The Enchanted Loom

By Suvendrini Lena
Translated by Dushy Gnanapragasam
Introduction by Sharryn Aiken & R. Cheran
Subjects: Science & Scientists, Theatre of War, (Im)migration, Family Life, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Mental Health, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Translations
Casting: 3 f, 3 m

The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of ...

Simone, Half and Half

By Christine Rodriguez
Foreword by Quincy Armorer
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, By Age — 15–18, (Im)migration
Casting: 3 f, 1 m

Fourteen-year-old Simone is caught between cultures: Canadian, Québécois, and Trinidadian. She’s also torn between friends and the projects they want her to take part in. Her best friend Sarah wants ...

Lady Sunrise

By Marjorie Chan
Foreword by Nina Lee Aquino
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, Large Cast, Women Writers
Casting: 6 f

From the glittering high-rise condos to the desperate streets of Vancouver, powerful stories told by women reveal the fraying social fabric among the wealthy and hangers-on in the city’s Asian Canadian ...

Every Day She Rose

By Andrea Scott & Nick Green
Subjects: Women Writers, Black Playwrights, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Political Theatre, Feminist Theatre, Ontario Playwrights
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: Death, Grief & Loss, Comedy, Award Winners, (Im)migration, Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Quebec Playwrights, Marriage & Divorce, Feminist Theatre
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, ...

Interdependent Magic

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

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 Empire

By Susanna Fournier
Afterword by ted witzel, Leora Morris, and Alison Wong
Subjects: Political Theatre, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Women Writers, Anthologies, Ontario Playwrights, Theatre of War, Feminist Theatre
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 ...

The Children's Republic

By Hannah Moscovitch
Foreword by Stephanie Levitz
Afterword by Amanda West Lewis
Subjects: History, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Women Writers, 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 ...