Happy Anniversary

By Vanessa Cardoso Whelan
Subjects: Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Marriage & Divorce, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Feminist Theatre, (Im)migration, Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, Dance
Casting:

It’s Carlos and Marta’s twelfth wedding anniversary, yet while Marta yearns to tango, Carlos insists on the comfort of routine. As their story unfolds through a mosaic of memories, we see what began ...

Niizh

By Joelle Peters
Subjects: Rural Settings, Comedy, Women Writers, Romance, Family Life, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Theatre for Young Audiences, Coming of Age, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

It’s summertime on the rez, the frybread is sizzling, and the local radio station plays bluegrass, Anishinaabemowin lessons, and Friday-night bingo numbers. Lenna, the youngest of the Little family, ...

First Métis Man of Odesa

By Matthew MacKenzie & Mariya Khomutova
Subjects: Theatre of War, (Im)migration, Romance, Family Life, Political Theatre, Women Writers, Award Winners, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Comedy
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

Matt and Masha hit it off during a theatre research trip in Ukraine. At first they seem like opposites: Masha loves the sea, Matt loves mountains. Masha is Ukrainian, Matt is Métis. But the passionate ...

Fall On Your Knees

Adapted by Alisa Palmer & Hannah Moscovitch
By Hannah Moscovitch
Original author Ann-Marie MacDonald
Subjects: Family Life, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Romance, Death, Grief & Loss, Adaptations, Women Writers, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 8 f, 5 m, doubling

In an adaptation of the classic Canadian novel, this epic play follows three generations of a Cape Breton Island family in a tale of forbidden love, inescapable bonds, and devastating betrayals, all while ...

Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Family Life, Quebec Playwrights, Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers
Casting: 4 f, 1 m

For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal’s Espace GO as part of an artistic residency that would profoundly shake her outlook on words, theatre practice, ...

The Party & The Candidate

By Kat Sandler
Subjects: Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy, Political Theatre
Casting: 5 f, 5 m

In these two entwined, fast-paced plays, the hilarious goings-on behind the scenes of a controversial election chaotically unfold first at the fundraiser that will decide the party’s nominee and then ...

There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow

By Caleigh Crow
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Horror
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

Grocery-store clerk Beth has had a hell of a week. A hell of a life, actually, full of people squashing her soul. And after pushing back at life—stabbing a steak to her boss’s desk and lighting a ...

Shorelines

By Mishka Lavigne
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Environment, Family Life, Siblings, Family, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Environmental Issues
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

A small military-occupied community sits, waiting, parched of natural water while nearby levees hold the rising global shoreline. Seventeen-year-old twins Alix and Evan pass the time in an empty, abandoned ...

Queen Goneril

By Erin Shields
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Shakespeare, Canadian Shakespeare, Women Writers, Adaptations
Casting: 4 f, 7 m

Set seven years before King Lear, Queen Goneril centres the struggles of Lear’s daughters as they negotiate patriarchal systems built to keep them relegated to the sidelines. In Goneril, we find a natural-born ...

Half-Cracked

By Mary-Colin Chisholm
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Rural Settings, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

Sisters Sissy and Yewina have been on their own for who knows how long exactly. It's just them (and their hens) in a weathered farmhouse miles from town. Their rural, woodsy East Coast community has been ...