The List

By Jennifer Tremblay
Translated by Shelley Tepperman
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 1 f

She keeps a tight list and doesn't let anything go unchecked, except for one important misplaced item: a favour to her neighbour. With this broken promise, a series of events unfolds that lead to her ...

It Is Solved By Walking

By Catherine Banks
Subjects: Award Winners, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 90 minutes

When Margaret learns of the death of her former husband, she recalls their earliest days together as Ph. D. candidates, beginning a journey through her past. Told through the sensations of Wallace Stevens's ...

Tideline

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Shelley Tepperman
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Family Life
Casting: 2 f, 6 m, doubling

A wildly theatrical tale of war and individual discovery, Tideline tells the personal story of Wilfrid, a young man born in Montreal, who struggles to bury his father in his parent's homeland. There, ...

If We Were Birds

By Erin Shields
Subjects: Women Writers, Theatre of War, Death, Grief & Loss, Quebec Playwrights, Adaptations, Award Winners
Casting: 7 f, 2 m
Duration: 80 minutes

If We Were Birds is a shocking, uncompromising examination of the horrors of war, giving voice to a woman long ago forced into silence, and placing a spotlight on millions of female victims who have been ...

Such Creatures

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 f

Two characters and two monologues, tied together across time and place, their stories a candid pursuit of hope and empathy, even in the face of an unbelievably cruel world. Judith Thompson's Such Creatures ...

The Monument

By Colleen Wagner
Introduction by Richard Rose
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners, Women Writers, Theatre of War, Canadian Classics
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 80 minutes

Stetko is the model boy next door and the son of middle-class parents, but when war arrives it forever changes his life. Although he does nothing more than follow his commanding officer's orders, when ...

Scorched

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Canadian Classics, (Im)migration, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Theatre of War
Casting: 7 actors

Wajdi Mouawad's writing is powerful; a beautifully penned story that paves a path to a mother's unspeakable pain. The closer Janine and Simon get to finding the source of her silence, the closer they ...

One Voice

By Daniel MacIvor
Introduction by Daniel Brooks
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Death, Grief & Loss, Solo Shows, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 1 m

Giving his characters life in a whirlwind of words, Daniel MacIvor showcases his talents as a writer and performer in two of his most celebrated solo shows. Published here for the first time in their ...

Kindness

By Dennis Foon
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Environmental Issues, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Death, Grief & Loss, Environment, By Age - 11-14
Casting: 2 f, 2 m, doubling

Tessa, Damon, and Keegan share the same band class and the same passion: their pets. When Tessa loses her beloved dog Joey, the event challenges and transforms not only the three children, but the adults ...

Good Mother

By Damien Atkins
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 5 f, 5 m

The Driver family struggles to cope with an accident that robs them of a mother, leaving them to care for her as she fights to regain her memory. Touching and powerful, Good Mother examines the ties that ...