Wasp

By Rhiannon Collett
Subjects: Political Theatre, Rural Settings, Feminist Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Western Playwrights, British Columbia
Casting: 5 roles
Duration: 90 minutes

It’s Wasp’s destiny to be impregnated by a swarm of hornets called the Angels on their twenty-first birthday, but they aren’t going down without a fight. Their plan? A bottle of Coke, an abandoned ...

Every Day She Rose

By Andrea Scott & Nick Green
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Political Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 80 minutes

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 ...

Interdependent Magic

Edited by Jessica Watkin
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Nonfiction / Essays, Deaf Theatre, Mental Health, Anthologies, Political Theatre, Comedy, Disability Theatre, Environmental Issues, Death, Grief & Loss, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Women Writers

Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada is a collection of plays and interviews by, for, and about Disabled theatre artists that invites readers into the magical worlds of Disability arts ...

The Empire

By Susanna Fournier
Subjects: Political Theatre, Anthologies, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Ontario Playwrights, Feminist Theatre, Theatre of War
Casting: 9 f | 2 f, 2 m | 1 f, 4 m
Duration: 360 minutes

Explore a world on the edge of change through three epic stories spanning five hundred years of imagined history, unpacking systems of power and what we are capable of in the pursuit of freedom.

The story ...

Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方

By Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Political Theatre, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 1 f, 2 m, 1 chorus | 3 f, 5 m, doubling
Duration: 140 minutes

From the author of trace comes two adaptations that transport mythological stories from Ancient Greece to modern-day civilizations. Led by people of colour, these darkly comedic plays depict recognizable ...

Andy's Gone

By Marie-Claude Verdier
Translated by Alexis Diamond
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Political Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Class Differences, Adaptations
Casting: 2 f
Duration: 60 minutes

What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact? What is the cost of revolution?

In this contemporary retelling of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city’s perimeter ...

Theory

By Norman Yeung
Subjects: Political Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners
Casting: 3 f, 4 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Is there a limit to free speech? Who gets to decide?

Isabelle’s film theory students are stunned that she would open an unmoderated online discussion group to complement a controversial syllabus. Her ...

Unholy

By Diane Flacks
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, LGBT/Queer Theatre, Political Theatre
Casting: 4 f, 1 m
Duration: 100 minutes

Should women abandon religion?

Four female panellists face off in a wild, whip-smart televised debate about the intersection of religion and misogyny. On one side, there’s Maryam, a progressive Muslim ...

Mother's Daughter

By Kate Hennig
Subjects: History, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre, Biography, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 6 f, 1 m
Duration: 120 minutes

In this stunning third part to Kate Hennig’s powerful Queenmaker series, England’s first queen regnant finds herself fighting xenophobia, religious nationalism, and strained familial bonds in the ...

1979

By Michael Healey
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Comedy, Political Theatre, History, Biography, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3+ actors

A fast-paced political comedy from Michael Healey, the critically acclaimed author of The Drawer Boy and Proud, that examines the space between ideals and political reality during a monumental moment ...