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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the Fire & The Particulars

By Matthew MacKenzie
Foreword by Jo-Ann Saddleback & Simon Bracken
Subjects: Comedy, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Family Life, Siblings, Environmental Issues, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 1 m, chorus | 2 f, 2 m

From the author of Bears comes two dark comedies that expose what we’re capable of when pushed to our breaking point and give in to the temptation of taking matters into our own hands.

Set in the aftermath ...

How It Ends

By Debbie Patterson
Foreword by Michael Sobota
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss, Disability Theatre
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 ...

Wildfire & The Shoe

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

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’ ...

Public Enemy

By Olivier Choiniere
Translated by Bobby Theodore
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Award Winners, Translations, Quebec Playwrights
Casting: 4 f, 3 m

Three generations of a family argue over current events, finances, and culture, with everyone looking to blame someone else for society’s ills in this satirical examination of how judgment can both ...

Blow Wind

By Daniel Macdonald
By (composer) Eileen Laverty
Foreword by Angus Ferguson
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Rural Settings, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Community Theatre Picks, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 3 f, 2 m

After years of running from her dysfunctional past, Sarah returns home to the family farm in Saskatchewan to find her mom Kathleen yelling into the wind, setting off a turbulent new chapter in her life. ...

Successions

By Michaela Di Cesare
Foreword by Tamara Brown
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Comedy, Award Winners, (Im)migration, Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Quebec Playwrights, Marriage & Divorce, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

After the unexpected death of their parents, two second-generation Italian Canadian brothers must come together to decide whether to hold on to the family home, which is full of secrets and hoarded junk, ...

Too Good to be True

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Comedy, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

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, ...