Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Julianne Hoyak
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, TYA
Length: 75 min.
In a fairytale village, a group of bold and creative youth fight back against an authoritarian judge when he tries to enforce severe rules on the community. But the powerful judge will stop at nothing to get what he really wants: a good old-fashioned witch burning. Things quickly spiral out...
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: Liz Best
Genre: Comedy
Length: 80 min.
It’s been a long time coming but Elaine and David have sold the family home and are moments away from becoming empty nesters. Their three children are almost settled, Grandma Rose is moving to a retirement home and they’re about to start the next chapter of their lives. But what...
Written by: Shannon Bramer
Length: 50 min.
The Collectors is the second play in Bramer’s three-play collection Trapsongs. Hannah Parson, a young woman in her mid to late 30s, is harassed by three collection agents who force her to confront her debt and isolation as she struggles to create meaningful art in her dishevelled apartment. Each collector...
Written by: Claire Holland
Length: 60 min.
In Rattled, Lena’s having a baby shower. Her best friend Paige, childless by choice, is considering a move across the country but struggles to share the news with Lena whose newly-minted mommy status has left her preoccupied. Co-host of the party, Michelle, single and situationally infertile at forty, is doing...
Written by: Dominick Parenteau-Lebeuf, translated by Crystal Beliveau
Genre: Quebec Theatre, Translation
“Chinese Portrait of an Imposter (Portrait chinois d’une imposteure) is a play with a prologue, eight scenes, and an epilogue, having seven characters on stage and the insistent voices of five additional characters. During her initial session with the makeup artist in preparation for her first television appearance, Candice hears...
Written by: Meredith Taylor-Parry
Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama
Length: 105 min.
“With a little help from a childhood friend, Samantha tells us a dark and comedic tale about motherhood, a medium and her obsession with the worst mother of all time. When She Was Good was shortlisted for Fem Fest 2020 hosted by Sarasvati Productions and will be a part of...
Written by: Christine Rodriguez
Genre: Drama
Length: 60 min.
Experience a theatrical journey of discovery in The Autism Monologues, that interweaves stories told from the perspective of autistic people, their family members, advocates, and hinderers.
Written by: Christian Bégin, Translated by Leanna Brodie
Length: 75 min.
The death of an overbearing father; an inheritance worth more than five million dollars to be distributed “according to individual need”; and suddenly the value system of a mother and her four children is seriously put to the test. What qualifies as a “need”? Ambition, the settling of scores, or...