Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Julianne Hoyak
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, TYA
Length: 75 min.
In a fairytale village, a group of bold and creative youth fight back against an authoritarian judge when he tries to enforce severe rules on the community. But the powerful judge will stop at nothing to get what he really wants: a good old-fashioned witch burning. Things quickly spiral out...
Written by: S. M. Hunter
Genre: Drama
Length: 70 min.
Written in honour of Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women, 27 Voices is a haunting telling in a Greek chorus style of writing, giving voice to the ghosts of women who’s stories have been buried. A powerful, moving, disruptive, difficult piece exploring 9 characters as she/they move through different portals...
Written by: Fiona Revill
Genre: Drama
Length: 140 min.
Jacob, Joseph, Judas, Joan is an epic stage-play exploring how the trauma inherent in foundational Biblical myths has been passed down intergenerationally, resulting in fundamental schisms in the Western world: positioning Christian theology against feminism, queerness, atypicality, and mental illness. The play begins in the time of Jacob, following the legacy of the...
Written by: Camille Intson
Length: 75 min.
A melodramatic high school apocalypse play. A runaway mutt. A band of estranged friends haunted by strange apparitions. And an untimely brush with a high speed locomotive. It’s New Year’s Eve in Hamilton, Ontario, and the Year 2000 is just around the corner. Strung together by a collage of fortuitous...
Written by: Sunny Drake
Genre: Verbatim/Research-Based
Length: 75 min.
Adults speak children’s exact words about love, life and the world in this fresh verbatim work. Drawn from interviews with over 40 whip-smart and brutally honest children, a dynamite adult cast allows an adult audience to hear kids’ ideas and experiences anew. The results are surprising, hilarious and moving.
Written by: Jessica Moss
Genre: Drama
Length: 80 min.
Uh hi. Yeah. Welcome to…this play that we’re doing. Our Town. We’re gonna show you some…well, like, I’m just going to show you around our rehearsal. We go up in a month. We’re not ready. But here we are. (The cast of a high school production of Our Town rehearses).
Written by: Rose Scollard
Genre: Adaptation, Drama, Historical
Length: 120 min.
The tale of a man who gives his life for his friend to ensure the happiness of the woman they both love. A Tale of Two Cities, adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens, is set in Paris and London against the backdrop of the French Revolution. Jarvis Lorry, a...
Written by: Maja Ardal
Length: 120 min.
In this poignant meditation on the uneasiness between science and the human spirit a group of women aged nineteen to 63 with HER2-related breast cancer are recruited for a clinical drug trial. For some of them the trial is renewed hope, others feel it’s a weary last resort. For Dr...
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: Paddy Gillard-Bentley
Genre: Comedy
Length: 90 min.
Celia and Edna in a waiting room in Heaven…waiting for their husbands to – well, die. Unknown to them, they married the same man…and he’s remarried to the 58 year old tart, Skeeter – who is close on the heels to arrive in Heaven. So – who gets Manny for...