Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Susanna Fournier
Genre: Drama
Length: 65 min.
antigone lives* is an unfaithful re-telling of Sophocles’ original. It’s more like a rave than a play and combines techno, despair, and family politics in a 200 bpm exploration of the carcass of democracy and notions of revolution. There’s also a goat and a pack of jackals attempting to navigate...
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: Sunny Drake
Length: 110 min.
When a suburban boomer couple return home to find their queer millennial daughter, Annabel, hosting a swingers’ party to make cash, they’re forced to question the state of their marriage. Annabel, in turn, must ponder her own future when she adds a new relationship to her chosen family of polyamorous...
Written by: Heidi Stock
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical/Opera
Length: 80 min.
IN COMMON – we all have something in common – a musical about family dysfunction and finding common ground. A wife struggles for control as her marriage falls apart, her teenage daughter fights for independence, her mother’s health declines, until a secret is revealed and a shared grief helps them...
Written by: Kate Jaimet
Genre: Comedy
Length: 90 min.
Stuck in an unpaid internship at a tumble-down community tennis club, 22-year-old Chandra must prove her mettle by raising enough money to fix the roof before the City inspector shuts the club down. But when her boyfriend Vin unwittingly causes a rift between a Baby-Boomer donor and her philandering husband,...
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: Catherine Frid, Book & Lyrics, Music by Frank Horvat
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical/Opera
Length: 100 min.
In this reverse coming-of-age musical comedy-drama about four seniors who plot to regain control of their finances and escape the Alpine Retirement Home. A newcomer at the Home upsets the status quo, unleashing repressed desires and igniting conflict between staff and residents and their adult children. These struggles, and their...
Written by: Marie-Christine Lê-Huu, translated by Crystal Beliveau
Genre: Drama, Quebec Theatre, Translation
“Jouliks is a darkly tender drama exploring the vast, bumpy, and treacherous terrain of love. The brilliant lights it projects on this terrain are harsh and terrible, yet, at the same time, they often stir gentle smiles of complicity, as they are refracted through the eyes and voice of a seven-year-old...
Written by: Diana Tso
Genre: Asian Canadian Theatre, Drama
Length: 45 min.
Based on the real-life experiences of the Toronto Chinese community, Spring Moon tells the story of a resilient immigrant peoples through the eyes of three Chinese grandmothers who survived hardships and crossed oceans to give their granddaughters a better life. They are brought together during Ching Ming “Brightness” festival when...
Written by: Leanna Brodie
Genre: Drama
Length: 120 min.
“In The Vic, a young woman has disappeared at the edge of the city. Four women are drawn into the race to find her. As we watch them grid-search the fields for traces of her passing, we move through the shattering events of their recent lives that have left them as...