Ravage of Life

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

Half-Cracked

By Mary-Colin Chisholm
Subjects: Rural Settings, Family Life, Siblings, Women Writers, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy
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 ...

Post-Democracy

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Family Life
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Welcome to the world of the one per cent, the corporate elite, the C-suite, the kingmakers. A world managed by payoffs, press releases, NDAs, and company policies. What happens to morality in this world ...

How It Ends

By Debbie Patterson
Subjects: Family Life, Siblings, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Death, Grief, and Loss, Women Writers, Disability Theatre
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Most of us, when faced with death, wish we could just have a little more time. But what if this is the little more time that we wished for? What are you going to do with it?

Grieving siblings Natalie and ...

Reasonable Doubt

By Joel Bernbaum, Lancelot Knight, and Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, History, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Verbatim Theatre, Musicals, Rural Settings
Casting: 6 roles

A significant moment in Canadian history is portrayed in this documentary musical about race relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Weaving hundreds of real interviews conducted with ...

Dividing Lines | Líneas Divisorias

By Beatriz Pizano
Subjects: Death, Grief, and Loss, Women Writers, (Im)migration, Ontario Playwrights, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 80 minutes

The one thing everyone knows is that we’re all going to die. Which means our loved ones are going to die. So how can we prepare for, experience, and honour their deaths? And does that look different ...

Reaching for Starlight

By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, By Age — 8–10, Black Playwrights
Casting: 8 f, 2 m

Reenie wants to dance, following in her mother’s footsteps. Just like the rest of her ensemble, she believes she has what it takes to earn the coveted solo at the year-end recital. But when she notices ...

The Negroes Are Congregating

By Natasha Adiyana Morris
Subjects: Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Black Playwrights, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

In this unapologetic and sharp-witted perspective about the evolving Black experience in Canada and around the world, a rhythmic fusion of spoken word, satire, and soulful dialect emerges steady as a ...

The Enchanted Loom

By Suvendrini Lena
Translated by Dushy Gnanapragasam
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Science & Scientists, Ontario Playwrights, (Im)migration, Translations, Mental Health, Family Life, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre of War
Casting: 3 f, 3 m

The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of ...

Simone, Half and Half

By Christine Rodriguez
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, By Age — 15–18, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, (Im)migration
Casting: 3 f, 1 m
Duration: 50 minutes

Fourteen-year-old Simone is caught between cultures: Canadian, Québécois, and Trinidadian. She’s also torn between friends and the projects they want her to take part in. Her best friend Sarah wants ...