Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: D. Halpern
Length: 120 min.
Immaculate Perfection… revolves around a group of high school seniors in 2016 over the course of their final year. These students spend their time smoking, crying, and touching each other in the gender neutral bathroom of their high school. During a welcome back party in September, Nat, a young transgender...
Written by: Lisa Coleman-Brown
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Historical
Length: 120 min.
It is exciting 1920, the year of Prohibition and Women’s Right to Vote. Set during the creation of the first commercial radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh, historical figures Dr. Frank Conrad, radio pioneer, and Harry P. Davis, Westinghouse Vice-President, join forces for the premiere broadcasts of the election of President...
Written by: Lesley Rae Wetmore
Genre: Drama, Historical
The Chair of Sparrow follows the life of Cornelius Sparrow, a man who escapes enslavement in Virginia and rebuilds his life in Saint John, New Brunswick. The play moves between his past and present, showing him as a child, a young man running for his life, and an older barber...
Written by: Lois J Gordon
Length: 100 min.
Once a year, a group of women get together to celebrate their long-standing friendship and bring themselves up-to-date on what’s been happening in each other’s lives. They’ve been doing this for 35 years, since they all met at Family Camp as young marrieds with children. There’s Anne, chief organizer and...
Written by: Morrigan McCluskey
Genre: Comedy, Horror/Thriller, Romance
Length: 100 min.
In 1816, a young noblewoman named Christabel goes out at midnight, into the woods near her father’s castle. There, she meets Geraldine, a mysterious stranger who claims to have narrowly escaped kidnapping. After spending the night with the stranger and learning that she is a vampire, Christabel falls in love...
Written by: Behnoosh Ramezani
Genre: Drama
Length: 75 min.
In a world where survival depends on silence, one woman chooses defiance. Hunted Haunted is a dark historical drama set in an 18th-century Irish village unraveling under suspicion. When a young woman is accused of witchcraft, the accusation ignites more than fear, it exposes buried desire, political maneuvering, and the...
Written by: S. E. Conway
Genre: Drama
Length: 60 min.
Le Pédophile is a courtroom drama, following the lives of the Accused, who is on trial for rape against a minor, his family as the trial unfolds, the Plaintiff’s family, and their respective lawyers. The Accused unpacks his self-justification for his actions while the trial unfolds, giving the audience a...
Written by: Laurie Ray Hill
Genre: Comedy
Length: 90 min.
My Brain Is a Comedy is a two-act play set inside the mind of Lily, where her mental faculties are personified as characters: CAPTAIN (logic and reasoning), MEMORY (recollection), CHILD (inner child), REPTILE (instincts), and SENSATION (emotions and physical feelings). The play humorously explores the internal conflicts and dynamics of...
Written by: Catherine Frid
Length: 65 min.
Living Below the Line presents true and thought-provoking stories of poverty in Canada. In 2022, individuals living with poverty in Waterloo Region worked with theatre artists to co-create 12 standalone scenes about their lives. Scenes cover stigma, addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bias in education, the medical system maze, partner...
Written by: Peihwen J. Tai
Genre: Drama
Length: 130 min.
Moth Boy is a magical realist story about emotional negligence in an Asian-Canadian household. The protagonist is a teenager from Vancouver named Ikari Zao, who falls into a catatonic depression and subsequently metamorphoses into a moth after tragedy befell his friend Greta. Ikari’s mother is a lawyer that has an...