Leo

By Rosa Laborde
Subjects: History, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Political Theatre
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

Set in Santiago, Chile, three young friends form a bittersweet love triangle during the political upheaval surrounding President Salvador Allende’s assassination.

Told through Leo’s memories, the play ...

This Is War

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Award Winners, Women Writers, Theatre of War
Casting: 1 f, 3 m
Duration: 80 minutes

Master Corporal Tanya Young, Captain Stephen Hughes, Private Jonny Henderson, and Sergeant Chris Anders have lived through an atrocity while holding one of the most volatile regions in Afghanistan. As ...

Blood

By Meg Braem
Subjects: Horror, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Family Life, Siblings, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Twin sisters Poubelle and Angelique are bonded in both biology and shared tragedy after a car accident leaves them orphaned along a prairie highway in a pool of blood. But the young twins are brought ...

The Unplugging

By Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Feminist Theatre, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Environmental Issues, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 85 hours

In a post-apocalyptic world, Bern and Elena are exiled from their village. Their crime? The two women are no longer of child-bearing age.

Forced to rely upon traditional wisdom for their survival, Elena ...

Separate Beds

By MJ Cruise
Subjects: Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Romance, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Ernie and Twink are in the autumn of their lives. In celebration of their thirtieth wedding anniversary, the couple's children send them on a Caribbean cruise. Free of chores and children, Ernie and Twink ...

The Goodnight Bird

By Colleen Murphy
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Mental Health, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 110 minutes

Lilly and Morgan Beaumont are comfortable in their routine until Parker, a homeless man, lands on the balcony of their new condo. After scaring the older couple half to death, he pours himself into the ...

Beaver

By Claudia Dey
Subjects: Family Life, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Rural Settings, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers
Casting: 6 f, 2 m

A northern Ontario gothic, Beaver follows Beatrice "Beaver" Jersey as she learns to grow beyond her circumscribed world, struggling with her whacky extended family, her alcoholic father, and her chain-smoking ...

Kilt Pins

By Catherine Hernandez
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18, Women Writers, Dating & Sex
Casting: 3 f, 1m

In a Catholic high school in Scarborough, Ontario, amidst low-income housing, difficult race relations, and poverty, a young woman struggles to find her sexual identity. In this sincere portrayal of high-school ...

Ned Durango

By Norm Foster & Leslie Arden
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Musicals, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

In the town of Big Oak lies the Crossroads Cafe, where five locals come together to plan the annual Tomato Parade. With everything in place, the town hopes the parade can sweeten the hearts of potential ...

The Romeo Initiative

By Trina Davies
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, History, Political Theatre, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Romance
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 100 minutes

Single men are hard to come by in 1970s West Germany. So when Karin Maynard, a government secretary, meets the handsome Markus Richter, a single man who pursues her, she can hardly believe her luck. But ...