Drama - Canadian

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...

""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...

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...

Claudia is "an official pre-teen" still reeling from her parents' divorce. Her father is getting re-married, she has a science fair project coming due, and she is in the physical and emotional throes of puberty. Finding refuge in the basement of her school, Alcudia...

Darrel is a middle-aged mentally challenged man who lives with his mother. When she dies in her sleep, Darrel does not realize she is gone, and, for ten days, he lives alone. Tandem to Darrel's day to day routine are the adventures of his...

Mapleview Lanes--address of "The Canadian Dream." The newest resident_a group home for troubled teens. There goes the neighborhood. Disturbing and touching, funny and heartbreaking, this is classic Judith Thompson.Author: Judith ThompsonISBN-10: 0887546153ISBN-13: 9780887546150Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2002Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.38h x 6.34w...

Welcome to Wal-Mart. On their break, a cashier and her fellow workers flick through celebrity gossip magazines. 'See you Later, Celine, ' says a headline. What's wrong with Celine? Why is she turning her back on her glamorous public life, her adoring fans? And...

"Mighton's most accessible play...beautifully told."--Stage and PageTwo nursing home residents rekindle what might have been a wartime romance. The award-winning author of Possible Worlds brings us this poetic and moving meditation on identity, aging and the nature of memory. What shines through when memory...

A revival of a romantic drama, Simon Doucet re-enacts for Jean Bilodeau, now a Catholic bishop, their past as lovers while rehearsing The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastien.Author: Michael Marc BouchardISBN-10: 0887545459ISBN-13: 9780887545450Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1998Pages: 69Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.35w x...

Since its inception in 1974, Canadian Theatre Review has been one of the most important publishers of new Canadian plays. With a script in each issue, CTR has introduced new writers and advocated new approaches to Canadian drama.This volume brings together fifteen of the...

Author: Nicolas BillonISBN-10: 0887548466ISBN-13: 9780887548468Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2007Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.20d

Gale has fashioned a spare but powerful tale that thrusts the indignities of slavery and the stupidity of racism out of the murky 18th century and into the here and now.--Martin Morrow, Calgary HeraldAuthor: Lorena GaleISBN-10: 0887545858ISBN-13: 9780887545856Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2000Pages: 96Format:...

The first anthology of First Nations drama to be published in Canada, this volume includes seminal work by Spiderwoman Theatre, Daniel David Moses, Monique Mojica, Drew Hayden Taylor, Yvette Nolan, and Marie Humber Clements, and features previously unpublished plays by Tomson Highway, Maria Campbell,...

A collection of contemporary Canadian monologues for women, intended for auditions, study or general interest and addressing themes of Adolescence, Body, Childhood Memories, Identity, Mothers, and Passion."A monologue must give voice to those who have been silenced. The speaker must urgently need to speak,...

By the author of Scorched, which won the Governor General's Award in 2002.Author: Wajdi MouawadISBN-10: 0887547931ISBN-13: 9780887547935Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2010Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.56h x 5.12w x 0.55dAward: Governor General's Literary Awards - Winner

East of Berlin premiered at SummerWorks in the fall of 2007.Author: Hannah MoscovitchISBN-10: 0887548490ISBN-13: 9780887548499Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2010Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.30w x 0.20dAward: Governor General's Literary Awards - FinalistReview Citation(s): Quill & Quire 07/01/2009 pg. 39

Author: Linda Griffiths, Maria CampbellISBN-10: 0887545351ISBN-13: 9780887545351Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1997Pages: 175Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.34h x 5.36w x 0.50d

"Dennis is a writer and performer to keep your eye on. Sparked by anger but suffused with humanity and humility, his Tales are worth telling--and watching."-- NOW MagazineIncludes Tales of an Urban Indian and The Trickster of Third Avenue East, both of which depict...

In a society where the Black male body is both vilified and sexualized, Black Boys uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black male experience. Text, movement, and design portray the rhythm and vulnerability of three very different Black men who seek a deeper...