Fall On Your Knees

Adapted by Alisa Palmer & Hannah Moscovitch
By Hannah Moscovitch
Original author Ann-Marie MacDonald
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Feminist Theatre, Adaptations, Romance, Women Writers, Family Life, Death, Grief & Loss
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: Translations, Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Family Life, Death, Grief & Loss, Quebec Playwrights
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 ...

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 ...

From the Ashes

Edited by Shauntay Grant
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Solo Shows, Black Playwrights, Anthologies, Women Writers

From the Ashes collects solo plays by Black Canadian women and womxn that together celebrate the hope, humour, and healing that can come after devastation and loss. From lighthearted comedies to heavy ...

Calpurnia

By Audrey Dwyer
Subjects: Women Writers, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Family Life, Political Theatre, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Black Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 3 m

Julie, a young Jamaican Canadian screenwriter, is passionately working on an adaptation of one of the most beloved American novels of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird, telling the story from the perspective ...

Burning Mom

By Mieko Ouchi
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Feminist Theatre, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Comedy, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f

A retired suburban wife and mother tragically loses her partner after forty-five years together. So what does she do? The only thing that makes any sense at all. She embarks on her own hero’s journey. ...

Blackout

By Tamara Brown, Kym Dominique-Ferguson, Lydie Dubuisson, and Mathieu Murphy-Perron
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Political Theatre, History, Women Writers, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Black Playwrights

In February 1969, hundreds of students occupied a computer centre at what is now Montréal’s Concordia University to protest the mismanagement of a racism complaint lodged by Caribbean students against ...

Body So Fluorescent

By Amanda Cordner & David Di Giovanni
Subjects: Mental Health, Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Solo Shows, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 1 f

What happened last night on the dance floor? Gary knows he went to the club with his friend Desiree, but now all he has is a fuzzy memory and a text saying, “We’re done.” Desiree has known something’s ...

Haven

By Mishka Lavigne
Translated by Neil Blackadder
Subjects: Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Feminist Theatre, Translations, Quebec Playwrights, Award Winners
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

Strangers Elsie and Matt are both feeling great voids in their lives. Elsie, a literature professor, is grieving her famous novelist mother’s tragic death. Matt, a city engineer, is trying to regain ...