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 ...

Almighty Voice and His Wife

By Daniel David Moses
Introduction by Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights, History, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 110 minutes

Almighty Voice and His Wife shakes up a familiar story from the Saskatchewan frontier, reimagining it from the postmodern late twentieth century. The “renegade Indian story” transforms into both an ...

Dreary and Izzy

By Tara Beagan
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, 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: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Biography, Women Writers, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, History
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 75 minutes

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: Solo Shows, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Anthologies
Casting: 1 f, 2 m | 1 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 ...