David Gagnon Walker is a writer, performer, and translator born in
Edmonton and based in Toronto. His work has been performed and developed in
cities across Canada, and through residencies in Sweden, ...

David has written a play for himself and a gathering of friends and
strangers to read together out loud. It tells the story of the rise and fall of
an imaginary civilization in an imaginary land. Some ...

In a post-apocalyptic world, Bern and Elena are exiled from their village. Their crime? The two women are no longer of child-bearing age.

Forced to rely upon traditional wisdom for their survival, Elena ...

Hailing from Brazil, Vanessa Cardoso Whelan is a playwright, multidisciplinary artist, street performer, and clown with a passion for contemporary theatre and body movement awareness, especially related ...

In October 2013, Scott Jones was leaving a bar in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, when he was attacked, stabbed in the back, and left paralyzed from the waist down. In the months following his attack, Scott ...

In this volume of the Good Audition Guides, you'll find fifty fantastic speeches for women, all written since the year 2000, by some of our most exciting dramatic voices.

Playwrights featured in Contemporary ...

To pass the time on their journey to Australia, the convicts put on John Gay's musical satire, The Beggar's Opera, introducing us to treacherous highwayman MacHeath and sweet Polly Peachum as they juggle ...

Erdman writes in the tradition of Gogol (think Government Inspector), and it certainly shows in this madcap but sinister farce. Its premiere in 1925 was the most successful production by the most famous ...

Chosen as the best play of the year by over 10 newspapers and magazines, Doubt is set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, where a strong-minded woman wrestles with conscience and uncertainty as she is ...