Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Yvette Nolan
Genre: Adaptation, Comedy, Indigenous Theatre
Length: 75 min.
In this updated version of Aristophanes’ classic comedy The Birds, two men flee the modern world, arriving in the fabled land of the birds seeking freedom and a better way of life. But the men are unable to resist remaking this utopian paradise in their own image, without regard for...
Written by: Jessica Outram
Genre: Drama, Indigenous Theatre
Length: 125 min.
The De La Roche women have an annual summer Georgian Bay tradition. Three retired sisters and their three grown daughters spend a week at the cottage drinking wine, reminiscing, and making plans for the future. But this summer is different. Deep-rooted secrets are revealed as the annual festivities become ones...
Written by: Melanie J. Murray
Genre: Drama, Indigenous Theatre
Length: 105 min.
“In her teens, Melanie J. Murray’s mother confessed that she was Aboriginal. ‘Up until that time, I was told I was French,’ recalls Melanie. A survivor of the ‘Scoop’, Melanie’s mother grew to be ashamed of her heritage and kept it secret from her daughter. Slowly coming to terms with...
Written by: Marie Clements
Genre: Drama, Indigenous Theatre
Length: 100 min.
Burning Vision unmasks both the great lies of the imperialist power-elite and the seemingly small rationalizations and accommodations people of all cultures construct to make their personal circumstances yield the greatest benefit to themselves for the least amount of effort or change on their part.
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...
Written by: Marie Clements
Genre: Drama, Indigenous Theatre, Mystery
“The Unnatural and Accidental Women is a surrealist dramatization of a thirty-year murder case involving many mysterious deaths in the ‘Skid Row’ area of Vancouver. All the victims were found dead with a blood-alcohol reading far beyond safe levels, and all were last seen in the company of Gilbert Paul...
Written by: Marie Clements
Genre: Drama, Indigenous Theatre
“In Tombs of the Vanishing Indian, Three Young Native American sisters and their mother board a bus bound for Los Angeles, leaving home as part of a 1950s government mandate to relocate reserve Indians to urban centres. This assimilationist policy was one focus of Metis playwright Marie Clements’s research when...