Forgiveness

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

Dividing Lines | Líneas Divisorias

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

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: Verbatim Theatre, Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, 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, Theatre of War, (Im)migration, Family Life, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Mental Health, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Translations
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: 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. ...

Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down

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

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 ...

a million billion pieces

By David James Brock
By (composer) Gareth Williams
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Death, Grief & Loss, Dating & Sex, Ontario Playwrights, Coming of Age
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

It’s time to make every moment count.

Sixteen-year-olds Pria and Theo—or as they know each other online, the aspiring opera singer PriaSoprano and outer-space aficionado Eagle19—have decided to have ...

Successions

By Michaela Di Cesare
Foreword by Tamara Brown
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Comedy, Award Winners, (Im)migration, Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Quebec Playwrights, Marriage & Divorce, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

After the unexpected death of their parents, two second-generation Italian Canadian brothers must come together to decide whether to hold on to the family home, which is full of secrets and hoarded junk, ...

Interdependent Magic

Edited by Jessica Watkin
Subjects: Nonfiction / Essays, Environmental Issues, Comedy, Anthologies, Disability Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Women Writers, Political Theatre, Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Feminist Theatre, Deaf Theatre

Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada is a collection of plays and interviews by, for, and about Disabled theatre artists that invites readers into the magical worlds of Disability arts ...