The Unplugging

By Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Feminist Theatre, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Environmental Issues, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 85 hours

In a post-apocalyptic world, Bern and Elena are exiled from their village. Their crime? The two women are no longer of child-bearing age.

Forced to rely upon traditional wisdom for their survival, Elena ...

The Hours That Remain

By Keith Barker
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Siblings, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 60 minutes

Denise has spent the last five years dedicated to uncovering the truth behind her sister Michelle's disappearance. Haunted by loose ends, she begins seeing visions of Michelle, who gradually guides her ...

Inspiration Point

By John Garfield Barlow
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Rural Settings
Casting: 4 m

Poised between hope and despair, each man faces how best to move beyond the past and adapt to a future in which cultural legacy seems destined to diminish. Symbolic and politically charged, Inspiration ...

Stories from the Bush

Edited by Joe Osawabine & Shannon Hengen
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, Anthologies

The work done by De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre makes a significant contribution to Aboriginal theatre, culture, Canadian theatre and society as a whole. The six plays gathered here were chosen based on their ...

Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 2

Edited by Monique Mojica & Ric Knowles
Subjects: Anthologies, Indigenous Playwrights

This second volume of Staging Coyote's Dream is an all-new anthology of First Nations drama in English that follows up on the success of the first volume. It brings together plays by some of the leading ...

Dreary and Izzy

By Tara Beagan
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

1975, Lethbridge Alberta. When the Monoghan sisters lose their parents in a car accident, Deirdre remains as the sole caregiver to her older sister, Isabelle. Just as Deirdre is poised to enter university ...

Annie Mae's Movement

By Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Biography, History, Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 75 hours

Annie Mae’s Movement explores what it must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a man’s movement, a Canadian in America, an Aboriginal in a white-dominant culture at a time when ...

Darrell Dennis: Two Plays

By Darrell Dennis
Introduction by Lee Maracle
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Solo Shows, Anthologies
Casting: 1 m | 1 f, 2 m

Tales of an Urban Indian is a one-person play that follows the trials and tribulations of Simon Douglas, a young First Nations man who moves from his rural reservation to the big city of Vancouver. This ...

Aboriginal Drama and Theatre

Edited by Rob Appleford
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, Nonfiction / Essays
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available. The series publishes the work of scholars and critics who have ...

Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 1

Edited by Monique Mojica & Ric Knowles
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, Anthologies

An anthology of First Nations drama in English, Staging Coyote's Dream is the first anthology of First Nations plays to be published in Canada. It brings together ten major plays by First Nations playwrights ...