Drama - Canadian

One of Canada's most successful and enduring musical plays, Billy Bishop Goes to War was first published in 1982 and went on to win the Los Angeles Drama Critics' Award and the Governor General's Award for Drama. In 2010, the celebrated story of the...

In this collection of two plays about the process of children becoming adults, Drew Hayden Taylor works his delightfully comic and bitter-sweet magic on the denials, misunderstandings and preconceptions which persist between Native and Colonial culture in North America. In "The Boy in the...

Two human test subjects--Corcoran, a half-blind paraplegic, and Filigree, a clinical psychopath--coexist in a laboratory cell. They are sterilized, property of the state, and utilized for the benefit of higher-valued citizens. In their cell are two beds and two chairs. But then Millet arrives....

Another drama from Dora-winning playwright of "The Neighbour's Wife"Author: Tara BeaganISBN-10: 0887546129ISBN-13: 9780887546129Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2007Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.34h x 5.47w x 0.26d

Twelve-year-old Molly was riding her new bicycle on a deserted road when a man in a truck pulled up next to her, saying he was lost. He asked if she could get in and help him back to the highway, and said he could...

Mustard shouldn't still be here, but he is. Imaginary friends don't normally stay with their person until that person is a teenager. Imaginary friends don't suddenly become visible to their person's mom and then go on a date with them, either. But when those...

Fifteen-year-old Bess has no idea when she heads to London to see her uncle Ted that she is about to find herself at the heart of a scandal involving sexual impropriety; her stepfather, Thom; and an attempted overthrow of the government. What does all...

Daddy wants to win the lottery, Mommy is still bitter about getting knocked up at twenty, Simeon has war-related PTSD, and Rachel just wants to get out of her parents' Oakwood/Eglinton place and have a home of her own, but first there are a...

Inspired by a true story, we the same opens in 1979 Việt Nam, where six children and a mother become separated from their father and husband as they flee their homeland by boat. Against all odds, they survive pirate attacks, typhoons, and starvation, ending...

In these two entwined, fast-paced plays, the hilarious goings-on behind the scenes of a controversial election chaotically unfold first at the fundraiser that will decide the party's nominee and then months later at a debate the night before the election. The top candidates for...

From the Ashes collects solo plays by Black Canadian women and womxn that together celebrate the hope, humour, and healing that can come after devastation and loss. From lighthearted comedies to heavy dramas, this anthology contains a multitude of stories on Blackness, love, motherhood,...

What happened last night on the dance floor? Gary knows he went to the club with his friend Desiree, but now all he has is a fuzzy memory and a text saying, "We're done." Desiree has known something's been up with Gary, but she...

Meet the creators behind the words of Canadian opera in this exciting new collection of contemporary libretti. Featuring Ours by Robert Chafe, Rocking Horse Winner by Anna Chatterton, Beatrice Chancy by George Eilliott Clarke, Missing by Marie Clements, Nigredo Hotel by Ann-Marie MacDonald, Shelter...

Wayne thinks he's doing his wife Julie a favor by hiring a young couple to help redo the kitchen (at a fraction of the cost she'd hoped for). But Julie has higher standards in mind. John and Maggie think they've found a way to...

Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play Finalist for the 2007 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama In The Matka King--a story that pits human nature against love and chance--a landscape of betrayal and redemption comes to life in the...

The cold has deserted winter, causing the polar bears in the zoo to pace in an endless quest for sleep. Their caretaker, Sasha, will do anything to bring them slumber. But when a boy named Marcus suddenly appears at his window, bringing a different...

Oba, a middle-aged businessman, is torn between his pride and dignity. He's obsessed with making deals in unidentified substances to stay afloat. A powerful client named Araf arrives, interested in Oba's business, but also his fierce, inherited servant Femi. Oba's young progeny Mabo is...

It's been over twenty years since Guy ditched his high-school sweetheart Gloria at the prom, and they haven't spoken since. Now he's a failed LA lawyer, divorced, and working at his brother's golf resort in Ontario. A wedding conveniently brings old friends Gloria, Eva,...

Middle-aged couple Daphne and Rollie and their friend Alex have found themselves out of work and out of luck. So when they come across a mistakenly rented X-rated movie, they get the idea to make their own porno film for some quick cash. The...

Prosper is a fisherman just trying to get by. When Eddy, a slippery eel salesman, arrives in town peddling progress to the rural African community, Prosper's woes only increase. Faced with an invasive new species in his lake, his fortunes decline along with the...

A collection of three earlier, hard-to-find plays, from renowned Canadian playwright Judith Thompson. Includes: White Biting Dog, a poetic black comedy about a divorced lawyer contemplating suicide; I Am Yours, a harrowing story about a group of characters on the brink of despair; and...

A new play by an award-winning playwright and one of Canada's most accomplished playwrights and performers follows five classmates in town for their thirtieth high school reunion. The more alcohol that's consumed, the closer the friends come to confronting their darkest secrets.Author: Daniel MacIvorISBN-10:...

From acclaimed playwright Karen Hines come two darkly comic meditations on security, safety, and shelter.Crawlspace is a comic, Kafkaesque monologue about the darker side of home ownership that moves past 'cautionary' as it snakes through the brutal battleground of Toronto real estate, decorative twig...

Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for DramaPenelope Douglas is an ex-forensic psychiatrist looking for a fresh start in a western boomtown grown three sizes too crazy. But then a television writer offs himself in her sleek bathroom and her oil-wife friend pronounces...

Beckett meets Betty Boop in this trilogy of monologues by Canadian cult heroine Pochsy, a nasty, vapid, utterly charming vixen. In Pochsy's Lips, she's in the hospital, convinced she's sick because she's got a squid where her heart should be. In Oh Baby, she's...

