Einstein's Gift

By Vern Thiessen
Subjects: Award Winners, Science & Scientists, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Biography, Theatre of War, Canadian Classics, Western Playwrights, Alberta, History
Casting: 2 f, 5 m
Duration: 135 minutes

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, ...

Blood

By Meg Braem
Subjects: Horror, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Family Life, Siblings, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Twin sisters Poubelle and Angelique are bonded in both biology and shared tragedy after a car accident leaves them orphaned along a prairie highway in a pool of blood. But the young twins are brought ...

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. ...

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 ...

Dreary and Izzy

By Tara Beagan
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, 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 ...

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 ...