The Romeo Initiative

By Trina Davies
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, History, Political Theatre, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Romance
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 100 minutes

Single men are hard to come by in 1970s West Germany. So when Karin Maynard, a government secretary, meets the handsome Markus Richter, a single man who pursues her, she can hardly believe her luck. But ...

The Green Thumb Collection

Selected by Green Thumb Theatre
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Anthologies, Western Playwrights, British Columbia

This collection of six plays written for young audiences—from primary school right through high school—showcases some of the recent inspiring works developed by Green Thumb Theatre. These plays include ...

My Chernobyl

By Aaron Bushkowsky
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Comedy, Romance
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

While there, he meets his long-lost cousin, a beautiful, young Russian woman, who sets her sights on her wealthy relative as a ticket out of the radiation-blasted country. My Chernobyl is a quirky romance ...

The Forbidden Phoenix

By Marty Chan
Lyrics by Robert Walsh
Illustrated by Derek Mah
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Award Winners, History, By Age — 8–10, Western Playwrights, Alberta, (Im)migration, Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 4 f, 3 m, chorus
Duration: 120 minutes

Sun Wukong’s goal is simple: to feed his son Laoson. Known to his people as the Monkey King, Sun Wukong leaves his home with a promise to return one day and feed the drought-ravaged city of Jung Guo. ...

Kindness

By Dennis Foon
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Environmental Issues, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Death, Grief & Loss, Environment, By Age - 11-14
Casting: 2 f, 2 m, doubling

Tessa, Damon, and Keegan share the same band class and the same passion: their pets. When Tessa loses her beloved dog Joey, the event challenges and transforms not only the three children, but the adults ...

Seesaw

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

Theatre in Alberta

Edited by Anne Nothof
Series edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Non-Fiction / Essays
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Includes:
A Literary Perspective on the Plays of W. O. Mitchell by Diane Bessai (1984)Elsie Park Gowan: Distinctively Canadian by Anton Wagner (1987)
CKUA: Radio Drama and Regional Theatre by Howard ...

Sharon Pollock

Edited by Sherrill Grace & Michelle La Flamme
Series edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Non-Fiction / Essays, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Includes:"Lizzie Borden Took an Ax": Enacting Blood Relations by Madonne Miner (1986)(Im)possible Worlds: The Plays of Sharon Pollock by Denis Salter (1989)Musings of a Political Playwright: A Conversation ...

Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Volume 3

By Sharon Pollock
Edited by Cynthia Zimmerman
Subjects: Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Canadian Classics, Anthologies

Sharon Pollock is Canada's best-known woman playwright. Produced nationally and internationally, author of a large and varied canon, she has had a long and illustrious career in the theatre. From backstage ...

Chasing the Money

By Dennis Foon
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Theatre for Young Audiences, Drugs, Alcohol & Substance Abuse, By Age - 15-18, By Age - 11-14
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 50 minutes

Playwright Dennis Foon spoke widely with teens who gamble. "They told me wild, wonderful adrenaline-pumping tales of their highs," he says. "The lows were another story, not crumpling quietly into themselves, ...