Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Jo MacDonald
Genre: Comedy
Length: 90 min.
Neechie- Noun A friend. A bestie. Maybe a cuuzzzin. For sure, someone’s deadly auntie. 4 childhood friends. A reunion interrupted. Incarceration. But with the help of Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Vera Wang, the cops (eventually), and some nosy nosy men, justice might prevail. The bow and arrow probably helped a...
Written by: Jani Lauzon , Kaitlyn Riordan
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Historical
Length: 150 min.
At a Residential School in northern Ontario, five students are ordered to gather in a classroom. Two of them, Joseph Summers and his sister, Beth, have been at the school for seven years, but its policy of separating siblings has largely kept them apart – till now. Susan Blackbird, an...
Written by: Maggi Feehan
Genre: Drama
Length: 90 min.
In a small prairie town, two teenage girls attend the same school, separated by race, culture and popularity. Jo-Jo is Indigenous and lives with her serpent-tongued mother behind a gas station on an impoverished reserve. Carly is White and lives with her Fred Flintstone loving Dad who is a long-haul...
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: Katherine Koller
Genre: Drama
Length: 90 min.
Last Chance Leduc is set during the 1947 Leduc oil strike, where Wes and Ev struggle in the oil and water of a young marriage in peril, in winter, in a tarpaper shack in the woods, with a baby and another dry well. He wants a gusher, she wants a...
Written by: Maureen Hunter
Genre: Drama, Historical
Length: 120 min.
When gossip about her spreads like wildfire through the Red River settlement, the independent-minded Metis wife of the Chief Factor of the Hudson’s Bay Company decides to fight back. Based on actual 19th century events, Sarah Ballenden is a vivid portrait of one woman’s struggle for acceptance and respect in an age...
Written by: Sharon Pollock
Genre: Drama
Length: 60 min.
“A historical documentary of Sitting Bull’s exile in Canada after the Montana massacre at Little Big Horn. The play examines Sitting Bull’s relationship with superintendent Walsh of the North West Mounted Police and is the study of the disillusionment of a man who believes in his government’s integrity but who...
Written by: Penny Gummerson
Genre: Drama
Length: 120 min.
“In Wawatay, Frank LaFontaine and his children, BJ, Junior, and Mary, seem to have their dysfunctional lives under control until estranged younger sister Jaz shows up from Vancouver. The black sheep of the family, Jaz disrupts the family balance by challenging it. She has embraced her Native heritage and as...
Written by: Melanie J. Murray
Genre: Drama, Indigenous Theatre
Length: 105 min.
“In her teens, Melanie J. Murray’s mother confessed that she was Aboriginal. ‘Up until that time, I was told I was French,’ recalls Melanie. A survivor of the ‘Scoop’, Melanie’s mother grew to be ashamed of her heritage and kept it secret from her daughter. Slowly coming to terms with...