Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
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: Janet Munsil
Genre: Drama
Length: 75 min.
Be Still is a fictional play inspired by the multiple-exposure work of Canadian surrealist portrait photographer Hannah Maynard. Consumed by grief at the loss of her daughter, Hannah submerges herself in morbid photographic work and the clockwork routines of daily life with her husband. Intrigued by a friend’s Spiritualist leanings, Hannah...
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: Jovette Marchessault, Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Genre: Historical, Quebec Theatre, Translation
In The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr, Emily Carr lived in a magical place that she had christened The House of All Sorts. In this House which is open to all that is vital on Earth, Emily Carr, with all her greatness and her imperfections, receives visitors from her planet:...
Written by: Melissa Major
Genre: Dance/Movement/Clown, Drama
Length: 75 min.
Sapphire Butterfly Blue is a poetic and surreal examination of the Salem Witch Trials. Bridget Bishop was the first woman to be tried and hanged as a witch in Salem Village, Massachusetts, 1692. During this time, a very strong belief in the devil was present. When the daughter and niece (Betty...
Written by: Olivier Sylvestre, translated by Leanna Brodie
Genre: Drama
Length: 75 min.
It’s just an ordinary building, sweetie. An apartment building like every other apartment building on the planet… with a mouth, a heart, a liver, lungs, blood vessels, and a spine. An ordinary building.” In The Paradise Arms (original French title: La Beauté du Monde), Olivier Sylvestre’s poetic and chilling debut...
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?...
Written by: Melissa Major
Genre: Drama
Length: 45 min.
“In a freak occurrence, Davey, the sweetest boy, says something terrible. His worried parents send him for counselling with a leading psychoanalyst. The psychoanalyst, on the verge of a major breakthrough, uses him in his experiments. Davey’s Id takes over and tries to murder his Ego and Super-Ego. His mother...
Written by: Marie Clements
Genre: Drama, Indigenous Theatre
Length: 100 min.
Burning Vision unmasks both the great lies of the imperialist power-elite and the seemingly small rationalizations and accommodations people of all cultures construct to make their personal circumstances yield the greatest benefit to themselves for the least amount of effort or change on their part.
Written by: Marie Clements
Genre: Drama, Indigenous Theatre, Mystery
“The Unnatural and Accidental Women is a surrealist dramatization of a thirty-year murder case involving many mysterious deaths in the ‘Skid Row’ area of Vancouver. All the victims were found dead with a blood-alcohol reading far beyond safe levels, and all were last seen in the company of Gilbert Paul...