Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Alexis Diamond
Genre: Musical/Opera, TYA
Length: 90 min.
“When 10-year-old Kate Fiddlewaddle gets hit by a car on her bicycle, a nasty concussion makes her see the world in a whole new way. Kate presents her vision of a car-free world at the school science fair, winning out over her arch-rival, the talented car fanatic Frankie Frisco. Kate’s...
Written by: Kathleen McCreery
Genre: Adaptation, Comedy
Length: 120 min.
‘The theatre was the people’s spoken, dramatised newspaper.’ – Dario Fo in ‘Mistero Buffo’. Travelling players in 1935 fascist Italy present their controversial version of Shakespeare’s play. Fast moving and very physical, this radical rewrite makes use of commedia, farce, puppets, and includes a dream sequence in which Bianca portrays...
Written by: Paddy Gillard-Bentley
Genre: Drama
Length: 90 min.
An exploration into the casualties of DNA testing. Over 30 million people worldwide have taken one DNA test, or another,. Many have made an unexpected discover concerning their identity – the man who raised them, who taught them how to ride a bike, who held them when they cried –...
Written by: Sarah Anne Curzon
Genre: Comedy, Historical
Length: 30 min.
The play tells the story of Kate Bloggs, who gains admission to the University of Toronto by disguising herself as Tom Christopher, since women were barred from the university. After winning great acclaim at the university, Kate reveals her true identity in the end, demonstrating that women possess the intelligence...
Written by: Michelle T Clemens
Genre: Comedy
Length: 77 min.
A multigenerational family, where a quick witted and industrious mother’s strength and good humor holds everyone together – even her ex-partner’s dog. Women of the eighties were told they could have it all: university, career, marriage, and children. They worked so hard and got it! Time for rest and fun....
Written by: Betty Jane Wylie
Genre: Adaptation, Drama
Length: 90 min.
“An adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play An Enemy of the People, set in Saskatchewan in the 1960s.” (From the CPO Website)
Written by: Leeann Minogue
Genre: Comedy
Length: 90 min.
Hot. Burning hot. In Dry Streak, during the dry, hot summer of 1988, Kate, a young city woman moves with her boyfriend to his family’s Saskatchewan farm. After months of heat and dust, Kate makes a public promise: if only this drought would break, she’d run naked through town.
Written by: Kate Hennig
Genre: Drama
Length: 120 min.
A contemporary retelling of the compelling relationship between Katherine Parr and Henry VIII, The Last Wife is a funny, powerful examination of patriarchy, sexual politics, and women’s rights. Kate Parr is smart, confident, and passionate: a rising star in a world of intense competition. But her obligatory marriage to Henry...
Written by: Kate Cayley
Genre: Drama, Historical
Length: 90 min.
After Akhmatova is a play based on the life of dissident Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, and her relationship to her only son, Lev Gumilyov. The piece focuses on Akhmatova’s writing of her greatest work, the long poem Requiem, which was inspired by her son’s exile and long imprisonment as a...
Written by: Kate Hennig
Genre: Drama
Length: 120 min.
In Mother’s Daughter, this stunning third part to Kate Hennig’s powerfully reimagined Queenmaker series, England’s first queen regnant finds herself fighting xenophobia, religious nationalism, and strained familial bonds in the power struggle that dubs her Bloody Mary. Upon the death of King Edward VI, the thirty-eight-year-old princess Mary—daughter of Henry VIII and...