The Party & The Candidate

By Kat Sandler
Subjects: Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights, Comedy, Political Theatre
Casting: 5 f, 5 m

In these two entwined, fast-paced plays, the hilarious goings-on behind the scenes of a controversial election chaotically unfold first at the fundraiser that will decide the party’s nominee and then ...

The Green Line | خطّ التماس

By Makram Ayache
Translated by Hiba Sleiman
Subjects: History, Family Life, Siblings, (Im)migration, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Award Winners, Asian Canadian Playwrights, West Asian Canadian Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

A poetic, heartbreaking story of intergenerational queer history in Lebanon, The Green Line weaves together civil war Beirut with a contemporary nightclub, following one family’s journey to discover ...

The Black Drum

By Adam Pottle
Subjects: Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Political Theatre, Disability Theatre, Death, Grief, and Loss, Dance, Deaf Theatre, Musicals
Casting: 5 f, 2 m, 3 dancers

Hailed as the world’s first Deaf musical—told entirely in American Sign Language and Signed Music—The Black Drum revolves around Joan and her journey to healing after the death of her wife, Karen. ...

I Forgive You

By Scott Jones & Robert Chafe
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Family Life, Disability Theatre, Rural Settings, Mental Health, Verbatim Theatre, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 2 m, child dancer, and chorus

In October 2013, Scott Jones was leaving a bar in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, when he was attacked, stabbed in the back, and left paralyzed from the waist down. In the months following his attack, Scott ...

PLAY

By Jenn Stephenson & Mariah Horner
Illustrated by Jeff McGilton
Subjects: Essays, Nonfiction / Essays, Theatre Studies, History & Criticism

From escape rooms to TikTok to Tim Horton’s “Roll Up the Rim to Win” to DIY everything, participatory performance is ingrained in the very fabric of our contemporary society. Written in a series ...

cockroach (曱甴)

By Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, (Im)migration, 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Asian Canadian Playwrights, East Asian Canadian Playwrights, Adaptations, Award Winners, Shakespeare
Casting: 3 roles m/nb

You
can call him Cockroach, or Roach for short. He’s a catnip-smoking city slicker
living in the dark corners of our homes. A bard (yes, that one) longs for rest
as he contends with his legacy. In their ...

Espejos: Clean

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

Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 3

Edited by Monique Mojica & Lindsay Lachance
Subjects: Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations, Devised Theatre & Collective Creation, Metis, Environmental Issues, Anthologies, Dance

On the twentieth anniversary of its first volume, Staging Coyote’s Dream Volume 3 is a curated collection of new works rooted in Indigenous values, aesthetics, and narrative structures. Inspired by ...

Black Boys

By Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide
With Virgilia Griffith, and Jonathan Seinen
Subjects: 2SLGBT / Queer Theatre, Ontario Playwrights, Black Playwrights
Casting: 3 m

Black Boys by Saga Collectif (Virgilia Griffith, Stephen Jackman-Torkoff, Tawiah M’Carthy, Thomas Antony Olajide, and Jonathan Seinen) uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black experience. Text, ...

Ravage of Life

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Translations, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life
Casting: 4 f, 1 m

For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal’s Espace GO as part of an artistic residency that would profoundly shake her outlook on words, theatre practice, ...