Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Julianne Hoyak
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, TYA
Length: 75 min.
In a fairytale village, a group of bold and creative youth fight back against an authoritarian judge when he tries to enforce severe rules on the community. But the powerful judge will stop at nothing to get what he really wants: a good old-fashioned witch burning. Things quickly spiral out...
Written by: Margot Greve
Genre: Dark Comedy
Length: 75 min.
LIT is a 90 minute, coming of age comedy that follows a group of teenage Firefly Scouts as they journey into the forest for a 3 day leadership retreat. The group of tight-knit girls (and one outlier) begin to reveal their true selves as time wears on: old fights are...
Written by: Colleen Murphy
Genre: Drama
Length: 140 min.
When six young people break into a mansion to steal stuff to pay off a drug debt, they unexpectedly confront their own ambition and sense of futility. Full of dark comedy and wild abandon, I Hope My Heart Burns First dramatizes the emotional cost of economic disparity to reveal the...
Written by: Talia Pura
Genre: Comedy
Length: 30 min.
King Pen is the coming-of-age story of a crèche of King Penguins. Left on their own for most of their first winter, they come to terms with their surroundings, their changing bodies, and each other. Their concerns and desires are not so very different from young people the world over,...
Written by: Translated by Chantal Bilodeau (written by Koffi Kwahul)
Genre: Drama, Translation
Length: 65 min.
“Bintou is thirteen. The daughter of African immigrants, she doesn’t go to school, doesn’t listen to her elders, and doesn’t wear panties. Instead, she roams the streets of the ghetto where she grew up, leading her gang of Wild Dogs and aggressively asserting her sexuality. In despair, her uncle devises...
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: Shirley Barrie
Length: 45 min.
“Marion instructs her younger sister in the fine art of growing up as an undertaker’s daughter.” (From the CPO Website)
Written by: Radha S. Menon
Genre: Drama
Length: 100 min.
Learning To Swim is a full-length play about two young women who meet by chance in a city park- a site occupied by social and political activists. Runaway teenager Rani, Western born but raised by a traditionally strict Indian family, awaits the arrival of her boyfriend at their designated meeting...
Written by: Miriam Laurence
Genre: Adaptation, Drama, TYA
Length: 70 min.
“1440’s, France: towards the end of the 100 Years War. England and France are at war. A young girl form the peasant class claims that her ‘Angels’ have told her to save France. Combining drama, humour, and many dramatic techniques, The Lark: The Story of Joan of Arc retells the...
Written by: Margaret Hollingsworth
Length: 70 min.
“Set in the 1920’s and 30’s, the play revolves around Alma Victoria and her 18-year-old lover, who are accused of murdering Alma’s husband, the architect Francis Rattenbury.” (From CPO Website)