Sound of the Beast

By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Introduction by Kern Albert
Afterword by Andy McKim & Jivesh Parasram
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Solo Shows, Black Playwrights, Women Writers
Duration: 75 hours

"Compassion is good, but it’s just motivation. Cars need engines. Movements need mobilization."

Through spoken word, storytelling and hip hop, acclaimed wordsmith Donna-Michelle St. Bernard illuminates ...

trace

By Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, (Im)migration, Solo Shows, Biography, Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 1 m
Duration: 75 hours

"I support you when you need, so that you support me when I need. "

An elegant and sweeping story of a Chinese family’s history, trace follows the footsteps of four generations as their homes and identities ...

Quiver

By Anna Chatterton
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, Solo Shows, Coming of Age, By Age — 15–18, Family Life, Siblings, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers
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. ...

In Spirit

By Tara Beagan
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Solo Shows, Death, Grief & Loss
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 ...

Huff & Stitch

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

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: Theatre for Young Audiences, Bullying, Ontario Playwrights, Solo Shows, By Age — 11–14, By Age — 15–18, LGBTQ
Casting: 1 m
Duration: 60 hours

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: South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Feminist Theatre, Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Dating & Sex
Casting: 1 f

Three coming-of-age solo shows that follow the lives of teenage girls who attend the same high school and process their real-life dilemmas through dance, while exploring the heartaches of youth and the ...

Mahmoud

By Tara Grammy & Tom Arthur Davis
Subjects: Solo Shows, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Comedy, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers
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 ...