Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
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: Marie Clements
Genre: Drama, Indigenous Theatre
Length: 100 min.
Burning Vision unmasks both the great lies of the imperialist power-elite and the seemingly small rationalizations and accommodations people of all cultures construct to make their personal circumstances yield the greatest benefit to themselves for the least amount of effort or change on their part.
Written by: Katherine Koller
Genre: Drama, Historical
Length: 90 min.
Coal Valley: The Making of a Miner is the story of Chip, a boy who lost his father in the 1914 Hillcrest mining disaster, but who wants more than anything to be an underground coal miner. Against his mother’s wishes, he gets hired on at the new mines in their new...
Written by: Chantal Bilodeau
Genre: Drama
Length: 105 min.
“The first play of The Arctic Cycle, Sila examines the competing interests shaping the future of the Canadian Arctic and local Inuit population. Set on Baffin Island in the territory of Nunavut, it follows a climate scientist, an Inuit activist and her daughter, two Canadian Coast Guard officers, an Inuit...
Written by: Catherine Banks
Genre: Drama
Length: 90 min.
“Bone Cage is a poetic and darkly humorous portrayal of life in rural Nova Scotia, where stripping the environment means stripping your soul. Jamie is twenty-two years old and works twelve-hour shifts operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction...
Written by: Annabel Soutar
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Verbatim/Research-Based
Length: 150 min.
“How much do we value clean water? Enough to stop our industrialized way of life from degrading it? The documentary play The Watershed follows an artist and her family in the struggle to chart a sustainable course between economic prosperity and environmental stewardship. Largely constructed from original interviews conducted by...