Flesh and Other Fragments of Love

By Evelyne de la Chenelière
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Adaptations, Women Writers, Translations
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

When Pierre and Simone planned a vacation to the Irish coast, they were hoping to revive their failing marriage. What they weren’t expecting was to stumble upon the body of Mary, a drowned woman, during ...

The Unplugging

By Yvette Nolan
Subjects: Women Writers, Feminist Theatre, Prairie Playwrights, Saskatchewan, Environmental Issues, Indigenous Playwrights, First Nations
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 85 hours

In a post-apocalyptic world, Bern and Elena are exiled from their village. Their crime? The two women are no longer of child-bearing age.

Forced to rely upon traditional wisdom for their survival, Elena ...

The Hours That Remain

By Keith Barker
Subjects: Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Siblings, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 1 m
Duration: 60 minutes

Denise has spent the last five years dedicated to uncovering the truth behind her sister Michelle's disappearance. Haunted by loose ends, she begins seeing visions of Michelle, who gradually guides her ...

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 ...

Palace of the End

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Theatre of War, Women Writers, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 1 m

A searing triptych of three monologues all exposing the ugly truth behind the headlines of the Iraq War.

Based around the lives of three distinct characters—a young soldier imprisoned for her misconduct ...

Jennie's Story & Under the Skin

By Betty Lambert
Introduction by Pamela Hawthorn
Subjects: Rural Settings, Community Theatre Picks, Canadian Classics, History
Casting: 2 f, 1 m | 3 f, 2 m

Winner of the 1983 Chalmers Canadian Play Award, Jennie's Story is set in the late 1930s on the Canadian prairies. It concerns the Sexual Sterilization Act that was enacted in 1928, allowing a sterilization ...