Hedda Gabler & Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia

By Judith Thompson
Foreword by Cynthia Ashperger
Subjects: Anthologies, Ontario Playwrights, Theatre of War, Family Life, Adaptations, Women Writers
Casting: 4 f, 3 m | 4 f, 6 m + chorus

In Hedda Gabler, a moving exploration of female oppression, a recently married Hedda navigates her new identity as a wife and the intense constraints put on her by society. She prefers pistols to cooking ...

The Bombay Plays

By Anosh Irani
Subjects: Anthologies, Family Life, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, South Asian Canadian Playwrights

From renowned author Anosh Irani comes an updated edition of The Bombay Plays featuring two plays that explore the depths of the back alleys of Bombay. Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding ...

Huff & Stitch

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Anthologies, Family Life, Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f | 1 m

In huff, brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father’s abusive whims and their mother’s recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pull ...

The Making of St. Jerome

By Marie Beath Badian
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 2 f, 4 m

When Jason De Jesus discovers his younger brother Jerome was the victim of a senseless shooting, his world is filled with questions surrounding Jerome’s death. Was his brother a threat or a casualty ...

Black Dog

By Matthew Heiti
Subjects: By Age — 15–18, Family Life, Siblings, Ontario Playwrights, Northern Ontario Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Mental Health
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

The Breakfast Club meets Shirley Jackson in a fusion of live theatre and technology that tells a darkly comic but hopeful story of four teenage outsiders struggling with death, depression and the shadow ...

The Wanderers

By Kawa Ada
Subjects: Mental Health, Family Life, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, History, South Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

As the Soviet army invades Afghanistan, Aman and Mariam flee to Canada in hopes of putting an ocean between themselves and the daily horrors of war. A championship chess player in Kabul, Aman finds himself ...

You Are Happy

By Rébecca Déraspe
Translated by Leanna Brodie
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Quebec Playwrights, Romance, Comedy, Translations, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

Bridget finds her brother Jeremy in a closet attempting suicide. Again. Determined to help him find some kind of happiness, she carts around grocery stores looking for his potential wife. Bridget’s ...

Try

By Daniel MacIvor
Subjects: Family Life, Anthologies, Community Theatre Picks, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia

In Communion, a recovering alcoholic and her estranged daughter try to negotiate a new relationship in spite of vastly different lifestyles; Was Spring tells the story of three women who suffered a tragic ...

Freda & Jem's Best of the Week

By Lo Fine
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Women Writers, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Jem is a self-described butch dyke from Montreal who always imagined spending her life in bars and having multiple flings. When she meets Freda, a woman who exposes Jem’s vulnerabilities, her preconceived ...

Kill Me Now

By Brad Fraser
Subjects: Family Life, Disability Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

When Joey enters puberty, his father Jake finds himself in a morally ambiguous position. Joey is severely disabled, but he still has the same sexual desires as any seventeen-year-old boy, only he can’t ...