Willow Quartet

By Joan Burrows
Subjects: Rural Settings, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 120 minutes

In the aftermath of a tragedy that ends Kim and Ben's marriage, Kim finds herself back in her childhood home, a quiet farm away from the city. Here, she invites Jim, a visiting musician, to stay with ...

Blood

By Meg Braem
Subjects: Horror, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Family Life, Siblings, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Twin sisters Poubelle and Angelique are bonded in both biology and shared tragedy after a car accident leaves them orphaned along a prairie highway in a pool of blood. But the young twins are brought ...

The Hours That Remain

By Keith Barker
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Siblings, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 60 minutes

Denise has spent the last five years dedicated to uncovering the truth behind her sister Michelle's disappearance. Haunted by loose ends, she begins seeing visions of Michelle, who gradually guides her ...

Separate Beds

By MJ Cruise
Subjects: Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Romance, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Ernie and Twink are in the autumn of their lives. In celebration of their thirtieth wedding anniversary, the couple's children send them on a Caribbean cruise. Free of chores and children, Ernie and Twink ...

The Best Brothers

By Daniel MacIvor
Subjects: LGBT/Queer Theatre, Atlantic Playwrights, Comedy, Nova Scotia, Family Life, Death, Grief & Loss, Siblings
Duration: 90 minutes

Bunny Best has met her unfortunate end after a mishap at a Gay Days parade. Now her two sons, Kyle and Hamilton, have the task of arranging her funeral and caring for her most beloved companion, a troublesome ...

The Little Years

By John Mighton
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Mental Health
Casting: 5 f, 2 m

Kate possesses the makings of a gifted mathematician with an enthusiasm for exploring the mysteries of space and time. But this is the 1950s and women are routinely laughed out of scientific circles. ...

Beaver

By Claudia Dey
Subjects: Family Life, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Rural Settings, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers
Casting: 6 f, 2 m

A northern Ontario gothic, Beaver follows Beatrice "Beaver" Jersey as she learns to grow beyond her circumscribed world, struggling with her whacky extended family, her alcoholic father, and her chain-smoking ...

A Bomb in the Heart

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Translations, Solo Shows, Family Life, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 1 m

A call late at night has Wahab springing into action. Despite a blinding snowstorm, an irritating bus driver, and a spinning wheel of worries, Wahab travels to his dying mother’s hospital room. A journey ...

The Melville Boys

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Rural Settings, Death, Grief & Loss, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Canadian Classics, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 110 hours

A relaxing weekend trip full of fishing, football, and beer is on the agenda for the Melville brothers. Unfortunately, so is confronting eldest brother Lee's terminal illness. But weekend plans are suddenly ...

Mad Boy Chronicle

By Michael O'Brien
Introduction by Liz Nicholls
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Family Life, Adaptations, Shakespeare, Canadian Shakespeare, Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 4 f, 10 m
Duration: 135 minutes

Set in the final days of the first millennium, Mad Boy Chronicle hauls the Hamlet story howling back to its origins. Join the Mad Boy as he sets out in fierce pursuit of his destiny, in a world where wolves, ...