Drama - Canadian

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 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...

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...

It's 1970s Winnipeg--a time of revolution and radical possibilities--and an apartment building of Indian immigrant friends is about to be transformed by their latest arrival. A young Bengali Muslim woman, Nuzha, has just married Qasim over the phone at his mother's insistence, and can't...

In 2019, a group of scholar-artists led by Jill Carter stood with their audience in a liminal space at the edge of the woods--a space between now and then, a space between now and later. Together, they engaged in a survivance intervention: an Indigenous...

A small military-occupied community sits, waiting, parched of natural water while nearby levees hold the rising global shoreline. Seventeen-year-old twins Alix and Evan pass the time in an empty, abandoned pool with what they are able to scavenge from the abandoned houses, while government...

I never wondered if Oliver loved me. The second we met, I knew we belonged together. I knew Oliver knew it, too. I saw it in his eyes.The eyes I instantly adored.​The eyes everyone else feared.​After the AI Bot war of 2099, Layla and...

""The Canadian Rebellion of 1837"" is a historical account of the uprising that took place in Upper and Lower Canada in 1837. Written by David Breakenridge Read and first published in 1896, the book provides a detailed analysis of the events leading up to...

You can call him Cockroach, or Roach for short. He's a catnip-smoking city slicker living in the dark corners behind the toilet. After diving into the diaper of a Chinese baby, Cockroach watches the boy grow up to lose his sense of identity. Understanding...

Fourteen-year-old Simone is caught between cultures: Canadian, Québécois, and Trinidadian. She's also torn between friends and the projects they want her to take part in. Her best friend Sarah wants them to compete in the talent show with a dance routine, but her new...

Considered a masterpiece of Canadian literature, Margaret Laurence's The Diviners is the compelling story of Morag Gunn, a woman who perseveres through challenge after challenge as she attempts to carve out an authentic life as a writer. The play moves backward and forward through...

On the twentieth anniversary of its first volume, Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 3 is a curated collection of new works rooted in Indigenous values, aesthetics, and narrative structures. Inspired by their own dramaturgical practices and current conversations in contemporary theatre creation, co-editors Monique Mojica...

Hailed as the world's first Deaf musical--told entirely in American Sign Language and Signed Music--The Black Drum revolves around Joan and her journey to healing after the death of her wife, Karen. Since Karen's passing, Joan has been unable to share her music with...

In an adaptation of the classic Canadian novel, this epic play follows three generations of a Cape Breton Island family in a tale of forbidden love, inescapable bonds, and devastating betrayals, all while harbouring secrets that threaten to shatter the family entirely.At the dawn...

From Governor General's Award-winning playwright Djanet Sears comes a beautiful and deeply moving story set in present-day Negro Creek, a 200-year-old Black community. Rainey Baldwin-Johnson, a country doctor, struggles to come to terms with the loss of her daughter, the disintergration of her marriage...

Misty Lake tells the story of a young Metis journalist from Winnipeg who travels to a Dene reserve in Northern Manitoba to conduct an interview with a former residential school student. What Mary imparts in her interview will change Patty's life profoundly, allowing the...

Winner of the Noel Coward Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy at the 2020 Olivier Awards In 1611 Emilia Bassano wrote a volume of radical, feminist and subversive poetry. It was one of the first published collections of poetry written by a woman in...

A college student's life is given meaning when he chooses to sponsor Elias, a Salvadoran refugee, as a class project. When Elias arrives, his hosts Sander and his family learn what it means and feels to be a refugee and how to relate to...

Scirocco Drama presents two plays by Jessica B. Hill: The Dark Lady, a drama about Shakespeare's mysterious "Dark Lady of the Sonnets," and Pandora, a solo show about hope, interconnection, and life's biggest questions.Emilia Bassano, believed to be the woman known as "the Dark...

The Angelic Mysteries Of The Nine Heavens: A Drama Of Interior Initiation is a book written by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie. The book is a spiritual drama that explores the mysteries of the nine heavens and the journey of interior initiation. The story revolves around...

Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) is rightfully regarded as one of the foremost Irish poets of this century, but he was also a distinctive, gifted, and popular playwright. This unique selection of eight of MacNeice's best plays, most of which were written for BBC Radio, draws...

Grocery-store clerk Beth has had a hell of a week. A hell of a life, actually, full of people squashing her soul. And after pushing back at life--stabbing a steak to her boss's desk and lighting a magazine rack on fire, for instance--freshly unemployed...

Canadas first audition book, with monologues from plays of the seventies.Author: Margaret BardISBN-10: 0889241449ISBN-13: 9780889241442Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1980Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d

In this rapid moment of expansion in queer theatre, when everything is exposed, interrogated, and investigated, This is Beyond is a time capsule of where we are now and a map for where we might go next. Co-editors Evan Tsitsias and Bilal Baig strike...

Out for a walk in their Vancouver neighbourhood, interracial couple Mike and Marissa meet a dog with an unfortunate breed name: Redbone coonhound. This detail unleashes a cascading debate between them about race and their relationship that manifests as a series of micro-plays, each...

As all the great dramatists since the Greek tragedians have known, class and gender roles continue to remain the two fundamental determinants of the social fabric of any culture--even one, like our own, in which the boundaries of those identities have become fluid, situational...

In 1535, Hummiktuq, an Inuit widow, has a strange dream about the future. The next day, she discovers a bear cub floating on a piece of ice near a breathing hole. Despite the concerns of her community, she adopts him as her own and...

An uproariously funny and sharply inquisitive new play from one of Canada's leading Indigenous playwrights, Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion explores the possibility of reconciliation between Peoples and urgently questions past and contemporary forms of Canadian colonialism. Taylor's twenty-seventh play,...

Set seven years before King Lear, Queen Goneril centres the struggles of Lear's daughters as they negotiate patriarchal systems built to keep them relegated to the sidelines. In Goneril, we find a natural-born leader. In Regan, a boundary pusher. And in Cordelia, a reluctant...

What is the future of Blackness? Obsidian Theatre presents twenty-one versions of it.In 2021, Obsidian Theatre engaged twenty-one writers to create twenty-one new stories about imagined Black futures. Twenty-one to celebrate Obsidian's twenty-first anniversary in 2021. Each playwright was tasked with scripting a ten-minute...

In 2017, when the public agency Waterfront Toronto decided to put up a parcel of land for development, Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google's Alphabet Inc., swept in with a proposal to create the city of the future. Waterfront Toronto jumped at the opportunity...