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, ...

Bar Mitzvah Boy

By Mark Leiren-Young
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Award Winners, Jewish Theatre, Comedy, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy
Duration: 85 minutes

Joey Brant needs to have a bar mitzvah immediately. Like, next Tuesday. Except he’s not thirteen, the usual age for the Jewish milestone. He’s in his sixties. A task he thinks he could quickly cross ...

Double Exposure

Edited by Stephen Orlov & Samah Sabawi
Subjects: Jewish Theatre, Award Winners, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Theatre of War, Anthologies

The first of its kind, Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas is a groundbreaking anthology about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict penned by Diaspora playwrights of Jewish and ...

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Refractions: Solo

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

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 ...

House of Many Tongues

By Jonathan Garfinkel
Subjects: Comedy, Jewish Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre, Theatre of War
Casting: 5 f, 5 m

During the Six Day War, an Israeli general found an abandoned house and made it his home. Forty years later, the general, along with his imaginative and distant son Alex, live in peaceful solitude. When ...

YICHUD (Seclusion)

By Julie Tepperman
Subjects: Jewish Theatre, Women Writers, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy
Casting: 2 f, 4 m, chorus, musicians
Duration: 90 minutes

Rachel and Chaim are Orthodox Jews living in Toronto. They have requested an arranged marriage and today is their wedding day. The Yichud Room is the place where the bride and groom go to be alone immediately ...

East of Berlin

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Women Writers, Theatre of War, Canadian Classics, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Jewish Theatre, History
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Standing outside his father’s study in Paraguay, Rudi is smoking cigarettes, trying to work up the courage to go in. It has been seven years since he stood in that same spot; seven years since he left ...

Modern Jewish Plays

Edited by Jason Sherman
Afterword by Ross Manson
Subjects: Jewish Theatre, Anthologies

Six plays. Six playwrights. Six takes on Israel. From those who've been there, those who live there, and those that don't.
"Jews are modern people. On every subject we are rational, we are children of ...

The League of Nathans

By Jason Sherman
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Canadian Classics, Jewish Theatre
Casting: 4+ actors

Nathan Abramowitz, Nathan Glass and Nathan Isaacs form a boyhood club and together grapple with their Jewish faith and identity, until Glass suddenly moves to Israel. Many years later, a telegram summons ...

Reading Hebron

By Jason Sherman
Subjects: Jewish Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Theatre of War, Death, Grief & Loss, History
Casting: 2 f, 3 m, doubling

A Toronto Jew named Nathan Abramowitz investigates the Hebron Massacre—in which a Jewish settler murdered 29 Muslims at prayer—as a way of questioning his own responsibility for the oppression of ...