Find large cast plays by Canadian women, two-spirit, trans, and non-binary creators.
Written by: Sashoya Simpson
Genre: Adventure, Black Theatre, Fantasy, TYA
Length: 75 min.
Traversing present day and fantasy, Lulu takes us on a grand adventure into the mystical folk realm in search of the Birth Tree Fruit to save her ailing grandmother.
Written by: Rita Shelton Deverell
Genre: Black Theatre, Comedy, Drama
Length: 90 min.
Who You Callin’ Black Eh? is a coming-of-age play set in Canada’s largest, most multicultural, multilingual city, that is not about sexuality, but is about colour. Wherever Our Heroine goes, whatever she does, with whomever she relates, she is not Black Enough or White Enough to find her people. (From...
Written by: Trey Anthony
Genre: Black Theatre, Comedy, Dance/Movement/Clown, Drama
“Set in a West Indian hair salon in Toronto, Da Kink in My Hair gives voice to a group of women who tell us their unforgettable, moving, and often hilarious stories. Mixing laughter and tears and told in words, music, and dance, the stories explore the hardship, struggles, and joys...
Written by: Lisa Codrington
Genre: Black Theatre, Comedy, Drama, Historical
Length: 120 min.
“In Up the Garden Path, a young Barbadian seamstress is coerced into posing as her half-brother to go to the Niagara region in Ontario and work on a vineyard. There, she meets an aspiring actress obsessed with Joan of Arc, the ghost of a Black Loyalist soldier who wants to...
Written by: d'bi.young anitafrika
Genre: Black Theatre
“An Afro-futurist dub-opera set in Ontario, Bleeders is the culminating play in d’bi.young anitafrika’s new triptych, The Orisha Trilogy. The story takes place way into the future: the Pickering Nuclear Plant has exploded, and a group of Black women form a small council. How, in the midst of government oppression,...
Written by: Andrea Scott
Genre: Black Theatre, Drama, Historical, TYA
Length: 60 min.
“Controlled Damage explores the life of Canadian civil rights icon Viola Desmond and how her act of bravery in a Nova Scotia movie theatre in 1946 started a ripple effect that is still felt today. An ordinary woman forced to be extraordinary by an unyielding and racist world, Desmond never...