Mahmoud

By Tara Grammy & Tom Arthur Davis
Subjects: Solo Shows, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Comedy, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f

Mahmoud is an exuberant, if overwhelmingly passionate, Iranian engineer-cum-taxi driver who relishes the chance to regale his passengers with his love of Persian culture. Emanuelos, a fabulously gay Spanish ...

Yukonstyle

By Sarah Berthiaume
Translated by Nadine Desrochers
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Translations
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Garin was two years old when his mother disappeared from a rundown East Vancouver neighbourhood. Now that the Robert Pickton trials are gaining national attention, Garin wonders if his mother, a First ...

White Biting Dog and Other Plays

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Anthologies, Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners, Women Writers

This book collects some of Judith Thompson’s earlier, hard- to-find plays, including White Biting Dog, a poetic black comedy about a divorced lawyer who prepares to kill himself by jumping off the Bloor ...

Someone Else

By Kristen Thomson
Subjects: Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks
Casting: 3 f, 2 m

Lately Cathy, a middle-aged comedian, has found very little to laugh about. Everything seems either tragic or frustrating, especially her eighteen-year marriage to Peter, a doctor at a local community ...

Armstrong's War

By Colleen Murphy
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Women Writers, Theatre of War, Community Theatre Picks, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 90 minutes

After suffering an injury during a military tour of Afghanistan, Michael, a young soldier, is recovering in the rehabilitation wing of a hospital. The last thing he wants is to spend time with a twelve-year-old ...

That Elusive Spark

By Janet Munsil
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, History, Women Writers, Western Playwrights, British Columbia
Casting: 3 f, 5 m

Neuropsychologist Helen Harlow is an expert at understanding the functions of the human brain, and yet her own remains a mystery. Turning her back on a once-brilliant future filled with scientific promise, ...

Between the Sheets

By Jordi Mand
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Women Writers, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 2 f
Duration: 60 minutes

Marion, a working mother with a special-needs child, has discovered a devastating secret: her husband Curtis has been engaging in a torrid love affair with none other than their son’s young teacher, ...

Flesh and Other Fragments of Love

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Adaptations, Women Writers, Translations
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

When Pierre and Simone planned a vacation to the Irish coast, they were hoping to revive their failing marriage. What they weren’t expecting was to stumble upon the body of Mary, a drowned woman, during ...

Willow Quartet

By Joan Burrows
Subjects: Rural Settings, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 120 minutes

In the aftermath of a tragedy that ends Kim and Ben's marriage, Kim finds herself back in her childhood home, a quiet farm away from the city. Here, she invites Jim, a visiting musician, to stay with ...

Maggie and Pierre & The Duchess

By Linda Griffiths
Subjects: Anthologies, Solo Shows, Women Writers, Canadian Classics, Biography, History
Casting: 1 f | 3 f, 4 m

Winner of the first Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Maggie and Pierre chronicles the public and private relationship between Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau from 1974-1980. In this ...