Tinka's New Dress

By Ronnie Burkett
Introduction by Liz Nicholls
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre, Theatre of War, Canadian Classics, Puppets & Puppetry
Casting: 1 actor

Two old friends become puppeteers, each performing with the same beloved folk characters, Franz and Schnitzel. Fipsi, ambitious and naive, aligns herself with the rule government, the Common Good. Carl, ...

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
Duration: 100 minutes

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: Death, Grief & Loss, Political Theatre, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Environmental Issues, Quebec Playwrights, History, South Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 8 actors
Duration: 90 minutes

Bhopal, 1984. With the presence of the Carbide International pesticide factory, the city begins to claw its way out of endemic poverty. But what is to be made of the deformed babies born to women living ...

Leo

By Rosa Laborde
Subjects: Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, History, Political Theatre
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

Set in Santiago, Chile, three young friends form a bittersweet love triangle during the political upheaval surrounding President Salvador Allende’s assassination.

Told through Leo’s memories, the ...