Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: S. M. Hunter
Genre: Drama
Length: 70 min.
Written in honour of Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women, 27 Voices is a haunting telling in a Greek chorus style of writing, giving voice to the ghosts of women who’s stories have been buried. A powerful, moving, disruptive, difficult piece exploring 9 characters as she/they move through different portals...
Written by: Katlia (Catherine) Lafferty
Genre: Drama
Length: 90 min.
This fictional story is loosely based on a true story about the infamous Giant Mine in the Northwest Territories. Giant Mine has been an unwelcome legacy impacting the traditional livelihood of Yellowknives Dene First Nation members in the Northwest Territories Canada. Giant mine was established in the early 1940’s and...
Written by: Katlia (Catherine) Lafferty
Genre: Drama
Length: 120 min.
Three brothers born and raised in a small northern town rob a bank in an attempt to get out of poverty. They get away but when fear and greed seems to come between them they must decide what’s more important – family or money. The oldest brother, Martin, is an...
Written by: Jo MacDonald
Genre: Comedy
Length: 90 min.
Neechie- Noun A friend. A bestie. Maybe a cuuzzzin. For sure, someone’s deadly auntie. 4 childhood friends. A reunion interrupted. Incarceration. But with the help of Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Vera Wang, the cops (eventually), and some nosy nosy men, justice might prevail. The bow and arrow probably helped a...
Written by: Jani Lauzon , Kaitlyn Riordan
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Historical
Length: 150 min.
At a Residential School in northern Ontario, five students are ordered to gather in a classroom. Two of them, Joseph Summers and his sister, Beth, have been at the school for seven years, but its policy of separating siblings has largely kept them apart – till now. Susan Blackbird, an...
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...