Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Michele Decottignies
Genre: Biography, Documentary, Verbatim/Research-Based
Length: 60 min.
The play’s subject matter is based on a real-life Canadian crime: the 1993 premeditated killing of 13-year-old Tracy Latimer by her father, who claimed he had no choice but to kill her because she was in “constant, excruciating pain” due to cerebral palsy. Robert Latimer employed this “necessity” defense in...
Written by: J. Ivanel Johnson, Cameron Slipp (arranger & additional music composer)
Genre: Musical/Opera
Length: 120 min.
1939 Canadian ‘Rurals’ meet Canadian ‘Royals’ (real life Governor General and world-famous author John Buchan and his family and staff* from Ottawa). It’s the eve of our nation entering WWII. In a little rural village, a crowd gathers at the train station to “Greet The Great” as they arrive with...
Written by: Sandra Dempsey
Genre: Drama
Length: 90 min.
Boyhood pals embark on the adventure of a lifetime by enlisting in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942. Jimmy and Gus join up and train in Canada before deploying to Bomber Command in England. They meet up with the rest of their seven-man Halifax bomber crew, and after many...
Written by: Genevieve Adam
Genre: Drama, Musical/Opera
Length: 45 min.
Told within the framework of Canada’s proud but often troubled maritime history, “The Boat Show” encounters sirens, icebergs, Vikings, slave ships, gender fluidity, and forbidden love, while sailing the waters of Toronto’s Harbour during the War of 1812.
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: Anne Hébert, Translation by Pamela Grant and Gary Reid
Genre: Drama, Quebec Theatre, Translation
“[A Savage Season] is a good example of the often-bleak subject matter which concerned [playwright, Anne Hébert]: a mother desperately tries to keep her family in an isolated mountainous retreat to protect it from the outside world and to keep the grown children in a childlike state — “savage and pure.”...
Written by: Jovette Marchessault, Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Genre: Historical, Quebec Theatre, Translation
In The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr, Emily Carr lived in a magical place that she had christened The House of All Sorts. In this House which is open to all that is vital on Earth, Emily Carr, with all her greatness and her imperfections, receives visitors from her planet:...
Written by: Sarena Parmar
Genre: Adaptation, Drama
Length: 120 min.
Sarena Parmar’s The Orchard (After Chekhov) is an adaptation of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard, told through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh family in the Okanagan Valley. With The Okanagan Valley, Canada, 1967. A Punjabi-Sikh family in a rural farming community. Still grieving the loss of her youngest son, the matriarch...
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: Alexis Diamond
Genre: Drama, Historical
Length: 75 min.
Set in Montreal’s Jewish neighbourhood on the Main (Saint Lawrence Blvd.) in 1942, during the Conscription crisis, Strange Land is about how the three women of a struggling Jewish immigrant family attempt to forge a place in the New World after the death of the pater familias, each in her own way,...