Small Talk

By Carole Fréchette
Translated by John Murrell
Subjects: Women Writers, Translations, Quebec Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 1 m, chorus

“There can be no fullness without emptiness. And there can be no conversation without a void.”

Everyday conversation has always been a challenge for Julie, a lonely and anxious researcher who spends ...

The Doorman of Windsor Station

By Julie Vincent
Translated by Hugh Hazelton
Preface by Javier Alfonso
Subjects: Translations, History, Mental Health, Quebec Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, (Im)migration
Casting: 3 f, 5 m

Francisco will forever be haunted by the sight of his best friend Juan lying on the floor of a train station, pierced by five bullets. He’ll remember that sight as he flees the political uprising in ...

You Are Happy

By Rébecca Déraspe
Translated by Leanna Brodie
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Quebec Playwrights, Romance, Comedy, Translations, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

Bridget finds her brother Jeremy in a closet attempting suicide. Again. Determined to help him find some kind of happiness, she carts around grocery stores looking for his potential wife. Bridget’s ...

Darwin in a Day

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Nigel Spencer
Subjects: Translations, Quebec Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 11-14, Class Differences, Women Writers
Casting: 2 m

School is out for the summer, and twelve-year-old Julien has an adventure planned in his own backyard. Through sleight of hand, he’s found a way to convince each member of his family he’s away with ...

Yukonstyle

By Sarah Berthiaume
Translated by Nadine Desrochers
Subjects: Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Family Life
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Garin was two years old when his mother disappeared from a rundown East Vancouver neighbourhood. Now that the Robert Pickton trials are gaining national attention, Garin wonders if his mother, a First ...

Flesh and Other Fragments of Love

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Adaptations, Women Writers, Translations
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

When Pierre and Simone planned a vacation to the Irish coast, they were hoping to revive their failing marriage. What they weren’t expecting was to stumble upon the body of Mary, a drowned woman, during ...

Heavens

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Translations, Quebec Playwrights, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 6 m

Isolated in a secret location, an international team of intelligence personnel are given the task of intercepting and decoding cryptic messages from terrorists. The sudden and unexplained suicide of one ...

Opium_37

By Catherine Léger
Translated by Leanna Brodie
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Translations, Women Writers, History
Casting: 5 f, 5 m

On the eve of World War II in a Parisian café, Anaïs Nin and June Miller meet again after years and an ocean apart. There, they share the space with some of Paris's notorious and eccentric artists who ...

Lucky Lady & Le Chien

By Jean Marc Dalpé
Translated by Maureen Labonté & Robert Dickson
Subjects: Translations, Anthologies, Community Theatre Picks, Family Life, Quebec Playwrights, Rural Settings
Casting: 2 f, 3 m | 3 f, 2 m

Jay returns to his northern Ontario hometown, seeking reconciliation with a father, a family, and a life he left seven years ago. The world he returns to is one of anger and violence, a world raw with ...

A Bomb in the Heart

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Translations, Solo Shows, Family Life, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 1 m

A call late at night has Wahab springing into action. Despite a blinding snowstorm, an irritating bus driver, and a spinning wheel of worries, Wahab travels to his dying mother’s hospital room. A journey ...