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

Dreary and Izzy

By Tara Beagan
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

1975, Lethbridge Alberta. When the Monoghan sisters lose their parents in a car accident, Deirdre remains as the sole caregiver to her older sister, Isabelle. Just as Deirdre is poised to enter university ...

Shakespeare's Will

By Vern Thiessen
Subjects: Solo Shows, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Shakespeare, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 90 hours

An exploration of one of the most silent characters in history: Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare.

The play sheds light on unexplored aspects of Hathaway's life by looking through the eyes ...