The Hours That Remain

By Keith Barker
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Siblings, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 60 minutes

Denise has spent the last five years dedicated to uncovering the truth behind her sister Michelle's disappearance. Haunted by loose ends, she begins seeing visions of Michelle, who gradually guides her ...

Separate Beds

By MJ Cruise
Subjects: Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Romance, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Ernie and Twink are in the autumn of their lives. In celebration of their thirtieth wedding anniversary, the couple's children send them on a Caribbean cruise. Free of chores and children, Ernie and Twink ...

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 ...

Proud

By Michael Healey
Subjects: Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre
Casting: 1 f, 3 m

Shortly after the Conservatives win a majority government in the 2011 federal election, the prime minister discovers a secret weapon in his caucus—Jisbella Lyth, a single mother with a limited understanding ...

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. ...

Beaver

By Claudia Dey
Subjects: Family Life, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Rural Settings, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers
Casting: 6 f, 2 m

A northern Ontario gothic, Beaver follows Beatrice "Beaver" Jersey as she learns to grow beyond her circumscribed world, struggling with her whacky extended family, her alcoholic father, and her chain-smoking ...

Kilt Pins

By Catherine Hernandez
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Women Writers, Dating & Sex
Casting: 3 f, 1m

In a Catholic high school in Scarborough, Ontario, amidst low-income housing, difficult race relations, and poverty, a young woman struggles to find her sexual identity. In this sincere portrayal of high-school ...

paper SERIES

By David Yee
Subjects: Super Short Shows, Solo Shows, Anthologies, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 3 m
Duration: 70 minutes

An unhappy orphan who finds solace in paper cut-outs of her parents, an Indian doctor who displays his medical degree in his taxi cab, and waiters who tamper with fortune cookie are some of the vibrant ...

Five @ Fifty

By Brad Fraser
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, LGBT/Queer Theatre
Casting: 5 f

When Olivia loses control at her fiftieth birthday party, her three best friends decide to intervene once and for all, much to the irritation of Olivia and her lover, Norma. But is she the only one battling ...

Ned Durango

By Norm Foster & Leslie Arden
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Musicals, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

In the town of Big Oak lies the Crossroads Cafe, where five locals come together to plan the annual Tomato Parade. With everything in place, the town hopes the parade can sweeten the hearts of potential ...