Bears

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

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 hours

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: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Solo Shows, Death, Grief & Loss
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: Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Rural Settings, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 hours

Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, This is How We Got Here follows a close-knit family as they deal with an unexpected loss. A mother, father, aunt, and uncle must learn how to move forward ...

Huff & Stitch

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

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: Theatre Studies, Indigenous Playwrights, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Non-Fiction / Essays, Women Writers

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

Two-Spirit Acts

Edited by Jean O'Hara
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Anthologies

In this collection of short but powerful two-spirit plays, characters dispel conventional notions of gender and sexuality while celebrating Indigenous understandings. With a refreshing spin, the plays ...