Annie Mae's Movement

By Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Biography, History, Women Writers, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 75 hours

Annie Mae’s Movement explores what it must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a man’s movement, a Canadian in America, an Aboriginal in a white-dominant culture at a time when ...

Beautiful Man & Other Short Plays

By Erin Shields
Foreword by Andrea Donaldson
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights, Anthologies
Casting: 1 f | 3 f, 1 m

Award-winning playwright Erin Shields has crafted three thought-provoking plays that centre on the inner lives of women, offering space for those who dare to listen.

An eviscerating satire of gender roles ...

Indian Act

Edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Foreword by Daniel David Moses
Preface by Falen Johnson
Subjects: Anthologies, Indigenous Playwrights

Indian Act is a tribute and thank you to those who survived the Indian Residential School system so that future generations could be free to pursue their lives unhindered by educationally enforced lowered ...

Quiver

By Anna Chatterton
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Family, Solo Shows, Coming of Age, By Age — 15–18, Family Life, Siblings, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f

“She doesn’t care about me; she doesn’t even want to see me; she just pretends she does.”

Shy, fourteen-year-old Maddie wasn’t expecting to have to worry about taking care of herself just yet. ...

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Refractions: Scenes

Edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard & Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Indigenous Playwrights, Anthologies, Jewish Theatre, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Black Playwrights, Scenes & Monologues

Refractions: Scenes is a collection of scenes from diverse contemporary works by Canadian playwrights that reflect the country’s artistic landscape through a breadth of themes, styles, cultures, regions, ...

The Drawer Boy

By Michael Healey
Subjects: History, Rural Settings, Comedy, Family Life, Siblings, Award Winners, Ontario Playwrights, Canadian Classics, Mental Health
Casting: 3 m

A young actor from the big city lives with two aging bachelor farmers to gather stories about rural life. The farmers' lives are irrevocably altered when art attempts to imitate life and the line between ...

Love and Information

By Caryl Churchill

Someone sneezes. Someone can't get a signal. Someone shares a secret. Someone won't answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone's not ready to talk. Someone is her brother's mother. ...

Animal Farm

By George Orwell
Adapted by Ian Wooldridge

George Orwell’s 1945 satire on the perils of Stalinism has proved magnificently long-lived as a parable about totalitarianism anywhere—and has given the world at least one immortal phrase: “Everyone ...

Contemporary Monologues for Men: Volume 2

Edited by Trilby James

Whether you’re applying for drama school, taking an exam, or auditioning for a professional role, it’s likely you’ll be required to perform one or more monologues, including a piece from a contemporary ...

Contemporary Duologues: One Man & One Woman

By Trilby James
Series: The Good Audition Guides

As an actor at any level – whether you are doing theatre studies at school, taking part in youth theatre, preparing for drama-school showcases, or attending professional acting workshops – you will ...