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  • Acquiesce by Yee, David
    David Yee

    Acquiesce

    Sin Hwang is a semi-successful Toronto novelist. He's stubborn, slightly egotistical, and used to the easy way out. Marks from his past are left on his body, but he refuses to acknowledge them. When he learns his estranged father has passed away, all he...
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  • Up the Garden Path & the Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God by Codrington, Lisa
    Lisa Codrington

    Up the Garden Path & the Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God

    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...
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  • Huff & Stitch by Cardinal, Cliff
    Cliff Cardinal

    Huff & Stitch

    In huff, brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father's abusive whims and their mother's recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pull destructive pranks. Preyed upon by Trickster and his own fragile...
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  • Punch Up by Sandler, Kat
    Kat Sandler

    Punch Up

    Duncan has always been a pretty boring guy, leading a simple life while working at a bread factory. Then he stumbles upon Brenda, a sad young woman who's about to end her life. Convinced he's fallen in love, Duncan strikes up a desperate deal:...
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  • Infinity by Moscovitch, Hannah
    Hannah Moscovitch

    Infinity

    Sarah Jean is a mathematics prodigy who finds safety in numbers, in the reliability of their defined nature. Her affinity for unhealthy relationships, however, remains a complete mystery. Her flings turn into year-long relationships against her better judgment and her confusing emotional patterns are...
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  • Long Story Short: An Anthology of (Mostly) Ten-Minute Plays by Burton, Rebecca
    Rebecca Burton

    Long Story Short: An Anthology of (Mostly) Ten-Minute Plays

    A collection of twenty-five short, powerful plays that pack a punch through a variety of genres and styles. Ideal for a range of readers from drama students to aspiring theatre practitioners, and for those working in community and professional theatres, Long Story Short gathers...
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  • Culture and Identity in African and Caribbean Theatre by Okagbue, Osita
    Osita Okagbue

    Culture and Identity in African and Caribbean Theatre

    Because of a shared experience of European colonialism and trans-Atlantic slavery, issues of culture and identity are major concerns for African and Caribbean playwrights. Slavery and colonialism had involved systematic acts of cultural denigration, de-humanization and loss of freedom, which left imprints on the...
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  • Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell by Davies, Trina
    Trina Davies

    Silence: Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell

    It only takes one spark of love to change the world forever. Mabel Hubbard Bell was a strong, self-assured woman--bright, passionate, and a complete original. Despite a near-fatal case of childhood scarlet fever that cost her the ability to hear, she learned to talk...
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  • The Writer by Foster, Norm
    Norm Foster

    The Writer

    Donald Wellner knew success when he wrote a hit play thirty-five years ago, but now he's recently separated, living in a small apartment, and promising that he's trying to start a new script. His fortysomething son Blake is a travel writer with commitment issues...
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  • Controlled Damage by Scott, Andrea
    Andrea Scott

    Controlled Damage

    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...
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  • The Optimists by Brebner, Morwyn
    Morwyn Brebner

    The Optimists

    "Let's believe that the half of our life not yet lived is the good half." A weekend in Vegas. The chance for hopes and dreams to come true provides the backdrop for Morwyn Brebner's humorous look at love. It's the night before the chapel...
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  • The Watershed by Annabel Soutar
    Annabel Soutar

    The Watershed

    How much do we value clean water? Enough to stop our industrialized way of life from degrading it? The documentary play The Watershed follows an artist and her family in the struggle to chart a sustainable course between economic prosperity and environmental stewardship. Largely...
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  • The St. Leonard Chronicles by Galluccio, Steve
    Steve Galluccio

    The St. Leonard Chronicles

    From the award-winning author of stage hits Mambo Italiano and In Piazza San Domenico comes a delicious, saucy new comedy about Terry and Robert, a young couple with roots in the Italian neighbourhood of St. Leonard in Montreal. The couple's newly renovated duplex has...
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  • In a World Created by a Drunken God by Taylor, Drew Hayden
    Drew Hayden Taylor

