Lilies

By Michel Marc Bouchard
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Quebec Playwrights, History, Death, Grief & Loss, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Translations
Casting: 7 m, doubling

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

By Jason Sherman
Subjects: Jewish Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Theatre of War, Death, Grief & Loss, History
Casting: 2 f, 3 m, doubling

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

By Betty Lambert
Introduction by Pamela Hawthorn
Subjects: Rural Settings, Community Theatre Picks, Canadian Classics, History
Casting: 2 f, 1 m | 3 f, 2 m

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 ...