Drama - Canadian

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...

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...

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...

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

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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...