Quiver

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

Redheaded Stepchild

By Johnnie Walker
Subjects: Solo Shows, Theatre for Young Audiences, Bullying, By Age — 11–14, Ontario Playwrights, LGBTQ, By Age — 15–18
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 ...

The Fish Eyes Trilogy

By Anita Majumdar
Illustrated by Maria Nguyen
Subjects: South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Feminist Theatre, Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Dating & Sex
Casting: 1 f

Three coming-of-age solo shows that follow the lives of teenage girls who attend the same high school and process their real-life dilemmas through dance, while exploring the heartaches of youth and the ...

Mahmoud

By Tara Grammy & Tom Arthur Davis
Subjects: Solo Shows, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Comedy, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers
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: Award Winners, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Biography, Anthologies, Solo Shows, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Scenes & Monologues
Casting: 1 m | 1 f

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, (Im)migration, Family Life, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Women Writers, 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: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, 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 ...

Annie Mae's Movement

By Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, History, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Women Writers, Biography
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 ...