Asian Canadian Theatre

Edited by Nina Lee Aquino & Ric Knowles
Subjects: Asian Canadian Playwrights, Nonfiction / Essays
Series: New Essays on Canadian Theatre

A collection of essays emerging from the international GENesis conference held by fu-GEN Theatre Company in 2010, this is the first book to consider the formation, history, and practice of Asian Canadian ...

A Man of Letters

Edited by Jessica Riley
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Nonfiction / Essays, Theatre Studies, History & Criticism, Biography, Playwriting

The late Urjo Kareda was renowned for his commitment to respond personally to the hundreds of mostly unsolicited scripts received by Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, where he served as artistic director ...

Afterimage

By Robert Chafe
Preface by Michael Crummey
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Rural Settings, Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, Adaptations, Family Life, Award Winners
Casting: 4 f, 4 m

Seeing beyond Winston’s disfiguring scars and foreseeing a future with him, Lise falls in love and the couple soon marry. Years later, having inherited Lise’s gift, two of their children, Theresa ...

Black Dog

By Matthew Heiti
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Mental Health, Family Life, Siblings, By Age — 15–18, Mental Health, Ontario Playwrights, Northern Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

The Breakfast Club meets Shirley Jackson in a fusion of live theatre and technology that tells a darkly comic but hopeful story of four teenage outsiders struggling with death, depression and the shadow ...

First Métis Man of Odesa

By Matthew MacKenzie & Mariya Khomutova
Subjects: Theatre of War, (Im)migration, Romance, Family Life, Political Theatre, Women Writers, Award Winners, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Comedy
Casting: 1 f, 1 m

Matt and Masha hit it off during a theatre research trip in Ukraine. At first they seem like opposites: Masha loves the sea, Matt loves mountains. Masha is Ukrainian, Matt is Métis. But the passionate ...

Espejos: Clean

By Christine Quintana
Adapted by Paula Zelaya-Cervantes
Translated by Paula Zelaya-Cervantes
Subjects: Scenes & Monologues, Translations, Feminist Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 f

The lives of two women from very different worlds collide in the illusionary paradise of a Mexican resort. Sarah, a Canadian wedding guest, is a shot glass half empty. Adriana, a fastidious and vivacious ...

Happy Anniversary

By Vanessa Cardoso Whelan
Subjects: Women Writers, Family Life, Siblings, Marriage & Divorce, Latinx Canadian Playwrights, Feminist Theatre, (Im)migration, Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, Dance
Casting:

It’s Carlos and Marta’s twelfth wedding anniversary, yet while Marta yearns to tango, Carlos insists on the comfort of routine. As their story unfolds through a mosaic of memories, we see what began ...

It Is Solved By Walking

By Catherine Banks
Subjects: Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Award Winners, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 90 minutes

When Margaret learns of the death of her former husband, she recalls their earliest days together as Ph.D. candidates, beginning a journey through her past. Told through the sensations of Wallace Stevens's ...

Indian Arm

By Hiro Kanagawa
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Award Winners, Rural Settings, Adaptations
Duration: 120 minutes

Rita and Alfred Allmers live in an isolated family cabin on native leasehold land overlooking Indian Arm, a still untamed glacial fjord just north of Vancouver, BC. With Alfred—a formerly promising ...

Lady Sunrise

By Marjorie Chan
Foreword by Nina Lee Aquino
Subjects: Feminist Theatre, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights
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 ...