Afrika, Solo

Edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Solo Shows, Black Playwrights, Anthologies

The plays in this anthology pit individual against community and cause readers to rethink the associations placed on skin colour, language, and assumptions regarding someone’s past. “Home away from ...

Pyaasa & Letters to My Grandma

By Anusree Roy
Introduction by Thomas Morgan Jones
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Women Writers, (Im)migration, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f

Set in Calcutta, Pyaasa tells the story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more than learning her times tables. When Chaya's mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give ...

One Voice

By Daniel MacIvor
Introduction by Daniel Brooks
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Death, Grief & Loss, Solo Shows, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 1 m

Giving his characters life in a whirlwind of words, Daniel MacIvor showcases his talents as a writer and performer in two of his most celebrated solo shows. Published here for the first time in their ...

Billy Twinkle

By Ronnie Burkett
Subjects: Puppets & Puppetry, Ontario Playwrights, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 actor

Standing at the edge of the ship, contemplating a watery demise, Billy is called back to reality when his dead mentor Sid Diamond appears as a handpuppet. Sid forces Billy to re-enact his life as a puppet ...

10 Days on Earth

By Ronnie Burkett
Subjects: Solo Shows, Family Life, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Puppets & Puppetry
Casting: 1 actor

He lived alone with very little and more than enough, and preferred it that way. "Simply simply," he was oft heard to say. He was alone, on his own, and that was okay. ..

Darrel is a middle-aged intellectually ...

Shakespeare's Will

By Vern Thiessen
Subjects: Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Solo Shows, Death, Grief & Loss, Shakespeare, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 90 minutes

An exploration of one of the most silent characters in history: Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare.

The play sheds light on unexplored aspects of Hathaway's life by looking through the eyes ...

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: Solo Shows, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, 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 First Nations man who moves from his rural reservation to the big city of Vancouver. This ...

I, Claudia

By Kristen Thomson
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, By Age — 11–14, Solo Shows, Women Writers, Coming of Age, Ontario Playwrights
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 ...

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, ...