The Making of St. Jerome

By Marie Beath Badian
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Siblings
Casting: 2 f, 4 m

When Jason De Jesus discovers his younger brother Jerome was the victim of a senseless shooting, his world is filled with questions surrounding Jerome’s death. Was his brother a threat or a casualty ...

This Is How We Got Here

By Keith Barker
Subjects: Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Rural Settings, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 hours

Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, This is How We Got Here follows a close-knit family as they deal with an unexpected loss. A mother, father, aunt, and uncle must learn how to move forward ...

Twisted

By Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman & Joseph Jomo Pierre
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 80 hours

Growing up, Nancy believed in magic despite a hand-me-down life in a small town. So it’s no wonder the buzzing excitement of Toronto and its allure of freedom was a likely choice for her new home, the ...

The Gay Heritage Project

By Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir
Subjects: History, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3 m

This isn’t your ordinary history project. In what has become an important piece of contemporary queer theatre, three of Canada’s most gifted performers—Damien Atkins, Paul Dunn, and Andrew Kushnir—go ...

The Flood

By Leah Simone Bowen
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Feminist Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers
Casting: 5 f, 2 m

“I bore him fourteen children and he had me down here faster than lightning.”

In 1887, women were property and could be imprisoned for any reason. Jail was considered a place for the criminal, the ...

The Whale / A Bright New Boise

By Samuel Hunter

Acclaimed for his gentle, complex characterizations, Samuel D. Hunter's bighearted and funny plays explore the quiet desperation running through many American lives. The Whale tells the story of a six ...

Title and Deed / Oh, the Humanity and other good intentions

By Will Eno

Known for his wry humor and deeply moving plays, Will Eno's "gift for articulating life's absurd beauty and its no less absurd horrors may be unmatched among writers of his generation" (New York Times ...

Th'owxiya

By Joseph A. Dandurand
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 8–10
Casting: 3 f, 3 m
Duration: 50 hours

When you take something from the earth you must always give something back.

From the Kwantlen First Nation village of Squa’lets comes the tale of Th’owxiya, an old and powerful spirit that inhabits ...

The Blunt Playwright

By Clem Martini
Subjects: Western Playwrights, Alberta, Theatre Studies, Playwriting, Nonfiction / Essays

The Blunt Playwright won’t tell you everything there is to know about playwriting. It won’t even try. What it will do is examine process, structure, dialogue, and character; provide classic and contemporary ...

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 ...