Opium_37

By Catherine Léger
Translated by Leanna Brodie
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, History, Translations
Casting: 5 f, 5 m
Duration: 80 minutes

On the eve of World War II in a Parisian café, Anaïs Nin and June Miller meet again after years and an ocean apart. There, they share the space with some of Paris's notorious and eccentric artists who ...

Maggie and Pierre & The Duchess

By Linda Griffiths
Subjects: Anthologies, Solo Shows, Women Writers, Canadian Classics, Biography, History
Casting: 1 f | 3 f, 4 m

Winner of the first Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Maggie and Pierre chronicles the public and private relationship between Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau from 1974-1980. In this ...

The Romeo Initiative

By Trina Davies
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, History, Political Theatre, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Romance
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 100 minutes

Single men are hard to come by in 1970s West Germany. So when Karin Maynard, a government secretary, meets the handsome Markus Richter, a single man who pursues her, she can hardly believe her luck. But ...

The Mill

Created by Daryl Cloran, Matthew MacFadzean
By Matthew MacFadzean, Hannah Moscovitch, Tara Beagan, and Damien Atkins
Subjects: Anthologies, History, Horror

It's 1854 at the start of Now We Are Brody. The mill is boarded up as the townsfolk attempt to bury a dark shame from their past, but the arrival of a young woman with the deed to the mill threatens to ...

The Forbidden Phoenix

By Marty Chan
Lyrics by Robert Walsh
Illustrated by Derek Mah
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Award Winners, History, By Age — 8–10, Western Playwrights, Alberta, (Im)migration, Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 4 f, 3 m, chorus
Duration: 120 minutes

Sun Wukong’s goal is simple: to feed his son Laoson. Known to his people as the Monkey King, Sun Wukong leaves his home with a promise to return one day and feed the drought-ravaged city of Jung Guo. ...

lady in the red dress

By David Yee
Subjects: History, Ontario Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, (Im)migration
Casting: 1 f, 4 m, doubling
Duration: 90 minutes

The turmoil in Max's life was set in motion by Sylvia, an elusive figure who enters his life and charges Max with the task of finding Tommy Jade, a Chinese immigrant from the 1920s. Dragged further into ...

Canada and the Theatre of War: Volume Two

Edited by Donna Coates & Sherrill Grace
Subjects: History, Theatre of War, Anthologies

This second volume of Canadian war drama focuses on plays about contemporary warfare.

Includes:

Game of Patience by Abla Farhoud, translated by Jill Mac Dougall
A Line In the Sand by Guillermo Verdecchia ...

Almighty Voice and His Wife

By Daniel David Moses
Introduction by Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights, History, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 110 minutes

Almighty Voice and His Wife shakes up a familiar story from the Saskatchewan frontier, reimagining it from the postmodern late twentieth century. The “renegade Indian story” transforms into both an ...

East of Berlin

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Women Writers, Theatre of War, Canadian Classics, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Jewish Theatre, History
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Standing outside his father’s study in Paraguay, Rudi is smoking cigarettes, trying to work up the courage to go in. It has been seven years since he stood in that same spot; seven years since he left ...

Theatre Histories

Edited by Alan Filewod
Series edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Non-Fiction / Essays, History
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Includes:The Toronto Lyceum: A Study of Early Canadian Theatre in Miniature by Richard Plant (1976)Infinite Variety or a Canadian "National" Theatre: Roly Young and the Toronto Civic Theatre Association, ...