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 ...

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 ...

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: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Comedy, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Canadian Classics, Family Life
Casting: 2 f, 2 m + musician
Duration: 110 hours

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.