Brothel #9

By Anusree Roy
Introduction by Iris Turcott
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Award Winners, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

A deal has been struck between two men in India—twenty-one hundred rupees in exchange for a young village woman named Rekha. Sent to Calcutta without knowing why, Rekha finds herself in the confines ...

The List

By Jennifer Tremblay
Translated by Shelley Tepperman
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 1 f

She keeps a tight list and doesn't let anything go unchecked, except for one important misplaced item: a favour to her neighbour. With this broken promise, a series of events unfolds that lead to her ...

It Is Solved By Walking

By Catherine Banks
Subjects: Award Winners, Women Writers, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Death, Grief, & Loss
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 90 minutes

When Margaret learns of the death of her former husband, she recalls their earliest days together as Ph.D. candidates, beginning a journey through her past. Told through the sensations of Wallace Stevens's ...

The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs & Thinking of Yu

By Carole Fréchette
Translated by John Murrell
Subjects: Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights, Anthologies

In The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs Grace finds herself irresistibly drawn to the mystery of the room her husband has forbidden her to enter. Will she let her curiosity get the best of her and ...

Gas Girls

By Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Subjects: Award Winners, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Black Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Gigi and Lola live by one motto: love for gas, gas for cash, cash for living, living for love. Living in Zimbabwe's depressed economy, both women live day-by-day, plying their trade with the truck drivers ...

The Monument

By Colleen Wagner
Introduction by Richard Rose
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Award Winners, Women Writers, Theatre of War, Canadian Classics
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 80 minutes

Stetko is the model boy next door and the son of middle-class parents, but when war arrives it forever changes his life. Although he does nothing more than follow his commanding officer's orders, when ...

The Crackwalker

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Canadian Classics, Women Writers, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

Teresa is sexy, seductive, and mentally challenged. Worshipped by her boyfriend, she turns tricks at $5, is addicted to Tim Hortons' doughnuts, lies without thinking, and overflows with endless kindness, ...

Pyaasa & Letters to My Grandma

By Anusree Roy
Introduction by Thomas Morgan Jones
Subjects: Family Life, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Solo Shows, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, (Im)migration
Casting: 1 f

Set in Calcutta, Pyaasa tells the story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more than learning her times tables. When Chaya's mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give ...

Outspoken

Edited by Susan G. Cole
Subjects: Anthologies, Scenes & Monologues, LGBT/Queer Theatre, Women Writers

Touching on gender, sexuality, family, pop culture, and history, these pieces range from the hilarious to the poignant, the sexy to the sincere, the truthful to the tongue-in-cheek. Collected by writer ...

East of Berlin

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Theatre of War, Jewish Theatre, Canadian Classics, Women Writers, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, History
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 hours

Standing outside his father’s study in Paraguay, Rudi is smoking cigarettes, trying to work up the courage to go in. It has been seven years since he stood in that same spot; seven years since he left ...