The Unplugging

By Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Environmental Issues, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan
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 ...

Kindness

By Dennis Foon
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Environmental Issues, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Death, Grief & Loss, Environment, By Age - 11-14
Casting: 2 f, 2 m, doubling

Tessa, Damon, and Keegan share the same band class and the same passion: their pets. When Tessa loses her beloved dog Joey, the event challenges and transforms not only the three children, but the adults ...

Bone Cage

By Catherine Banks
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Rural Settings, Award Winners, Environmental Issues, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 3 f, 4 m

Jamie is twenty-two years old and works twelve-hour shifts operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured ...

Bhopal

By Rahul Varma
Foreword by Guillermo Verdecchia
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, History, Political Theatre, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Environmental Issues
Casting: 8 actors
Duration: 90 hours

Bhopal, 1984. With the presence of the Carbide International pesticide factory, the city begins to claw its way out of endemic poverty. But what is to be made of the deformed babies born to women living ...