Opium_37

By Catherine Léger
Translated by Leanna Brodie
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, History, Translations
Casting: 5 f, 5 m
Duration: 80 minutes

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, Quebec Playwrights, Rural Settings, Family Life
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 ...

Feet of the Angels

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Nigel Spencer
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 5 f, 4 m

Ever since her brother’s untimely death, Marie has been fascinated with angels, believing her brother has become one. Now as a young woman, she has dedicated her doctoral thesis to the subject: the ...

Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation Volume Three

Edited by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Anthologies, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Translations

Covering a diverse range of subject matter, many of these plays are published in English for the first time.

Includes:

When Books Come Tumbling Down (Le bibliothèque de Constance) by Marie-Eve Gagnon, ...

Scorched

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Canadian Classics, (Im)migration, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Theatre of War
Casting: 7 actors

Wajdi Mouawad's writing is powerful; a beautifully penned story that paves a path to a mother's unspeakable pain. The closer Janine and Simon get to finding the source of her silence, the closer they ...

Forests

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Award Winners, Quebec Playwrights, Translations, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 5 f, 6 m, doubling

From Odette to Hélène, then to Léonie, Ludivine, Sarah, Luce and finally to Aimée, Loup's mother.

It would seem that a curse of tragedy and death decimated this family in the heart of the Ardennes ...

Stories from the Rains of Love and Death

Translated by Soheil Parsa
With Peter Farbridge & Brian Quirt
Subjects: Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Anthologies, Adaptations, Translations

Aurash by Bahram Beyza'ie, translated and adapted by Soheil Parsa with Brian Quirt, edited by Peter Farbridge

Based on a Persian myth dating back over one thousand years, in the 1970s the fable was adapted ...

Carole Fréchette: Two Plays

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

John and Beatrice

High above the city, Beatrice sits on the 33rd floor of an office tower waiting for the right man to respond to her ad. When John appears, the games begin. But if he wins, what then? ...

Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation Volume Two

Edited by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Anthologies, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Translations

Covering a diverse range of subject matter, many of these plays are published in English for the first time.

Includes:

Evidence to the Contrary (La déposition) by Hélène Pedneault, translated by Linda ...