Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Lisa Coleman-Brown
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Historical
Length: 120 min.
It is exciting 1920, the year of Prohibition and Women’s Right to Vote. Set during the creation of the first commercial radio station KDKA in Pittsburgh, historical figures Dr. Frank Conrad, radio pioneer, and Harry P. Davis, Westinghouse Vice-President, join forces for the premiere broadcasts of the election of President...
Written by: Chantal Bilodeau
Genre: Drama
Length: 100 min.
Forward presents a poetic and humorous history of Norway, from the initial passion that drove explorer Fridtjof Nansen to the North Pole to our present-day anxiety over the rapidly changing climate. Woven through this history is the passionate love affair between Nansen and the character Ice. A blend of theatre,...
Written by: Marian Buechert
Genre: One-Act
Length: 30 min.
A comedy about five senior women who find themselves in a holding cell after being arrested at a protest. They share the cell with a cynical stranger whose assertions force them to re-examine their moral assumptions.
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: Kate Jaimet
Length: 10 min.
Paranoid citizens meet jaded bureaucrats in an era of international insecurity. Welcome to another day at the Office of Threats to Western Civilization.
Written by: Kathleen McCreery
Genre: Adaptation, Comedy
Length: 120 min.
‘The theatre was the people’s spoken, dramatised newspaper.’ – Dario Fo in ‘Mistero Buffo’. Travelling players in 1935 fascist Italy present their controversial version of Shakespeare’s play. Fast moving and very physical, this radical rewrite makes use of commedia, farce, puppets, and includes a dream sequence in which Bianca portrays...
Written by: Susanna Fournier
Genre: Drama
Length: 120 min.
189 years after massive war and a widespread plague, Sarah, a former brothel owner, tries to raise four girls left orphaned by the women she once employed. When a doctor reveals the girls are plague-positive she offers to treat them for free with an experimental new drug. After the death...
Written by: Joy Ross-Jones, Cristina Cugliandro
Genre: Drama
Length: 60 min.
Elsewhere is the story of one family – their hope, resilience, resistance and survival- amidst the chaos and absurdity of the Venezuelan crisis. All seek a way to move forward, grasping at remnants of a life they once knew; a life irrevocably changed by scarcity, greed, and corruption. The play...
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: Brishkay Ahmed, with Ash Crescent
Genre: Drama
Length: 60 min.
In the midst of a war, a multigenerational group of women take refuge inside a burqa boutique that’s free from political allegiances.’ Somewhere in the region of the Middle East/Central Asia – sometime in our recent past – a civil war erupts in a country held together by opposing ideologies....