The Making of St. Jerome

By Marie Beath Badian
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 2 f, 4 m

When Jason De Jesus discovers his younger brother Jerome was the victim of a senseless shooting, his world is filled with questions surrounding Jerome’s death. Was his brother a threat or a casualty ...

Waiting Room

By Diane Flacks
Subjects: Science & Scientists, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 4 f, 2 m
Duration: 130 minutes

Chrissie and Jeremy have spent a great deal of time in shock, waiting—for news of their baby daughter’s post-operation recovery, for weekly scans to show that her tumour is gone, for robotic forty-five-second ...

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 ...

Redheaded Stepchild

By Johnnie Walker
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Bullying, Ontario Playwrights, Solo Shows, By Age — 11–14, By Age — 15–18, LGBTQ
Casting: 1 m
Duration: 60 hours

Nicholas is a twelve-year-old with red hair whose dad just remarried. This makes Nicholas a redheaded stepchild. Literally. And tomorrow at lunch, the biggest boy in grade six plans to beat him up—he ...

Black Dog

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

Sultans of the Street

By Anusree Roy
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Class Differences, Ontario Playwrights, By Age - 8-10, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

When young orphans Mala and Chun Chun encounter brothers Prakash and Ojha on the busy streets of Kolkata, they are immediately at odds. The brothers come from a lower-middle-class family and spend their ...

Freda & Jem's Best of the Week

By Lo Fine
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Women Writers, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Jem is a self-described butch dyke from Montreal who always imagined spending her life in bars and having multiple flings. When she meets Freda, a woman who exposes Jem’s vulnerabilities, her preconceived ...

The Fish Eyes Trilogy

By Anita Majumdar
Illustrated by Maria Nguyen
Subjects: South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Feminist Theatre, Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Dating & Sex
Casting: 1 f

Three coming-of-age solo shows that follow the lives of teenage girls who attend the same high school and process their real-life dilemmas through dance, while exploring the heartaches of youth and the ...

HER2

By Maja Ardal
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 10 f

In this poignant meditation on the uneasy relationship between science and the human spirit, a group of women aged nineteen to sixty-three with HER2-related breast cancer are recruited for a clinical ...