The Jungle

By Anthony MacMahon & Thomas McKechnie
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Political Theatre, (Im)migration, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

Can Jack and
Veronyka ever get ahead? In this all-too-relatable love story in a city
suffocating under late-stage capitalism, a young couple is pitted against odd
after odd in a way that isn’t about ...

Calpurnia

By Audrey Dwyer
Subjects: Political Theatre, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Women Writers, Family Life, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Black Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 3 m

Julie, a young Jamaican Canadian screenwriter, is passionately working on an adaptation of one of the most beloved American novels of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird, telling the story from the perspective ...

Ravage of Life

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

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, ...

Fall On Your Knees

Adapted by Hannah Moscovitch
By Ann-Marie MacDonald
With Alisa Palmer
Subjects: Women Writers, Romance, Family Life, Death, Grief & Loss, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Adaptations, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 8 f, 5 m, doubling

In an adaptation of the classic Canadian novel, this epic play follows three generations of a Cape Breton Island family in a tale of forbidden love, inescapable bonds, and devastating betrayals, all while ...

Half-Cracked

By Mary-Colin Chisholm
Subjects: Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Rural Settings, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

Sisters Sissy and Yewina have been on their own for who knows how long exactly. It’s just them (and their hens) in a weathered farmhouse miles from town. Their rural, woodsy East Coast community has ...

After the Fire & The Particulars

By Matthew MacKenzie
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Comedy, Environmental Issues, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 1 m, chorus | 2 f, 2 m

From the author of Bears comes two dark comedies that expose the effects of disturbing the natural order and what we’re capable of when pushed to our breaking point.

Set in the aftermath of the disaster ...

Post-Democracy

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Women Writers, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Family Life
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 ...

How It Ends

By Debbie Patterson
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Women Writers, Disability Theatre, Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Most of us, when faced with death, wish we could just have a little more time. But what if this is the little more time that we wished for? What are you going to do with it?

Grieving siblings Natalie and ...

Forgiveness

Adapted by Hiro Kanagawa
By Mark Sakamoto
Illustrated by Cindy Mochizuki
Subjects: (Im)migration, Family Life, Theatre of War, Adaptations, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Biography, Death, Grief, and Loss
Casting: 5 f, 8 m, doubling

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild ...

Wildfire & The Shoe

By David Paquet
Translated by Leanna Brodie
Subjects: Mental Health, Family Life, Siblings, Quebec Playwrights, Comedy, Translations, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 1 m, doubling | 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 145 minutes

With spark and spunk, these two dark yet absurdly charming comedies offer a kaleidoscopic perspective of those who are destined to go down a lonely path and those who choose to share the weight of others’ ...