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Life Without Instruction
5 Male, 3 Female
Based on a true story and a real trial, this presents a woman’s struggle for freedom, identity and dignity Artemisia Fentileshi’s father, the late-Renaissance painter Orazio Gentileschi, takes…
Joe Beef - A History of Pointe Saint Charles
5 Male, 5 Female
Desperately poor immigrants find refuge with Montreal’s legendary barkeeper extrordinaire, Joe Beef “An evening of political theatre with both guts and skill is a rare commodity these days”…
Jacob’s Wake
5 Male, 2 Female
Maritime family’s tragedy, set in a raging storm “A powerful play, deeply rooted in its regional context, but universal enough to appeal to an audience anywhere” ~ Canadian Literature
Goodnight Disgrace
4 Male, 3 Female
From his wheelchair in a nursing home, Conrad Aiken recalls his long, stormy relations with Malcolm Lowry “Knocked out by the richness of its language” ~ Vancouver Sun
Heaven
4 Male, 2 Female
Heaven is George F. Walker’s “millennium play” Well, sort of, if we can free ourselves from the expectation of the usual science-fiction-based projection and imposition of our current…
Playing Bare
4 Male, 2 Female
A mordant satire on the relation between theatre and life “... it celebrates theatre by paying tribute to Godot, one of its most brilliant gems” ~ Vancouver Sun
La Maison Suspendue
4 Male, 3 Female
A rich, emotional, sweeping drama of anger and sorrow spanning three generations The family house in the country is the setting for the story of Victiore and her descendants through her husband and through…
Listen to the Wind
4 Male, 4 Female
Two stories intertwine and illuminate the relationship of life to its creative dream In a Perth County farmhouse sometime during the 1930s, a boy called Owen decides to spend the summer putting on plays…
Suburban Motel
3 Male, 3 Female
Six plays, united only by the fact that they each take place in one and the same suburban motel room Transients, lovers, the haunted and the hunted, the desperate and the dumb, each “strut and fret…
La Duchesse de Langeais & Berthe & Johnny Mangano and His Astonishing Dogs & Surprise Surprise & Gloria Star
3 Male, 3 Female
The plight of the Duchesse mirrors the plight of a society” ~ Canadian Literature
The Queens
3 Male, 3 Female
London, 1483. From the aged Duchess of York, who is 99 years old and will never sit on the throne, to the young Lady Anne who will marry Richard III in order to reign Chaurette traces the shifting passions…
WASPS
3 Male, 3 Female
Val McIntosh, a sane, sensible librarian, marries in haste and repents at leisure. A drawing-room farce for distempered times
