Quiver

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

The Making of St. Jerome

By Marie Beath Badian
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Siblings, Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 4 m
Duration: 60 minutes

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 ...

Redheaded Stepchild

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

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 ...

Mahmoud

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

Age of Minority

By Jordan Tannahill
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Award Winners, Biography, Anthologies, Scenes & Monologues, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f | 1 m

Winner of the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award

Based on a true story, Get Yourself Home Skyler James follows the harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when she is outed by ...

Pyaasa & Letters to My Grandma

By Anusree Roy
Introduction by Thomas Morgan Jones
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, (Im)migration, Women Writers, 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 ...

Dreary and Izzy

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

Annie Mae's Movement

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

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: 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 ...