Robert Chafe: Two Plays

By Robert Chafe
Introduction by Denise Lynde
Subjects: Family Life, Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, History, Anthologies, Biography
Casting: 1 f, 1 m | 2 f, 2 m

Butler's Marsh

Thirty years ago Nora's mother disappeared into the small, dense forest of Butler's Marsh. She emerged three days later, covered in blood, badly shaken, and completely silent about what ...

Scorched

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Canadian Classics, (Im)migration, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Theatre of War
Casting: 7 actors

Wajdi Mouawad's writing is powerful; a beautifully penned story that paves a path to a mother's unspeakable pain. The closer Janine and Simon get to finding the source of her silence, the closer they ...

Shakespeare's Will

By Vern Thiessen
Subjects: Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Death, Grief & Loss, Solo Shows, Shakespeare
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 90 minutes

An exploration of one of the most silent characters in history: Anne Hathaway, the wife of William Shakespeare.

The play sheds light on unexplored aspects of Hathaway's life by looking through the eyes ...

Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Volume 3

By Sharon Pollock
Edited by Cynthia Zimmerman
Subjects: Women Writers, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Canadian Classics, Anthologies

Sharon Pollock is Canada's best-known woman playwright. Produced nationally and internationally, author of a large and varied canon, she has had a long and illustrious career in the theatre. From backstage ...

She Speaks

Edited by Judith Thompson
Subjects: Theatre Studies, Acting & Technique, Anthologies, Scenes & Monologues

"A monologue must give voice to those who have been silenced. The speaker must urgently need to speak, to proclaim, to persuade, to incite, to inspire, to agitate, to fabricate, to contaminate or whitewash, ...

Stories from the Rains of Love and Death

Translated by Soheil Parsa
With Peter Farbridge & Brian Quirt
Subjects: Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Anthologies, Adaptations, Translations

Aurash by Bahram Beyza'ie, translated and adapted by Soheil Parsa with Brian Quirt, edited by Peter Farbridge

Based on a Persian myth dating back over one thousand years, in the 1970s the fable was adapted ...

See Bob Run & Wild Abandon

By Daniel MacIvor
Subjects: Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Anthologies, Canadian Classics, Solo Shows
Casting: 1 f | 1 m

Bob is on the road. Bob is on the run. But from what, or whom, is she running? Follow Bob as she hops from car to car telling her story to unsuspecting drivers as she tries to put her life in the rear-view ...

Strike!

By Danny Schur & Rick Chafe
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Musicals, History
Casting: 21 actors

It's 1919. Brisbane, Seattle, Barcelona. Workers demand their share of the post-war pie but big business and big government say "no" to crippling general strikes. But in Winnipeg, an entire city shuts ...

Seesaw

By Dennis Foon
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 11–14, Bullying, Family, Class Differences
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Charla is the new girl at school, nervous about her shabby clothes and mourning her parents' break-up. Paige, Charla's new friend, is only concerned with fashion, gossip, and her good-looking boyfriend, ...

Sinners

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Comedy, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick
Casting: 3 f, 3 m
Duration: 120 minutes

A furniture store owner is having an affair with the local minister's wife. The situation becomes complicated when the minister comes home unexpectedly. An intricate web of deceit is hilariously exposed ...