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  • Head by Patterson, Debbie
    Debbie Patterson

    Head

    The historical accounts from King Henry VIII and Queen Anne's time are steeped in controvery, contradiction, and irony. Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was put to death on trumped up charges of adultery and incest. In fact, her husband, frustrated...
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  • Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth by Taylor, Drew Hayden
    Drew Hayden Taylor

    Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth

    Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth is the emotional story of a woman's struggle to acknowledge her birth family. Grace, a Native girl adopted by a White family, is asked by her birth sister to return to the Reserve for their mother's funeral....
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  • For Both Resting and Breeding by Meisner, Adam
    Adam Meisner

    For Both Resting and Breeding

    It is 2150 in M-City, a society without gender where everyone uses the pronoun ish. When two historians discover an abandoned millennium-era house, they hatch a plan to turn the building into a museum that re-enacts life in the year 2000. The historians gather...
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  • My Sister's Keeper by Allan, Ted
    Ted Allan

    My Sister's Keeper

    In a tight, dramatic, two-character, two-act play Ted Allan, one of Canada's best-known playwrights, challenges us to think again about love and guilt, about madness and normalcy. My Sister's Keeper was first produced at the 1976 Lennoxville Festival in Quebec. (an earlier version, entitled...
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  • Okinum by Monnet, ﾉmilie
    ﾉmilie Monnet

    Okinum

    In Anishnaabemowin, Okinum means dam. In deciphering a recurring dream about beavers, Émilie Monnet discovers how to break down interior barriers, to trust in the power of intuition, and to deconstruct cultural walls. A circular and immersive experience that interweaves three languages — English,...
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  • Antigone in Spring by Boisvert, Nathalie
    Nathalie Boisvert

    Antigone in Spring

    Inspired by the classic play by Sophocles, Antigone in Spring takes us to a fictional Québec where dead birds fall from the sky, covering highways, rooftops, and parks. The citizens demand an explanation, but the answer never comes; the government, led by the autocratic...
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  • Death And The Fool: A Drama In One Act (1914) by Hofmannsthal, Hugo Von
    Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

    Death And The Fool: A Drama In One Act (1914)

    Death and the Fool is a one-act drama written by Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and published in 1914. The play revolves around a conversation between Death and a Fool, who has just been sentenced to death. The Fool is initially resistant to Death's presence, but...
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  • The Acadian Proscript: A Historical Drama in Five Acts by Kerr, Walter S.
    Walter S. Kerr

    The Acadian Proscript: A Historical Drama in Five Acts

    A gripping historical drama set against the backdrop of the brutal expulsion of the Acadian people from their homes in Nova Scotia during the French and Indian War. Author Walter S. Kerr uses vivid language and memorable characters to bring this tragic chapter of...
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  • Claptrap: A Comedy in Two Acts by Wood, Tom
    Tom Wood

    Claptrap: A Comedy in Two Acts

    Claptrap is a grand satire of the colonial mentality that governs the theatre festivals of Canada.Author: Tom WoodISBN-10: 0889242798ISBN-13: 9780889242791Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1998Pages: 122Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.33w x 0.31d
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  • Blackout: The Concordia Computer Riots by Brown, Tamara
    Tamara Brown

    Blackout: The Concordia Computer Riots

    In February 1969, hundreds of students occupied a computer centre at what is now Montr饌l's Concordia University to protest the mismanagement of a racism complaint lodged by Caribbean students against their biology professor. When an agreement to end the occupation fell through, riot police...
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  • Other Side of the Game by Parris, Amanda
    Amanda Parris

    Other Side of the Game

    In the 1970s, Beverly walks into an office of Black activists, wanting to join the Movement, and has to prove she's angry enough to fight. Some forty years later, in the Hip Hop Generation, Nicole reunites with her ex-boyfriend on a basketball court, wondering...
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  • The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, Vol 1 by Lynde, Denyse
    Denyse Lynde

    The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, Vol 1

    THIS COLLECTION OF plays from Newfoundland playwrights, both established and emerging, is the first in a series of three anthologies. The collection proposes to include the following selection of popular plays from around the province: Robert Chafe's "Isle of Demons," recounting an affair and...
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  • Canadian Mosaic: 6 Plays by Ravel, Aviva
    Aviva Ravel

