Burning Mom

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

After nearly a year of mourning her husband’s death, sixtysomething Dorothy needs to feel alive. So she pitches a road-trip idea to her family—attending Burning Man, the massive arts festival known ...

After the Fire & The Particulars

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

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 ...

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” ...

Pretty Goblins

By Beth Graham
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f
Duration: 90 minutes

From holding hands in the womb to holding each other’s hair back when they puked, twins Laura and Lizzie grew up only having each other. They couldn’t count on their practically feral mom, absent ...

Bears

By Matthew MacKenzie
Foreword by Christine Sokaymoh Frederick
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Award Winners, Environmental Issues
Duration: 70 minutes

As the prime suspect in a workplace accident, Floyd has to get out of town fast. Pursued by the RCMP, he heads through the Rockies for Burnaby, BC, along the route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. By the ...

Speed Dating for Sperm Donors

By Natalie Meisner
Subjects: Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Comedy, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Duration: 90 minutes

Can a lesbian couple find Mr. Right?

Helen and Paige really want a baby. Maybe even two. They’ve decided they want to use a sperm donor, but because of Paige’s own upbringing as an adopted child they ...

Sequence (Second Edition)

By Arun Lakra
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Science & Scientists, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Canadian Classics, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 80 minutes

“Luck is like irony. Not everybody who thinks they got it, got it. ”

Theo has been named Time Magazine’s Luckiest Man Alive. For twenty consecutive years he has successfully bet double or nothing ...

Pugwash

By Vern Thiessen
Afterword by Sandra Ionno Butcher
Subjects: History, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Science & Scientists
Casting: 6 actors
Duration: 105 minutes

1957. Barely a decade after the first use of atomic bombs, the world is divided and fearful of the real threat of nuclear weaponry. In an effort to understand the devastating effects of radiation, leading ...