Of Human Bondage

By Vern Thiessen
Afterword by Heidi Janz
Introduction by Tracy Bealer
Subjects: Adaptations, Award Winners, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 4 f, 7 m

When Philip meets Mildred, a disarming tea-shop waitress, he finds his yearning for art and experience consumed by his intense attraction to her. Mildred, for all her teasing, isn’t all that interested ...

The Josephine Knot

By Meg Braem
Foreword by Amiel Gladstone
Subjects: Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Community Theatre Picks, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

After Samantha’s baba dies, her fractured family is summoned to pick through the house full of belongings and trash, leaving taped notes on whatever they want to take. Between old napkins, a closet ...

Vimy

By Vern Thiessen
Subjects: Award Winners, Death, Grief & Loss, Anthologies, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Theatre of War, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 1 f, 5 m | 3 f

France, 1917. Four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge, waiting to find out where they’ll be sent next: back home or back to the front. Along ...

In Spirit

By Tara Beagan
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Solo Shows, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 1 f

Twelve-year-old Molly was riding her new bicycle on a deserted road when a man in a truck pulled up next to her, saying he was lost. He asked if she could get in and help him back to the highway, and ...

I Am For You

By Mieko Ouchi
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Shakespeare, Canadian Shakespeare, Asian Canadian Playwrights, By Age - 11-14
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

Fighting words . . .Lainie and Mariam have it out for each other, so it’s no surprise when they finally come to violent blows in the middle of their high school’s drama room. That’s when Caddell ...

My Family and Other Endangered Species

By Ellen Close & Braden Griffiths
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Environment, By Age - 8-10, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Adaptations, By Age - 11-14, Family, Women Writers
Casting: 2 actors

Nine-year-old Phineas interprets the world through his encyclopedic knowledge of animals, but some human behaviour is just too puzzling. Take for example his mom, who insists he learn to fall asleep on ...

Einstein's Gift

By Vern Thiessen
Subjects: History, Award Winners, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Science & Scientists, Biography, Canadian Classics, Theatre of War
Casting: 2 f, 5 m

A revolutionary chemist, Dr. Fritz Haber discovered too late that when his knowledge was put in the hands of the wrong people, millions would die; his efforts to serve humanity futile against political ...

The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble

By Beth Graham
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Award Winners
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Iris Trimble is trying to hold it all together. She may very well fly off the face of the earth if she doesn’t hang on to the kitchen counter. At least that’s how she feels after her mother, Bernice, ...

Sequence

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

Theo has been named Time Magazine's Luckiest Man Alive. For twenty consecutive years he has successfully bet double or nothing on the Super Bowl coin toss. And he's getting ready to risk millions on the ...

An Almost Perfect Thing

By Nicole Moeller
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Award Winners
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

Greg is a once-respected journalist searching for a high-profile story that will help revive his career. Chloe is the missing girl he wrote about six years earlier who has just returned home to a world ...