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: 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: 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: 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: Sanita Fejzic
Length: 100 min.
In their suburban Canadian home, Sue and Emir’s marriage is a battlefield of bitterness and constant bickering. Their past as Muslims living in Sarajevo haunts them, with flourishing careers lost to war and genocide. But, proud of their life in Canada, they choose to leave these painful memories behind them....
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: Amelia Brooker
Genre: Comedy
Length: 90 min.
Seven queer women and femmes gather for a birthday party! With romantic tensions, ex-partners, secret past hookups and two Leos in the room, what could go wrong? Shared Space by Amelia Brooker is a slice-of-life comedy about young women and femmes exploring their voices and identities. Inspired by Mart Crowley’s...