Interdependent Magic

Edited by Jessica Watkin
Subjects: Death, Grief&Loss, Feminist Theatre, Anthologies, Mental Health, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Environmental Issues, Women Writers, Deaf Theatre, Disability Theatre, Comedy, Political Theatre, Non

Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada is a collection of plays and interviews by, for, and about Disabled theatre artists that invites readers into the magical worlds of Disability arts ...

Mortified

By Amy Rutherford
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age 15–18, Ontario Playwrights, Dating&Sex, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Coming of Age, Women Writers
Casting: 8f, 1m, doubling

A woman runs into her former abuser and is surprised by the power he still holds over her. In an attempt to uncover the truth of what happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a fourteen-year-old ...

Voices of a Generation

Edited by Michelle MacArthur
Subjects: Family Life, Marriage&Divorce, Quebec Playwrights, Comedy, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Anthologies, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Adaptations, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers

Voices of a Generation collects three Canadian plays that speak to millennials’ complex and varied experiences and the challenges and stereotypes they often face. zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan follows ...

Secret Life of a Mother

By Hannah Moscovitch
With Maev Beaty & Ann-Marie Kerr
Foreword by Marinda de Beer
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Biography, Women Writers, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 65 minutes

The raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and mothering are revealed in this true story of motherhood for the twenty-first century. A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood ...

Do This In Memory of Me

By Cat Walsh
Subjects: Family Life, Community Theatre Picks, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Comedy, Death, Grief&Loss
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Twelve-year-old Genevieve has been having a hard time at home, and all she really wants is to be an altar server at her church. Except it’s 1963 and Father Paul tells her that’s not allowed. After ...

Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Translations, Quebec Playwrights, Death, Grief&Loss, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers, Family Life
Casting: 4 f, 1 m
Duration: 80 minutes

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 Empire

By Susanna Fournier
Illustrated by Sam Hudecki
Subjects: Women Writers, Political Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Theatre of War, Anthologies, Feminist Theatre, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 2 f, 2 m | 9 f | 1 f, 4 m
Duration: 360 minutes

Explore a world on the edge of change through three epic stories spanning five hundred years of imagined history, unpacking systems of power and what we are capable of in the pursuit of freedom. The story ...

The Enchanted Loom

By Suvendrini Lena
Translated by Dushy Gnanapragasam
Subjects: Death, Grief&Loss, Translations, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Mental Health, Theatre of War, Ontario Playwrights, Science&Scientists, (Im)migration, Women Writers, Family Life
Casting: 3 f, 3 m
Duration: 130 minutes

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 ...

Through the Bamboo

By Andrea Mapili & Byron Abalos
Subjects: Women Writers, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age—8–10, Death, Grief&Loss, Asian Canadian Playwrights, By Age—11–14
Casting: 7 f, 3 m
Duration: 75 minutes

Twelve-year-old Philly is literally pulled into an action-packed adventure while mourning the loss of her lola when she opens an old book and finds herself tossed into the fantastical land of Uwi. In ...

Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers

By Makambe K Simamba
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age—15–18, Solo Shows, Black Playwrights, Death, Grief&Loss, Award Winners, Women Writers
Casting: 1 role
Duration: 60 minutes

Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through ...