This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear

By David Gagnon Walker
Subjects: Mental Health, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, Solo Shows, Environmental Issues, Puppets & Puppetry

David has written a play for himself and a gathering of friends and
strangers to read together out loud. It tells the story of the rise and fall of
an imaginary civilization in an imaginary land. Some ...

Peace Country

By Pedro Chamale
Subjects: Political Theatre, Environmental Issues, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Rural Settings
Casting: 4 f, 1 m

A new political party has swept into office, promising big changes to curb the impending climate crisis—changes that could put the nail in the coffin for a tiny carbon-economy town in the heart of Northern ...

Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 3

Edited by Monique Mojica & Lindsay Lachance
Subjects: Anthologies, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, Dance, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Metis, Environmental Issues

On the twentieth anniversary of its first volume, Staging Coyote’s Dream Volume III is a curated collection of new works rooted in Indigenous values, aesthetics, and narrative structures. Inspired by ...

Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy)

By Michaela Washburn, Joelle Peters, and Carrie Costello
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Northern Ontario Playwrights, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Environmental Issues, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 8–10, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations
Casting: 3 f

Exploring reconciliation and connection through a story that spans seven generations, Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy) tells the story of two eleven-year-olds through the eyes of Grandmother Moon. Eilidh ...

Shorelines

By Mishka Lavigne
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Environment, Family Life, Siblings, Family, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Environmental Issues
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

A small military-occupied community sits, waiting, parched of natural water while nearby levees hold the rising global shoreline. Seventeen-year-old twins Alix and Evan pass the time in an empty, abandoned ...

After the Fire & The Particulars

By Matthew MacKenzie
Foreword by Jo-Ann Saddleback & Simon Bracken
Subjects: Comedy, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Family Life, Siblings, Environmental Issues, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 1 m, chorus | 2 f, 2 m

From the author of Bears comes two dark comedies that expose what we’re capable of when pushed to our breaking point and give in to the temptation of taking matters into our own hands.

Set in the aftermath ...

Is My Microphone On?

By Jordan Tannahill
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Environmental Issues, Theatre for Young Audiences, Environment, By Age — 11–14, By Age — 15–18, Political Theatre

In another life I was a small bubble of foam on a wave coming to shore, and the wave broke, and I burst, and that was it. Before that I was a small stream, for centuries. And in another life I was a mortal ...

Interdependent Magic

Edited by Jessica Watkin
Subjects: Disability Theatre, Comedy, Environmental Issues, Death, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, Women Writers, Political Theatre, Deaf Theatre, Feminist Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Nonfiction / Essays, Anthologies

Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada is a collection of plays and interviews by, for, and about Disabled theatre artists that invites readers into the magical worlds of Disability arts ...

The Breathing Hole

By Colleen Murphy
With Siobhan Arnatsiaq-Murphy
Translated by Janet Tamalik McGrath
Introduction by Kenn Harper
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, History, Women Writers, Environmental Issues, Translations
Duration: 160 hours

Stories of the Canadian Arctic intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear.

In 1535, Hummiktuq, an Inuk widow, has a strange dream about the future. The next day, she ...

Bears

By Matthew MacKenzie
Foreword by Christine Sokaymoh Frederick
Subjects: Award Winners, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Environmental Issues
Duration: 70 hours

As the prime suspect in a workplace accident, Floyd has to get out of town fast. Pursued by the RCMP, he heads through the Rockies for Burnaby, BC, along the route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. By the ...