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 ...

Blackout

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

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 ...

Burning Mom

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

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 ...

Yaga

By Kat Sandler
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Comedy, Feminist Theatre
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 125 minutes

She’s more than just a wicked old witch. Baba Yaga is a legend, usually known as that elderly woman who lives alone in the woods and grinds the bones of the wicked. But what if she was actually a sexy, ...

The Negroes Are Congregating

By Natasha Adiyana Morris
Subjects: Comedy, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 120 minutes

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 ...

Post-Democracy

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Family Life, Women Writers
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
Foreword by Michael Sobota
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss, 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 ...