Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Janet Munsil
Genre: Drama
Length: 75 min.
Be Still is a fictional play inspired by the multiple-exposure work of Canadian surrealist portrait photographer Hannah Maynard. Consumed by grief at the loss of her daughter, Hannah submerges herself in morbid photographic work and the clockwork routines of daily life with her husband. Intrigued by a friend’s Spiritualist leanings, Hannah...
Written by: Marion Johnson
Genre: Adaptation, Comedy, TYA
Length: 30 min.
Mr. Collins’ patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, advises him to marry and have children, but he can’t think who to ask until she tells him to approach his cousins, the five Bennet sisters. Their father’s estate is entailed on Mr. Collins, so the Bennet girls should be predisposed to accept...
Written by: Marion Johnson
Genre: Adaptation, Classical, Drama
Length: 80 min.
In the final year of his life, Heathcliff is desperate for reunion with the one creature in the universe that he loves, Cathy Earnshaw (Linton), who died in childbirth 18 years earlier. Heathcliff now lives only to take revenge against those who wronged him, the Lintons and the Earshaws, by...
Written by: Marion Johnson
Genre: Adaptation, Comedy, Period Piece, Romantic Comedy, Suitable for Secondary School
Length: 110 min.
Emma Woodhouse doesn’t need to get married–she already has money and social standing–but she enjoys finding marriage partners for other people, especially her little friend Harriet Smith, the ‘natural daughter of nobody knows who.’ Emma sabotages a proposal from the farmer Robert Martin in hopes of matching Harriet with the...
Written by: Maureen Hunter
Genre: Drama, Historical
Length: 120 min.
When gossip about her spreads like wildfire through the Red River settlement, the independent-minded Metis wife of the Chief Factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company decides to fight back. Based on actual 19th century events, Sarah Ballenden is a vivid portrait of one woman’s struggle for acceptance and respect in an age...
Written by: Sarah Anne Curzon
Genre: Drama, Feminist Theatre, Historical
Length: 120 min.
In Laura Secord: Heroine of The War of 1812, after dragging her injured husband off the battlefield during the War of 1812, Laura Secord (1775-1868) was forced to house American soldiers for financial support while she nursed him back to health. It was during this time that she overheard the...
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: Linda Griffiths
Genre: Comedy, Feminist Theatre, Historical
Length: 90 min.
“It’s a time of passion and confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. People are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire. It’s 1885, and the typewriter and the suffrage movement are sending things topsy-turvy. In the midst of it all, five ambitious New Women and one Newish Man struggle...
Written by: Dorothy Lees-Blakey
Genre: Adaptation, Comedy, Musical/Opera, Period Piece
Length: 150 min.
“The fascinating early nineteenth century world of Jane Austen springs vividly to life in this lilting romantic musical comedy, retelling the delightful story of Mrs. Bennet’s determined efforts to marry off her five daughters, centering especially on lively, independent Elizabeth’s seemingly impossible romance with the proud uncommunicative Mr. Darcy, and...
Written by: Ami McKay
Genre: Drama, Historical, Myth/Legend/Folktale
Length: 100 min.
“In the mid-nineteenth century a man who became known as Jerome was alleged to have been found on the shores of Baie Sainte-Marie, Nova Scotia, mute and missing both legs. He lived for over forty years with a local family. Many attempts were made to locate his relatives, with hopefuls...