Leo

By Rosa Laborde
Subjects: History, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, 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 play ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bhopal

By Rahul Varma
Foreword by Guillermo Verdecchia
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, History, Political Theatre, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Environmental Issues
Casting: 8 actors
Duration: 90 hours

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 ...