    Canadian Mosaic: 6 Plays

    The six plays in this anthology reflect the wide spectrum of ethnic communities in Canada.Author: Aviva RavelISBN-10: 088924264XISBN-13: 9780889242647Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1996Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
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  • The Weight of Ants by Paquet, David
    David Paquet

    The Weight of Ants

    In this absurd and apocalyptic young-adult comedy filled with dazzling wit and wild imagination, two teenaged outsiders at "one of the worst schools in the country" seem to be the only ones who understand or care that the whole world is a mess. Joan...
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  • The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time by Borden CM Ons, Walter
    Walter Borden CM Ons

    The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time

    A new and fully revised edition of the popular, long-running autobiographical play from celebrated playwright and actor Walter Borden, exploring his experiences as a Black gay man facing racism, poverty, and homophobia. Welcome to The Last Epistle of Tightrope Time -- a powerful autobiographical...
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  • Bhopal by Varma, Rahul
    Rahul Varma

    Bhopal

    The characters who inhabit Varma's play are all seeking the common good. But they are not guided by the same priorities. To get what they want, they must negotiate with each other. Each time they do, something is lost. And these losses ultimately add...
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  • The Mystery Play by MacDonald, Josh
    Josh MacDonald

    The Mystery Play

    The Mystery Play is a detective story, a ghost story, and a memory play: a theatrical blending of Wit and The Woman In Black. Though fully self-contained, The Mystery Play is also the second in a trilogy about crime-solving Sister Vivian Salter, a flinty,...
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  • Trout Stanley by Dey, Claudia
    Claudia Dey

    Trout Stanley

    Described by Variety as 'Yukon Gothic, ' Claudia Dey's acclaimed play Trout Stanley is set in northern British Columbia, on the outskirts of a mining town between Misery Junction and Grizzly Alley. In this inhospitable setting live a pair of sisters, twins who are...
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  • Our Place by Ambrose, Kanika
    Kanika Ambrose

    Our Place

    our place by Kanika Ambrose is a new work set in a fictional Caribbean restaurant, Jerk Pork Castle in Scarborough, where newcomers Andrea and Niesha work in exchange for cash under the table. As the two women scrape out a life in Canada, leaving...
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  • Pontypool by Burgess, Tony
    Tony Burgess

    Pontypool

    A new play from acclaimed writer Tony Burgess, author of the wildly successful novel, Pontypool Changes Everything. In the sleepy town of Pontypool, Ontario, no one is safe from an epidemic so devastating it will leave you literally speechless.Author: Tony BurgessISBN-10: 1770914420ISBN-13: 9781770914421Publisher: Playwrights...
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  • Speed Dating for Sperm Donors by Meisner, Natalie
    Natalie Meisner

    Speed Dating for Sperm Donors

    Can a lesbian couple find Mr. Right? Helen and Paige really want a baby. Maybe even two. They've decided they want to use a sperm donor, but because of Paige's own upbringing as an adopted child they want the donor to at least be...
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  • J. M. Synge And The Irish Dramatic Movement (1912) by Bickley, Francis
    Francis Bickley

    J. M. Synge And The Irish Dramatic Movement (1912)

    J. M. Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement is a book written by Francis Bickley and published in 1912. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the life and works of J. M. Synge, an Irish playwright who played a significant role in the...
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  • Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge by Kerr, Kevin
    Kevin Kerr

    Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge

    Photographer Eadweard Muybridge's life was filled with the events of Victorian melodrama: adultery, jealousy, betrayal, murder, and an abandoned child. Tried for the murder of his wife's lover, he was acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide. However, these events, which predate his subsequent...
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  • Twenty Years at Play: A New Play Centre Anthology by Wasserman, Jerry
    Jerry Wasserman

    Twenty Years at Play: A New Play Centre Anthology

    Vancouver's New Play Centre led the way in developing and producing the work of playwrights from Western Canada for the emergent Canadian theatre in the 1970s. The New Play Centre has been a major force in Canadian cultural life for two decades; it retains...
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  • Flight Risk by Braem, Meg
    Meg Braem

