Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 3

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

A Man A Fish

By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Environmental Issues, Women Writers
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: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Feminist Theatre, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Environmental Issues, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 85 hours

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 ...