Dreary and Izzy

By Tara Beagan
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, 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: Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Death, Grief & Loss, Solo Shows, Shakespeare
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 90 minutes

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 ...

The Blue Light

By Mieko Ouchi
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, History, Biography, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 3 m, doubling

Leni Riefenstahl, one hundred years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive. Leni’s reason to be there is clear: to make one last desperate pitch to direct her first feature ...

Mieko Ouchi: Two Plays

By Mieko Ouchi
Introduction by Vanessa Porteous
Subjects: Biography, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, History, Anthologies
Casting: 2 f, 3 m, doubling | 1 f, 1 m

The Blue Light: Leni Riefenstahl, one hundred years old, is in the office of a young female Hollywood studio executive. Leni's reason to be there is clear: to make one last desperate pitch to direct her ...

Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Volume 2

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

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 ...

Theatre in British Columbia

By Ginny Ratsoy
Series edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Non
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available. The series publishes the work of scholars and critics who have ...

Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Volume 1

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

Mirror Game

By Dennis Foon
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Family, By Age — 11–14
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

When abusive behaviour surfaces in the lives of four friends, the teenagers are forced to examine how learned behaviour can be mirrored by victims and home situations reflected in the school until, finally, ...

Mesa

By Doug Curtis
Subjects: Family Life, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 2 m + 2 actors
Duration: 80 minutes

Paul is asked to drive his wife's 93-year-old Grandpa "Bud" all the way from Calgary to his retirement trailer in Mesa, Arizona. Paul hopes to find strange, roadside diners and sleep out under the stars. ...

Mom, Dad, I'm Living With A White Girl

By Marty Chan
Subjects: Comedy, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Canadian Classics, Family Life
Casting: 2 f, 2 m + musician
Duration: 110 minutes

A Chinese son must tell his parents he has moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes in a B-movie spoof called Wrath of the Yellow Claw.