Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Gail Nyoka
Genre: Drama
Length: 80 min.
Where are the lines between dream, imagination, the unconscious, and everyday reality? In The Waters, four women, a doctor and a nurse come to a remote lakeside retreat, and find that the lines cross and blur. The women have been invited to take part in a pilot project – 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: Constance Lindsay Skinner, adapted by Joan Bryans
Genre: Adaptation, Drama, Historical
Length: 120 min.
“In Birthright, Precious is unaware that she was sent away for schooling to avoid the shame and discrimination which would occur should the secret get out that she is part Native. The son of the local chief, himself a product of a mixed marriage, is in love with her but...
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...