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The Execution
9 Male, 2 Female
Set in a boarding school, two school boys plot and enact the murder of a classmate “A brilliant play about the maturation of evil” ~ CHQM
Fifteen Miles of Broken Glass
9 Male, 2 Female
“There I was just out of high school, all eager for the future, and there was the road to the future stretching out in front of me like fifteen miles of broken glass” Set in Winnipeg in August,…
Esker Mike and His Wife Agiluk
9 Male, 6 Female
A classic tragedy about Inuit life and how it is affected by white settlers, priests and government officials “A fascinating, moving, and ultimately a very beautiful play” ~ CBC
Coronation Voyage
8 Male, 4 Female
It’s May 1953 and the Empress of France sets sail from Montreal On the pretext of attending the celebrations marking the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, an important mafioso leaves for England…
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…
On the Job
8 Male, 0 Female
Christmas Eve 1970. The workers at a Montreal dress factory, frustrated by lack of job opportunities and emboldened by smuggled liquor, go on strike The gesture proves futile and they wind up at home,…
Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists
6 Male, 1 Female
A dramatized inquiry in which five geologists are interrogated about the death of one of their colleagues in the Mekong Delta, Cambodia Nominated for a Governor General’s Award and winner of the…
Doctor Thomas Neill Cream (Mystery at McGill)
6 Male, 4 Female
Fifteen years to the day after the death of their father, three brothers get together and drive out to the place where it happened - an old fishing spot on the river down Dangerous Passes Road Each is…
The Dunsmuirs - A Promise kept
6 Male, 3 Female
A dark family secret emerges in this second play about the wealthy and ill-fated Dunsmuir family
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,…
Les Canadiens
6 Male, 1 Female
A play about Quebec and Canada using hockey as a metaphor Winner of the Chalmers Award for Best Canadian Play, 1977 “An examination of the Canadiens has never been mastered so well” ~ Montreal…
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
5 Male, 1 Female
A lyric documentary about a young Indian girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row George Ryga’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe is perhaps the best known contemporary Canadian play - a lyric documentary…
