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There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow

There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow

By Caleigh Crow
Subjects: Horror, Family Life, Death, Grief, & Loss, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

Grocery-store clerk Beth has had a hell of a week. A hell of a life, actually, full of people squashing her soul. And after pushing back at life—stabbing a steak to her boss’s desk and lighting a ...

Burning Mom

Burning Mom

By Mieko Ouchi
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Solo Shows, Women Writers, Comedy, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Death, Grief, & Loss, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 1 f

A retired suburban wife and mother tragically loses her partner after forty-five years together. So what does she do? The only thing that makes any sense at all. She embarks on her own hero’s journey. ...

Haven

Haven

By Mishka Lavigne
Translated by Neil Blackadder
Subjects: Award Winners, Feminist Theatre, Death, Grief, & Loss, Quebec Playwrights, Translations, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

Strangers Elsie and Matt are both feeling great voids in their lives. Elsie, a literature professor, is grieving her famous novelist mother’s tragic death. Matt, a city engineer, is trying to regain ...

Forgiveness

Forgiveness

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