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  • Goodness by Redhill, Michael
    Michael Redhill

    Goodness

    This remarkable autobiographical play by the award-winning author of Building Jerusalem and Martin Sloane, is a Russian-doll-like play: concentric stories enveloping each other. A writer is told, in confidence, a terrible tale of murder and injustice and he promises never to repeat the story....
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  • Camera, Woman by Vaughan, Rm
    Rm Vaughan

    Camera, Woman

    'There are no lost women, only women who've forgotten their scripts.' RM Vaughan's play about Hollywood director Dorothy Arzner comes off the stage and onto the page in this handsome edition from Coach House Books. An insightful look at the gender politics behind the...
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  • People Live Here: Three Plays: The Chance, Her Inside Life, and Kill the Poor by Walker, George F.
    George F. Walker

    People Live Here: The Parkdale Trilogy: The Chance, Her Inside Life, and Kill the Poor

    People Live Here is a collection of three exciting new plays by George F. Walker, Canada's king of black comedy and a winner of two Governor General's Literary Awards for Drama. The Chance is a funny, quirky, and suspenseful play portraying three aspiring but...
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  • Forward by Bilodeau, Chantal
    Chantal Bilodeau

    Forward

    Forward was partly inspired by a ten-day sailing expedition around the Svalbard Archipelago, located halfway between Norway and the North Pole. Spanning a hundred years and thousands of kilometres from the sixtieth parallel North to the top of the world, Forward presents a poetic...
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  • Jonas & Barry in the Home by Foster, Norm
    Norm Foster

    Jonas & Barry in the Home

    Barry is annoyed that he's already living in a seniors' home at sixty-seven, but it's worth it to live near his daughter, Rosie. Rosie, who works at the home, brought him in so he wouldn't be alone in case he had a heart attack...
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  • Small Talk by Fréchette, Carole
    Carole Fr馗hette

    Small Talk

    Winner of the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for French-language drama Everyday conversation has always been a challenge for Julie, a lonely and anxious researcher who spends her days bent over a microscope in a basement laboratory. She struggles through lunchtime discussions with co-workers...
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  • The Flood by Bowen, Leah Simone
    Leah Simone Bowen

    The Flood

    In 1887, women were property and could be imprisoned for any reason. Jail was considered a place for the criminal, the disabled, the mentally ill, and the marginalized. In the basement prison below Toronto's largest market, two women named Mary--one a shunned, pregnant Irish...
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  • Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom by Tannahill, Jordan
    Jordan Tannahill

    Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom

    Botticelli in the Fire imagines the famed painter of The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, as an irrepressible seeker of love and pleasure caught between the powerful Medici family, the firebrand teachings of a zealot friar, and his young lover, Leonardo da Vinci. Entangled...
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  • Indian ACT: Residential School Plays by St Bernard, Donna-Michelle
    Donna-Michelle St Bernard

    Indian ACT: Residential School Plays

    Indian Act is a tribute and thank you to those who survived the Indian Residential School system so that future generations could be free to pursue their lives unhindered by educationally enforced lowered expectations and institutionalized abuse. Seven plays by contemporary First Nations playwrights...
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  • The Gay Heritage Project by Atkins, Damien
    Damien Atkins

    The Gay Heritage Project

    Is there such thing as gay heritage? Three of Canada's most gifted performers set out to find the answer by going beyond Google to discover forgotten heroes and stories (and a few well-known names), compiling everything into one extraordinary history lesson that shines new...
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  • The Gentleman Clothier by Foster, Norm
    Norm Foster

    The Gentleman Clothier

    Norman Davenport feels he was born in the wrong century. Disappointed that he is forced to cater to more current tastes when he opens a brand new clothing store, Norman makes a wish that changes his life--and the lives of his two loyal employees--forever....
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  • My Family and Other Endangered Species by Close, Ellen
    Ellen Close

    My Family and Other Endangered Species

    Nine-year-old Phineas interprets the world through his encyclopedic knowledge of animals, but some human behavior is puzzling. His dad recently left his family, his mom insists he learn to sleep on his own, and humans are ruining the environment. So when his fourth-grade class...
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  • The Ladies Foursome by Foster, Norm
    Norm Foster

    The Ladies Foursome

    The day after their friend Catherine's funeral, Margot, Tate, and Connie gather for a round of golf in honor of their recently departed fourth. At the course they are joined by another woman, an old friend of Catherine's they've never met. Over eighteen holes,...
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  • A History of Breathing by MacDonald, Daniel
    Daniel MacDonald

