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  • Another Home Invasion by MacLeod, Joan
    Joan MacLeod

    Another Home Invasion

    We, each of us in the civilized Western world, live in a space inviolate. "Our home is our castle," as the saying goes: our shelter from the intrusion of the weather and other "outside influences;" our defence against physical and mental threats, real and...
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  • Theatre and (Im)Migration: New Essays in Canadian Theatre, Vol. 10 by Meerzon, Yana
    Yana Meerzon

    Theatre and (Im)Migration: New Essays in Canadian Theatre, Vol. 10

    The collection of essays demonstrates how the increased presence of immigrant theatre artists actively contributing to English- and French-Canadian theatre prompt their audiences to rethink fundamental concepts of nationalism and multiculturalism. Contributors include Moira Day, Alan Filewood, Aida Jord o, Ric Knowles, Natasha Martina...
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  • Age of Arousal by Griffiths, Linda
    Linda Griffiths

    Age of Arousal

    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...
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  • Children of God by Payette, Corey
    Corey Payette

    Children of God

    Children of God is a powerful musical about an Oji-Cree family whose children were taken away to a residential school in Northern Ontario. The play tells the story of one family: Tommy and Julia, who are trying to survive in the harsh environment of...
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  • Reckoning by Beagan, Tara
    Tara Beagan

    Reckoning

    Reckoning is a triptych of three short plays: Witness is a dance-movement piece featuring a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner who unravels as he confronts the brutal testimony of residential school survivors; in Daughter, the daughter of a teacher who was accused of rape seduces...
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  • Butcher by Billon, Nicolas
    Nicolas Billon

    Butcher

    An old man in a military uniform is dumped at the police station--he won't speak English but has a lawyer's card in his pocket. A seemingly innocuous encounter gets stranger and stranger as we gradually realize no one is who they seem and the...
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  • Girl Of The Oil Sands by Green, I. L.
    I. L. Green

    Girl Of The Oil Sands

    Blades, babes, and the harsh beauty of love & nature. A begrudgingly heterosexual heroine often finds herself in nefarious situations as "a gal just trying to make a buck." Fueled by love, drugs, and delusion, Iris carries the weight of a dream in her...
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  • Quiver by Chatterton, Anna
    Anna Chatterton

    Quiver

    Shy, fourteen-year-old Maddie wasn't expecting to have to worry about taking care of herself just yet. Her sixteen-year-old party-girl sister Bea has scandalously moved in with their mom's ex-boyfriend, and in turn, their brassy mother Sheila has run straight to the comfort of another...
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  • Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance: New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Volume 8 by Dickinson, Peter
    Peter Dickinson

    Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance: New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Volume 8

    This collection seeks to understand why it is important not just to continue to tell queer stories on stage, but also to piece together the larger historical narrative of Canadian queer theatrical production and reception through academic research. Contributors include Kym Bird, Sky Gilbert,...
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  • A Man of Letters: The Selected Dramaturgical Correspondence of Urjo Kareda by Riley, Jessica
    Jessica Riley

    A Man of Letters: The Selected Dramaturgical Correspondence of Urjo Kareda

    The late Urjo Kareda was renowned for his commitment to respond personally to the unsolicited scripts received by Toronto's Tarragon Theatre where he served as artistic director. His letters became the stuff of legend among Canadian theatre practitioners. This book makes public for the...
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  • Eternal Hydra by Piatigorsky, Anton
    Anton Piatigorsky

    Eternal Hydra

    When a young scholar finds Eternal Hydra, a long-lost, legendary and encyclopedic novel by an obscure Irish writer, she brings the manuscript to an esteemed publisher, hoping to secure an international audience for the book. But Vivian's obsession with the dead author, who has...
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  • Scripts: Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works by Reaney, James
    James Reaney

    Scripts: Librettos for Operas and Other Musical Works

    James Reaney is one of Canada's favourite poets and playwrights; at the intersection of his dramatic and poetic talents is Scripts, a collection of musical writings. There are nine complete works here, including the chamber opera Night-blooming Cereus, the poetry/music collage (and Governor General's...
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  • Pretty Pieces: A powerful One Act Play about madness by Robertson, Charles G.
    Charles G. Robertson

