Perfect Pie

By Judith Thompson
Introduction by Gregor Campbell
Subjects: Rural Settings, Ontario Playwrights, Canadian Classics, Women Writers
Casting: 4 f, doubling

In the course of an afternoon's reunion between two long-estranged women, a buried memory, and two teenagers' wild secret, slams into the present.

When Patsy invites her old friend Francesca, now a glamourous ...

The Adventures of A Black Girl in Search of God

By Djanet Sears
Afterword by Leslie Sanders
Subjects: Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 4 f, 4 m, doubling, chorus

From Governor General's Literary Award–winning playwright Djanet Sears comes a beautiful and deeply moving story set in present-day Negro Creek, a two-hundred-year-old black community in Western Ontario. ...

I, Claudia

By Kristen Thomson
Subjects: Women Writers, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Ontario Playwrights, By Age — 15–18, Solo Shows, Coming of Age
Casting: 1 f

Claudia is an official pre-teen. Her father is getting remarried, she has a science fair project coming due, and she is in the physical and emotional throes of puberty. Finding refuge in the basement ...

Habitat

By Judith Thompson
Introduction by Iris Turcott
Subjects: Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 2 m
Duration: 140 minutes

Raine, unable to respond emotionally when her mother dies, finds herself at this group home, in a community that has little tolerance for its newest residents. The ensuing battle—over whether the group ...

Angélique

By Lorena Gale
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Canadian Classics, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, History, Biography
Casting: 3 f, 4 m

"And in seventeen thirty-four a Negro slave set fire to the City of Montreal and was hanged..."

With this bald statement of history as a basis, Lorena Gale constructs a vivid portrait of a time when captive ...

The Book of Jessica

By Linda Griffiths & Maria Campbell
Subjects: Award Winners, Women Writers, Canadian Classics
Casting: 2 f, 4 m

Part dialogue, part narrative, part playscript, this unique book contains the award-winning play Jessica, as well as the extraordinary story of its making.