History
Robert Chafe: Two Plays
Butler's Marsh
Thirty years ago Nora's mother disappeared into the small, dense forest of Butler's Marsh. She emerged three days later, covered in blood, badly shaken, and completely silent about what ...
Leo
Set in Santiago, Chile, three young friends form a bittersweet love triangle during the political upheaval surrounding President Salvador Allende’s assassination.
Told through Leo’s memories, the ...
Angélique
"And in seventeen thirty-four a Negro slave set fire to the City of Montreal and was hanged. .."
With this bald statement of history as a basis, Lorena Gale constructs a vivid portrait of a time when captive ...
Lilies
In 1912, two young boys in a Catholic college fall in love while working on a play about St. Sebastian. Their passion ends in tragedy with one boy sent to prison, the other dead. Years later, as the aged ...
Reading Hebron
A Toronto Jew named Nathan Abramowitz investigates the Hebron Massacre—in which a Jewish settler murdered 29 Muslims at prayer—as a way of questioning his own responsibility for the oppression of ...
Jennie's Story & Under the Skin
Winner of the 1983 Chalmers Canadian Play Award, Jennie's Story is set in the late 1930s on the Canadian prairies. It concerns the Sexual Sterilization Act that was enacted in 1928, allowing a sterilization ...