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  • 2000 by MacLeod, Joan
    Joan MacLeod

    2000

    According to Joan MacLeod, her play 2000 grew out of a story she read about a cougar that had wandered into a sports arena in Vancouver, BC: "I was intrigued by the notion of the wild invading the city and the city invading the...
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  • This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear by Walker, David Gagnon
    David Gagnon Walker

    This Is the Story of the Child Ruled by Fear

    David has written a play for himself and a gathering of friends and strangers to read together out loud. It tells the story of the rise and fall of an imaginary civilization in an imaginary land. Some of it is fact, some fiction. But...
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  • Niizh by Peters, Joelle
    Joelle Peters

    Niizh

    It's summertime on the rez, the frybread is sizzling, and the local radio station plays bluegrass, Anishinaabemowin lessons, and Friday-night bingo numbers. Lenna, the youngest of the Little family, is preparing to leave home for her first year at college, with little enthusiasm or...
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  • Espejos: Clean by Quintana, Christine
    Christine Quintana

    Espejos: Clean

    The lives of two women from very different worlds collide in the illusionary paradise of a Mexican resort. Sarah, a Canadian wedding guest, is a shot glass half empty. Adriana, a fastidious and vivacious hotel floor manager, finds solace in establishing order. At first...
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  • Bentboy by Barnes, Herbie
    Herbie Barnes

    Bentboy

    "Each pathway is created by the single steps of many who go before..." Deep in a forest, in another time, begins the story of a child called Bentboy. Hunched and hobbled by his curved back, Bentboy is cast aside by his village--until one day,...
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  • Burning Mom by Ouchi, Mieko
    Mieko Ouchi

    Burning Mom

    After nearly a year of mourning her husband's death, sixtysomething Dorothy needs to feel alive. So she pitches a road-trip idea to her family--attending Burning Man, the massive arts festival known for its carefree nature that draws half a million people, and she wants...
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  • The War Being Waged by Contois, Darla
    Darla Contois

    The War Being Waged

    Author: Darla ContoisISBN-10: 1990737188ISBN-13: 9781990737183Publisher: Scirocco DramaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2022Pages: 48Format: Paperback
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  • Bears by MacKenzie, Matthew
    Matthew MacKenzie

    Bears

    As the prime suspect in a workplace accident, Floyd has to get out of town fast. Pursued by the RCMP, he heads through the Rockies for Burnaby, BC, along the route of the Trans Mountain Pipeline. By the time he reaches the Pacific, Floyd...
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  • Penny Plain by Burkett, Ronnie
    Ronnie Burkett

    Penny Plain

    A new play from one of the world's most acclaimed and inventive puppeteers. Humanity is facing extinction, and Penny Plain, elderly and blind, can only sit and wait. An unexpected cast of characters pay her visits, struggling to escape from the hostile world outside,...
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  • Seeds by Soutar, Annabel
    Annabel Soutar

    Seeds

    Seeds presents an intelligent portrait of farming and scientific communities in conflict. Part courtroom drama and part social satire, Seeds documents the 2004 Supreme Court of Canada showdown between Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser and biotech multinational Monsanto Inc. In question is the legitimacy of...
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  • First M?tis Man of Odesa by MacKenzie, Matthew
    Matthew MacKenzie

    First M?tis Man of Odesa

    Matt and Masha hit it off during a theatre research trip in Ukraine. At first they seem like opposites: Masha loves the sea, Matt loves mountains. Masha is Ukrainian, Matt is M?tis. But the passionate spark ignited between them cannot be denied. Despite the...
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  • Women of the Fur Trade Second Edition: Second Edition by Koncan, Frances
    Frances Koncan

    Women of the Fur Trade Second Edition: Second Edition

    In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love, and the hot nerd Louis...
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  • Among Men by Yee, David
    David Yee

    Among Men

    1959, Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward County, Canada. On the edge of spring, two men are finishing an A-frame cabin on Roblin Lake. In the coming decade all three of them--Al, Milt, and the A-frame--will become famous and change the face of Canadian poetry. But now...
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  • Calpurnia by Dwyer, Audrey
    Audrey Dwyer

