Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life
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 Alisa Palmer & Hannah Moscovitch
By Hannah Moscovitch
Original author Ann-Marie MacDonald
Subjects: Family Life, Romance, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, 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 ...

I Forgive You

By Scott Jones & Robert Chafe
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Family Life, Disability Theatre, Rural Settings, Mental Health, Verbatim Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 m, child dancer, and chorus

In October 2013, Scott Jones was leaving a bar in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, when he was attacked, stabbed in the back, and left paralyzed from the waist down. In the months following his attack, Scott ...

The Green Line | خطّ التماس

By Makram Ayache
Translated by Hiba Sleiman
Subjects: History, Family Life, Siblings, (Im)migration, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Award Winners, Asian Canadian Playwrights, West Asian Canadian Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

A poetic, heartbreaking story of intergenerational queer history in Lebanon, The Green Line weaves together civil war Beirut with a contemporary nightclub, following one family’s journey to discover ...

There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow

By Caleigh Crow
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Horror, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Family Life, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

Grocery-store clerk Beth has had a hell of a week. A hell of a life, actually, full of people squashing her soul. And after pushing back at life—stabbing a steak to her boss’s desk and lighting a ...

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 ...

21 Black Futures

Created by Obsidian Theatre
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Deaf Theatre, Super Short Shows, Solo Shows, Comedy, Mental Health, Disability Theatre, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Scenes & Monologues, Award Winners

What is the future of Blackness? Obsidian Theatre presents twenty-one versions of it.

In 2021, Obsidian Theatre engaged twenty-one writers to create twenty-one new stories about imagined Black futures. ...

Half-Cracked

By Mary-Colin Chisholm
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Rural Settings, Women Writers, 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 been ...

The Jungle

By Anthony MacMahon & Thomas McKechnie
Subjects: Family Life, (Im)migration, Political Theatre, Ontario Playwrights
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: Women Writers, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Family Life, Political Theatre, 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 ...