Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Joan MacLeod
Genre: Drama
Length: 120 min.
Between 1860 and 1930 an officially sanctioned child migration from Britain to Canada took place. During that time over 80,000 children, unaccompanied by their parents or siblings and often separated from them forever, were placed at Canadian factories and farms where, more often than not, they were exploited as indentured...
Written by: Jennifer Fawcett
Genre: Drama
Length: 120 min.
England, 1606: the witch craze has come to London. Superstition, science, religion and politics all meet in the birthing room where accusations of witchcraft overturn hundreds of years of tradition as the new male doctors fight to replace the old female midwives. Birth Witches explores the ongoing battle over the...
Written by: Christine Foster
Genre: Adventure, Myth/Legend/Folktale, TYA
Length: 75 min.
“Vasilissa, a young noblewoman, boldly dresses as a knight to rescue her husband, Stavr, and is then tricked into keeping up the disguise on a quest to find the legendary Firebird. The Immortal Sorcerer Kostchi is also hunting the Firebird, forcing them to struggle against Fate and Sorrow and risk...
Written by: Ann-Marie MacDonald
Genre: Dark Comedy
Length: 150 min.
“In Belle Moral: A Natural History, we are steeped in a world on the cusp between magic and art, and science and madness. Set in 1899 just outside Edinburgh, the play unfolds in the venerable estate known as Belle Moral, home to Pearl MacIsaac, an avid amateur palaeontologist and proud...