    In a World Created by a Drunken God

    Jason Pierce, a 31 year old Canadian half-Native man, is packing up his urban apartment to leave it all behind for his romanticized vision of a return to life on the reserve where he grew up. As he's leaving, he is paid an unexpected...
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  • Th'owxiya: The Hungry Feast Dish by Dandurand, Joseph A.
    Joseph A. Dandurand

    Th'owxiya: The Hungry Feast Dish

    When you take something from the earth you must always give something back. From the Kwantlen First Nation village of Squa'lets comes the tale of Th'owxiya, an old and powerful spirit that inhabits a feast dish of tempting, beautiful foods from around the world....
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  • Pugwash by Thiessen, Vern
    Vern Thiessen

    Pugwash

    In 1957 the world is tender and fearful of nuclear weapons post World War II. In an effort to understand and facilitate a neutral global discussion and find some peace, leading scientists and academics--world-renowned "Thinkers"--are invited to a conference in the small town of...
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  • Out of Fear by Harrison, Wayne Douglas
    Wayne Douglas Harrison

    Out of Fear

    This small town Canada story could be any young persons account of what it was like to grow up facing religious intolerance masked by conditional words of love, bullying of those who do not fit some peoples standard of normalcy, and the whole-scale resistance...
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  • The Empire: A Trilogy of Modern Epics by Fournier, Susanna
    Susanna Fournier

    The Empire: A Trilogy of Modern Epics

    Explore a world on the edge of change through three epic stories spanning five hundred years of imagined history, unpacking systems of power and what we are capable of in the pursuit of freedom. The story starts in The Philosopher's Wife. Deep in the...
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  • The Only Good Indian by Davis, Tom
    Tom Davis

    The Only Good Indian

    The Only Good Indian is part lecture, part meditation, and part threat. Or maybe a sacrifice. Each incarnation of The Only Good Indian recruits a new artist to step into the radical headspace of a suicide bomber. In turn, each performer straps themselves into...
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  • A Perfect Bowl of PHO by Nguyen, Nam
    Nam Nguyen

    A Perfect Bowl of PHO

    Nam, a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup pho. What follows is pure meta musical, genre-bending through thousands of years of history, featuring...
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  • The Bridge by Grant, Shauntay
    Shauntay Grant

    The Bridge

    Winner of the 2020 Robert Merritt Award for Outstanding New Play by a Nova Scotian Set in a rural Black Nova Scotian community, The Bridge explores the complex relationship between two brothers strained over twenty years of secrecy, deception, and dishonour. Secrets are revealed...
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  • Serving Elizabeth by Johnson, Marcia
    Marcia Johnson

    Serving Elizabeth

    Serving Elizabeth begins in Kenya in 1952, during the fateful royal visit of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh. Mercy, a restaurant owner, is approached to cook for the royal couple. Though she could use the money, she is a staunch anti-monarchist. She...
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  • Now You See Her by Nostbakken, Amy
    Amy Nostbakken

    Now You See Her

    Now You See Her nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards; Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Costume Design & Outstanding Sound Design/Composition. Now You See Her named one of Toronto's Top Ten Plays of 2018 by the Toronto Star. Six diverse women's voices merge into...
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  • The Supine Cobbler by Connell, Jill
    Jill Connell

    The Supine Cobbler

    The Doctor introduces the gang: The Supine Cobbler (wanted), her estranged sister (dead by hanging), her former best friend (missing, presumed dead) and her apprentice (a turncoat). Together they negotiate integrity in a lawless world. The Supine Cobbler is an unsentimental legend and a...
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  • Exposure: Two Plays by MacArthur, Greg
    Greg MacArthur

    Exposure: Two Plays

    Expose yourself to one of the most original new voices in theatre with this collection of two uncompromising plays by Greg MacArthur.Snowman: After years of wandering, Denver and Marjorie find themselves in a remote northern community at the edge of a glacier, chopping wood,...
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  • The Monster Trilogy by Vaughan, Rm
    Rm Vaughan

    The Monster Trilogy

    Ogres, trolls, demons - monsters, like violence, are always represented as male. Not this time. Celebrated playwright RM Vaughan gives us, in three one-act monologues, three very monstrous women.In A Visitation by St Teresa of Avila upon Constable Margaret Chance, we meet a middle-aged...
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  • Inoculations: Four Plays by O'Donnell, Darren
    Darren O'Donnell

