Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Morrigan McCluskey
Genre: Comedy, Horror/Thriller, Romance
Length: 100 min.
In 1816, a young noblewoman named Christabel goes out at midnight, into the woods near her father’s castle. There, she meets Geraldine, a mysterious stranger who claims to have narrowly escaped kidnapping. After spending the night with the stranger and learning that she is a vampire, Christabel falls in love...
Written by: Catherine Dunn
Genre: Drama
Length: 60 min.
A young woman testifies about her rape by a former group home friend. She receives little support from her lawyer, an ambitious court prosecutor. When the lawyer herself becomes the victim of workplace sexual harassment, she exposes how court protocol institutionalize sexual assault myths.
Written by: Kathleen McCreery
Genre: Drama
Length: 90 min.
The play follows a woman taxi driver in Soweto, South Africa, during the course of a single day as she and her passengers juggle jobs and family responsibilities, struggle to cope with unemployment and rising prices, and confront the prejudices that lead to discrimination against women, and attacks against lesbians...
Written by: Sara Graefe
Genre: Adaptation, Drama, Historical
Length: 90 min.
“Dreamspyre is a choral, image-based response to the 1989 massacre at l’Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal. Mary, a passionate young mathematician, struggles with sexism and hostility in a university engineering department. She is haunted both by events in Montreal and by Hypatia, the female philosopher and mathematician who in 415 AD was...
Written by: Lorena Lillian Gale
Genre: Drama, Historical
Length: 120 min.
“In the character of Angélique, Gale gives us a woman brave enough to try and shatter her bonds. A rich, poetic evocation of a graceful yet cruel time—a time when “civilized” people still bought and sold slaves.” (From the CPO Website)