This Is How We Got Here

By Keith Barker
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Rural Settings, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

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: Mental Health, Northern Playwrights, Yukon, 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 ...

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 ...

Little One and Other Plays

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Women Writers, Anthologies, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Dating & Sex, Mental Health
Casting: 1 f, 1 m | 2 f | 2 f, 1 m

A chilling psychological thriller, Little One is the haunting story of adopted siblings Aaron and Claire—one the definition of normal, the other deeply disturbed and unpredictable—and the strange lives ...

The Goodnight Bird

By Colleen Murphy
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Mental Health, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 110 minutes

Lilly and Morgan Beaumont are comfortable in their routine until Parker, a homeless man, lands on the balcony of their new condo. After scaring the older couple half to death, he pours himself into the ...

The Little Years

By John Mighton
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Mental Health
Casting: 5 f, 2 m

Kate possesses the makings of a gifted mathematician with an enthusiasm for exploring the mysteries of space and time. But this is the 1950s and women are routinely laughed out of scientific circles. ...

The Crackwalker

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Women Writers, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

Teresa is sexy, seductive, and mentally challenged. Worshipped by her boyfriend, she turns tricks at $5, is addicted to Tim Hortons' doughnuts, lies without thinking, and overflows with endless kindness, ...