Black Boys

By Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide
With Virgilia Griffith, and Jonathan Seinen
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 3 m

Black Boys by Saga Collectif (Virgilia Griffith, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide, and Jonathan Seinen) uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black experience. Text, ...

Eraser

By Bilal Baig, Sadie Epstein-Fine
With Christol Bryan, Marina Gomes, Yousef Kadoura, Tijiki Morris, Anthony Perpuse, and Nathan Redburn
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Bullying, (Im)migration, By Age — 11–14, Ontario Playwrights, Deaf and Disability Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Death, Grief, and Loss
Casting: 6 roles

An immersive experience, Eraser delves into the memories and fantasies of a classroom of students as they figure out who they want to be. Six students guide readers through their different journeys, taking ...

William Shakespeare's As You Like It, A Radical Retelling

By (artist) Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Adaptations
Duration: 90 minutes

The title of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It holds a double meaning that teasingly suggests the play can please all tastes. But is that possible? With his subversive updating of the Bard’s classic, ...

Dividing Lines | Líneas Divisorias

By Beatriz Pizano
Subjects: Death, Grief, and Loss, Women Writers, (Im)migration, Ontario Playwrights, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 80 minutes

The one thing everyone knows is that we’re all going to die. Which means our loved ones are going to die. So how can we prepare for, experience, and honour their deaths? And does that look different ...

Reaching for Starlight

By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, By Age — 8–10, Black Playwrights
Casting: 8 f, 2 m

Reenie wants to dance, following in her mother’s footsteps. Just like the rest of her ensemble, she believes she has what it takes to earn the coveted solo at the year-end recital. But when she notices ...

The Negroes Are Congregating

By Natasha Adiyana Morris
Subjects: Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Black Playwrights, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

In this unapologetic and sharp-witted perspective about the evolving Black experience in Canada and around the world, a rhythmic fusion of spoken word, satire, and soulful dialect emerges steady as a ...

The Enchanted Loom

By Suvendrini Lena
Translated by Dushy Gnanapragasam
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Science & Scientists, Ontario Playwrights, (Im)migration, Translations, Mental Health, Family Life, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre of War
Casting: 3 f, 3 m

The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of ...

Forget Me Not

By Ronnie Burkett
Subjects: Puppets & Puppetry, Romance, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 m

Welcome to the New Now, a time in which written language has been forbidden and forgotten. Those who desire to have their love letters written and read must make a dangerous journey to the secret and ...

Lady Sunrise

By Marjorie Chan
Foreword by Nina Lee Aquino
Subjects: Large Cast, Feminist Theatre, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 6 f

From the glittering high-rise condos to the desperate streets of Vancouver, powerful stories told by women reveal the fraying social fabric among the wealthy and hangers-on in the city’s Asian Canadian ...

Every Day She Rose

By Andrea Scott & Nick Green
Subjects: Political Theatre, Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

After the Black Lives Matter protest at the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade, two friends find their racial and queer politics aren’t as aligned as they thought, and the playwrights behind them must figure ...