Eraser

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

Fall On Your Knees

Adapted by Alisa Palmer & Hannah Moscovitch
By Hannah Moscovitch
Original author Ann-Marie MacDonald
Subjects: Family Life, Women Writers, Romance, Adaptations, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Death, Grief & Loss, Feminist Theatre
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: Death, Grief & Loss, Translations, Family Life, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights
Casting: 4 f, 1 m
Duration: 80 minutes

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, ...

How It Ends

By Debbie Patterson
Foreword by Michael Sobota
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Family Life, Siblings, Disability Theatre
Casting: 3 f, 1 m
Duration: 90 minutes

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 ...

Dividing Lines | Líneas Divisorias

By Beatriz Pizano
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Solo Shows, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, (Im)migration, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 80 minutes

The one thing everyone knows is that we’re all going to die. Which means our loved ones are going to die. So how can we prepare for, experience, and honour their deaths? And does that look different ...

Reasonable Doubt

By Joel Bernbaum, Lancelot Knight, and Yvette Nolan
Introduction by Maria Campbell
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Verbatim Theatre, Women Writers, Musicals, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Death, Grief & Loss, History, Rural Settings
Casting: 6 roles

A significant moment in Canadian history is portrayed in this documentary musical about race relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Weaving hundreds of real interviews conducted with ...

The Enchanted Loom

By Suvendrini Lena
Translated by Dushy Gnanapragasam
Introduction by Sharryn Aiken & R. Cheran
Subjects: Science & Scientists, Ontario Playwrights, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre of War, Women Writers, Translations, (Im)migration, Death, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, Family Life
Casting: 3 f, 3 m

The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of ...

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. ...

Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down

By Robert Chafe
Foreword by Sarah Garton Stanley
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, Solo Shows, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss, Mental Health
Casting: 1 m
Duration: 75 minutes

After an unexpected night in a Regina hospital emergency room, Robert Chafe can’t shake the burning question of whether he’s Tennessee Williams or Dorothy Zbornak. Are his symptoms a harbinger of ...