From the Ashes

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

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 ...

The Party & The Candidate

By Kat Sandler
Subjects: Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre, Women Writers
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 ...

Burning Mom

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

After nearly a year of mourning her husband’s death, sixtysomething Dorothy needs to feel alive. So she pitches a road-trip idea to her family—attending Burning Man, the massive arts festival known ...

Calpurnia

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

Body So Fluorescent

By Amanda Cordner & David Di Giovanni
Subjects: Mental Health, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Black Playwrights, Solo Shows, Women Writers, 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: Feminist Theatre, Quebec Playwrights, Award Winners, Women Writers, Death, Grief, and Loss, Translations
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 ...

Ravage of Life

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

Fall On Your Knees

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

Half-Cracked

By Mary-Colin Chisholm
Subjects: Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Rural Settings, 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 ...

Blackout

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

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 ...