After the Fire & The Particulars

By Matthew MacKenzie
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Environmental Issues, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Family Life, Siblings, Comedy
Casting: 2 f, 2 m | 1 m, chorus
Duration: 165 minutes

From the author of Bears comes two dark comedies that expose the effects of disturbing the natural order and what we’re capable of when pushed to our breaking point.

Set in the aftermath of the disaster ...

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

By (artist) Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Adaptations
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
Subjects: History, Death, Grief & Loss, Verbatim Theatre, Rural Settings, Musicals, Women Writers, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations
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: History, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Women Writers, Comedy, Feminist Theatre
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: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Feminist Theatre, Comedy, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Quebec Playwrights, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Women Writers, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Adaptations, Anthologies

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 ...

Too Good to be True

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Mental Health, Family Life, Siblings, Comedy, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 75 minutes

From the acclaimed author of Huff & Stitch comes a new dark comedy about the lies we tell each other in order to make the best of a desperate situation.

Maria and her kids—Lisa, a pregnant teenager, ...

$Refractions: Scenes$

Refractions: Scenes

Edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard & Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, Black Playwrights, Scenes & Monologues, Indigenous Playwrights, Jewish Theatre, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Middle Eastern Canadian 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: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Award Winners, Environmental Issues
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, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 8–10
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 ...