Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Tracey Power
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Historical, Musical/Opera
Length: 120 min.
“It’s the 1600s and women are banned from the stage, but the suppressed female mind is finding it difficult to stay… well, suppressed. Behind the dingy walls of The Cage Tavern, six women explore the seductive power of the theatre. With a musical score influenced by underground European cabaret, the...
Written by: Linda Griffiths
Genre: Comedy, Feminist Theatre, Historical
Length: 90 min.
“It’s a time of passion and confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. People are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire. It’s 1885, and the typewriter and the suffrage movement are sending things topsy-turvy. In the midst of it all, five ambitious New Women and one Newish Man struggle...
Written by: Beverley Cooper
Genre: Adaptation, Drama, Historical
Length: 120 min.
“Based on the hugely popular 1859 novel by Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White opens on a lonely moonlit road near London, where a young drawing master meets a mysterious woman dressed all in white. The woman has escaped from an asylum for the insane. Thus the story begins, propelling...
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...