Cast Iron

By Lisa Codrington
Subjects: (Im)migration, Ontario Playwrights, Solo Shows, Women Writers, Black Playwrights
Casting: 1 f

Alone in her Winnipeg nursing home, Libya receives an unexpected visitor from Barbados. Past repression resurfaces, until the tragedy that shaped her life spills from her soul. A rich story so vivid with ...

Darrell Dennis: Two Plays

By Darrell Dennis
Introduction by Lee Maracle
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Solo Shows, Anthologies
Casting: 1 f, 2 m | 1 m

Tales of an Urban Indian is a one-person play that follows the trials and tribulations of Simon Douglas, a young Native man who moves from his rural reservation to the big city of Vancouver. This dark ...

I, Claudia

By Kristen Thomson
Subjects: Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Solo Shows, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 11-14, By Age - 15-18, Coming of Age
Casting: 1 f

Claudia is an official pre-teen. Her father is getting remarried, she has a science fair project coming due, and she is in the physical and emotional throes of puberty. Finding refuge in the basement ...

The Lost Boys

By R.H. Thomson
Subjects: Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights, Biography, Theatre of War, History
Casting: 1 m

The man steps into the characters of these forgotten soldiers, as well as his own life as a child. The journey breathes life into the men of the battlefields, as well as gives voice to the women of that ...

Alien Creature

By Linda Griffiths
Subjects: Women Writers, Award Winners, Solo Shows, Canadian Classics, Biography
Casting: 1 f

Alien Creature: a visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen is inspired by MacEwen's life and work, yet is an entirely new creation. MacEwen, as evoked by Linda Griffiths, returns to a modern world one night, ...