Every Day She Rose

By Andrea Scott & Nick Green
Subjects: Political Theatre, Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

After the Black Lives Matter protest at the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade, two friends find their racial and queer politics aren’t as aligned as they thought, and the playwrights behind them must figure ...

Women of the Fur Trade

By Frances Koncan
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Award Winners, Comedy, Feminist Theatre, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Women Writers, History
Casting: 3 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort ...

Successions

By Michaela Di Cesare
Foreword by Tamara Brown
Subjects: Comedy, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Death, Grief & Loss, (Im)migration, Siblings, Award Winners, Quebec Playwrights, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

After the unexpected death of their parents, two second-generation Italian Canadian brothers must come together to decide whether to hold on to the family home, which is full of secrets and hoarded junk, ...

The Empire

By Susanna Fournier
Afterword by ted witzel, Leora Morris, and Alison Wong
Subjects: Theatre of War, Feminist Theatre, Anthologies, Ontario Playwrights, Political Theatre, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 2 f, 2 m | 9 f | 1 f, 4 m

Explore a world on the edge of change through three epic stories spanning five hundred years of imagined history, unpacking systems of power and what we are capable of in the pursuit of freedom.

The story ...

Interdependent Magic

Edited by Jessica Watkin
Subjects: Anthologies, Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Feminist Theatre, Disability Theatre, Political Theatre, Deaf Theatre, Environmental Issues, Comedy, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Women Writers

Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada is a collection of plays and interviews by, for, and about Disabled theatre artists that invites readers into the magical worlds of Disability arts ...

The Children's Republic

By Hannah Moscovitch
Foreword by Stephanie Levitz
Afterword by Amanda West Lewis
Subjects: History, Women Writers, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Theatre of War
Casting: 3 f, 3 m (1 f adult, 1 m adult, 2 f kid, 2 m kid)

Confined within the walls of the Warsaw Ghetto, Dr. Janusz Korczak struggles to protect the children at his orphanage from the horrors of the Second World War. There is not enough food or pairs of eyes ...

Voices of a Generation

Edited by Michelle MacArthur
Subjects: Anthologies, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Quebec Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Comedy, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Feminist Theatre, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Adaptations

Voices of a Generation gathers three Canadian plays that crack open millennial stereotypes to reveal a generation’s complex and varied experiences.

zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan follows Namid through ...

Secret Life of a Mother

By Hannah Moscovitch
With Maev Beaty & Ann-Marie Kerr
Foreword by Marinda de Beer
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights, Biography, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f

The raw and untold secrets of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, and mothering are revealed in this true story of motherhood for the twenty-first century.

A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood ...

Mortified

By Amy Rutherford
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Dating & Sex, Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Coming of Age, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 8 f, 1 m, doubling
Duration: 115 minutes

A woman runs into her former abuser and is surprised by the power he still holds over her. In an attempt to uncover the truth of what really happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a synchronized ...

Do This In Memory of Me

By Cat Walsh
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, Family Life, Comedy, Community Theatre Picks
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

Twelve-year-old Genevieve has been having a hard time at home, and all she really wants is to be an altar server at her church. Except it’s 1963 and Father Paul tells her that’s not allowed. After ...