    A History of Breathing

    In a post-apocalyptic world, a great flood has claimed the land and many of its people. Two boats float aimlessly on an ocean that conceals the remains of civilization and history. One boat carries a father and daughter, the last survivors of an unspeakable...
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  • From Calcedonies to Orchids: Plays Promoting Humanity in Health Policy by Nisker, Jeff
    Jeff Nisker

    From Calcedonies to Orchids: Plays Promoting Humanity in Health Policy

    Jeff Nisker has been writing plays since the early 1990s. He did this in order to bring audiences to the position of persons immersed in the vortex of new scientific capacity and its social implications. Jeff ultimately aims to promote humanity in health policy...
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  • Sequence (Second Edition) by Lakra, Arun
    Arun Lakra

    Sequence (Second Edition)

    Winner, Calgary Theatre Critics Award for Best New Script 2013 Winner, Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama 2014 Winner, Grand Prize in Alberta Playwriting Competition 2011 Theo has been named Time Magazine's Luckiest Man Alive. For twenty consecutive years he has successfully bet double...
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  • Pretty Goblins by Graham, Beth
    Beth Graham

    Pretty Goblins

    From holding hands in the womb to holding each other's hair back when they puked, twins Laura and Lizzie grew up only having each other. They couldn't count on their practically feral mom, absent dad, or even the boys they liked. They're polar opposites--Laura's...
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  • Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story by Dixon, Beau
    Beau Dixon

    Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story

    Beneath Springhill is the incredible story of Maurice Ruddick, "the singing miner," an African-Canadian who survived nine days underground during the historic Springhill mining disaster of 1958. This multi-award-winning chamber musical recalls the events during the disaster, the effect it had on Ruddick's family,...
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  • Christina, the Girl King by Bouchard, Michel Marc
    Michel Marc Bouchard

    Christina, the Girl King

    Michel Marc Bouchard's latest play tells the story of Queen Christina of Sweden, who wreaked havoc throughout northern Europe in the middle of the seventeenth century. An enigmatic monarch, a flamboyant and unpredictable intellectual, a woman eager for knowledge, and a feminist before her...
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  • Burning Vision by Clements, Marie
    Marie Clements

    Burning Vision

    Marie Clements's acclaimed play sears a dramatic swath through the reactionary identity politics of race, gender and class, using the penetrating yellow-white light, the false sun of uranium and radium, derived from a coal black rock known as pitchblende, as a metaphor for the...
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  • Tideline by Mouawad, Wajdi
    Wajdi Mouawad

    Tideline

    Wahab, a young man born in Montreal, decides to bury his deceased father in his native Lebanon. In Lebanon, along with a few friends, Wahab confronts a country scarred by war, where an additional corpse is one too many. The young Montrealerthen embarks on...
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  • The Monument by Wagner, Colleen
    Colleen Wagner

    The Monument

    Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, and produced on stages across the world, The Monument is a searing exploration of the nature of forgiveness. It is a profound classic that examines the paradox of the soldier today and the ambiguities of morality and...
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  • 'Da Kink in My Hair by Anthony, Trey
    Trey Anthony

    'Da Kink in My Hair

    Set in a West Indian hair salon in Toronto, 'da Kink in My Hair introduces us to a group of women who tell us their unforgettable, moving, and often hilarious stories. Mixing laughter and tears--and told in words, music, and dance--the stories explore the...
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  • Social Acupuncture: A Guide to Suicide, Performance and Utopia by O'Donnell, Darren
    Darren O'Donnell

    Social Acupuncture: A Guide to Suicide, Performance and Utopia

    Theatre doesn't have much relevance anymore. Or so acclaimed playwright Darren O'Donnell tells us. The dynamics of unplanned social interaction, he says, are far more compelling than any play he could produce. So his latest show, A Suicide-Site Guide to the City, isn't really...
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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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  • Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing by Highway, Tomson
    Tomson Highway

    Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing

    Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Drama Dora Mavor Moore Award winner, 1989 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award winner, 1990 Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing tells another story of the mythical Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve, also the setting for Tomson Highway's award...
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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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  • Legoland by Richmond, Jacob
    Jacob Richmond

    Legoland

    Penny and Ezra Lamb are home-schooled by their parents on a hippie colony near Uranium City until the police discover it also happens to be the largest marijuana grow-op in Saskatchewan. "Legoland" is how their pot-smoking elders always described the outside world, and the...
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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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