This is Beyond

Edited by Evan Tsitsias & Bilal Baig
Subjects: Nonfiction / Essays, Theatre for Young Audiences, Dating & Sex, Coming of Age, Political Theatre, Essays, Theatre Studies, History & Criticism, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre

In this rapid moment of expansion in queer theatre, when everything is exposed, interrogated, and investigated, This is Beyond is a time capsule of where we are now and a map for where we might go next. ...

a million billion pieces

By David James Brock
By (composer) Gareth Williams
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Death, Grief & Loss, Dating & Sex, Ontario Playwrights, Coming of Age
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

It’s time to make every moment count.

Sixteen-year-olds Pria and Theo—or as they know each other online, the aspiring opera singer PriaSoprano and outer-space aficionado Eagle19—have decided to have ...

Mortified

By Amy Rutherford
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Dating & Sex, Ontario Playwrights, Feminist Theatre, Coming of Age
Casting: 8 f, 1 m, doubling

A woman runs into her former abuser and is surprised by the power he still holds over her. In an attempt to uncover the truth of what really happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a synchronized ...

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. ...

Skin & Liars

By Dennis Foon
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Anthologies, Drugs, Alcohol & Substance Abuse, Family, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Coming of Age
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Skin introduces us to a group of Canadian teenagers who are coming of age in the late 1980s. Faced with racial discrimination, Phiroza, Jennifer, and Tuan must navigate the choppy waters of high school, ...

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 ...

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 ...