The Gay Heritage Project

By Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir
Subjects: History, Ontario Playwrights, LGBT/Queer Theatre
Casting: 3 m

This isn’t your ordinary history project. In what has become an important piece of contemporary queer theatre, three of Canada’s most gifted performers—Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir—go ...

Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom

By Jordan Tannahill
Foreword by Kirsten Bowen
Subjects: Anthologies, LGBT/Queer Theatre, Award Winners, History
Casting: 2 f, 4 m

Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom presents wildly apocryphal retellings of two events—one historic, one mythic—that reconsider the official record through decidedly queer and feminist lenses. ...

The Doorman of Windsor Station

By Julie Vincent
Translated by Hugh Hazelton
Preface by Javier Alfonso
Subjects: Translations, History, Mental Health, Quebec Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, (Im)migration
Casting: 3 f, 5 m

Francisco will forever be haunted by the sight of his best friend Juan lying on the floor of a train station, pierced by five bullets. He’ll remember that sight as he flees the political uprising in ...

The Virgin Trial

By Kate Hennig
Subjects: Award Winners, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Ontario Playwrights, History
Casting: 4 f, 3 m
Duration: 140 minutes

Fifteen-year-old Bess has no idea when she heads to London to see her Uncle Ted that she is about to find herself at the heart of a scandal involving sexual impropriety; her stepfather, Thom; and an attempted ...

Canadian Performance Histories and Historiograpies

Edited by Heather Davis-Fisch
Series edited by Roberta Barker
Subjects: Non-Fiction / Essays, History
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre

Challenging the idea of a singular narrative of Canadian theatre history and centring on questions of historiography and methodology, the essays in this collection investigate performances that have been ...

Past Lives

Edited by Heather Davis-Fisch
Subjects: History, Anthologies

A companion anthology to Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies, Past Lives: Performing Canada’s Histories brings together plays that not only stage moments in Canada’s past but also act ...

1979

By Michael Healey
Subjects: Comedy, Biography, Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, History
Casting: 3+ actors

It's December 1979 and Clark's minority Progressive Conservative government is under threat of dissolution before it has a chance to accomplish anything — even pass a budget. But Clark is young and ...

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

By Robert Chafe
Subjects: History, Biography, Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Adaptations
Casting: 3 f, 8 m

Spanning two decades, Smallwood’s story is anchored and propelled by one of Johnston’s most memorable creations: the fictitious Sheilagh Fielding, a caustic newspaper columnist whose own battles with ...

Oil and Water

By Robert Chafe
Preface by Chris Brookes
Subjects: History, Rural Settings, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, Theatre of War
Casting: 4 f, 6 m

In 1942 the USS Truxtun, a ship carrying over a hundred sailors, ran aground on the Burin Peninsula in Newfoundland, killing most of its men. Oil and Water is the incredible true story of the sole African ...

The Last Dog of War

By Linda Griffiths
Subjects: History, Family Life, Women Writers, Theatre of War
Casting: 1 f

In 2005 Linda made a trip with her father to the last reunion of his RAF comrades, the 49th Squadron, Bomber Command. Intertwining her father’s experiences of a long-ago war with the war between a father ...