BU21

By Stuart Slade

Six young people are caught in the aftermath of a terrorist attack in the heart of London. By turns terrifying, inspiring, brutal, heartbreaking and hilarious, BU21 is verbatim theatre from the very ...

Nice Fish

By Mark Rylance & Louis Jenkins

On a frozen Minnesota lake, the ice is beginning to creak and groan. It's the end of the fishing season, and two old friends are out on the ice, angling for something big; something down there that is ...

Halfway There

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Romance, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick, Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Comedy
Casting: 4 f, 1 m

There’s no such thing as a secret in Stewiacke. Not when the gossips meet for coffee every day at the local diner. Vi, Rita, Mary Ellen, and Janine are all as close as can be, and they know everybody’s ...

Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp.

By Caryl Churchill

A girl made of glass. Gods and murders. A serial killer's friends. And a secret in a bottle. Four stories by Caryl Churchill.

Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp. premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Downstairs, ...

Retreating to Re-Treat

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

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, ...

A Perfect Bowl of Pho

By Nam Nguyen
Subjects: (Im)migration, History, Asian Canadian Playwrights, Ontario Playwrights, Musicals, Comedy
Casting: 12 roles
Duration: 80 minutes

Nam, a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup ...

Acting and Reacting

By Nick Moseley

A brand-new actor-training system developed by the head of acting at the Italia Conti Academy. Nick Moseley takes the best of Stanislavsky, David Mamet, and Meisner to fuel his own intensely practical ...

Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers

By Makambe K Simamba
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Solo Shows, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, Award Winners, Death, Grief & Loss, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 1 role
Duration: 60 minutes

Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through ...

Andy's Gone

By Marie-Claude Verdier
Translated by Alexis Diamond
Subjects: Adaptations, Quebec Playwrights, Political Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Class Differences, Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Women Writers, By Age — 15–18
Casting: 2 f
Duration: 60 hours

What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact? What is the cost of revolution?

In this contemporary retelling of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city’s perimeter ...

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

By Hannah Moscovitch
Subjects: Award Winners, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Feminist Theatre, Women Writers
Casting: 1 f, 1 m
Duration: 120 hours

The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking new play by the acclaimed author of What a Young Wife Ought to Know and Bunny.

Jon, a star ...