There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow

By Caleigh Crow
Subjects: Horror, Family Life, Death, Grief, & Loss, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

Grocery-store clerk Beth has had a hell of a week. A hell of a life, actually, full of people squashing her soul. And after pushing back at life—stabbing a steak to her boss’s desk and lighting a ...

Burning Mom

By Mieko Ouchi
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Solo Shows, Women Writers, Comedy, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Death, Grief, & Loss, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 1 f

A retired suburban wife and mother tragically loses her partner after forty-five years together. So what does she do? The only thing that makes any sense at all. She embarks on her own hero’s journey. ...

After the Fire & The Particulars

By Matthew MacKenzie
Foreword by Jo-Ann Saddleback & Simon Bracken
Subjects: Environmental Issues, Comedy, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 1 m, chorus | 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 165 minutes

From the author of Bears comes two dark comedies that expose what we’re capable of when pushed to our breaking point and give in to the temptation of taking matters into our own hands.

Set in the aftermath ...

Forgiveness

Adapted by Hiro Kanagawa
By Mark Sakamoto
Illustrated by Cindy Mochizuki
Subjects: (Im)migration, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Family Life, Death, Grief, & Loss, Theatre of War, Adaptations, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Biography
Casting: 5 f, 8 m, doubling

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild ...

Wasp

By Rhiannon Collett
Subjects: Rural Settings, Political Theatre, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Feminist Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 5 roles
Duration: 90 minutes

In a town ruled by a shadowy cult, outliers Wasp and Janey nurture a dwindling community of queer resistance. Faced with social isolation and medical barriers, they remain determined to make things work ...

Duecentomila

By kai fig taddei
Foreword by Paula Wing
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Family Life, (Im)migration, Theatre for Young Audiences, Dating & Sex, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 4 roles

Estranged teenage cousins Eli and Kat have recently met online and bonded over their queer identities, but they have a limited understanding of each other’s very different realities. In Italy, soft-spoken ...

Bluebirds

By Vern Thiessen
Introduction by Cynthia Toman
Subjects: Theatre of War, Community Theatre Picks, History, Death, Grief & Loss, Biography, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 3 f

Étaples, France, 1918. Nurses Christy, Maggie, and Bab have crossed oceans to care for wounded Canadian soldiers in the Great War. Despite the terrible injuries they must deal with, they manage to stay ...

Do This In Memory of Me

By Cat Walsh
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Family Life, Comedy, Community Theatre Picks
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

Twelve-year-old Genevieve has been having a hard time at home, and all she really wants is to be an altar server at her church. Except it’s 1963 and Father Paul tells her that’s not allowed. After ...

WROL (Without Rule of Law)

By Michaela Jeffery
Subjects: Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Feminist Theatre, Comedy
Casting: 4 f, 1 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Convinced the world at large can’t be trusted to prioritize the well-being of adolescent girls in the event of a cataclysmic event (or just in general), a determined troupe of preteen “doomers” ...

Take d Milk, Nah?

By Jivesh Parasram
Foreword by Tom Arthur Davis & Graham Isador
Subjects: Solo Shows, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Comedy
Duration: 85 minutes

Jiv is “Canadian. ” And “Indian. ” And “Hindu. ” And “West Indian. ” “Trinidadian,” too. Or maybe he’s just colonized. He’s not the “white boy” he was teased as within his ...