The End of Pretending

By Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman & Emily Sugarman
Subjects: Women Writers, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age—15–18, Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Coming of Age
Casting: 2 f

Charlotte is witnessing the death of a parent, while struggling to hide it from herself and her best friend, Emily, who is staying with Charlotte's family for the summer. Emily is in a constant state ...

M.J. Cruise

MJ Cruise is an award-winning playwright and published choral composer. Her plays have been performed across North America and have been translated and produced in Germany. MJ teaches drama in Grimsby, ...

Gnit

By Will Eno

Peter Gnit, a funny enough, but so-so specimen of humanity, makes a lifetime of bad decisions on the search for his True Self. This is a rollicking yet cautionary tale about (among other things) how the ...

An Almost Perfect Thing

By Nicole Moeller
Subjects: Women Writers, Award Winners, Western Playwrights, Alberta
Casting: 1 f, 2 m
Duration: 120 minutes

Greg is a once-respected journalist searching for a high-profile story that will help revive his career. Chloe is the missing girl he wrote about six years earlier who has just returned home to a world ...

21 Black Futures

Created by Obsidian Theatre
Subjects: Comedy, Solo Shows, Super Short Shows, Disability Theatre, Award Winners, Feminist Theatre, Deaf Theatre, Mental Health, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce, Scenes & Monologues

What is the future of Blackness? Obsidian Theatre presents twenty-one versions of it.

In 2021, Obsidian Theatre engaged twenty-one writers to create twenty-one new stories about imagined Black futures. ...

Retreating to Re-Treat

By The Collective Encounter
With Jill Carter
Subjects: Theatre Studies, History & Criticism, Political Theatre, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, History, Theatre Direction & Production, Nonfiction / Essays

In 2019, a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter stood with their audience in a liminal space at the edge of the woods—a space between now and then, a space between now and later. Together, they ...

Pamela Mala Sinha

Pamela Mala Sinha is an award-winning Canadian actress/writer working internationally in theatre, television, and film. Pamela was the recipient of Canada’s prestigious Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding ...

Caleigh Crow

Caleigh Crow is a queer Metis theatre artist from northeast Calgary. Previous playwriting topics include a talking crow and a grocery clerk, the mass coronal ejection of 1859, the Antifa supersoldier, ...

This is Beyond

Edited by Evan Tsitsias & Bilal Baig
Subjects: Theatre for Young Audiences, Coming of Age, Nonfiction / Essays, Political Theatre, Essays, Theatre Studies, History & Criticism, Dating & Sex

In this rapid moment of expansion in queer theatre, when everything is exposed, interrogated, and investigated, This is Beyond is a time capsule of where we are now and a map for where we might go next. ...

Lindsay Lachance

Lindsay
Lachance (Algonquin Anishinaabe) has worked as a dramaturg for over a decade
and is an Assistant Professor in the department of Theatre and Film at the
University of British Columbia. Lindsay’s ...