Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 3

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

On the twentieth anniversary of its first volume, Staging Coyote’s Dream Volume 3 is a curated collection of new works rooted in Indigenous values, aesthetics, and narrative structures. Inspired by ...

Shorelines

By Mishka Lavigne
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, Environmental Issues, By Age — 15–18, Environment, Family Life, Siblings
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: Environmental Issues, Comedy, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 1 m, chorus | 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 165 minutes

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, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, By Age — 15–18, Environmental Issues, Environment, 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: Anthologies, Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Feminist Theatre, Disability Theatre, Political Theatre, Deaf Theatre, Environmental Issues, Comedy, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Women Writers

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: Women Writers, Translations, Ontario Playwrights, Environmental Issues, History
Duration: 160 minutes

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: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Award Winners, Environmental Issues
Duration: 70 minutes

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 ...

Lac/Athabasca

By Len Falkenstein
Subjects: Environmental Issues, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Death, Grief & Loss, Horror, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick
Casting: 5+ actors

Stories are carried like cargo on trains from the Rocky Mountains to the East Coast in this cautionary tale of what happens when we’re haunted by the hunger for the ever-greater development and exploitation ...

A Man A Fish

By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Subjects: Women Writers, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, Environmental Issues, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 1 f, 3 m

Prosper is a fisherman trying to get by in the face of everyday problems: there’s the spectre of the baby his wife desires, the ghost of his dead mistress, his wife’s secret admirer, and the overwhelming ...

The Unplugging

By Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Environmental Issues, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 85 minutes

In a post-apocalyptic world, Bern and Elena are exiled from their village. Their crime? The two women are no longer of child-bearing age.

Forced to rely upon traditional wisdom for their survival, Elena ...