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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: 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: Peihwen J. Tai
Genre: Drama
Length: 130 min.
Moth Boy is a magical realist story about emotional negligence in an Asian-Canadian household. The protagonist is a teenager from Vancouver named Ikari Zao, who falls into a catatonic depression and subsequently metamorphoses into a moth after tragedy befell his friend Greta. Ikari’s mother is a lawyer that has an...
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: Emily Adams
Genre: Comedy
Length: 40 min.
The Ashmore family’s Christmas is in danger of being ruined when Rob Ashmore’s short-tempered, out-of-touch, bigoted chain smoker of a mother, Evangeline, invites herself over for Christmas the night before. However, when she collapses from a heart attack during a cigarette break, Rob, along with his wife, Sheila, and his...
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: Lynne Carol Martin
Length: 90 min.
Based on historical facts, Mary and Anna’s Adventures in Dirty, Wicked Omaha imagines the beginnings of a remarkable real-life friendship that changed the face of frontier America. Anna Wilson, Omaha’s first and finest madam, approaches Mary Kimball, wife of a Union Pacific Railroad executive and founder of Omaha’s first charity,...
Written by: Mary Littlejohn
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Historical
Length: 135 min.
It’s the summer of 1850, in London, England, and Imogen Flight is set to be knighted by Good Queen Vic. The patrons of the ladies-only Saucy Chicken pub share stories and tall-tales of their heroine. When Imogen herself shows up, along with her trusty sidekick Volta, she comes with more...
Written by: Gillian A. Corsiatto
Genre: Uncategorized
Length: 70 min.
Bethany Jacobs is quite the handful! Though she is smart and articulate, her grades in school simply cannot seem to stay at the same average as her classmates. Throughout this three act play, Bethany encounters both people who very much believe in her potential, and people who try to stand...
Written by: Camille Intson
Length: 75 min.
A melodramatic high school apocalypse play. A runaway mutt. A band of estranged friends haunted by strange apparitions. And an untimely brush with a high speed locomotive. It’s New Year’s Eve in Hamilton, Ontario, and the Year 2000 is just around the corner. Strung together by a collage of fortuitous...