Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Jill Remez
Genre: Drama, Historical
Length: 85 min.
In November 1938 in the ethnically German “free city” of Danzig, following Kristallnacht, a Jewish couple—Helen and Jesko—make plans to emigrate to the United States as soon as possible. They, and the entire Jewish community are helped by businessman, Hermann Zvi Segal, an historical figure, who had connections in high...
Written by: Lisa Coleman-Brown
Genre: Drama
Length: 60 min.
In Fame & Infamy, the madcap days of turn of the 20th century Vaudeville and the slapstick world of the Silent Silver Screen the beloved, rotund yet dainty, actor comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle comes to enjoy world renown. While he from boyhood achieves fame, Virginia Rappe from girlhood craves fame....
Written by: Lianna Makuch
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Feminist Theatre, Historical, Verbatim/Research-Based
Length: 120 min.
Hania’s Baba has a secret. A secret she’s bringing with her to her grave. Since moving into the Long-Term Care Centre, her grandmother has been restless. Agitated. Something from her past is haunting her. She urges Hania to return to their Ukrainian homeland to seek out a missing piece of...
Written by: Penn Kemp
Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama, Historical
Length: 60 min.
Angel Makers follows the personal dramas of six women in an abortion ward, presenting different responses, and an examination of the role of nurses as the patients confront hospital bureaucracy. Acts: 1. A period piece from the Seventies that is still all too current. Directed by Anne Anglin.
Written by: Conni Massing
Length: 120 min.
In The Aberhart Summer, fifteen-year-old Doug spends the summer of 1935 investigating the suspicious death of his best friend Babe against a backdrop of sweeping societal change: the Great Depression. A murder mystery set in dirty ’30s Alberta, against the backdrop of William Aberhart’s burgeoning Social Credit movement. Adapted from...
Written by: Joan Bryans
Genre: Drama
Length: 115 min.
1916 Dublin. The eve of a rebellion that will impel Ireland on its way to Independence. Constance Markievicz, third in command of the military, is ready, “Be the chances great or small”. The odds are indeed against them: a group of rebels will face 20,000 British soldiers. Constance is not...
Written by: Linda Griffiths
Genre: Drama, Musical/Opera
Length: 60 min.
The Duchess aka Wallis Simpson enters the audacious world of Wallis Simpson—from the filth of Shanghai brothels to the regal splendor of Buckingham Palace—shedding light on the infamous woman for whom King Edward VIII would eventually abdicate his throne. In this adult Alice in Wonderland, Wallis’s personified jewels, her Royal...
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: Joan Bryans
Genre: Drama, Feminist Theatre, Historical, Verbatim/Research-Based
Length: 120 min.
Early 20th century London. A poor cotton mill worker is best friends with the daughter of a Viceroy of India. An illiterate cockney housewife is teaching a Canadian university graduate. A young girl is being coached to convert British Columbia to the cause. Women carry hammers in their muffs. What...
Written by: Linda McCready
Length: 90 min.
The play is about the need to pursue one’s passion in order to find happiness. In the summer of 1936, two women from Toronto go on a sketching trip to Baie-Saint-Paul in Charlevoix County, Quebec. Dorothy, a 35-year old commercial artist, is very serious about further developing her art, while...