The Black Drum

By Adam Pottle
Subjects: Disability Theatre, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Political Theatre, Musicals, Dance, Death, Grief, and Loss, Deaf Theatre
Casting: 5 f, 2 m, 3 dancers

Hailed as the world’s first Deaf musical—told entirely in American Sign Language and Signed Music—The Black Drum revolves around Joan and her journey to healing after the death of her wife, Karen. ...

Retreating to Re-Treat

By The Collective Encounter
With Jill Carter
Subjects: History, Theatre Studies, Theatre Direction & Production, Nonfiction / Essays, History & Criticism, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Political Theatre, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation

In 2019, a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter stood with their audience in a liminal space at the 'edge of the woods'—a space between now and then, a space between now and later. Together, ...

Half-Cracked

By Mary-Colin Chisholm
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Rural Settings, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
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 been ...

Bluebirds

By Vern Thiessen
Introduction by Cynthia Toman
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Theatre of War, History, Community Theatre Picks, Biography, Death, Grief & Loss
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: Family Life, Siblings, Rural Settings, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, 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: 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 ...

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: 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 ...

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: Comedy, Romance, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy
Casting: 4 f, 1 m
Duration: 120 hours

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 ...