    Calpurnia

    Julie, a young Jamaican Canadian screenwriter, is passionately working on an adaptation of one of the most beloved American novels of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird, telling the story from the perspective of the Finch family's Black maid, Calpurnia. But within the safe...
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  • Actor Needs Restraint!: Monologues, Recitations, Clown Turns, and Comedy Sketches by Jones, Andy
    Andy Jones

    Actor Needs Restraint!: Monologues, Recitations, Clown Turns, and Comedy Sketches

    Three plays from the repertoire of iconic Newfoundland and Labrador playwright, actor, and member of the groundbreaking Newfoundland comedy troupe CODCO, Andy Jones. Based on Jones' well-known epistolary radio series, An Evening with Uncle Val is a set of comic reportages from the perspective...
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  • Cafe Daughter by Williams, Kenneth T.
    Kenneth T. Williams

    Cafe Daughter

    CafZ Daughter is a one-woman drama inspired by a true story about a Chinese-Cree girl growing up in Saskatchewan in the 1950s and 60s.Author: Kenneth T. WilliamsISBN-10: 1897289855ISBN-13: 9781897289853Publisher: Scirocco DramaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2013Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.30d
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  • Naked at School: Three Plays for Teens by Craddock, Chris
    Chris Craddock

    Naked at School: Three Plays for Teens

    In this collection, Chris Craddock tackles the weighty issues of suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, and sex and pregnancy in the lives of teens and their families with humour, insight, and candid reality. Throughout all three plays subversive wit and outright laugh-ability keep students,...
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  • The Donnellys: Sticks and Stones/The St. Nicholas Hotel/Handcuffs by Reaney, James
    James Reaney

    The Donnellys: Sticks and Stones/The St. Nicholas Hotel/Handcuffs

    Based on a true story, these three plays explore the saga of a secret society and massacre that stunned the Canadian public in 1880.Author: James ReaneyISBN-10: 1550028324ISBN-13: 9781550028324Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2008Pages: 440Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.47h x 5.57w x 1.10d
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  • Modern Canadian Plays, (Volume 2, 5th Edition) by Wasserman, Jerry
    Jerry Wasserman

    Modern Canadian Plays, (Volume 2, 5th Edition)

    Modern Canadian Plays is the core text for university-level Canadian drama courses around the world. Now in its fifth edition, with the previous edition published in 2002, the two-volume Modern Canadian Plays drama series anthologizes major Canadian plays written and performed since 1967. The...
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  • Lion in the Streets by Thompson, Judith
    Judith Thompson

    Lion in the Streets

    An enduring classic that looks at the inner emotional turmoil in ordinary people and the ways in which they cope. Seventeen years ago, Isobel was murdered at the age of nine. Now she finds herself back in her previous life as a ghost searching...
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  • Withrow Park by Panych, Morris
    Morris Panych

    Withrow Park

    Three people gaze out their living room window as the days pass. Across the street in Withrow Park, life goes on - or is it a dream?Then comes a knock at the door. Time has found them, hiding in plain sight. Or possibly it's...
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  • Brébeuf's Ghost by Moses, Daniel David
    Daniel David Moses

    Brébeuf's Ghost

    In the year 1649, the Iroquois are on the warpath, killing traitors and Christians at the mission of Sainte Marie. The shaman is worried about windigos and the Black Robe about the fires of hell. Worlds collide in a renowned First Nations playwright's epic,...
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  • Cottage Radio & Other Plays: Cottage Radio, White Wedding & Post Alice by Graham, Taylor Marie
    Taylor Marie Graham

    Cottage Radio & Other Plays: Cottage Radio, White Wedding & Post Alice

    Cottage Radio & Other Plays animates a wild cast of Southwestern Ontario characters - particularly its strong, hilarious rural women - with complex histories and relationships to the land. The titlular Cottage Radio zeroes in on the sarcastic, charismatic Marley clan as they band...
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  • The Ministry of Grace by Beagan, Tara
    Tara Beagan

