Dreary and Izzy

By Tara Beagan
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

1975, Lethbridge Alberta. When the Monoghan sisters lose their parents in a car accident, Deirdre remains as the sole caregiver to her older sister, Isabelle. Just as Deirdre is poised to enter university ...

Banana Boys

By Leon Aureus
Introduction by Terry Watada
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Coming of Age, By Age — 15–18, Death, Grief & Loss, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 5 m

A smart, contemporary, and wickedly funny play about five young Asian Canadian men wrestling with issues of race, identity, and the death of a friend. Banana Boys is one story, fragmented into five and ...

Danny, King of the Basement

By David S. Craig
Introduction by Walter Pitman
Preface by Richard Greenblatt
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, By Age — 8–10, Family, Class Differences, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 70 hours

In two years, Danny and his mom have moved more often than most kids lose teeth...

When Danny moves into a new basement apartment, the kids he meets seem to have way more problems than just being hungry. ...

Annie Mae's Movement

By Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Biography, History, Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 75 hours

Annie Mae’s Movement explores what it must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a man’s movement, a Canadian in America, an Aboriginal in a white-dominant culture at a time when ...

I, Claudia

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

Mirror Game

By Dennis Foon
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, By Age — 15–18, Family
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

When abusive behaviour surfaces in the lives of four friends, the teenagers are forced to examine how learned behaviour can be mirrored by victims and home situations reflected in the school until, finally, ...