Mistatim / Instant

By Erin Shields
Foreword by Stephen Colella
Subjects: Anthologies, Theatre for Young Audiences, Bullying, Rural Settings, Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights, By Age — 8–10, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 1 f, 2 m | 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 45 minutes

In these two plays for young audiences, award-winning playwright Erin Shields presents the challenges of friendship and communication.

In Mistatim, which is based on a concept from Sandra Laronde of Red ...

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. ...

Late Company

By Jordan Tannahill
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, Award Winners, By Age, LGBTQ, Family Life
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

One year after the suicide of their teenage son Joel, Debora and Michael Shaun-Hastings sit down to dinner with their son’s bully and his parents. Closure is on the menu, but accusations are the main ...

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 ...

Squawk

By Megan Gail Coles
Subjects: Newfoundland & Labrador, Women Writers, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age, Coming of Age, Atlantic Playwrights

Annie Runningbird doesn’t have time for the games boys want her to play. She’s aging out of foster care on her next birthday. The system has decided she is an adult, so Annie must make adult decisions. ...

Outside

By Paul Dunn
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, LGBTQ, By Age — 11–14, Ontario Playwrights, LGBT/Queer Theatre, By Age — 15
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

Daniel’s ready to talk. And his friends Krystina and Jeremy are ready to help. But is it too late? Set in separate but simultaneous lunch periods at two different high schools, the teenagers are faced ...

The Making of St. Jerome

By Marie Beath Badian
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 2 f, 4 m

When Jason De Jesus discovers his younger brother Jerome was the victim of a senseless shooting, his world is filled with questions surrounding Jerome’s death. Was his brother a threat or a casualty ...

I Am For You

By Mieko Ouchi
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Shakespeare, Canadian Shakespeare, By Age - 11-14, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

Fighting words . . . Lainie and Mariam have it out for each other, so it’s no surprise when they finally come to violent blows in the middle of their high school’s drama room. That’s when Caddell ...

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 ...

Black Dog

By Matthew Heiti
Subjects: By Age — 15–18, Family Life, Siblings, Ontario Playwrights, Northern Ontario Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Mental Health
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

The Breakfast Club meets Shirley Jackson in a fusion of live theatre and technology that tells a darkly comic but hopeful story of four teenage outsiders struggling with death, depression and the shadow ...