I Forgive You

By Scott Jones & Robert Chafe
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Family Life, Disability Theatre, Rural Settings, Mental Health, Verbatim Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 m, child dancer, and chorus

In October 2013, Scott Jones was leaving a bar in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, when he was attacked, stabbed in the back, and left paralyzed from the waist down. In the months following his attack, Scott ...

Half-Cracked

By Mary-Colin Chisholm
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Rural Settings, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

Sisters Sissy and Yewina have been on their own for who knows how long exactly. It's just them (and their hens) in a weathered farmhouse miles from town. Their rural, woodsy East Coast community has been ...

among men

By David Yee
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Rural Settings, Biography
Casting: 2 m

1959, Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward County, Canada. On the edge of spring, two men are finishing an A-frame cabin on Roblin Lake. In the coming decade all three of them—Al, Milt, and the A-frame—will ...

Wasp

By Rhiannon Collett
Subjects: Rural Settings, Political Theatre, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Feminist Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 5 roles
Duration: 90 minutes

In a town ruled by a shadowy cult, outliers Wasp and Janey nurture a dwindling community of queer resistance. Faced with social isolation and medical barriers, they remain determined to make things work ...

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. ...

The Bridge

By Shauntay Grant
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Rural Settings, Black Playwrights, Award Winners, Family Life, Siblings, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 4 f, 3 m
Duration: 90 hours

Set in a rural Black Nova Scotian community, The Bridge explores the complex relationship between two brothers strained over twenty years of secrecy, deception, and dishonour. Secrets are revealed one ...

Bare Bear Bones

By Michael Grant
Subjects: Rural Settings, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy
Casting: 4 f, 4 m
Duration: 120 hours

At the instruction of their marriage counsellor, empty nesters Norm and Ruth book a trip to a place where they remember being in love, the Bear Bones Family Campground, in order to rekindle their spark. ...

Mistatim / Instant

By Erin Shields
Foreword by Stephen Colella
Subjects: Anthologies, Theatre for Young Audiences, Bullying, Rural Settings, Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights, By Age — 8–10, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 1 f, 2 m | 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 45 minutes

In these two plays for young audiences, award-winning playwright Erin Shields presents the challenges of friendship and communication.

In Mistatim, which is based on a concept from Sandra Laronde of Red ...

Gloria's Guy

By Joan Burrows
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy, Rural Settings, Romance, Women Writers
Casting: 5 f, 1 m

It’s been over twenty years since Guy ditched his high-school sweetheart Gloria at the prom, and they haven’t spoken since. Now he’s a failed LA lawyer, divorced, and working at his brother’s ...