carried away on the crest of a wave

By David Yee
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners
Casting: 1 f, 5 m+
Duration: 100 minutes

From the shore of Ko Phi Phi in Thailand to a suburb in Utah to a mysterious Kafkaesque hole in the ground, carried away on the crest of a wave gives us brief glimpses into the lives of a sphinx-like escort, ...

Armstrong's War

By Colleen Murphy
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Women Writers, Theatre of War, Community Theatre Picks, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 90 minutes

After suffering an injury during a military tour of Afghanistan, Michael, a young soldier, is recovering in the rehabilitation wing of a hospital. The last thing he wants is to spend time with a twelve-year-old ...

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 ...

A History of Breathing

By Daniel Macdonald
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan
Casting: 1 f, 6 m

Two boats float aimlessly on an ocean that conceals the remains of civilization and history. One boat carries a father and daughter, the last survivors of an unspeakable catastrophe; the other carries ...

The Hours That Remain

By Keith Barker
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Siblings, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 60 minutes

Denise has spent the last five years dedicated to uncovering the truth behind her sister Michelle's disappearance. Haunted by loose ends, she begins seeing visions of Michelle, who gradually guides her ...

The Best Brothers

By Daniel MacIvor
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Comedy, LGBT/Queer Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 2 m

Bunny Best has met her unfortunate end after a mishap at a Gay Days parade. Now her two sons, Kyle and Hamilton, have the task of arranging her funeral and caring for her most beloved companion, a troublesome ...

Night

By Christopher Morris
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, Family Life, By Age - 15-18, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 3 f, 2 m, doubling

Life is different when you live in twenty-four-hour darkness. But for Piuyuq, a teenager in Pond Inlet, Nunavut, the pressing darkness and bone-chilling winter winds are the least of her worries. Daniella, ...

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 ...

A Bomb in the Heart

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Translations, Solo Shows, Family Life, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 1 m

A call late at night has Wahab springing into action. Despite a blinding snowstorm, an irritating bus driver, and a spinning wheel of worries, Wahab travels to his dying mother’s hospital room. A journey ...

The Melville Boys

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

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 ...