Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Sangeeta Wylie
Genre: Asian Canadian Theatre, Drama
Length: 102 min.
1979: Inspired by a true story, a mother and six young children are separated from their father as they flee post-war Communist Vietnam by boat. They endure pirate attacks, typhoons, shipwreck, starvation and more. Thirty-plus years later, the mother shares her story and secrets with her daughter for the first time....
Written by: Diana Tso
Genre: Asian Canadian Theatre, Drama
Length: 45 min.
Based on the real-life experiences of the Toronto Chinese community, Spring Moon tells the story of a resilient immigrant peoples through the eyes of three Chinese grandmothers who survived hardships and crossed oceans to give their granddaughters a better life. They are brought together during Ching Ming “Brightness” festival when...
Written by: Marjorie Chan
Genre: Asian Canadian Theatre, Drama
Length: 90 min.
Noodles, romance and exams are the main concerns of four young friends until they find themselves caught up in the 1989 student demonstrations of Tiananmen Square. The unfolding events test their beliefs, resolve and ultimately friendship in The Madness of the Square.
Written by: Vicki J. Zhang
Genre: Asian Canadian Theatre, Drama
Length: 90 min.
Inspired by true events, The Broken Shoe follows a young Chinese woman has been “quarantined” for months after her childbirth. She goes down the memory lane – her years of wrestling with the traditional womanhood near Confucius’ hometown. Once with lofty career aspirations, she strove for success until life threw...
Written by: Daphne Marlatt, Japanese translation by Toyoshi Yoshihara
Genre: Asian Canadian Theatre
Length: 60 min.
“Wartime restrictions on interned Japanese Canadians have finally been lifted, allowing them to return to the coast. It is a dramatization of the historical link between the fishing town of Steveston, home to many of these first, second and third generation Japanese Canadians, and Mio, the coastal village in Wakayama...
Written by: Sharon Stearns
Genre: Asian Canadian Theatre, Drama
Length: 110 min.
“A Japanese-Canadian family in an internment camp in Sandon, British Columbia in 1942 struggles to come to terms with imprisonment and uprooting in Enemy Graces.” (From the CPO Website)
Written by: Paula Wing
Genre: Adaptation, Asian Canadian Theatre, TYA
Length: 90 min.
“What happens when you lose everything, including your family? This is the honest and moving story of the forced relocation of Japanese Canadians from Coastal British Columbia during WWII.” (From the CPO Website)
Written by: Marie Beath Badian
Genre: Asian Canadian Theatre, Drama
Length: 60 min.
“In The Making of St. Jerome, when Jason De Jesus discovers his younger brother Jerome was the victim of a senseless shooting, his world is filled with questions surrounding Jerome’s death. Was his brother a threat or a casualty of racial profiling? Was he an innocent bystander or someone other...
Written by: Diana Tso
Genre: Asian Canadian Theatre, Drama
Length: 60 min.
“Red Snow is a Canadian play, inspired by the forgotten holocaust of World War II. It is about one Canadian woman’s recurring nightmare which drives her on a quest to dig through her family’s buried history in China. When she meets a Japanese man, she must confront historical forces that...