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, ...

Enough

By Stef Smith

Jane and Toni are immaculate, iconic, accommodating flight attendants. They're here for your safety, your comfort and your pleasure. Or so you think. But 30,000 feet below them their seemingly perfect ...

Andy's Gone

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

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 ...

A Perfect Bowl of Pho

By Nam Nguyen
Subjects: Comedy, Asian Canadian Playwrights, History, Musicals, Ontario Playwrights, (Im)migration
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 ...

Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers

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

Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

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

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 ...

The Bridge

By Shauntay Grant
Subjects: Award Winners, Atlantic Playwrights, Nova Scotia, Rural Settings, Women Writers, Black Playwrights, Family Life, Siblings, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 4 f, 3 m
Duration: 90 minutes

Set in a rural Black Nova Scotian community, The Bridge explores the complex relationship between two brothers strained over twenty years of secrecy, deception, and dishonour. Secrets are revealed one ...

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Bad Roads

By Natal'ya Vorozhbit
Translated by Sasha Dugdale

In the darkest recesses of Ukraine, a war is raging.

A journalist takes a research trip to the front line. Teenage girls wait for soldiers on benches. A medic mourns her lover killed in action.

Natal'ya ...