New Canadian Kid + Invisible Kids

By Dennis Foon
Introduction by Marcus Youssef
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 8-10, By Age - 11-14, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, (Im)migration, Canadian Classics
Casting: 2 f, 3 m | 2 f, 2 m

Two of the most produced, popular, and important Canadian plays for young audiences are back in an updated edition.

In New Canadian Kid, Nick has just moved to Canada from a country called Homeland, where ...

acquiesce

By David Yee
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Family Life, (Im)migration, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 1 f, 3 m+

Plagued by the success of his first book and haunted by his past, Sin Hwang arrives in Hong Kong with some unusual cargo and a lot of emotional baggage. Featuring a surreal cast of characters, from a ...

How Black Mothers Say I Love You

By Trey Anthony
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, African and Caribbean Canadian Playwrights, LGBT/Queer Theatre, (Im)migration
Casting: 4 f

Claudette still can’t forgive her mother for leaving. For six years of her childhood, Claudette and her sister Valerie were left with their grandmother while their mother, Daphne, moved from Jamaica ...

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 ...

6 Essential Questions

By Priscila Uppal
Subjects: Family Life, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy, (Im)migration, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Women Writers
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

6 Essential Questions tells the story of Renata as she travels to Brazil to reunite with the mother who abandoned her when she was just five years old. In Rio, Renata discovers more than she bargained ...

State of Denial

By Rahul Varma
Subjects: Theatre of War, Quebec Playwrights, History, (Im)migration, South Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 3 m

Odette is a young Rwandan-Canadian filmmaker who has travelled to Turkey to investigate stories of genocide and hidden identity for an upcoming film. When she interviews Sahana, an elderly Muslim woman ...

lady in the red dress

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

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 ...

Scorched

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Theatre of War, Death, Grief & Loss, Translations, Family Life, (Im)migration, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 7 actors

Wajdi Mouawad's writing is powerful; a beautifully penned story that paves a path to a mother's unspeakable pain. The closer Janine and Simon get to finding the source of her silence, the closer they ...

Pyaasa & Letters to My Grandma

By Anusree Roy
Introduction by Thomas Jones
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Women Writers, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, (Im)migration, Family Life, Ontario Playwrights, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f

Set in Calcutta, Pyaasa tells the story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more than learning her times tables. When Chaya's mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give ...

Cast Iron

By Lisa Codrington
Subjects: Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights, (Im)migration, Women Writers, African and Caribbean Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 1 f

Alone in her Winnipeg nursing home, Libya receives an unexpected visitor from Barbados. Past repression resurfaces, until the tragedy that shaped her life spills from her soul. A rich story so vivid with ...