Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Irene N. Watts
Genre: Adaptation, Myth/Legend/Folktale, TYA
Length: 60 min.
This play is adapted from “The Cat That Walked Himself” by Rudyard Kipling. This play is designed for kindergarten to grade 5 audiences. The Set: The play is intended to take place in an open space with the audience grouped around the circular acting area, which is empty except for...
Written by: Dorothy Dittrich
Genre: Comedy, Dark Comedy, Drama
Length: 90 min.
The Dissociates takes a darkly comic look at life and death, memory and healing. It is the story of Alex, a 50ish lesbian who finds herself dealing with the aftermath of a recent crisis. Working to repair her garden she tries to assess and reassess, often with broad strokes of...
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: Margaret Hollingsworth
Length: 70 min.
“Set in the 1920’s and 30’s, the play revolves around Alma Victoria and her 18-year-old lover, who are accused of murdering Alma’s husband, the architect Francis Rattenbury.” (From CPO Website)
Written by: Marie Beath Badian
Genre: Asian Canadian Theatre, Drama
Length: 60 min.
“In The Making of St. Jerome, when Jason De Jesus discovers his younger brother Jerome was the victim of a senseless shooting, his world is filled with questions surrounding Jerome’s death. Was his brother a threat or a casualty of racial profiling? Was he an innocent bystander or someone other...
Written by: Irene N. Watts
Genre: Storytelling, TYA
Length: 40 min.
“Two Inuit children rescue their mother who has been captured by the Blizzard spirit as a result of their negligence.” (From the CPO Website)
Written by: Irene N. Watts
Genre: Adaptation, Fantasy, Myth/Legend/Folktale, Storytelling, TYA
Length: 10 min.
Adapted from a Chinese legend.
Written by: Irene N. Watts
Genre: Drama
Length: 60 min.
“Marianne Kohn – a twelve year old Jewish refugee from Berlin, Germany arrives in Britain shortly before World War II. Remember Me chronicles her experiences in England and Wales during her first months without family. A story of survival.” (From the CPO Website)
Written by: Irene N. Watts, Tom Kerr
Genre: Adaptation, Drama, TYA
Length: 60 min.
A one-hour version of the classic Dickens story, A Christmas Carol, with scenes linked by a children’s choir.
Written by: Lise Vaillancourt, translated by Jill MacDougall
Genre: Comedy, Quebec Theatre, Tragedy, Translation
“Marie-Antoine, Opus One is a play in two acts with eleven characters and choruses of mice and schoolgirls… [T]he play is a “neo-baroque tragi-comedy” and “a great opera of words”… a celebration of creativity of all kinds, a celebration of life as a work of art–when vision and dreams triumph...