1979

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

It's December 1979 and Clark's minority Progressive Conservative government is under threat of dissolution before it has a chance to accomplish anything — even pass a budget. But Clark is young and ...

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 Romeo Initiative

By Trina Davies
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, History, Political Theatre, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Romance
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

Single men are hard to come by in 1970s West Germany. So when Karin Maynard, a government secretary, meets the handsome Markus Richter, a single man who pursues her, she can hardly believe her luck. But ...

House of Many Tongues

By Jonathan Garfinkel
Subjects: Comedy, Jewish Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre, Theatre of War
Casting: 5 f, 5 m

During the Six Day War, an Israeli general found an abandoned house and made it his home. Forty years later, the general, along with his imaginative and distant son Alex, live in peaceful solitude. When ...

Bhopal

By Rahul Varma
Foreword by Guillermo Verdecchia
Subjects: Political Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss, History, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Quebec Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Environmental Issues
Casting: 8 actors

"The characters who inhabit Rahul Varma's play [...] are all seeking the common good. But they are not guided by the same priorities or goals. To get what they want, they must negotiate with each other. ...