Too Good to be True

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Comedy, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

From the acclaimed author of Huff & Stitch comes a new dark comedy about the lies we tell each other in order to make the best of a desperate situation.

Maria and her kids—Lisa, a pregnant teenager, ...

Quick Bright Things

By Christina Cook
Subjects: Mental Health, Community Theatre Picks, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Family Life
Duration: 120 hours

“Everyone hears voices. I’m treated like I’m broken for admitting it.”

Can a weekend trip to visit family ever be smooth?

Nick was hoping for a quick dinner at his brother Reid’s house when ...

Guarded Girls

By Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman
Foreword by Kim Pate
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Mental Health, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers
Casting: 4 f
Duration: 90 hours

The stories and experiences of three imprisoned women and a guard intertwine in dramatic and dangerous ways, as the psychological destruction that is solitary confinement taunts each of their lives.

Nineteen-year-old ...

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 ...

The Doorman of Windsor Station

By Julie Vincent
Translated by Hugh Hazelton
Preface by Javier Alfonso
Subjects: Translations, Mental Health, History, Quebec Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, (Im)migration, Women Writers
Casting: 3 f, 5 m

Francisco will forever be haunted by the sight of his best friend Juan lying on the floor of a train station, pierced by five bullets. He’ll remember that sight as he flees the political uprising in ...

Paradise

By Patti Flather
Subjects: Northern Playwrights, Yukon, Mental Health, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f, 3 m

After a traumatic assault in Central America, Rachel returns home, but it isn’t the reprieve she expected. She comes back to turmoil between her parents, and a part-time job in her dad’s medical office. ...

Watching Glory Die

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 75 minutes

Glory is a troubled teenage inmate who, in her solitary prison cell, is tormented by hallucinations. While she battles the creature in her mind, her adoptive mother Rosellen struggles to remain connected ...

Games

By Linda Griffiths
Subjects: Women Writers, Mental Health
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

In the aftermath of a local high school boy’s mysterious death, Dan and Marion Metcalf are increasingly worried about their son, Zach. He’s apathetic and shuts himself away in the basement to play ...

Black Dog

By Matthew Heiti
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Northern Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Siblings, Mental Health, Theatre for Young Audiences, Mental Health, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

The Breakfast Club meets Shirley Jackson in a fusion of live theatre and technology that tells a darkly comic but hopeful story of four teenage outsiders struggling with death, depression and the shadow ...

The Wanderers

By Kawa Ada
Subjects: Mental Health, Family Life, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, History, South Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

As the Soviet army invades Afghanistan, Aman and Mariam flee to Canada in hopes of putting an ocean between themselves and the daily horrors of war. A championship chess player in Kabul, Aman finds himself ...