Black Dog

By Matthew Heiti
Subjects: By Age — 15–18, Family Life, Siblings, Ontario Playwrights, Northern Ontario Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Mental Health
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

The Breakfast Club meets Shirley Jackson in a fusion of live theatre and technology that tells a darkly comic but hopeful story of four teenage outsiders struggling with death, depression and the shadow ...

The Wanderers

By Kawa Ada
Subjects: Mental Health, Family Life, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, History, South Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

As the Soviet army invades Afghanistan, Aman and Mariam flee to Canada in hopes of putting an ocean between themselves and the daily horrors of war. A championship chess player in Kabul, Aman finds himself ...

HER2

By Maja Ardal
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 10 f

In this poignant meditation on the uneasy relationship between science and the human spirit, a group of women aged nineteen to sixty-three with HER2-related breast cancer are recruited for a clinical ...

Pig Girl

By Colleen Murphy
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Award Winners, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

At 4:00 a. m. on a secluded farm, a woman fights to take her life back from a serial killer as her desperate sister and a haunted police officer reach across time and distance in an attempt to rescue ...

Lion In The Streets

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers
Casting: 4 f, 2 m, doubling

Seventeen years ago, Isobel was murdered at the tender age of nine. Now she finds herself back in her previous life as a ghost searching for the person responsible for her untimely death. But this time ...

The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble

By Beth Graham
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Award Winners
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Iris Trimble is trying to hold it all together. She may very well fly off the face of the earth if she doesn’t hang on to the kitchen counter. At least that’s how she feels after her mother, Bernice, ...

Yukonstyle

By Sarah Berthiaume
Translated by Nadine Desrochers
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Translations
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Garin was two years old when his mother disappeared from a rundown East Vancouver neighbourhood. Now that the Robert Pickton trials are gaining national attention, Garin wonders if his mother, a First ...

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 ...