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 ...

Freedom: A Mixtape

Edited by Marcel Stewart
With Suitcase in Point
Subjects: History, Verbatim Theatre, Anthologies, Mental Health

Freedom: A Mixtape is a soulful artistic response to recent and historical violence on Black bodies, presented through a collection of original songs, stories, poems, anecdotes, spoken-word pieces, and ...

Retreating to Re-Treat

By The Collective Encounter
With Jill Carter
Subjects: History, Theatre Studies, Theatre Direction & Production, Nonfiction / Essays, History & Criticism, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Political Theatre, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation

In 2019, a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter stood with their audience in a liminal space at the 'edge of the woods'—a space between now and then, a space between now and later. Together, ...

The Master Plan

By Michael Healey
Subjects: Political Theatre, Adaptations, Comedy, History
Casting: 3 f, 3 m, 1 actor

In 2017, when the public agency Waterfront Toronto decided to put up a parcel of land for development, Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s Alphabet Inc., swept in with a proposal to create the city ...

Blackout

By Tamara Brown, Kym Dominique-Ferguson, Lydie Dubuisson, and Mathieu Murphy-Perron
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Political Theatre, History, Women Writers, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Black Playwrights

In February 1969, hundreds of students occupied a computer centre at what is now Montréal’s Concordia University to protest the mismanagement of a racism complaint lodged by Caribbean students against ...

Reasonable Doubt

By Joel Bernbaum, Lancelot Knight, and Yvette Nolan
Introduction by Maria Campbell
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Musicals, Verbatim Theatre, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Rural Settings, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Women Writers, History
Casting: 6 roles

A significant moment in Canadian history is portrayed in this documentary musical about race relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Weaving hundreds of real interviews conducted with ...

Bluebirds

By Vern Thiessen
Introduction by Cynthia Toman
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Theatre of War, History, Community Theatre Picks, Biography, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 3 f

Étaples, France, 1918. Nurses Christy, Maggie, and Bab have crossed oceans to care for wounded Canadian soldiers in the Great War. Despite the terrible injuries they must deal with, they manage to stay ...

Women of the Fur Trade

By Frances Koncan
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Award Winners, Comedy, Feminist Theatre, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Women Writers, History
Casting: 3 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort ...

The Children's Republic

By Hannah Moscovitch
Foreword by Stephanie Levitz
Afterword by Amanda West Lewis
Subjects: History, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Women Writers, Theatre of War
Casting: 3 f, 3 m (1 f adult, 1 m adult, 2 f kid, 2 m kid)

Confined within the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, Dr. Janusz Korczak struggles to protect the children at his orphanage from the horrors of the Second World War. There is not enough food or pairs of eyes ...

A Perfect Bowl of Pho

By Nam Nguyen
Subjects: (Im)migration, History, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, Musicals, Comedy
Casting: 12 roles
Duration: 80 minutes

Nam, a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup ...