Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Dominick Parenteau-Lebeuf, translated by Crystal Beliveau
Genre: Quebec Theatre, Translation
“Chinese Portrait of an Imposter (Portrait chinois d’une imposteure) is a play with a prologue, eight scenes, and an epilogue, having seven characters on stage and the insistent voices of five additional characters. During her initial session with the makeup artist in preparation for her first television appearance, Candice hears...
Written by: Jovette Marchessault, translated by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood
Genre: Feminist Theatre, Historical, Quebec Theatre, Translation
“The Edge of Earth is Too Near, Violette Leduc (La Terre est trop courte, Violette Leduc) is a play in eleven Tableaux about words and creative writing. Its main character, Violette Ledic, is a writer, for whom verbal expression is a visceral necessity. She is dedicated body and soul to...
Written by: Mary Humphrey Baldridge
Genre: Mystery
Length: 95 min.
In Genesis: The Mary Shelley Play, Mary Shelley is entranced by ghost tales and, in her own imagination, devises mystery and terror that affects them all. “The Power Baldridge evoked in the scenes of tension and love between Shelley and his wife, the macabre portrait she painted of Lord Byron...
Written by: Shirley Barrie
Genre: Comedy, Musical/Opera, TYA
Length: 105 min.
“In Choices, a teenager uses her diary to help her deal with the myriad of difficult choices she faces in her attempt to survive life at home and at school.” (From the CPO Website)
Written by: Kristine Greenaway
Length: 70 min.
“In Coppet or How Not to Marry a Prince, when celebrated 18th century writer and intellectual, Germaine de Staël, arranges for a wealthy German prince to meet her close friend and renowned beauty, Juliette Récamier, the prince proposes marriage. Juliette accepts but abruptly breaks off the engagement. Meanwhile, Germaine takes...
Written by: Colleen Curran
Genre: Comedy
Length: 120 min.
“In In the Country of the Blue, world-famous novelist Sheila Holland flees to a remote Irish island hoping she can escape a scandal. She is wrong, of course. Everyone seems to find her. Her tormentors include her Aunt, her literary agent, her baseball legend husband and Irish folk.” (From the...
Written by: Ann-Marie MacDonald
Genre: Comedy, Feminist Theatre
Length: 150 min.
“Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is an exuberant comedy and feminist revisioning of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet. It takes us from a dusty office in Canada’s Queen’s University, into the fraught and furious worlds of two of Shakespeare’s best-known tragedies, and turns them upside-down. Constance Ledbelly is the beleaguered “spinster” academic, and...