Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Katlia (Catherine) Lafferty
Genre: Drama
Length: 90 min.
This fictional story is loosely based on a true story about the infamous Giant Mine in the Northwest Territories. Giant Mine has been an unwelcome legacy impacting the traditional livelihood of Yellowknives Dene First Nation members in the Northwest Territories Canada. Giant mine was established in the early 1940’s and...
Written by: Katlia (Catherine) Lafferty
Genre: Drama
Length: 120 min.
Three brothers born and raised in a small northern town rob a bank in an attempt to get out of poverty. They get away but when fear and greed seems to come between them they must decide what’s more important – family or money. The oldest brother, Martin, is an...
Written by: Lynne Carol Martin
Length: 90 min.
Based on historical facts, Mary and Anna’s Adventures in Dirty, Wicked Omaha imagines the beginnings of a remarkable real-life friendship that changed the face of frontier America. Anna Wilson, Omaha’s first and finest madam, approaches Mary Kimball, wife of a Union Pacific Railroad executive and founder of Omaha’s first charity,...
Written by: Lisa Balkan
Genre: Verbatim/Research-Based
Length: 110 min.
In August 2000, Liza Balkan witnessed the beating death of a man named Otto Vass during an altercation with the police in the west end of Toronto. Called to the witness stand on several occasions over several years, Balkan kept careful track of the aftermath, then turned verbatim court transcripts,...
Written by: barb janes
Genre: Comedy
Length: 90 min.
When 12 year old Jazz discovers a shocking truth about her adoption, she flees a counselling session and gets lost in the Agency, which is both a century old and eerily timeless. She meets Louisa, a 1910s British Home Child, and Claire, a 60’s scoop adoptee – together, the three...
Written by: Donald Molnar, Alicia Payne
Genre: Drama
Length: 110 min.
Justice For Maurice Henry Carter is based on the true story of the enduring friendship between Doug Tjapkes and Maurice Carter, who spent 29 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. For over ten years, Doug helped Maurice fight for his freedom. Doug is White. Maurice is...
Written by: Renée Baillargeon
Genre: Drama
Length: 90 min.
It is 1932. American prohibition and the great depression dominate Canadian life in the Border Cities (now known as Windsor Ontario and Detroit Michigan). The men appear to have all the power – in both politics and in the workplace. But in actuality it is the women who have the...
Written by: Kathleen McCreery
Genre: Drama, Musical/Opera
Length: 120 min.
The true story of a group of Grosvenor House Hotel chambermaids in London, England, who, in 1979, took on Trust House Forte when their shop steward was unfairly suspended, and they were sacked and evicted. Divided by race, language, religion and culture, the maids found common cause in struggling for...
Written by: Rita Shelton Deverell
Genre: Black Theatre, Comedy, Drama
Length: 90 min.
Who You Callin’ Black Eh? is a coming-of-age play set in Canada’s largest, most multicultural, multilingual city, that is not about sexuality, but is about colour. Wherever Our Heroine goes, whatever she does, with whomever she relates, she is not Black Enough or White Enough to find her people. (From...