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: Theatre of War, Jewish Theatre, Canadian Classics, Women Writers, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, History
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 hours

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 ...

The Drowning Girls and Comrades

By Beth Graham, Charlie Tomlinson, and Daniela Vlaskalic
Introduction by Liz Nicholls
Subjects: Anthologies, Biography, History, Women Writers, Award Winners
Casting: 2 m | 3 f

The Drowning Girls

Bessie, Alice, and Margaret have two things in common: they are married to George Joseph Smith, and they are dead. Surfacing from the bathtubs they were drowned in, the three breathless ...

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, ...

A Nanking Winter

By Marjorie Chan
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Asian Canadian Playwrights, History, Theatre of War
Casting: 3 f, 2 m+

Marjorie Chan's gripping narrative intertwines the past and the present, transporting the reader between Irene and a small group of unlikely heroes caught in the invasion. Scrambling to create a refuge ...

Canada and the Theatre of War: Volume One

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

Part I - WORLD WAR I
The Lost Boys by R. H. Thomson
Soldier's Heart by David French
Mary's Wedding by Stephen Massicotte
Dancock's Dance by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Vimy by Vern Thiessen

Part II - WORLD WAR II
Ever ...

The Blue Light

By Mieko Ouchi
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, History, Biography, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 3 m, doubling

Leni Riefenstahl, one hundred years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive. Leni’s reason to be there is clear: to make one last desperate pitch to direct her first feature ...

Mieko Ouchi: Two Plays

By Mieko Ouchi
Introduction by Vanessa Porteous
Subjects: Biography, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, History, Anthologies
Casting: 2 f, 3 m, doubling | 1 f, 1 m

The Blue Light: Leni Riefenstahl, one hundred years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive. Leni's reason to be there is clear: to make one last desperate pitch to direct her ...

The December Man (L'homme de décembre)

By Colleen Murphy
Subjects: Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, History
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

In the aftermath of the 1989 Montreal Massacre, Benoît and Kathleen do everything they can to help their beloved son cope with his guilt and rage… but Jean's young life becomes unglued.

Using humour ...