Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Peihwen J. Tai
Genre: Drama
Length: 130 min.
Moth Boy is a magical realist story about emotional negligence in an Asian-Canadian household. The protagonist is a teenager from Vancouver named Ikari Zao, who falls into a catatonic depression and subsequently metamorphoses into a moth after tragedy befell his friend Greta. Ikari’s mother is a lawyer that has an...
Written by: Emma Donoghue
Genre: Musical/Opera
Length: 145 min.
A folk musical based on the 1840s letters of Henry and Jane Johnson (immigrants from Antrim to Ontario) and filled with traditional songs of Ireland and Britain.
Written by: Sanita Fejzic
Length: 100 min.
In their suburban Canadian home, Sue and Emir’s marriage is a battlefield of bitterness and constant bickering. Their past as Muslims living in Sarajevo haunts them, with flourishing careers lost to war and genocide. But, proud of their life in Canada, they choose to leave these painful memories behind them....
Written by: Kate Jaimet
Length: 10 min.
Paranoid citizens meet jaded bureaucrats in an era of international insecurity. Welcome to another day at the Office of Threats to Western Civilization.
Written by: Kathleen McCreery
Genre: Drama, Musical/Opera
Length: 120 min.
The true story of a group of Grosvenor House Hotel chambermaids in London, England, who, in 1979, took on Trust House Forte when their shop steward was unfairly suspended, and they were sacked and evicted. Divided by race, language, religion and culture, the maids found common cause in struggling for...
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: Sangeeta Wylie
Genre: Asian Canadian Theatre, Drama
Length: 102 min.
1979: Inspired by a true story, a mother and six young children are separated from their father as they flee post-war Communist Vietnam by boat. They endure pirate attacks, typhoons, shipwreck, starvation and more. Thirty-plus years later, the mother shares her story and secrets with her daughter for the first time....
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: Leanna Brodie, Anthony Young (Composer)
Genre: Musical/Opera, TYA
Length: 60 min.
In Ulla’s Odyssey, fourteen-year-old Ulla is attempting to become the youngest person to sail the world single-handedly, navigating the high seas in her trusty ship ‘The Homer’ with only her cat Binnacle for company. All is not plain sailing, as our heroine encounters mythical creatures and obstacles on her journey,...
Written by: Polly Phokeev
Genre: Drama, Historical
Length: 80 min.
An old Russian woman’s confrontations with her youth as a seamstress in Soviet Moscow weave through the lives of costume-makers working in a theatre during the fall of 1939. A series of love and hate stories emerge from the dust as we witness the unfolding pieces of a past she...