Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Melody Anderson
Genre: Comedy
Length: 60 min.
Two clowns direct a chorus of performers to enact eleven of Aesop’s most popular fables. In their quirky production they unwittingly re-examine the fables through today’s lens. By the end of the play they arrive at a deeper understanding of what it means to be a true friend.
Written by: Beth Graham
Genre: Drama
Length: 130 min.
Alone, in her bedroom, Charlie, a struggling actor, tries to understand why she is unable to return to the stage. Is it stage fright or something far more sinister? The weasels of fear have been unleashed. The abyss yawns. Invisible wounds bleed afresh. Weasel is a play about pursuing what...
Written by: Jennifer Wenn
Genre: Drama
Length: 150 min.
A personal and family drama set within a sweeping historical epic, Empress explores true events. The Roman ruler known to us as Elagabalus was a member of a powerful family from the far east of the Roman Empire, and came to the throne at age 14 in 218CE. Elagabalus has...
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...