Quiver

By Anna Chatterton
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, By Age - 15-18, Coming of Age, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f

“She doesn’t care about me; she doesn’t even want to see me; she just pretends she does.”

Shy, fourteen-year-old Maddie wasn’t expecting to have to worry about taking care of herself just yet. ...

The Femme Playlist & I Cannot Lie to the Stars That Made Me

By Catherine Hernandez
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, LGBT/Queer Theatre, Solo Shows, Women Writers, Anthologies, Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 1 f | 4 f

From masturbation to motherhood, body shaming to burlesque, Catherine Hernandez reveals the reality of living as a queer woman of colour. Set to the music of her life, The Femme Playlist shows what it’s ...

In Spirit

By Tara Beagan
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Solo Shows, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 1 f

Twelve-year-old Molly was riding her new bicycle on a deserted road when a man in a truck pulled up next to her, saying he was lost. He asked if she could get in and help him back to the highway, and ...

Who Killed Spalding Gray?

By Daniel MacIvor
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Solo Shows, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 1 m
Duration: 80 minutes

Sit down, Daniel’s going to tell you a story.On the weekend of January 10, 2004, American monologist Spalding Gray killed himself by jumping off the Staten Island Ferry in New York City. That same weekend, ...

Huff & Stitch

By Cliff Cardinal
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Anthologies, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 m | 1 f

In huff, brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father’s abusive whims and their mother’s recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pull ...

Watching Glory Die

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 75 minutes

Glory is a troubled teenage inmate who, in her solitary prison cell, is tormented by hallucinations. While she battles the creature in her mind, her adoptive mother Rosellen struggles to remain connected ...

Redheaded Stepchild

By Johnnie Walker
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Solo Shows, Theatre for Young Audiences, Bullying, By Age - 11-14, By Age - 15-18
Casting: 1 m
Duration: 60 minutes

Nicholas is a twelve-year-old with red hair whose dad just remarried. This makes Nicholas a redheaded stepchild. Literally. And tomorrow at lunch, the biggest boy in grade six plans to beat him up—he ...

The Fish Eyes Trilogy

By Anita Majumdar
Illustrated by Maria Nguyen
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Dating & Sex, Ontario Playwrights, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Solo Shows, Women Writers, Anthologies, By Age - 15-18
Casting: 1 f

Fish Eyes is the story of Meena, a classically trained Indian dancer who, despite being obsessed with Bollywood movies and her dance career, just wants to be like the rest of her high-school friends. When ...

Mahmoud

By Tara Grammy & Tom Arthur Davis
Subjects: Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Solo Shows, Comedy, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18
Casting: 1 f

Mahmoud is an exuberant, if overwhelmingly passionate, Iranian engineer-cum-taxi driver who relishes the chance to regale his passengers with his love of Persian culture. Emanuelos, a fabulously gay Spanish ...

This Is What Happens Next

By Daniel MacIvor
Subjects: Solo Shows, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 1 m
Duration: 80 minutes

Most people hope for happy endings. For Warren, a gay divorcee, that means getting his stuff back; most importantly, his cherished John Denver CD. And then there's Warren's assortment of friends: Susan, ...