The Black Drum

By Adam Pottle
Subjects: Disability Theatre, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Political Theatre, Musicals, Dance, Death, Grief, and Loss, Deaf Theatre
Casting: 5 f, 2 m, 3 dancers

Hailed as the world’s first Deaf musical—told entirely in American Sign Language and Signed Music—The Black Drum revolves around Joan and her journey to healing after the death of her wife, Karen. ...

Reasonable Doubt

By Joel Bernbaum, Lancelot Knight, and Yvette Nolan
Introduction by Maria Campbell
Subjects: Verbatim Theatre, Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Musicals, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Death, Grief & Loss, History, Rural Settings
Casting: 6 roles

A significant moment in Canadian history is portrayed in this documentary musical about race relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Weaving hundreds of real interviews conducted with ...

Blow Wind

By Daniel Macdonald
By (composer) Eileen Laverty
Foreword by Angus Ferguson
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Rural Settings, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Community Theatre Picks, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 3 f, 2 m

After years of running from her dysfunctional past, Sarah returns home to the family farm in Saskatchewan to find her mom Kathleen yelling into the wind, setting off a turbulent new chapter in her life. ...

Medicine Shows

By Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Theatre Studies, Indigenous Playwrights, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Non-Fiction / Essays, Women Writers

Contemporary Indigenous theatre in Canada is only thirty-three years old, if one begins counting from the premiere of Maria Campbell’s Jessica in Saskatoon and the establishment of Native Earth Performing ...

A History of Breathing

By Daniel Macdonald
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan
Casting: 1 f, 6 m

Two boats float aimlessly on an ocean that conceals the remains of civilization and history. One boat carries a father and daughter, the last survivors of an unspeakable catastrophe; the other carries ...

The Unplugging

By Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Feminist Theatre, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Environmental Issues, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 85 hours

In a post-apocalyptic world, Bern and Elena are exiled from their village. Their crime? The two women are no longer of child-bearing age.

Forced to rely upon traditional wisdom for their survival, Elena ...

Annie Mae's Movement

By Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Biography, History, Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 75 hours

Annie Mae’s Movement explores what it must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a man’s movement, a Canadian in America, an Aboriginal in a white-dominant culture at a time when ...