Eraser

By Bilal Baig, Sadie Epstein-Fine
With Christol Bryan, Marina Gomes, Yousef Kadoura, Tijiki Morris, Anthony Perpuse, and Nathan Redburn
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Ontario Playwrights, Bullying, Disability Theatre, (Im)migration, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 6 roles

An immersive experience, Eraser delves into the memories and fantasies of a classroom of students as they figure out who they want to be. Six students guide readers through their different journeys, taking ...

I Forgive You

By Scott Jones & Robert Chafe
Subjects: Rural Settings, Disability Theatre, Verbatim Theatre, Family Life, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 m, child dancer, and chorus

In October 2013, Scott Jones was leaving a bar in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, when he was attacked, stabbed in the back, and left paralyzed from the waist down. In the months following his attack, Scott ...

Fall On Your Knees

Adapted by Alisa Palmer & Hannah Moscovitch
By Hannah Moscovitch
Original author Ann-Marie MacDonald
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Feminist Theatre, Adaptations, Romance, Women Writers, Family Life, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 8 f, 5 m, doubling

In an adaptation of the classic Canadian novel, this epic play follows three generations of a Cape Breton Island family in a tale of forbidden love, inescapable bonds, and devastating betrayals, all while ...

Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Translations, Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Family Life, Death, Grief & Loss, Quebec Playwrights
Casting: 4 f, 1 m

For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal’s Espace GO as part of an artistic residency that would profoundly shake her outlook on words, theatre practice, ...

The Green Line | خطّ التماس

By Makram Ayache
Translated by Hiba Sleiman
Subjects: History, Family Life, Siblings, (Im)migration, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Award Winners, Asian Canadian Playwrights, West Asian Canadian Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

A poetic, heartbreaking story of intergenerational queer history in Lebanon, The Green Line weaves together civil war Beirut with a contemporary nightclub, following one family’s journey to discover ...

Everything I Couldn't Tell You

By Jeff D'Hondt
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Science & Scientists, Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 3 f

Revived from a coma after a traumatic event, Megan’s injuries leave her capable of great violence, forcing her desperate physician Cassandra to recruit Alison, an Indigenous clinician, as her consultant. ...

Burning Mom

By Mieko Ouchi
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Feminist Theatre, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Comedy, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f

A retired suburban wife and mother tragically loses her partner after forty-five years together. So what does she do? The only thing that makes any sense at all. She embarks on her own hero’s journey. ...

Haven

By Mishka Lavigne
Translated by Neil Blackadder
Subjects: Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Feminist Theatre, Translations, Quebec Playwrights, Award Winners
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

Strangers Elsie and Matt are both feeling great voids in their lives. Elsie, a literature professor, is grieving her famous novelist mother’s tragic death. Matt, a city engineer, is trying to regain ...

Forgiveness

Adapted by Hiro Kanagawa
By Mark Sakamoto
Illustrated by Cindy Mochizuki
Subjects: Adaptations, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Family Life, Death, Grief & Loss, (Im)migration, Biography, Theatre of War
Casting: 5 f, 8 m, doubling

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild ...

How It Ends

By Debbie Patterson
Foreword by Michael Sobota
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss, Disability Theatre
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Most of us, when faced with death, wish we could just have a little more time. But what if this is the little more time that we wished for? What are you going to do with it?

Grieving siblings Natalie and ...