Between the Sheets

By Jordi Mand
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Women Writers, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 2 f
Duration: 60 minutes

Marion, a working mother with a special-needs child, has discovered a devastating secret: her husband Curtis has been engaging in a torrid love affair with none other than their son’s young teacher, ...

The Secret Mask

By Rick Chafe
Subjects: Disability Theatre, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Community Theatre Picks, Family Life
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

This heartwarming and often hilarious play tells the story of Ernie and George, an estranged father and son who are reunited when a debilitating stroke leaves Ernie with a speech disorder and memory loss. ...

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
Duration: 120 minutes

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 ...

Blood

By Meg Braem
Subjects: Horror, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Family Life, Siblings, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Twin sisters Poubelle and Angelique are bonded in both biology and shared tragedy after a car accident leaves them orphaned along a prairie highway in a pool of blood. But the young twins are brought ...

Separate Beds

By MJ Cruise
Subjects: Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Romance, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Ernie and Twink are in the autumn of their lives. In celebration of their thirtieth wedding anniversary, the couple's children send them on a Caribbean cruise. Free of chores and children, Ernie and Twink ...

The Goodnight Bird

By Colleen Murphy
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Mental Health, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 110 minutes

Lilly and Morgan Beaumont are comfortable in their routine until Parker, a homeless man, lands on the balcony of their new condo. After scaring the older couple half to death, he pours himself into the ...

The Little Years

By John Mighton
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Mental Health
Casting: 5 f, 2 m

Kate possesses the makings of a gifted mathematician with an enthusiasm for exploring the mysteries of space and time. But this is the 1950s and women are routinely laughed out of scientific circles. ...

Beaver

By Claudia Dey
Subjects: Family Life, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Rural Settings, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers
Casting: 6 f, 2 m

A northern Ontario gothic, Beaver follows Beatrice "Beaver" Jersey as she learns to grow beyond her circumscribed world, struggling with her whacky extended family, her alcoholic father, and her chain-smoking ...

Ned Durango

By Norm Foster & Leslie Arden
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Musicals, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

In the town of Big Oak lies the Crossroads Cafe, where five locals come together to plan the annual Tomato Parade. With everything in place, the town hopes the parade can sweeten the hearts of potential ...

The Melville Boys

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

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 ...