Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Shanice Pereira
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Length: 80 min.
The Coven is an intergenerational surrealist play set across time periods, from 1800s Guyana to modern-day Canada. The play follows Renette, the first free woman in her family after generations of slavery, as she seeks vengeance against her former master for his acts of violence against her. She asks for...
Written by: Taylor Marie Graham
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical/Opera
Length: 90 min.
Inspired by the true events of the devastating 2011 Goderich tornado, Cottage Radio investigates our ties to home and asks: who are we when a part of us is caught in a storm? The fictional Marley clan crams together in a small family cottage on the outskirts of town. Over...
Written by: Susanna Fournier
Genre: Drama
Length: 65 min.
antigone lives* is an unfaithful re-telling of Sophocles’ original. It’s more like a rave than a play and combines techno, despair, and family politics in a 200 bpm exploration of the carcass of democracy and notions of revolution. There’s also a goat and a pack of jackals attempting to navigate...
Written by: S. M. Hunter
Genre: Drama
Length: 70 min.
Written in honour of Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous women, 27 Voices is a haunting telling in a Greek chorus style of writing, giving voice to the ghosts of women who’s stories have been buried. A powerful, moving, disruptive, difficult piece exploring 9 characters as she/they move through different portals...
Written by: Sophie Jacome
Genre: Drama, Historical
Years after the massacre of the Donnelly family at the hands of their community, Johnny O’Connor —the only witness— is still grappling with the reality of what he saw, and what it means to live in a world in which that could happen. Cyclically circular, and unending – Johnny relives...
Written by: Fiona Revill
Genre: Drama
Length: 140 min.
Jacob, Joseph, Judas, Joan is an epic stage-play exploring how the trauma inherent in foundational Biblical myths has been passed down intergenerationally, resulting in fundamental schisms in the Western world: positioning Christian theology against feminism, queerness, atypicality, and mental illness. The play begins in the time of Jacob, following the legacy of the...
Written by: Ali Joy Richardson
Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama
Length: 75 min.
2007. Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. A high school band class. A new teacher from Toronto wants to be an inspiration to his jaded students but is afraid to come out to them. A boy bullies a girl in insidious ways until she takes matters into her own hands. An act of...
Written by: Heidi Stock
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical/Opera
Length: 80 min.
IN COMMON – we all have something in common – a musical about family dysfunction and finding common ground. A wife struggles for control as her marriage falls apart, her teenage daughter fights for independence, her mother’s health declines, until a secret is revealed and a shared grief helps them...
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....