Blow Wind

By Daniel Macdonald
By (composer) Eileen Laverty
Subjects: Rural Settings, Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan
Casting: 3 f, 2 m
Duration: 97 minutes

After years of running from her dysfunctional past, Sarah returns home to the family farm in Saskatchewan to find her mom Kathleen yelling into the wind, setting off a turbulent new chapter in her life. ...

Post-Democracy

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Family Life, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Welcome to the world of the one per cent, the corporate elite, the C-suite, the kingmakers. A world managed by payoffs, press releases, NDAs, and company policies. What happens to morality in this world ...

Public Enemy

By Olivier Choinière
Translated by Bobby Theodore
Subjects: Award Winners, Translations, Quebec Playwrights, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 4 f, 3 m
Duration: 75 minutes

Three generations of a family argue over current events, finances, and culture, with everyone looking to blame someone else for society’s ills in this satirical examination of how judgment can both ...

The Enchanted Loom

By Suvendrini Lena
Translated by Dushy Gnanapragasam
Subjects: Science & Scientists, Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Family Life, Theatre of War, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Translations, (Im)migration
Casting: 3 f, 3 m
Duration: 130 minutes

The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of ...

Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Translations, Quebec Playwrights, Family Life
Casting: 4 f, 1 m
Duration: 80 minutes

For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal’s Espace GO as part of an artistic residency that would profoundly shake her outlook on words, theatre practice, ...

Successions

By Michaela Di Cesare
Foreword by Tamara Brown
Subjects: Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Comedy, Siblings, (Im)migration, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Award Winners, Feminist Theatre, Quebec Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

After the unexpected death of their parents, two second-generation Italian Canadian brothers must come together to decide whether to hold on to the family home, which is full of secrets and hoarded junk, ...

Voices of a Generation

Edited by Michelle MacArthur
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Quebec Playwrights, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Anthologies, Women Writers, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Feminist Theatre, Comedy, Adaptations

Voices of a Generation gathers three Canadian plays that crack open millennial stereotypes to reveal a generation’s complex and varied experiences.

zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan follows Namid through ...

Too Good to be True

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Siblings, Mental Health, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 75 minutes

From the acclaimed author of Huff & Stitch comes a new dark comedy about the lies we tell each other in order to make the best of a desperate situation.

Maria and her kids—Lisa, a pregnant teenager, ...

Do This In Memory of Me

By Cat Walsh
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Comedy
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Twelve-year-old Genevieve has been having a hard time at home, and all she really wants is to be an altar server at her church. Except it’s 1963 and Father Paul tells her that’s not allowed. After ...

The Bridge

By Shauntay Grant
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Award Winners, Women Writers, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Rural Settings, Family Life, Siblings, Black Playwrights
Casting: 4 f, 3 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Set in a rural Black Nova Scotian community, The Bridge explores the complex relationship between two brothers strained over twenty years of secrecy, deception, and dishonour. Secrets are revealed one ...