Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Catherine Frid
Length: 65 min.
Living Below the Line presents true and thought-provoking stories of poverty in Canada. In 2022, individuals living with poverty in Waterloo Region worked with theatre artists to co-create 12 standalone scenes about their lives. Scenes cover stigma, addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bias in education, the medical system maze, partner...
Written by: Katlia (Catherine) Lafferty
Genre: Drama
Length: 120 min.
Three brothers born and raised in a small northern town rob a bank in an attempt to get out of poverty. They get away but when fear and greed seems to come between them they must decide what’s more important – family or money. The oldest brother, Martin, is an...
Written by: Lynne Carol Martin
Length: 90 min.
Based on historical facts, Mary and Anna’s Adventures in Dirty, Wicked Omaha imagines the beginnings of a remarkable real-life friendship that changed the face of frontier America. Anna Wilson, Omaha’s first and finest madam, approaches Mary Kimball, wife of a Union Pacific Railroad executive and founder of Omaha’s first charity,...
Written by: Susanna Fournier
Genre: Drama
Length: 120 min.
189 years after massive war and a widespread plague, Sarah, a former brothel owner, tries to raise four girls left orphaned by the women she once employed. When a doctor reveals the girls are plague-positive she offers to treat them for free with an experimental new drug. After the death...
Written by: Colleen Murphy
Genre: Drama
Length: 140 min.
When six young people break into a mansion to steal stuff to pay off a drug debt, they unexpectedly confront their own ambition and sense of futility. Full of dark comedy and wild abandon, I Hope My Heart Burns First dramatizes the emotional cost of economic disparity to reveal the...
Written by: Celia McBride
Genre: Drama
Length: 90 min.
In Back of All Things, after a long separation, Madeleine and her half-brother Joseph, are reunited. Once known as Moxie and High Joey, they had been active addicts together and had an affair. Joseph, now clean for a number of years through 12-step programs, returns to make amends to Madeleine,...
Written by: Olivier Sylvestre, translated by Leanna Brodie
Genre: Drama
Length: 75 min.
It’s just an ordinary building, sweetie. An apartment building like every other apartment building on the planet… with a mouth, a heart, a liver, lungs, blood vessels, and a spine. An ordinary building.” In The Paradise Arms (original French title: La Beauté du Monde), Olivier Sylvestre’s poetic and chilling debut...
Written by: Sally Stubbs
Length: 90 min.
“It’s 1924. Rose disappears from a train wreck without a trace. Twenty-five years later her suitcase arrives anonymously and mysteriously, triggering her daughter’s search for the truth and unlocking a bizarre chain of events. A haunted railway detective, gourmet gangster-chefs, a Puccini-singing ghost, and a host of Dickensian characters populate...
Written by: Patti Flather, Leonard Linklater
Genre: Drama
Length: 90 min.
“Explores issues of identity, substance abuse, racism, and spirituality through the story of a young Native man recently released from jail, and his relationships with his girlfriend and his buddies. The ghost of a loved one who has died haunts the play.” (From the CPO Website)
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...