Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Tara Goldstein
Genre: Drama
Length: 60 min.
“In this contemporary drama a mother and her three daughters negotiate the challenges and politics of transnational adoption in a same-sex family. The play begins when Harriet reluctantly gives her 17-year-old adopted daughter Luisa permission to return to the Catholic orphanage in Bogota where she spent three years of her...
Written by: Tara Goldstein
Genre: Drama
Length: 70 min.
Ana’s Shadow, the sequel to Harriet’s House, continues the story of Harriet and her three daughters: Luisa and Ana, and Clare. Luisa is back in Toronto and planning to study medicine. Ana is an emerging singer-songwriter. Clare is in high school and excited about her upcoming trip to Colombia with...
Written by: Tara Goldstein
Genre: Documentary
In May 2007, 15-year-old Jordan Manners was shot and killed in the hallway of his Toronto school. Then in early June 2007, the Toronto District School Board commissioned an investigation into school safety, which resulted in a four-volume, 595-page report entitled “The Road to Health”. The report was released to...
Written by: Margot Greve
Genre: Dark Comedy
Length: 75 min.
LIT is a 90 minute, coming of age comedy that follows a group of teenage Firefly Scouts as they journey into the forest for a 3 day leadership retreat. The group of tight-knit girls (and one outlier) begin to reveal their true selves as time wears on: old fights are...
Written by: Tara Goldstein
Genre: Adaptation, Drama
Length: 70 min.
“Inspired by Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, this historical drama unfolds in the summer of 1933, a summer of intense heat, widespread unemployment, swastika badges in Toronto’s parks and beaches, and the Christie Pits riot. Jessica and Larry are living in the Beaches in the home they bought with the...
Written by: Tara Goldstein
Genre: Verbatim/Research-Based
Snakes and Ladders is a play that captures the political conflicts and tensions that occur when a group of experienced teachers, student teachers, and their students decide to put on a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Day at their high school.