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 ...

Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers

By Makambe K Simamba
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Award Winners, Death, Grief & Loss, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 1 role
Duration: 60 minutes

Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through ...

Andy's Gone

By Marie-Claude Verdier
Translated by Alexis Diamond
Subjects: Adaptations, Quebec Playwrights, Political Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Class Differences, Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 2 f
Duration: 60 hours

What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact? What is the cost of revolution?

In this contemporary retelling of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city’s perimeter ...

Through the Bamboo

By Andrea Mapili & Byron Abalos
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 8–10, Death, Grief & Loss, By Age — 11–14, Women Writers
Casting: 7 f, 3 m
Duration: 75 hours

Twelve-year-old Philly is literally pulled into an action-packed adventure while mourning the loss of her lola when she opens an old book and finds herself tossed into the fantastical land of Uwi.

In Uwi, ...

The Bridge

By Shauntay Grant
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Rural Settings, Black Playwrights, Award Winners, Family Life, Siblings, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 4 f, 3 m
Duration: 90 hours

Set in a rural Black Nova Scotian community, The Bridge explores the complex relationship between two brothers strained over twenty years of secrecy, deception, and dishonour. Secrets are revealed one ...

Pretty Goblins

By Beth Graham
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 2 f
Duration: 90 hours

From holding hands in the womb to holding each other’s hair back when they puked, twins Laura and Lizzie grew up only having each other. They couldn’t count on their practically feral mom, absent ...

BANG BANG

By Kat Sandler
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Comedy, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 3 m
Duration: 140 hours

Lila, a young Black ex-cop, has been on leave from the police force ever since she shot an unarmed Black youth. She’s moved back in with her mother, Karen, and is drinking beer for breakfast. So when ...

Jonas and Barry in the Home

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Comedy, Death, Grief & Loss, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Family Life, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 120 minutes

“When life comes knocking you don’t want it to find you on the couch in a soiled bathrobe. ”

Norm Foster’s quick wit is strong in this lighthearted buddy comedy about living life to its fullest. ...

Late Company

By Jordan Tannahill
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, Award Winners, By Age, LGBTQ, Family Life
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

One year after the suicide of their teenage son Joel, Debora and Michael Shaun-Hastings sit down to dinner with their son’s bully and his parents. Closure is on the menu, but accusations are the main ...

The Josephine Knot

By Meg Braem
Foreword by Amiel Gladstone
Subjects: Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Community Theatre Picks, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

After Samantha’s baba dies, her fractured family is summoned to pick through the house full of belongings and trash, leaving taped notes on whatever they want to take. Between old napkins, a closet ...