paper SERIES

By David Yee
Subjects: Super Short Shows, Solo Shows, Anthologies, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 3 m
Duration: 70 minutes

An unhappy orphan who finds solace in paper cut-outs of her parents, an Indian doctor who displays his medical degree in his taxi cab, and waiters who tamper with fortune cookie are some of the vibrant ...

The Romeo Initiative

By Trina Davies
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, History, Political Theatre, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Romance
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 100 minutes

Single men are hard to come by in 1970s West Germany. So when Karin Maynard, a government secretary, meets the handsome Markus Richter, a single man who pursues her, she can hardly believe her luck. But ...

The Cure for Everything

By Maja Ardal
Subjects: Women Writers, Theatre for Young Audiences, Coming of Age, Comedy, Family Life, By Age - 11-14, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 1 f
Duration: 75 minutes

Elsa is a typical fifteen-year-old growing up in the early 1960s. Her world revolves around independence, boys, and being popular at school, despite growing concerns surrounding the Cuban missile crisis. ...

The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs & Thinking of Yu

By Carole Fréchette
Translated by John Murrell
Subjects: Women Writers, Quebec Playwrights, Anthologies

In The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs Grace finds herself irresistibly drawn to the mystery of the room her husband has forbidden her to enter. Will she let her curiosity get the best of her and ...

The Secret Mask

By Rick Chafe
Subjects: Disability Theatre, Prairie Playwrights, Manitoba, Community Theatre Picks, Family Life
Casting: 1 f, 2 m

This heartwarming and often hilarious play tells the story of Ernie and George, an estranged father and son who are reunited when a debilitating stroke leaves Ernie with a speech disorder and memory loss. ...

Forgiveness

Adapted by Hiro Kanagawa
By Mark Sakamoto
Illustrated by Cindy Mochizuki
Subjects: (Im)migration, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Family Life, Death, Grief, & Loss, Theatre of War, Adaptations, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Biography
Casting: 5 f, 8 m, doubling

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild ...

A Good Night Out

By John McGrath

The classic manifesto on popular theatre by the founder of the 7:84 Theatre Companies.

John McGrath's manifesto is as relevant today as it was when first published in 1981. Looking at the ways different ...

Cruising

By Alecky Blythe

A hilarious, real-life comedy about pensioners going in search of love - from the sublime to the downright saucy.

Maureen is a pensioner in search of passion. After 33 blind dates, 12 cruises and one broken ...

Drama Menu

By Glyn Trefor-Jones

Drama Menu is a brand new concept for planning and delivering dynamic, progressive drama lessons and workshops. Packed with over 150 tried-and-tested theatre games, exercises and improvisation ideas, ...

Bunny

By Jack Thorne

An exhilarating coming-of-age drama for a solo performer.

Scorching heat. A fight. A car chase. A siege. When her boyfriend is attacked on the street, feisty eighteen-year-old Katie is thrust on a white-knuckle ...