rule of Law)

By Michaela Jeffery
Subjects: Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Feminist Theatre, Comedy
Casting: 4 f, 1 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Convinced the world at large can’t be trusted to prioritize the well-being of adolescent girls in the event of a cataclysmic event (or just in general), a determined troupe of preteen “doomers” ...

Halfway There

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Romance, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Comedy
Casting: 4 f, 1 m
Duration: 120 minutes

There’s no such thing as a secret in Stewiacke. Not when the gossips meet for coffee every day at the local diner. Vi, Rita, Mary Ellen, and Janine are all as close as can be, and they know everybody’s ...

Bare Bear Bones

By Michael Grant
Subjects: Rural Settings, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 4 f, 4 m
Duration: 120 minutes

At the instruction of their marriage counsellor, empty nesters Norm and Ruth book a trip to a place where they remember being in love, the Bear Bones Family Campground, in order to rekindle their spark. ...

New Magic Valley Fun Town

By Daniel MacIvor
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

From the acclaimed playwright behind A Beautiful View, The Best Brothers, and This is What Happens Next comes a moving portrait about what we choose to forget and how we decide to move on.

Cape Bretoner ...