    Inoculations: Four Plays

    These four plays - White Mice, Who Shot Jacques Lacan?, Radio Rooster Says That's Bad and Over - written by Darren O'Donnell for his theatre company, Mammalian Diving Reflex, will challenge your politics, your ontology and everything you hold to be safe, stable and...
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  • Transversing: Stories by Today's Trans Youth by For the Love of Learning
    For the Love of Learning

    Transversing: Stories by Today's Trans Youth

    Originally produced for the stage by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and For the Love of Learning, transVersing features some of Newfoundland's most vibrant and necessary trans-youth voices. Gathering the work of Violet Drake, Daze Jefferies, Fionn Shea, Perin Squires, Taylor Stocks, and Dane Woodland,...
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  • Cottagers and Indians by Taylor, Drew Hayden
    Drew Hayden Taylor

    Cottagers and Indians

    Cottagers and Indians explores the politics and issues surrounding a real-life event still occurring in the Kawartha Lakes region of Central Ontario. An Indigenous man, Arthur Copper, has taken it upon himself to repopulate the nearby lakes with wild rice, known amongst the Anishnawbe...
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  • Redpatch by Harris Oliver, Sean
    Sean Harris Oliver

    Redpatch

    This is the story of a M騁is soldier fighting for Canada on the Western Front of Europe during World War I. Vancouver 1914: a young Indigenous man named Jonathon Woodrow, desperate to prove himself as a warrior, enlists to fight in the Canadian army....
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  • Thanks for Giving by Loring, Kevin
    Kevin Loring

    Thanks for Giving

    Nan's family is home for Thanksgiving, but some unsolicited truths are about to be dropped at the dinner table. Old wounds and new realities collide, and sibling rivalry is stoked, but the enduring spirit that guides this family charges on, ever fierce. Thanks for...
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  • Talker's Town and the Girl Who Swam Forever: Two Plays by Clements, Marie
    Marie Clements

    Talker's Town and the Girl Who Swam Forever: Two Plays

    The two one-act plays in Talker's Town and The Girl Who Swam Forever are set in a small northern B.C. mill town in the 1960s. They portray identical characters and action from entirely different gender and cultural perspectives. In many ways, the two separate...
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  • Linda Griffiths: New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Volume 9 by Petropoulos, Jacqueline
    Jacqueline Petropoulos

    Linda Griffiths: New Essays on Canadian Theatre, Volume 9

    For more than three decades, Griffiths worked tirelessly and passionately to redefine drama and performance in Canada, constantly pushing artistic boundaries in her quest to tell new and unconventional stories about Canadians and women. Weaving together new critical essays on Griffiths's plays with personal...
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  • New Canadian Kid / Invisible Kids: Second Edition by Foon, Dennis
    Dennis Foon

    New Canadian Kid / Invisible Kids: Second Edition

    In New Canadian Kid, Nick has just moved to Canada from a country called Homeland, where he is forced to grapple with his fears of a new culture and language and cope with classmates who taunt him for being different. After a series of...
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  • Mistatim / Instant by Shields, Erin
    Erin Shields

    Mistatim / Instant

    In Mistatim, which is based on a concept from Sandra Laronde of Red Sky Performance, two eleven-year-olds strike up an unlikely friendship at the fence between one's reservation and the other's ranch. On Speck's side, she's carved names of family members into the wooden...
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  • Q2q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts by Dickinson, Peter
    Peter Dickinson

    Q2q: Queer Canadian Performance Texts

    This anthology includes seven different plays by queer Canadian writers that provide a snapshot of Canadian contemporary queer performance practices-from play writing to drag to performance art to spoken word to digital performance. A companion title to Play wrights Canada Press's anthology Queer Canadian...
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  • Late Company: Second Edition by Tannahill, Jordan
    Jordan Tannahill

    Late Company: Second Edition

    One year after the suicide of their teenage son Joel, Debora and Michael Shaun-Hastings sit down to dinner with their son's bully and his parents. Closure is on the menu, but accusations are the main course as everyone takes a turn in the hot...
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  • How Black Mothers Say I Love You by Anthony, Trey
    Trey Anthony