    Flight Risk

    World War II veteran Hank Dunfield is about to turn one hundred years old. The staff at Ponderosa Pine Lodge have recruited Sarah, a young nursing student, to keep Hank safe, comfortable, and in the building while they plan a grand centenarian celebration. There's...
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  • Libretto Of Mefistofele: Opera In Four Acts (1908) by Boito, Arrigo
    Arrigo Boito

    Libretto Of Mefistofele: Opera In Four Acts (1908)

    ""Libretto of Mefistofele: Opera in Four Acts"" is a book written by Arrigo Boito, first published in 1908. It is a libretto for an opera based on the Faust legend, specifically the story of Faust's pact with the devil. The opera was first performed...
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  • Three Sisters by Chekhov, Anton
    Anton Chekhov

    Three Sisters

    RashDash take on Chekhov in this reimagining of the classic play that brings the women to the forefront. "I'M GOING TO PHILOSOPHISE MY HEAD OFF." How should I make the most of being alive in this moment? How should I try to enjoy life...
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  • Do You Mind If I Sit Here? by Long, James
    James Long

    Do You Mind If I Sit Here?

    A bold new work from award-winning playwrights James Long and Marcus YoussefThirty years from now, three social planners visit Vancouver's Russian Hall, long abandoned due to earthquakes and flooding, with a seemingly straightforward task: repurpose the hall for common use. But the trio soon...
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  • Dead White Writer on the Floor by Taylor, Drew Hayden
    Drew Hayden Taylor

    Dead White Writer on the Floor

    Dead White Writer on the Floor uses two literary conventions--theatre of the absurd and mystery novels--to create one of the funniest and thought-provoking plays ever about identity politics. In Act One, six "savages"; noble, innocent, ignorant, fearless, wise and gay, respectively; find themselves in...
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  • Where the Blood Mixes by Loring, Kevin
    Kevin Loring

    Where the Blood Mixes

    Where the Blood Mixes is meant to expose the shadows below the surface of the author's First Nations heritage, and to celebrate its survivors. Though torn down years ago, the memories of their Residential School still live deep inside the hearts of those who...
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  • A Man Walks Into a Bar by Blair, Rachel
    Rachel Blair

    A Man Walks Into a Bar

    A woman, with the help of a man, nervously sets out to tell us all a joke: A man walks into a bar and meets a waitress. As they begin to perform the joke for the audience, lines between the performers and characters blur...
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  • Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes by Moscovitch, Hannah
    Hannah Moscovitch

    Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes

    Jon, a star professor and author, is racked with self-loathing after his third marriage crumbles around him when he finds himself admiring a student--a girl in a red coat. The girl, nineteen-year-old Annie, is a big fan of his work, and also happens to...
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  • Forget Me Not by Burkett, Ronnie
    Ronnie Burkett

    Forget Me Not

    Welcome to "The New Now," a time in which written language has been forbidden and forgotten. Those who desire to have their love letters written and read must make a dangerous journey to the secret and illegal camp of She, the Keeper of the...
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  • Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry by Manuel, Vera
    Vera Manuel

    Honouring the Strength of Indian Women: Plays, Stories, Poetry

    This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene, Vera was at the forefront of...
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  • Fronteras Americanas: [Second Edition] by Verdecchia, Guillermo
    Guillermo Verdecchia

    Fronteras Americanas 2nd Edition: [Second Edition]

    Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence and wit, Fronteras Americanas re-creates one person's struggle to construct a home between two cultures, while exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. This one-person play works through bold juxtapositions and satiric reference...
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  • How Black Mothers Say I Love You by Anthony, Trey
    Trey Anthony

    How Black Mothers Say I Love You

    Hard-working Daphne left her two young daughters in Jamaica for six years to create a better life for them in America. Now thirty years later, proud and private, Daphne is relying on church and her nearby dutiful daughter to face a health crisis. But...
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  • I Am William by Déraspe, Rébecca
    R饕ecca D駻aspe

    I Am William

    Margaret Shakespeare, age 13, must write her remarkable plays in secret: it is 1577, and a girl who can read and write is in danger from the witch-hunters. After all, as her father keeps reminding her, a woman's place is in the home...next to...
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  • Halo by MacDonald, Josh
    Josh MacDonald

