Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: J. Ivanel Johnson
Length: 60 min.
** no guns or violence – the title is intentionally ‘punny’ ** “The Pistol’s Report is a traditional-type farce but with many diverse characters included, and lots of twists and surprises.” LOGLINE: Jordie’s school report on what she did over the weekend is being presented, but she’s the epitome of...
Written by: Laura Teasdale
Length: 75 min.
The town of Two Spruce is about to lose their beloved library. A team of volunteer actors come to its financial rescue by staging a murder mystery. But on opening night a real murder most foul threatens to thwart their fundraiser. Lucy the Librarian and a team of quirky volunteer...
Written by: Eleanor Albanese, Written with K. Boyer, L. Cano, S. Henderson, E. Howard, B. Lysnes, K. Maki, J. Psenicnik, T. Roy, and S. Silver
Genre: Comedy
Length: 60 min.
“Wings of Resistance is a low budget play for cutting times. Pokes some serious fun at the government of today and its policies, in particular issues surrounding women and poverty.” (From the CPO Website)
Written by: Lisa Coleman-Brown
Genre: Comedy, Historical
Length: 14 min.
2 Guys on a Wall is a one act, surreal, and psychedelic comedy set on scaffolding 1,200 feet high in the air atop the iconic “largest chimney in Canada”, INCO’s Sudbury SuperStack, on August 20, 1970. The 2 Guys, macho bricklaying miners, are killing time singing, and philosophizing about the...
Written by: Sally Clark
Genre: TYA
Length: 100 min.
“Life Without Instruction is based on a true story and a real trial. Artemesia Gentileschi’s father, the late-Renaissance painter Orazio Gentileschi, takes the unusual step of having his daughter trained in the art of painting under the instruction of his friend, Agostino Tassi. Tassi rapes Artemesia, and is taken to...
Written by: Shirley Barrie
Length: 45 min.
“Marion instructs her younger sister in the fine art of growing up as an undertaker’s daughter.” (From the CPO Website)
Written by: Nika Rylski
Length: 55 min.
“He’s Ukrainian-Canadian and she’s Chinese-Canadian and together they just want to be Canadian-Canadian. But their very hyphenated parents have other ideas in this satire on the cult of multicult.” (From the CPO Website)
Written by: Margaret Hollingsworth
Genre: Drama
Length: 120 min.
“In Mother Country, three Canadian women visit their British mother at her West Coast island home. The reunion crackles with tension as the deceit on which the women were raised is slowly exposed.” (From the CPO Website)
Written by: Joan Burrows
Length: 120 min.
“Staff Room is an ensemble piece which allows 8 or more actors to portray 55 characters. The setting is a generic staff lounge peopled by teachers, students, caretakers, secretaries, administrators and baffled parents, all of whom are struggling with human issues (love, divorce, scandal, gossip, discrimination) often with hilarity and...
Written by: Hope McIntyre, Cairn Moore
Genre: Drama
Length: 75 min.
“Jasmine bursts into the world unlike your typical newborn child and is anointed a ‘jail baby.’ Born in prison, raised by a mother who revolved in and out of the correctional system, tossed in and out of foster care, Jasmine is destined to become one of society’s monsters. When she...