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15 Seconds
2 Male, 2 Female
Brimming with a dark and brittle humour, Fifteen Seconds is a play about a young female advertising copy writer, her pro-sports-fan ex-boyfriend, a Gen-X welfare-bum loser and his brother handicapped by…
1949
8 Male, 6 Female
Newfoundland joins Confederation in the continuing saga of the Mercer family As recent immigrants to Toronto they see this event both as a new future and as a loss of Newfoundland’s culture and independence…
2000
3 Male, 2 Female
The play 2000 grew out of a story Joan MacLeod read about a cougar that had wandered into a sports arena in Vancouver, B.C “I was intrigued by the notion of the wild invading the city and the city…
A Line in the Sand
4 Male, 0 Female
In Autumn 1990, during Operation Desert Shield, two young men, one a troubled Canadian soldier, the other a teenage Palestinian black-marketeer, meet in the scorched Qatari desert Breaching the divide…
Albertine in Five Times
0 Male, 6 Female
The story of one woman - Albertine - at five times in her life “A remarkable play” - New Statesman
All Fall Down
2 Male, 2 Female
crucible-inspired drama surrounding an inquiry into a doubtful molestation incident in a small town daycare, All Fall Down is a play about witch-hunting in the late twentieth century The rumours and whispers…
All the Verdis of Venice
3 Male, 2 Female
All great art has the ability to move people collectively, to create within it some essential, participatory expression of their humanity, their culture, their heritage But who creates this art? What is…
Amigo’s Blue Guitar
3 Male, 2 Female
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…
Bag Babies
3 Male, 2 Female
The rich speak verse and the poor speak prose in this comic and wildly theatrical satire on hypocrisy and greed.
Balconville
6 Male, 3 Female
The English and French working class get together on their balconies in Montreal Winner of the Chalmers Award for Best Canadian Play, 1979 “Balconville is a work of genius. It’s angry bitter,…