    Halo

    When an image of Jesus appears on the side of a Tim Hortons restaurant in Nately, Nova Scotia, life is forever changed. The town's inhabitants are challenged to ask difficult questions about faith, life and love with sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious results. Complicating the...
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  • The Drowning Girls and Comrades by Graham, Beth
    Beth Graham

    The Drowning Girls and Comrades

    The Drowning Girls reflects on the misconceptions of love, married life, and the not-so-happily ever after. Comrades brings to life the story of a seven-year imprisonment and explores the struggles and agonies of two men, tried not for what they did, but for who...
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  • Yukonstyle by Berthiaume, Sarah
    Sarah Berthiaume

    Yukonstyle

    Garin was two years old when his mother disappeared from a run-down East Vancouver neighbourhood. And now that the Robert Pickton trials are gaining national attention, Garin wonders if his mother, a First Nations woman, could be one of the unidentified victims. His ailing...
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  • A Bomb in the Heart by Mouawad, Wajdi
    Wajdi Mouawad

    A Bomb in the Heart

    A call late at night has Wahab springing into action. Despite a blinding snowstorm, an irritating bus driver, and a spinning wheel of worries, Wahab travels to his dying mother's hospital room. A journey of two kinds, A Bomb in the Heart is about...
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  • West Moon by Pittman, Al
    Al Pittman

    West Moon

    West Moon is set in Newfoundland during the time of resettlement in the mid-1960s. Though the play explores some serious social, political, moral, and theological themes, it does so with a unique blend of pathos and humor. Though the characters are dead and subject...
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  • Long Live the New Flesh: Six Plays from the Digital Frontier by Owen, David
    David Owen

    Long Live the New Flesh: Six Plays from the Digital Frontier

    In this companion anthology to Digital Performance in Canada, six works of digital theatre illustrate how audiences are forced to re-evaluate definitions of performative space, bodies, and relationships. In Avatar, Freya Olafson uses contemporary dance paired with the ambiguities of virtual social networks to...
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  • Anywhere But Here by Aguirre, Carmen
    Carmen Aguirre

    Anywhere But Here

    Anywhere but Here is an external representation of the inner turmoil of exile. Using magic realism tropes, it follows a family on a journey back toward Chile from Canada. They drive in a convertible along the desert border between the U.S. and Mexico, each...
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  • The Law of Gravity by Sylvestre, Olivier
    Olivier Sylvestre

    The Law of Gravity

    Dom has had a rough go of things so far. At fourteen, he has the hardened look of someone who's had to fight for everything. And he's sick of pronouns, but when push comes to shove, he uses he. Fred has just moved to...
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  • Yaga by Sandler, Kat
    Kat Sandler

    Yaga

    She's more than just a wicked old witch. Baba Yaga is a legend, usually known as that elderly woman who lives alone in the woods and grinds the bones of the wicked. But what if she was actually a sexy, smart, modern woman operating...
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  • Theory by Yeung, Norman
    Norman Yeung

    Theory

    Is there a limit to free speech? Who gets to decide? Isabelle's film theory students are stunned that she would open an unmoderated online discussion group to complement a controversial syllabus. Her intention was for them to learn from each other, but when an...
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  • Beautiful Man & Other Short Plays by Shields, Erin
    Erin Shields

    Beautiful Man & Other Short Plays

    An eviscerating satire of gender roles in popular culture, Beautiful Man imagines a world in which women are the subjects and men the objects. As three women dissect the latest Hollywood blockbuster, narrative after narrative of strong female characters fold into each other, fusing...
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  • New Magic Valley Fun Town by MacIvor, Daniel
    Daniel MacIvor

    New Magic Valley Fun Town

    Cape Bretoner Dougie hasn't seen his childhood best friend Allen in thirty years. Based on what can be seen on Facebook, things have changed, but Dougie has no doubt they'll easily reconnect when Allen comes to visit. With the added flair of Dougie's ex-wife...
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  • Just Add Actors: Ready-to-serve short plays by Wetmore, Andrew
    Andrew Wetmore

    Just Add Actors: Ready-to-serve short plays

    A bookshelf of short plays, with settings ranging from the breakfast room at a motel to a beach, from the HR office at a major corporation to a dungeon (sorta the same place?), from a cozy kitchen to halfway up a Ferris wheel. Many...
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