    Pretty Pieces: A powerful One Act Play about madness

    Pretty Pieces is a powerful one act play about a young man and a young woman who are trapped on the fringes of society in a run-down apartment. They are brother and sister and something horrible happened to them a long time ago. Because...
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  • Two Plays about Israel/Palestine: Masada, Facts by Milner, Arthur
    Arthur Milner

    Two Plays about Israel/Palestine: Masada, Facts

    TWO PLAYS ABOUT ISRAEL/PALESTINE "Arthur Milner's plays are always smart, engaging and contemporary. Milner is a man of his times who never talks down to his audience, even as he courts and incites strong reactions. We forgive him, though because he entertains us with...
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  • In the Valley of Lost Souls by Van Eyk, Diana
    Diana Van Eyk

    In the Valley of Lost Souls

    Follow the stories of Dagmar and Ross: middle aged, newly homeless, and with no apparent options. Invited into a house that appears from the outside to be abandoned, they learn the survival skills needed to live in a society that treats people as disposable....
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  • Six Years In The Canadian Northwest (1882) by D'Artigue, Jean
    Jean D'Artigue

    Six Years In The Canadian Northwest (1882)

    ""Six Years In The Canadian Northwest"" is a historical account written by Jean D'Artigue in 1882. The book details the author's experiences while living in the Canadian Northwest for six years. During this time, he traveled extensively throughout the region, interacting with the indigenous...
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  • The Swearing Jar by Hewlett, Kate
    Kate Hewlett

    The Swearing Jar

    Meet Carey and Simon, an otherwise-perfect married couple with a bit of a swearing problem. They're determined to kick the habit by the time their baby is born. Too bad that's not their only problem. Simon has a secret. And Carey has a new...
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  • Falling: A Wake by Kirkham, Gary
    Gary Kirkham

    Falling: A Wake

    One starry night the body of young man, still strapped into his airplane seat, falls from the sky into the yard of Harold and Elsieﾕs chicken farm. As the night unfolds, their mysterious guest effects a profound transformation in his hosts.ﾊFalling: A Wake is...
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  • A Taste of Empire by Sy, Jovanni
    Jovanni Sy

    A Taste of Empire

    Everything we eat tells a story. In A Taste of Empire, delectable samples from a real-time cooking demonstration offer food for thought about colonialism and the ethics of modern-day food systems. "Food and Wine named him Chef of the Decade. In 2016 he was...
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  • Redheaded Stepchild by Walker, Johnnie
    Johnnie Walker

    Redheaded Stepchild

    Nicholas is a twelve-year-old with red hair whose dad just remarried. His new stepmom is a chain-smoking, ex-Jehovah's Witness. Tomorrow at lunch, the biggest boy in grade six plans to beat him up--he even made a Facebook event. Should Nicholas skip school, even if...
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  • Mom's the Word by Carson, Linda A.
    Linda A. Carson

    Mom's the Word

    Mom's the Word was created out of a Saturday morning writers' support group. Getting together to share their experiences, six women performers struck upon the idea to write about what they were going through as mothers trying to maintain their careers, their individual identities...
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  • 7 Stories by Panych, Morris
    Morris Panych

    7 Stories

    In this fast-paced, sophisticated and hilarious play, a man contemplating suicide on a seventh-storey building ledge confronts the stories of the people who live inside the building. These "seven stories" lead to a charming and surprising ending. Cast of 2 women and 3 men.Author:...
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  • Of the Fields, Lately by French, David
    David French

    Of the Fields, Lately

    A son returns after an absence of two years to find both his mother and family friend Wiff trying to sustain his father, Jacob. A heart attack has forced Jacob out of work, and he can't reconcile himself to his frightening situation. The characters...
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  • The Rose of Charleswood by Philp, Fran
    Fran Philp

    The Rose of Charleswood

    When Sarah's father, Dr. Wayne Gibson dies, her entire world is turned upside down. The man she loved and cherished more than anyone else, had been keeping an immense secret. One that completely changes her life and the lives of those around her forever....
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  • Power Moves: Dance, Culture, Politics by Boye, Seika
    Seika Boye

