Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Jessica K. Bruhn
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Melodrama, Tragedy
Length: 120 min.
In 1914, Hedwig Eva was born to Gertrude and Emil Kiesler in Austria. Hedy was a precocious only child who was equally gifted in the performing arts as she was the sciences. Her life changed when naziism extended to her country and she learned first hand of its evils. Performing...
Written by: Piper J. Distel (Book), & Lori Robinson Distel (Music and Lyrics)
Genre: Biography, Musical/Opera
Length: 140 min.
Synopsis: Journey down the rabbit hole and meet ‘the mind behind Wonderland’ in this colourful biographical musical about the extraordinary life of Lewis Carroll. From his childhood in Yorkshire to his eventual friendship with the young girl who would become ‘Alice,’ Carroll’s unique imagination and keen knack for storytelling are...
Written by: Michele Decottignies
Genre: Biography, Documentary, Verbatim/Research-Based
Length: 60 min.
The play’s subject matter is based on a real-life Canadian crime: the 1993 premeditated killing of 13-year-old Tracy Latimer by her father, who claimed he had no choice but to kill her because she was in “constant, excruciating pain” due to cerebral palsy. Robert Latimer employed this “necessity” defense in...
Written by: Penn Kemp
Genre: Biography, Historical
Length: 90 min.
The Triumph of Teresa Harris celebrates the lives of an extraordinary couple, Teresa Harris and St. George Littledale. The youngest of the Harris clan, Teresa was an adventurous Victorian woman who broke free from the shackles of her era and become one of the greatest explorers of her time. Why...
Written by: Andria Hill-Lehr, Sarah Jane Blenkhorn
Genre: Biography, Drama, Historical
Length: 120 min.
Love, Mona is closely based on the true story of Mona Parsons, the only known female Canadian civilian sentenced to hard labour in Nazi Germany for her resistance work in the Netherlands. Although Mona was from Nova Scotia, she was living in Holland when Germany invaded in 1940. After joining...
Written by: Trina Davies
Genre: Biography
Length: 120 min.
“Silence looks at the real-life characters of AG Bell, his wife and his family. Born in Scotland and brought to Canada because his parents wanted to improve his ill health, Alexander Graham Bell was pushed into the family obsession: education for the deaf. A man with a very curious mind,...
Written by: Talia Pura
Length: 60 min.
“Emilie du Châtelet, an accomplished scientist, was the lover of Voltaire for the last fifteen years of her life. Complications of a court dalliance led to a pregnancy in her 42nd year. Fear that it would end her life encouraged her to double her efforts to finish her life’s work.”
Written by: Shirley Barrie
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Historical
Length: 125 min.
“In spite of being large and not conventionally attractive, Cobourg-born Marie Dressler uses determination and talent to develop an energetic, self-deprecating style of comedy that propels her from touring obscurity to Broadway stardom. Unfortunately, she is often her own worst enemy, and after the Great War both her stage career...
Written by: Natalie D. Meisner
Genre: Biography, Documentary, Drama, Feminist Theatre, Historical
Length: 60 min.
Life and a Lover uses letters and other historical documentation to tell a version of the story of Virginia Woolf’s love affair with Vita Sackville-West.
Written by: Marie Clements
Genre: Biography, Drama, Indigenous Theatre
Length: 120 min.
“Copper Thunderbird is a play on canvases based on the life of Norval Morrisseau. Inside the power-lines which Morrisseau boldly defined in his art were the colours he experienced between his Ojibwa cosmology, his life on the street, and his spiritual and philosophical transformations to become the Father of Contemporary...