Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Kate Cayley
Genre: Drama, Historical
Length: 90 min.
After Akhmatova is a play based on the life of dissident Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, and her relationship to her only son, Lev Gumilyov. The piece focuses on Akhmatova’s writing of her greatest work, the long poem Requiem, which was inspired by her son’s exile and long imprisonment as a...
Written by: Polly Phokeev
Genre: Drama, Historical
Length: 80 min.
An old Russian woman’s confrontations with her youth as a seamstress in Soviet Moscow weave through the lives of costume-makers working in a theatre during the fall of 1939. A series of love and hate stories emerge from the dust as we witness the unfolding pieces of a past she...
Written by: Miriam Laurence
Genre: Adaptation, Comedy, Satire
Length: 70 min.
“Adapting Nikolai Erdman–Stalinist Russia, 1930’s. Through a series of misunderstandings, Semyon Podsekalnikov’s threat to kill himself is taken to heart by a collection of desperately ridiculous, self-important characters. They flock to his crowded rooming house to convince him to kill himself for their cause. Total mayhem ensues. What makes To...
Written by: Melissa Major
Genre: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Historical, Tragedy
Length: 115 min.
In 1927, as the Red Fist tightens its grip in Soviet Russia, OBERIU, the last group of avant-garde artists is planning its bold, absurdist farewell. But with the world becoming even stranger than their own surreal visions, and their audience literally disappearing around them, is it still worth the risk?...