Straight Jacket Winter

By Esther Duquette & Gilles Poulin-Denis
Subjects: Family Life, Translations, Western Playwrights, British Columbia, Biography
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 hours

When Esther and Gilles decided to move from Montréal to Vancouver, they didn’t expect their lives to change so starkly. All they wanted was to start a new life for themselves, to find new artistic ...

New Canadian Kid & Invisible Kids

By Dennis Foon
Introduction by Marcus Youssef
Subjects: Western Playwrights, British Columbia, (Im)migration, Canadian Classics, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age—8 to 10
Casting: 2 f, 2 m | 2 f, 3 m

Two of the most produced, popular, and important Canadian plays for young audiences are back in an updated edition.

In New Canadian Kid, Nick has just moved to Canada from a country called Homeland, where ...

This Is How We Got Here

By Keith Barker
Subjects: Mental Health, Death, Grief & Loss, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Rural Settings, Indigenous Playwrights, Metis
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 hours

Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, This is How We Got Here follows a close-knit family as they deal with an unexpected loss. A mother, father, aunt, and uncle must learn how to move forward ...

The Wanderers

By Kawa Ada
Subjects: Mental Health, Family Life, Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, History, South Asian Canadian Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

As the Soviet army invades Afghanistan, Aman and Mariam flee to Canada in hopes of putting an ocean between themselves and the daily horrors of war. A championship chess player in Kabul, Aman finds himself ...

The Gentleman Clothier

By Norm Foster
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Comedy, Atlantic Playwrights, New Brunswick
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 135 minutes

Experienced tailor Norman Davenport has barely opened the doors to his new clothing store in downtown Halifax when Sophie, an exuberant young woman, barges in looking for work, followed by Patrick, a ...

Pig Girl

By Colleen Murphy
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Death, Grief & Loss, Award Winners, Women Writers
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 90 minutes

At 4:00 a. m. on a secluded farm, a woman fights to take her life back from a serial killer as her desperate sister and a haunted police officer reach across time and distance in an attempt to rescue ...

The Thrill

By Judith Thompson
Subjects: Women Writers, Disability Theatre, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Elora Dixon is a vibrant, middle-aged lawyer and disability-rights activist who has never walked a step in her life. A neuromuscular disease left her with a curved spine and a reliance on around-the-clock ...

Yukonstyle

By Sarah Berthiaume
Translated by Nadine Desrochers
Subjects: Quebec Playwrights, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Family Life, Translations
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Garin was two years old when his mother disappeared from a rundown East Vancouver neighbourhood. Now that the Robert Pickton trials are gaining national attention, Garin wonders if his mother, a First ...

Willow Quartet

By Joan Burrows
Subjects: Rural Settings, Women Writers, Death, Grief & Loss, Community Theatre Picks, Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, Marriage & Divorce
Casting: 2 f, 2 m
Duration: 120 minutes

In the aftermath of a tragedy that ends Kim and Ben's marriage, Kim finds herself back in her childhood home, a quiet farm away from the city. Here, she invites Jim, a visiting musician, to stay with ...

Blood

By Meg Braem
Subjects: Horror, Western Playwrights, Alberta, Women Writers, Community Theatre Picks, Family Life, Siblings, Award Winners
Casting: 2 f, 2 m

Twin sisters Poubelle and Angelique are bonded in both biology and shared tragedy after a car accident leaves them orphaned along a prairie highway in a pool of blood. But the young twins are brought ...