Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Shanice Pereira
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Length: 80 min.
The Coven is an intergenerational surrealist play set across time periods, from 1800s Guyana to modern-day Canada. The play follows Renette, the first free woman in her family after generations of slavery, as she seeks vengeance against her former master for his acts of violence against her. She asks for...
Written by: Genevieve Adam
Genre: Comedy, Historical
Length: 65 min.
What happens when a prim and proper Regency lady diarist…meets Canada’s answer to Davy Crockett? In 1792, John Simcoe, first Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, sails from Kingston to Niagara when a violent storm forces him to shelter in Wellington, the home of Daniel Reynolds. The storm passes, and Lord...
Written by: Sophie Jacome
Genre: Drama, Historical
Years after the massacre of the Donnelly family at the hands of their community, Johnny O’Connor —the only witness— is still grappling with the reality of what he saw, and what it means to live in a world in which that could happen. Cyclically circular, and unending – Johnny relives...
Written by: barb janes
Genre: Comedy
Length: 90 min.
When 12 year old Jazz discovers a shocking truth about her adoption, she flees a counselling session and gets lost in the Agency, which is both a century old and eerily timeless. She meets Louisa, a 1910s British Home Child, and Claire, a 60’s scoop adoptee – together, the three...
Written by: Mairy Beam
Genre: Documentary
Length: 60 min.
Who is causing the irreparable harm? This is the question on everyone’s mind. Is it the acts of resistance on the ground, or the Trans Mountain Pipeline itself? And who decides? The BC Supreme Court may want the job, but is it unbiased? Will a judge truly listen to the...
Written by: Colleen Murphy, with Siobhan Arnatsiaq-Murphy, translated into Nattilingimutut by Janet Tamalik-McGrath
Genre: Drama
Length: 145 min.
The Breathing Hole is a series of stories set in the Canadian Arctic, that intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear named Angu’řuaq.
Written by: Yvette Nolan
Genre: Adaptation, Comedy, Indigenous Theatre
Length: 75 min.
In this updated version of Aristophanes’ classic comedy The Birds, two men flee the modern world, arriving in the fabled land of the birds seeking freedom and a better way of life. But the men are unable to resist remaking this utopian paradise in their own image, without regard for...
Written by: Genevieve Adam
Genre: Drama, Historical, Horror/Thriller
Length: 70 min.
New France, 1661. In Dark Heart, a young French bride disappears into the forest. Has she run off to be with her lover, or is there something more sinister in the woods? While rumours of a supernatural creature spread through the settlement, everyone seems to be hunting for the missing...
Written by: Emma Donoghue
Genre: Drama, Historical
Length: 120 min.
Set over three days in 1661, Trespasses is inspired by the judge’s own account of one of the tiny handful of witch trials that ever took place in Ireland. It asks why a servant girl who fell into fits would have put the blame on an old beggarwoman – but...
Written by: Marcia Johnson
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Historical
Length: 90 min.
Serving Elizabeth is inspired by an episode of the first season of the Netflix series The Crown. This beautiful depiction of the life of the current queen of England was, at the time, the most expensive series that Netflix had ever produced. Marcia Johnson was impressed that the production traveled...