Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Evelyne de la Chenelière, translated by Morwyn Brebner
Genre: Quebec Theatre, Translation
“The character who serves as the focal point in Public Disorder is a young, unemployed actor, who does not understand why he no longer has work, is never invited to auditions, and does not even have the opportunity of doing commercials. He is using public transportation in a large city, that...
Written by: Lise Vaillancourt, translated by Jill MacDougall
Genre: Comedy, Quebec Theatre, Tragedy, Translation
“Marie-Antoine, Opus One is a play in two acts with eleven characters and choruses of mice and schoolgirls… [T]he play is a “neo-baroque tragi-comedy” and “a great opera of words”… a celebration of creativity of all kinds, a celebration of life as a work of art–when vision and dreams triumph... Written by: Françoise Loranger, translated by Louise H. Forsyth
Genre: Quebec Theatre, Translation
“Playing Double (Double jeu) is a two-act play with fourteen characters: a night-school teacher and thirteen students… It is an experimental, multi-media play making extensive use of screen images, original music, and multiple stage areas. Created as a play within a play, it presents a group of adult night school...
Written by: Lisa Coleman-Brown
Length: 40 min.
The Sandy Triptych is the one act, three scene, dramedy adaptation of three unpublished autobiographical short stories by the late, well respected, Toronto disabilities activist Sandra Carpenter. In Scene 1, “Hope”, Sandy is living in Bloorview’s Home for “Crippled” Children and is with her disabled friends on a field trip to...
Written by: Rose Scollard
Genre: Tragedy
Length: 90 min.
Young Mary Shelly attempts, with the aid of half-sister Fanny and stepsister Claire, to conjure up her dead mother, Mary Wollstonecraft. Instead she calls up an enigmatic and misshapen Creature who shifts from role to role as she faces the monstrous elements in her life: the cruelty of lovers, the...
Written by: Aviva Ravel
Genre: Drama
Length: 60 min.
“Arnold, a university professor, defies the establishment and marries two women, each of whom possess unique qualities. The menage a trois is a happy household until society protests.” (From the CPO Website)