Niizh

By Joelle Peters
Subjects: Rural Settings, Comedy, Women Writers, Romance, Family Life, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Theatre for Young Audiences, Coming of Age, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

It’s summertime on the rez, the frybread is sizzling, and the local radio station plays bluegrass, Anishinaabemowin lessons, and Friday-night bingo numbers. Lenna, the youngest of the Little family, ...

First Métis Man of Odesa

By Matthew MacKenzie & Mariya Khomutova
Subjects: Theatre of War, (Im)migration, Romance, Family Life, Political Theatre, Women Writers, Award Winners, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Comedy
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

Matt and Masha hit it off during a theatre research trip in Ukraine. At first they seem like opposites: Masha loves the sea, Matt loves mountains. Masha is Ukrainian, Matt is Métis. But the passionate ...

Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 3

Edited by Monique Mojica & Lindsay Lachance
Subjects: Anthologies, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, Dance, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Metis, Environmental Issues

On the twentieth anniversary of its first volume, Staging Coyote’s Dream Volume III is a curated collection of new works rooted in Indigenous values, aesthetics, and narrative structures. Inspired by ...

Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy)

By Michaela Washburn, Joelle Peters, and Carrie Costello
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Northern Ontario Playwrights, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Environmental Issues, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 8–10, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations
Casting: 3 f

Exploring reconciliation and connection through a story that spans seven generations, Frozen River (nîkwatin sîpiy) tells the story of two eleven-year-olds through the eyes of Grandmother Moon. Eilidh ...

Everything I Couldn't Tell You

By Jeff D'Hondt
Subjects: Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Science & Scientists
Casting: 3 f

Revived from a coma after a traumatic event, Megan’s injuries leave her capable of great violence, forcing her desperate physician Cassandra to recruit Alison, an Indigenous clinician, as her consultant. ...

After the Fire & The Particulars

By Matthew MacKenzie
Foreword by Jo-Ann Saddleback & Simon Bracken
Subjects: Comedy, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Family Life, Siblings, Environmental Issues, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 1 m, chorus | 2 f, 2 m

From the author of Bears comes two dark comedies that expose what we’re capable of when pushed to our breaking point and give in to the temptation of taking matters into our own hands.

Set in the aftermath ...

William Shakespeare's As You Like It, A Radical Retelling

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Award Winners, Adaptations, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Ontario Playwrights
Duration: 90 minutes

The title of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It holds a double meaning that teasingly suggests the play can please all tastes. But is that possible? With his subversive updating of the Bard’s classic, ...

Reasonable Doubt

By Joel Bernbaum, Lancelot Knight, and Yvette Nolan
Introduction by Maria Campbell
Subjects: Verbatim Theatre, Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Musicals, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Death, Grief & Loss, History, Rural Settings
Casting: 6 roles

A significant moment in Canadian history is portrayed in this documentary musical about race relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Weaving hundreds of real interviews conducted with ...

Women of the Fur Trade

By Frances Koncan
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Award Winners, Comedy, Feminist Theatre, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Women Writers, History
Casting: 3 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort ...

Voices of a Generation

Edited by Michelle MacArthur
Subjects: Anthologies, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Quebec Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Comedy, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Feminist Theatre, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Adaptations

Voices of a Generation gathers three Canadian plays that crack open millennial stereotypes to reveal a generation’s complex and varied experiences.

zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan follows Namid through ...