    Power Moves: Dance, Culture, Politics

    This collection of essays focuses how dance and movement engage and enact political questions around agency, mobility, pedagogy, and resistance. Committed to crossing disciplinary boundaries, Power Moves looks to movement knowledge for its radical insights and critical forms of public intervention and pedagogy.The writers...
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  • Post-Democracy by Moscovitch, Hannah
    Hannah Moscovitch

    Post-Democracy

    Welcome to the world of the one per cent, the corporate elite, the C-suite, the kingmakers. A world managed by payoffs, press releases, NDAs, and company policies. What happens to morality in this world when its people have limitless power? When a CEO and...
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  • Blow Wind by MacDonald, Daniel
    Daniel MacDonald

    Blow Wind

    After years of running from her dysfunctional past, Sarah returns home to the family farm in Saskatchewan to find her mom Kathleen yelling into the wind, setting off a turbulent new chapter in her life. Instead of finding comfort in "home," Sarah learns nothing...
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  • Reasonable Doubt by Bernbaum, Joel
    Joel Bernbaum

    Reasonable Doubt

    A significant moment in Canadian history is portrayed in this documentary musical about race relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Weaving hundreds of real interviews conducted with Saskatchewan residents and the court transcripts surrounding the killing of Colten Boushie and trial of Gerald Stanley,...
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  • Public Enemy by Choinière, Olivier
    Olivier Choini鑽e

    Public Enemy

    Three generations of a family argue over current events, finances, and culture, with everyone looking to blame someone else for society's ills in this satirical examination of how judgment can both divide and unite people. Elizabeth, the matriarch, has invited her children and grandchildren...
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  • Lady Sunrise by Chan, Marjorie
    Marjorie Chan

    Lady Sunrise

    From the glittering high-rise condos to the desperate streets of Vancouver, powerful stories told by women reveal the fraying social fabric among the wealthy and hangers-on in the city's Asian Canadian community. Lady Sunrise introduces us to six women who are risking everything, all...
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  • Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down by Chafee, Robert
    Robert Chafee

    Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down

    Emergency rooms, scans, tests, blood work, and more blood work . . . Robert's had a wide range of concerning symptoms checked. Multiple times. And yet he still has no answers as to why everything hurts. So he wonders, is he Tennessee Williams or...
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  • Successions by Di Cesare, Michaela
    Michaela Di Cesare

    Successions

    After the unexpected death of their parents, two second-generation Italian Canadian brothers must come together to decide whether to hold on to the family home, which is full of secrets and hoarded junk, or save what's left of their strained relationship. When Anthony, an...
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  • Let's Run Away by MacIvor, Daniel
    Daniel MacIvor

    Let's Run Away

    Peter is putting on a show. He's a bit stressed. In the show, he will read from a manuscript. It's a large manuscript, but don't worry, he's only going to read the parts about him, and there aren't many. It's a memoir written by...
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  • Every Day She Rose by Scott, Andrea
    Andrea Scott

    Every Day She Rose

    After the Black Lives Matter protest at the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade, two friends find their racial and queer politics aren't as aligned as they thought, and the playwrights behind them must figure out how to write about the fallout. Cathy Ann, a straight...
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  • A Million Billion Pieces by Brock, David James
    David James Brock

    A Million Billion Pieces

    It's time to make every moment count. Sixteen-year-olds Pria and Theo--or as they know each other online, the aspiring opera singer PriaSoprano and outer-space aficionado Eagle19--have decided to have sex. There's just one catch... they both have life-threatening genetic disorders that may cause them...
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  • Ravage of Life by de la Chenelière, Evelyne
    Evelyne de la Chenelière

    Ravage of Life

    For three years, Evelyne de la Chenelière wrote on the long entrance wall in Montreal's Espace GO as part of an artistic residency that would profoundly shake her outlook on words, theatre practice, and writing. The culmination of this is Ravage of Life, a...
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  • Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers by Simamba, Makambe K.
    Makambe K. Simamba

    Our Fathers, Sons, Lovers and Little Brothers

    Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through the unknown, as Slimm grapples with the truth of...
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  • The Driving Force by Tremblay, Michel
    Michel Tremblay

