Shorelines

By Mishka Lavigne
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Environment, Family Life, Siblings, Family, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Environmental Issues
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

A small military-occupied community sits, waiting, parched of natural water while nearby levees hold the rising global shoreline. Seventeen-year-old twins Alix and Evan pass the time in an empty, abandoned ...

Amaryllis & Little Witch

By Pascal Brullemans
Translated by Alexis Diamond
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Translations, Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, By Age — 11–14, Quebec Playwrights
Duration: 105 hours

In these dark fairy tales, two girls face danger while grieving loved ones, and learn some hard truths about growing up along the way. Imaginative and curious, these fables illustrate adventures for children ...

The Bears Sleep at Last

By Geneviève Billette
Translated by Nadine Desrochers
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, Women Writers, Translations, Quebec Playwrights, By Age — 11–14
Casting: 2 m
Duration: 60 minutes

Their whole bodies are ready for sleep, but sleep doesn’t come.

The cold has deserted winter, causing the polar bears in the zoo to pace in an endless quest for sleep. Their caretaker, Sasha, will do ...

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 ...

My Family and Other Endangered Species

By Ellen Close & Braden Griffiths
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Environment, By Age - 8-10, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Adaptations, By Age - 11-14, Family, Women Writers
Casting: 2 actors

Nine-year-old Phineas interprets the world through his encyclopedic knowledge of animals, but some human behaviour is just too puzzling. Take for example his mom, who insists he learn to fall asleep on ...

The Patron Saint of Stanley Park

By Hiro Kanagawa
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 8-10, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Community Theatre Picks, Family, By Age - 11-14
Casting: 2 f, 3 m
Duration: 85 minutes

Siblings Josh and Jennifer are coping with the loss of their father, who disappeared in a float plane accident on Christmas Eve one year ago. While Josh scours the Internet for proof that his father is ...

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, ...

Seesaw

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

Charla is the new girl at school, nervous about her shabby clothes and mourning her parents' break-up. Paige, Charla's new friend, is only concerned with fashion, gossip, and her good-looking boyfriend, ...

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. ...