From the author of Glenn and Inexpressible Island comes this scathing satiric play about sex, power and the Canadian newspaper industry.Lionel K. Biggar, newspaper baron, aspiring English Lord and megalo-maniac, and Trent, a burnt-out liberal journalist formerly in Biggar's employ, are kidnapped from a...

Canadian Mosaic II is the second volume in a series of popular drama anthologies edited by Aviva Ravel. The plays, written by Canadian playwrights, are set in diverse communities. The works focus on minority cultures, their customs and roots, and their concerns regarding the...

A drunken Anglican minister who has failed to convert anyone in ten years, an avaricious saloon keeper with a murder in her past, a pregnant child star who has become too old for her roles and a man who claims to be the last...

Great for full-fledged productions, scene studies, monologues, and classroom use, See Bob Run/Wild Abandon is an essential addition to any theatre lover's collection.Author: Daniel MacIvorISBN-10: 0887549977ISBN-13: 9780887549977Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/09/2013Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.30d

This is the play that established a reputation for the playwright as a daring chronicler of the urban underclass, available here as a revised version.Author: Judith ThompsonISBN-10: 0887549314ISBN-13: 9780887549311Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2011Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.60h x 5.00w x 0.40d

David McMillan is a former actor on the verge of turning thirty. Together with his roommate Candy and his best friend Bernie, David encounters a number of seductive strangers in their search for love and sex. However, the games turn ugly when it appears...

A moving and heartfelt play, Pyaasa illustrates with subtlety and nuanced truth the inequalities and injustices that persist through the Indian caste system. Letters to My Grandma weaves together the remarkable stories of two women, inextricably linking their histories and delving into how the...

A darkly comic story about the skeletons in our closets and the consequences of our inactions.Author: David YeeISBN-10: 0887549071ISBN-13: 9780887549076Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2010Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.40dAward: Governor General's Literary Awards - Finalist

A modern classic about the place of First Nations people in Canada.Author: Daniel David MosesISBN-10: 0887548970ISBN-13: 9780887548970Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2010Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.30d

"The story spans three decades and half a dozen meetings between Bud, a salesman, and Molly, his boss's wife. One of them is smitten from the very first meeting--the other, let's just say--less so. The story is straightforward, easy to follow and funny, often...

"Each play adds up to a theatre experience which is so intriguing that we find ourselves going back through our memory of watching it."--from the introduction by Linda MooreFive plays by Daniel MacIvor in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of da da kamera. Includes:...

Palace of the End is a searing triptych of three monologues. With its emphasis on the human voice and power of the soul in the midst of a destructive war, each account is a riveting and brilliantly portrayed indictment of the war in Iraq.Author:...

Jenny's House of Joy is a delightful comedy about the oldest profession. Outlaw is an authentic Western that is a unique take on the days when guns were the law. In Bedtime Stories we follow interweaving characters in their comic struggle to find the...

"The imagination of Hannah Moscovitch makes the audience sit up and squirm for all the right reasons"--CBC RadioFour short plays by one of Canada's exciting voices. In The Russian Play, the flower-shop girl tells the story of her love for the gravedigger. Essay casts...

A must-have collection of two celebrated solo works by Daniel MacIvor, winner of both the Siminovich Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award. House is a stand up, sit down one-man comedy nightmare about Victor, a man on the edge. Here Lies Henry is...

This revised version of the Governor General Award-winner sheds light on an unexplored aspect of Shakespeare's life by looking through the eyes and heart of his wife, Anne Hathaway, with whom he spent a lifetime.Author: Vern ThiessenISBN-10: 0887547699ISBN-13: 9780887547690Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2009Pages:...

Great-grandmother fled the Japanese during World War II by escaping China into Hong Kong, a traumatic effect that's rippled down the family line. Grandmother married into the family after a childhood of poverty that will always stay with her. Mother decided to leave Hong...

The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of the war play out, the family bears...

Cyrano de Bergerac is a swashbuckling seventeenth-century swordsman who can do anything... except tell Roxane, the woman he loves, how he feels. He's just too self-conscious about his unusually large nose. Roxane finds romance in words, and Cyrano is full of them, so when...

The endearingly ditzy Pochsy is back in a new monologue!Pochsy used to work at Mercury Packers. Where she packed mercury. Until her job got off-shored. Now she's keeping suuuuper-busy taking gummies and thinking about rescue dogs, Joni Mitchell, gender, and pandas. And then she...

In ALTAR, Eugenio, a young Mexican immigrant living in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, experiences heartbreak when Benjamin, his new boyfriend, inexplicably "ghosts" him. Looking to the traditional Mexican holiday Dia de Muertos, Eugenio decides to build an altar in the hopes that he...

In Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay, two out-of-work gay actors teach straight men how to play the gay roles that lead to awards season glory. Blake and Clay may not be leading men, but they are leading these men to greatness by...

In October 2013, Scott Jones was leaving a bar in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, when he was attacked, stabbed in the back, and left paralyzed from the waist down. In the months following his attack, Scott Jones's story garnered international attention, not only for...

A poetic, heartbreaking story of intergenerational queer history in Lebanon, The Green Line weaves together civil war Beirut with a contemporary nightclub, following one family's journey to discover their past.In the present day, Rami, a twentysomething queer Lebanese Canadian, has returned to the Lebanese...

Recently retired from the priesthood, Terence Joseph Glasheen is starting over as a private citizen in the fabled Mile End neighbourhood of Montreal. At loose ends, Glasheen befriends his neighbour, Orenstein, a religious Jew, only to find himself pulled into the goings-on of the...