    The Drivin Force E-Book

    In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer's ward, intimately tending to his bodily functions and needs while hopelessly trying to reach his silent, vacant father with a series of monologues--to settle old scores and misunderstandings between them. In...
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  • Theatre Histories by Filewod, Alan
    Alan Filewod

    Theatre Histories

    Sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.Author: Alan FilewodISBN-10: 0887548318ISBN-13: 9780887548314Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2010Pages: 246Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
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  • Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave by Yee, David
    David Yee

    Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave

    Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award For Drama Two brothers in Malaysia trying to save their house from sinking; a Canadian radio-show host angered by disaster-relief efforts; a Japanese man who has been falling down a hole for years after learning of...
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  • The Shape of a Girl / Jewel by MacLeod, Joan
    Joan MacLeod

    The Shape of a Girl / Jewel

    In an imaginary letter to an absent older brother, Braidie struggles to understand the torture and killing of a teenage girl by a group of her school-mates. MacLeod's young protagonist enters all the bright open avenues of peer-group play and the dark blind alleys...
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  • Mortified by Rutherford, Amy
    Amy Rutherford

    Mortified

    A woman runs into her former abuser and is surprised by the power he still holds over her. In an attempt to uncover the truth of what happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a fourteen-year-old synchronized swimmer struggling to make sense of...
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  • Do This in Memory of Me by Walsh, Cat
    Cat Walsh

    Do This in Memory of Me

    Twelve-year-old Genevieve has been having a hard time at home, and all she really wants is to be an altar server at her church. Except it's 1963 and Father Paul tells her that's not allowed. After having her dreams crushed and being made fun...
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  • Iphigenia and the Furies (on Taurian Land) & Antigone by Ka Kei, Ho
    Ho Ka Kei

    Iphigenia and the Furies (on Taurian Land) & Antigone

    Winner of the 2023 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama.From the author of trace comes two adaptations that transport mythological stories from Ancient Greece to modern-day civilizations. Led by people of colour, these darkly comedic plays depict recognizable plights for justice.Iphigenia and the Furies...
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  • Wasp by Collett, Rhiannon
    Rhiannon Collett

    Wasp

    It's Wasp's destiny to be impregnated by a swarm of hornets called the Angels on their twenty-first birthday, but they aren't going down without a fight. Their plan? A bottle of Coke, an abandoned church, and (regrettably) their ex-boyfriend Isaac. Across town the twin...
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  • Secret Life of a Mother by Moscovitch, Hannah
    Hannah Moscovitch

    Secret Life of a Mother

    A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood full of her own darkly funny confessions and taboo-breaking truths. One of her real-life friends, an actress, performs the piece, and through it her own experiences of motherhood start to surface. These mothers are not the...
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  • Ex Machina: Creating for the Stage by Caux, Patrick
    Patrick Caux

    Ex Machina: Creating for the Stage

    In 1993 when Robert Lepage suggested to his colleagues that a specific identity and image be found for his next working group, he imposed one condition. The word "theatre" was not to be part of the name of the new company. This gorgeous full-colour...
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  • Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada by Watkin, Jessica
    Jessica Watkin

    Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada

    Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada is a collection of plays and interviews by, for, and about Disabled theatre artists that invites readers into the magical worlds of Disability arts culture. The book features four plays as well as interviews with artists Justin Manyfingers...
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  • Voices of a Generation: Three Millennial Plays by MacArthur, Michelle
    Michelle MacArthur

    Voices of a Generation: Three Millennial Plays

    Voices of a Generation collects three Canadian plays that speak to millennials' complex and varied experiences and the challenges and stereotypes they often face. zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan follows Namid through multiple generations: as a victim of abuse in a residential school in the...
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  • The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: Finding a Formula for the Cost of Love by McGee, Haley
    Haley McGee

    The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: Finding a Formula for the Cost of Love

    In this hilarious and heartfelt memoir, Haley McGee sets out to calculate--with mathematical precision--the exact cost of love, and whether all of her former relationships were worth it. Haley McGee is in debt. The solution? A yard sale of gifts from her ex-boyfriends. But...
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