Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life
Casting: 4 f, 1 m

For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal’s Espace GO as part of an artistic residency that would profoundly shake her outlook on words, theatre practice, ...

Blackout

By Tamara Brown, Kym Dominique-Ferguson, Lydie Dubuisson, and Mathieu Murphy-Perron
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, History, Political Theatre

In February 1969, hundreds of students occupied a computer centre at what is now Montréal’s Concordia University to protest the mismanagement of a racism complaint lodged by Caribbean students against ...

Haven

By Mishka Lavigne
Translated by Neil Blackadder
Subjects: Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Feminist Theatre, Translations, Quebec Playwrights, Award Winners
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

Strangers Elsie and Matt are both feeling great voids in their lives. Elsie, a literature professor, is grieving her famous novelist mother’s tragic death. Matt, a city engineer, is trying to regain ...

Wildfire & The Shoe

By David Paquet
Translated by Leanna Brodie
Subjects: Mental Health, Translations, Award Winners, Quebec Playwrights, Family Life, Siblings, Comedy
Casting: 2 f, 1 m, doubling | 2 f, 2 m

With spark and spunk, these two dark yet absurdly charming comedies offer a kaleidoscopic perspective of those who are destined to go down a lonely path and those who choose to share the weight of others’ ...

Simone, Half and Half

By Christine Rodriguez
Foreword by Quincy Armorer
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, By Age — 15–18, (Im)migration
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Fourteen-year-old Simone is caught between cultures: Canadian, Québécois, and Trinidadian. She’s also torn between friends and the projects they want her to take part in. Her best friend Sarah wants ...

Public Enemy

By Olivier Choiniere
Translated by Bobby Theodore
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Award Winners, Translations, Quebec Playwrights
Casting: 4 f, 3 m

Three generations of a family argue over current events, finances, and culture, with everyone looking to blame someone else for society’s ills in this satirical examination of how judgment can both ...

Successions

By Michaela Di Cesare
Foreword by Tamara Brown
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Comedy, Award Winners, (Im)migration, Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Quebec Playwrights, Marriage & Divorce, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

After the unexpected death of their parents, two second-generation Italian Canadian brothers must come together to decide whether to hold on to the family home, which is full of secrets and hoarded junk, ...

Voices of a Generation

Edited by Michelle MacArthur
Subjects: Anthologies, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Quebec Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Comedy, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Feminist Theatre, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Adaptations

Voices of a Generation gathers three Canadian plays that crack open millennial stereotypes to reveal a generation’s complex and varied experiences.

zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan follows Namid through ...

Andy's Gone

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

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 ...

The Law of Gravity

By Olivier Sylvestre
Translated by Bobby Theodore
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Translations, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, LGBTQ
Casting: 2 roles
Duration: 50 hours

Dom has had a rough go of things so far. At fourteen, he has the hardened look of someone who’s had to fight for everything.

Fred has just moved to Not-The-City, a new place to try to disappear. But ...