Willow Quartet

By Joan Burrows
Subjects: Rural Settings, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 120 minutes

In the aftermath of a tragedy that ends Kim and Ben's marriage, Kim finds herself back in her childhood home, a quiet farm away from the city. Here, she invites Jim, a visiting musician, to stay with ...

Lucky Lady & Le Chien

By Jean Marc Dalpé
Translated by Maureen Labonté & Robert Dickson
Subjects: Translations, Anthologies, Community Theatre Picks, Family Life, Quebec Playwrights, Rural Settings
Casting: 2 f, 3 m | 3 f, 2 m

Jay returns to his northern Ontario hometown, seeking reconciliation with a father, a family, and a life he left seven years ago. The world he returns to is one of anger and violence, a world raw with ...

Beaver

By Claudia Dey
Subjects: Family Life, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Rural Settings, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers
Casting: 6 f, 2 m

A northern Ontario gothic, Beaver follows Beatrice "Beaver" Jersey as she learns to grow beyond her circumscribed world, struggling with her whacky extended family, her alcoholic father, and her chain-smoking ...

The Melville Boys

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Canadian Classics, Death, Grief & Loss, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Rural Settings, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 110 minutes

A relaxing weekend trip full of fishing, football, and beer is on the agenda for the Melville brothers. Unfortunately, so is confronting eldest brother Lee's terminal illness. But weekend plans are suddenly ...

Lutz

By Ryan Griffith
Subjects: Rural Settings, Family Life, Siblings, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Community Theatre Picks
Casting: 2 f, 3 m + 1 actors

Thinking to find peace from his troubles, Christian realizes his brother still resents him for leaving with their mother years ago, and he struggles to fight those haunting memories. But the past has ...

Inspiration Point

By John Garfield Barlow
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Rural Settings
Casting: 4 m

Poised between hope and despair, each man faces how best to move beyond the past and adapt to a future in which cultural legacy seems destined to diminish. Symbolic and politically charged, Inspiration ...

The Nuttalls

By Michael Healey
Subjects: Family Life, Rural Settings, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

Living in relative seclusion, Ev and Ec rely on the kindness of strangers as they struggle with their own internal and external problems. Ev not only suffers from agoraphobia, she believes she is dying ...

So Many Doors

By Celia McBride
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Rural Settings
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

In a support group for bereaved parents, Shayla, Lyle, Linee, and Jed each fight their personal demons in the search for life after the death of one's child. Set in the vast and remote landscape of Whitehorse, ...

Missing

By Florence Gibson MacDonald
Subjects: Women Writers, Rural Settings, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 4 f, 2 m
Duration: 80 minutes

Evelyn McMillan has vanished without a trace. Wife and mother of three from a Southern Ontario farming community, her disappearance sparks not only a police investigation, but also the imaginations of ...

Bone Cage

By Catherine Banks
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Rural Settings, Award Winners, Environmental Issues, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 3 f, 4 m

Jamie is twenty-two years old and works twelve-hour shifts operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured ...