Voices of a Generation

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

Voices of a Generation collects three Canadian plays that speak to millennials’ complex and varied experiences and the challenges and stereotypes they often face. zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan follows ...

Too Good to be True

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Super Short Shows, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy, Family Life, Siblings, 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, and ...

Do This In Memory of Me

By Cat Walsh
Subjects: Family Life, Community Theatre Picks, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Comedy, Death, Grief&Loss
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 ...

Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Translations, Quebec Playwrights, Death, Grief&Loss, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers, 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, ...

The Enchanted Loom

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

Andy's Gone

By Marie-Claude Verdier
Translated by Alexis Diamond
Subjects: Adaptations, Political Theatre, Family Life, Death, Grief&Loss, Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights, Translations, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age—15–18, Class Differences
Casting: 2 f
Duration: 60 minutes

What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact? What is the cost of revolution?In this contemporary retelling of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city’s perimeter ...

The Bridge

By Shauntay Grant
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Women Writers, Death, Grief&Loss, Black Playwrights, Award Winners, Rural Settings, Family Life, Siblings
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 ...

Bare Bear Bones

By Michael Grant
Subjects: Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy, Rural Settings, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 4 f, 4 m
Duration: 120 minutes

At the instruction of their marriage counsellor, empty nesters Norm and Ruth book a trip to a place where they remember being in love, the Bear Bones Family Campground, in order to rekindle their spark. ...

New Magic Valley Fun Town

By Daniel MacIvor
Subjects: Family Life, Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

From the acclaimed playwright behind A Beautiful View, The Best Brothers, and This is What Happens Next comes a moving portrait about what we choose to forget and how we decide to move on.

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Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell

By Trina Davies
Foreword by Peter Hinton-Davis
Subjects: Women Writers, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Romance, Biography, History
Casting: 4 f, 2 m
Duration: 110 minutes

It only takes one spark of love to change the world forever.

Mabel Hubbard Bell was a strong, self-assured woman—bright, passionate, and a complete original. Despite a near-fatal case of childhood scarlet ...