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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,…
Beat the Sunset
2 Male, 2 Female
Ten years after a shattering crisis, Adam and Sacha meet again. Together they forge a relationship which transforms them both. Weaving themes of memory, AIDS, a mother’s love and the history of epidemics,…
Bethune
Large Mixed Cast Male, 2 Female
Set in landscapes which move from Detroit to China, Bethune is a study of how one man’s vision may shape the world In this play, Rod Langley attempts to chronicle the journey of Dr Norman Bethune…
Billy Bishop Goes to War
2 Male, 0 Female
A musical about Canada’s World War One flying ace “A delightful and cunningly wrought work of art” ~ The New Yorker Winner of the Governor general’s Award for Drama, 1982 NB - Music/Score…
Blow Fish
What do food, funerals, the Edmonton tornado, and Mila Mulroney have in common? Join the caterer Lumiere as he serves you up a whole new eating experience. “The script is brilliant….…
Body and Soul
To what extent is our desire conditioned and what forms will our desire take when we are given the means to simulate any experience? Body and Soul travels to a place where Love, biology and technology…
Boiler Room Suite
2 Male, 1 Female
The broken lives and the heroic struggle for joy of two “tramps” in a hotel boiler room “A beautiful tragicomic look at a couple of losers” ~ NBC
Bonjour La Bonjour
2 Male, 6 Female
Michel Tremblay considers this to the best of his plays ~ “In Bonjour,la,Bonjour, I apprehended the most of what I wanted to do in the theatre - to take out everything that is not strictly necessary”…
Buz’Gem Blues
3 Male, 3 Female
The Buz’Gem Blues is the third play in Drew Hayden Taylor’s ongoing zany, outrageous, often farcical examination of both Native and non-Native stereotypes in what is to become what he calls…
Can You See Me Yet?
4 Male, 7 Female
A search for sanctuary in an Ontario insane asylum in 1938 "Seems to me to be an astonishing work, richly textured, sombre, and yet possessing a relieving wit" ~ Margaret Laurence
Cheatin’ Hearts
“Bad country makes you wanna shoot the dog. It drives you to drink. It’s hell. Good country makes you wanna sing along. It gets you all misty-eyed or dancing. It’s mighty fine. Cheatin’…
Clever as Paint - The Rossettis in Love
This comic reappraisal of the painting circle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his wife Lizzie Siddal, and protege William Morris explores the boundaries between inspiration and despair, art and craft
Coastal Disturbances - Four Plays - Museum & The Art of Dining & Painting Churches
"The extravagance of her surfaces, the quirky characters and daffy dialogue, interact with the black passions of the interiors to form plays that can best be described as poetic farces, as antic elegies"…
Colonial Tongues
3 Male, 2 Female
In a small Northern Ontario town in 1967, Edna Barnett finds her family in moral jeopardy. In 1997, her youngest son returns home - to a ghost town “Lending great poignancy to this work is Robinson’s…
Colours in the Dark
2 Male, 3 Female
A mosaic of experiences that form a childhood “Both funny and touching ... intriguingly original in its conception” ~ Quill & Quire