    The Ministry of Grace

    It's 1950 in the deserts of Southern California. Evangelist Brother Cain has a booming trade; his tent revival show moves from town to town, fleecing crowds desperate for something to believe in. When he discovers Mary, a Ntlaka'pamux woman from BC's Nicola Valley, reading...
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  • 1939 by Lauzon, Jani
    Jani Lauzon

    1939

    In 1939, a group of students at a fictional residential school in Ontario are faced with the daunting task of putting on a play by William Shakespeare for the King and Queen of England on their first Royal Tour of Canada. But as news...
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  • Freedom: A Mixtape by Stewart, Marcel
    Marcel Stewart

    Freedom: A Mixtape

    Freedom: A Mixtape is a soulful artistic response to recent and historical violence on Black bodies, presented through a collection of original songs, stories, poems, anecdotes, spoken-word pieces, and musical instrumentation from folks living in the Niagara Region. A community conversation about our complicated...
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  • Billy Bishop Goes to War 2nd Edition by MacLachlan Gray, John
    John MacLachlan Gray

    Billy Bishop Goes to War 2nd Edition

    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...
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  • The Boy in the Treehouse / The Girl Who Loved Her Horses by Taylor, Drew Hayden
    Drew Hayden Taylor

    The Boy in the Treehouse / The Girl Who Loved Her Horses

    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...
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  • Category E by Cornish, Belinda
    Belinda Cornish

    Category E

    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....
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  • Dreary and Izzy by Beagan, Tara
    Tara Beagan

    Dreary and Izzy

    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
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  • In Spirit by Beagan, Tara
    Tara Beagan

    In Spirit

    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...
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  • Mustard by Sandler, Kat
    Kat Sandler

    Mustard

    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...
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  • The Virgin Trial by Hennig, Kate
    Kate Hennig

    The Virgin Trial

    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...
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  • Get That Hope by Scott, Andrea
    Andrea Scott

    Get That Hope

    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...
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  • We the Same by Wylie, Sangeeta
    Sangeeta Wylie

    We the Same

    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...
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  • The Party & the Candidate by Sandler, Kat
    Kat Sandler

    The Party & the Candidate

    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...
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  • From the Ashes: Six Solo Plays by Grant, Shauntay
    Shauntay Grant

    From the Ashes: Six Solo Plays

    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,...
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  • Body So Fluorescent by Cordner, Amanda
    Amanda Cordner

    Body So Fluorescent

    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...
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  • When Words Sing: Seven Canadian Libretti by Salverson, Julie
    Julie Salverson

    When Words Sing: Seven Canadian Libretti

    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...
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  • Marriage: A Demolition in Two Acts by Chafe, Rick
    Rick Chafe

    Marriage: A Demolition in Two Acts

    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...
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  • The Bombay Plays by Irani, Anosh
    Anosh Irani

    The Bombay Plays

    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...
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  • The Bears Sleep at Last by Billette, Geneviève
    Geneviève Billette

    The Bears Sleep at Last

    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...
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  • Cake by St Bernard, Donna-Michelle
    Donna-Michelle St Bernard

    Cake

    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...
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  • Gloria's Guy by Burrows, Joan
    Joan Burrows

    Gloria's Guy

    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,...
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  • Skin Flick by Foster, Norm
    Norm Foster

    Skin Flick

    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...
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  • White Biting Dog & Other Plays by Thompson, Judith
    Judith Thompson

    White Biting Dog & Other Plays

    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...
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  • Bingo! by MacIvor, Daniel
    Daniel MacIvor

    Bingo!

    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:...
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  • Animals: Two Plays by Karen Hines, Crawlspace and All the Little Animals I Have Eaten by Hines, Karen
    Karen Hines

    Animals: Two Plays by Karen Hines, Crawlspace and All the Little Animals I Have Eaten

    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...
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  • Drama by Hines, Karen
    Karen Hines

    Drama

    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...
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  • The Pochsy Plays by Hines, Karen
    Karen Hines

    The Pochsy Plays

    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...
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