Haven

By Mishka Lavigne
Translated by Neil Blackadder
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Quebec Playwrights, Award Winners, Women Writers, Death, Grief, and Loss, Translations
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

Strangers Elsie and Matt are both feeling great voids in their lives. Elsie, a literature professor, is grieving her famous novelist mother’s tragic death. Matt, a city engineer, is trying to regain ...

Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Quebec Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Translations, Women Writers
Casting: 4 f, 1 m

For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal’s Espace GO as part of an artistic residency that would profoundly shake her outlook on words, theatre practice, ...

Winter of 88

By Mohammad Yaghoubi
Translated by Nazanin Malekan & Mohammad Yaghoubi
Subjects: Political Theatre, Asian Canadian Playwrights, West Asian Canadian Playwrights, Award Winners, Death, Grief, and Loss, Mental Health, Theatre of War, Translations
Casting: 4 f, 4 m

A new
apartment should be a warm and welcoming signal to a fresh chapter of life. It
shouldn’t be where a family waits in the dark, surrounded by unpacked boxes, as
missiles rain down around them.

Already ...

Wildfire & The Shoe

By David Paquet
Translated by Leanna Brodie
Subjects: Mental Health, Family Life, Siblings, Quebec Playwrights, Comedy, Translations, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 1 m, doubling | 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 145 minutes

With spark and spunk, these two dark yet absurdly charming comedies offer a kaleidoscopic perspective of those who are destined to go down a lonely path and those who choose to share the weight of others’ ...

The Enchanted Loom

By Suvendrini Lena
Translated by Dushy Gnanapragasam
Introduction by Sharryn Aiken & R. Cheran
Subjects: Theatre of War, (Im)migration, Science & Scientists, Women Writers, Mental Health, Translations, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 3 f, 3 m

The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of ...

Public Enemy

By Olivier Choinière
Translated by Bobby Theodore
Subjects: Translations, Award Winners, Family Life, Siblings, Quebec Playwrights
Casting: 4 f, 3 m

Three generations of a family argue
over current events, finances, and culture, with everyone looking to blame
someone else for society’s ills in this satirical examination of how judgment
can both ...

Andy's Gone

By Marie-Claude Verdier
Translated by Alexis Diamond
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Political Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Class Differences, Adaptations
Casting: 2 f
Duration: 60 minutes

What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact? What is the cost of revolution?

In this contemporary retelling of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city’s perimeter ...

The Law of Gravity

By Olivier Sylvestre
Translated by Bobby Theodore
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Translations, LGBTQ
Casting: 2 roles
Duration: 50 minutes

Dom has had a rough go of things so far. At fourteen, he has the hardened look of someone who’s had to fight for everything.

Fred has just moved to Not-The-City, a new place to try to disappear. But ...

The Breathing Hole

By Colleen Murphy
With Siobhan Arnatsiaq-Murphy
Translated by Janet Tamalik McGrath
Introduction by Kenn Harper
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, History, Environmental Issues, Translations
Duration: 160 minutes

Stories of the Canadian Arctic intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear.

In 1535, Hummiktuq, an Inuk widow, has a strange dream about the future. The next day, she ...

Amaryllis & Little Witch

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

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 ...