    How Black Mothers Say I Love You

    Claudette still can't forgive her mother, Daphne, for leaving. For six years of her childhood, Claudette and her sister Valerie were left with their grandmother while their mother moved from Jamaica to Canada to start a new chapter for her family. But in that...
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  • Twisted by Pierre, Joseph Jomo
    Joseph Jomo Pierre

    Twisted

    Growing up, Nancy believed in magic despite a hand-me-down life in a small town. So it's no wonder the buzzing excitement of Toronto and its allure of freedom was a likely choice for her new home, the place she finds herself years later selling...
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  • Hedda Gabler & Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia by Thompson, Judith
    Judith Thompson

    Hedda Gabler & Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia

    A contemporary reimagining of two controversial female protagonists in literature, and the marginalized voices of women in history.Author: Judith ThompsonISBN-10: 1770917543ISBN-13: 9781770917545Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/10/2017Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.60d
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  • 1979 by Healey, Michael
    Michael Healey

    1979

    It's December 1979 and Clark's minority Progressive Conservative government is under threat of dissolution before it has a chance to accomplish anything -- even pass a budget. But Clark is young and idealistic, resolute on making his mark in office. When he steals a...
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  • Indian Arm by Kanagawa, Hiro
    Hiro Kanagawa

    Indian Arm

    The Allmers live on native leasehold land in British Columbia, with their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive First Nations sixteen-year-old with cerebral hypoxia. Wolfie--caught in the middle of an intense, unhappy mother and a resigned father--is the pressure point that continuously gathers heat. When...
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  • Oil and Water by Chafe, Robert
    Robert Chafe

    Oil and Water

    In 1942, a ship carrying over a hundred soldiers ran aground off the Burin Peninsula, killing most of its men. Lanier Phillips, the sole African-American survivor of the wreck, is rescued and cared for by the locals, where he is not judged by the...
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  • Mary's Wedding by Massicotte, Stephen
    Stephen Massicotte

    Mary's Wedding

    The eve of Mary's wedding is a night filled with dreams: of love, of war, and of what might be. When Mary and Charlie meet in a barn during a thunderstorm, a tentative love is born. But the year is 1914, and they must...
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  • Pig Girl by Murphy, Colleen
    Colleen Murphy

    Pig Girl

    Inspired by the Robert Pickton murders, the devastating parallel stories of women who suffered at the hands of a killer. Dying Girl is being held captive in a secluded barn. Her sister files a police report, but the police let the case slide. After...
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  • Little One & Other Plays by Moscovitch, Hannah
    Hannah Moscovitch

    Little One & Other Plays

    Three one-act plays from acclaimed Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch. A chilling psychological thriller, Little One follows adopted siblings and their neighbors, a man and his mail-order bride. In Other People's Children, a wealthy couple's live-in nanny exposes the fragility of their marriage. In This...
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  • The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble by Graham, Beth
    Beth Graham

    The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble

    Iris is trying to hold it together. She may very well fly off the face of the earth if she doesn't hang on to the kitchen counter. At least that's how she feels after her mother, Bernice, a lively, recently widowed 55-year-old breaks the...
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  • The Thrill by Thompson, Judith
    Judith Thompson

    The Thrill

    A new play from revered playwright Judith Thompson, inspired by the life of disability rights activist Harriet McBryde Johnson. Julian is a bestselling author and fervent supporter of euthanasia. Elora, a lawyer and disability rights activist who has never walked a step in her...
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  • Between the Sheets by Mand, Jordi
    Jordi Mand

    Between the Sheets

    An intense power struggle between two women who may have more in common than they thought, Between the Sheets questions the definitions of right versus wrong, and what it means to be a mother, wife, and the other woman. Marion, a working mother with...
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  • This Is War by Moscovitch, Hannah
    Hannah Moscovitch

    This Is War

    An insightful and emotional look into the embittered psyche of soldiers in the aftermath of combat. Master Corporal Tanya Young, Captain Stephen Hughes, Private Jonny Henderson, and Sergeant Chris Anders have lived through an atrocity while holding one of the most volatile regions in...
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