Refractions: Scenes

Edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard & Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Jewish Theatre, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Scenes & Monologues, Indigenous Playwrights, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Black Playwrights, Anthologies

Refractions: Scenes is a collection of scenes from diverse contemporary works by Canadian playwrights that reflect the country’s artistic landscape through a breadth of themes, styles, cultures, regions, ...

Bears

By Matthew MacKenzie
Foreword by Christine Sokaymoh Frederick
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Environmental Issues, Award Winners, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Duration: 70 minutes

As the prime suspect in a workplace accident, Floyd has to get out of town fast. Pursued by the RCMP, he heads through the Rockies for Burnaby, BC, along the route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. By the ...

Th'owxiya

By Joseph A. Dandurand
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age, Western Playwrights, British Columbia
Casting: 3 f, 3 m
Duration: 50 minutes

When you take something from the earth you must always give something back.

From the Kwantlen First Nation village of Squa’lets comes the tale of Th’owxiya, an old and powerful spirit that inhabits ...

Indian Act

Edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Foreword by Daniel David Moses
Preface by Falen Johnson
Subjects: Anthologies, Indigenous Playwrights

Indian Act is a tribute and thank you to those who survived the Indian Residential School system so that future generations could be free to pursue their lives unhindered by educationally enforced lowered ...

In Spirit

By Tara Beagan
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Solo Shows, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f

Twelve-year-old Molly was riding her new bicycle on a deserted road when a man in a truck pulled up next to her, saying he was lost. He asked if she could get in and help him back to the highway, and ...

This Is How We Got Here

By Keith Barker
Subjects: Family Life, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Rural Settings
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

It’s been a year since Paul and Lucille’s son Craig committed suicide, and their once-solid family bonds are starting to break down. While the now-separated couple tries to honour their son, Lucille’s ...

Huff & Stitch

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Anthologies, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 m | 1 f

In huff, brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father’s abusive whims and their mother’s recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pull ...

Performing Indigeneity

Edited by Yvette Nolan & Ric Knowles
Series edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, Non-Fiction / Essays
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre

This volume of newly commissioned essays about Indigenous performance is the first in which all of the contributors are Indigenous artists or academics. Scholars were invited to write essays on some aspect ...

Medicine Shows

By Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Women Writers, Theatre Studies, Indigenous Playwrights, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Non-Fiction / Essays

Contemporary Indigenous theatre in Canada is only thirty-three years old, if one begins counting from the premiere of Maria Campbell’s Jessica in Saskatoon and the establishment of Native Earth Performing ...

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Refractions: Solo

Edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard & Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Theatre Studies, Indigenous Playwrights, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Anthologies, Black Playwrights, Scenes & Monologues, Acting & Technique, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Jewish Theatre

A collection can be used both as a monologue source for actors and students, or as a primer on diverse Canadian theatre and an entry point into new works, many of which are not yet widely available. Includes ...