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, ...

The Bridge

By Shauntay Grant
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Rural Settings, Black Playwrights, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Award Winners, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 4 f, 3 m
Duration: 90 hours

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 ...

Pretty Goblins

By Beth Graham
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 2 f
Duration: 90 hours

From holding hands in the womb to holding each other’s hair back when they puked, twins Laura and Lizzie grew up only having each other. They couldn’t count on their practically feral mom, absent ...

Brontë: The World Without

By Jordi Mand
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Biography, Family Life, Siblings, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, History
Casting: 3 f
Duration: 135 hours

What happens when a passion is turned into a means to survive?

Sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë have always enjoyed writing and storytelling, but so far, it’s been for their own personal enjoyment. ...

Amaryllis & Little Witch

By Pascal Brullemans
Translated by Alexis Diamond
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Translations, Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, By Age — 11–14, Quebec Playwrights
Duration: 105 hours

In these dark fairy tales, two girls face danger while grieving loved ones, and learn some hard truths about growing up along the way. Imaginative and curious, these fables illustrate adventures for children ...

Quiver

By Anna Chatterton
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, Solo Shows, Coming of Age, By Age — 15–18, Family Life, Siblings, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f

“She doesn’t care about me; she doesn’t even want to see me; she just pretends she does.”

Shy, fourteen-year-old Maddie wasn’t expecting to have to worry about taking care of herself just yet. ...

How Black Mothers Say I Love You

By Trey Anthony
Subjects: Women Writers, Black Playwrights, (Im)migration, Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 4 f

From the author of the blockbuster hit ‘da Kink in my hair comes an emotional and raw look into family dynamics, trust, resolution and change.

Claudette still can’t forgive her mother for leaving. ...

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: Theatre for Young Audiences, Mental Health, Family Life, Siblings, By Age — 15–18, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights, Northern Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss
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 ...

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 ...