Burning Mom

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

After nearly a year of mourning her husband’s death, sixtysomething Dorothy needs to feel alive. So she pitches a road-trip idea to her family—attending Burning Man, the massive arts festival known ...

Haven

By Mishka Lavigne
Translated by Neil Blackadder
Subjects: Translations, Quebec Playwrights, Death, Grief, & Loss, Feminist Theatre, Award Winners, 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

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 ...