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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...