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  • Author:
    Claude Guilmain
    Summary:

    La famille Cardinal est confrontée au spectre d'un grand-père disparu dans les années quarante, dont le destin aurait peut-être été lié à l'assassinat du 22 novembre 1963, à Dallas. La découverte d'une page...

  • Author:
    Moeller, Nicole
    Summary:

    Greg is a once-respected journalist searching for a high-profile story that will help revive his career. Chloe is the missing girl he wrote about six years earlier who has just returned home to a world she no longer recognizes. Instead...

  • Author:
    Stubbs, Sally
    Summary:

    An action-packed drama with heart, dark humour, and song, And Bella Sang with Us is inspired by Canada’s first women police officers, Constables Minnie Miller and Lurancy Harris, and a remarkable story in Ladies of the Night, a career...

  • Author:
    Verdier, Marie-Claude
    Summary:

    What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact? What is the cost of revolution? In this contemporary retelling of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city's perimeter comes to a head when a...

  • Author:
    Hines, Karen
    Summary:

    ‘I used to want a black enamel farmhouse sink. Now, I just want shelter.’ From acclaimed playwright Karen Hines come two darkly comic meditations on security, safety, and shelter. Crawlspace is a comic, Kafkaesque monologue about the...

  • Author:
    MacIovr, Daniel
    Summary:

    On a publicity tour in Japan, Carl, a Canadian author, finds himself falling in love amidst the sacred stages of Noh theatre and the seedy dance clubs in Tokyo, wired on cocaine and sake. His object of affection is the young, seductive...

  • Author:
    Murphy, Colleen
    Summary:

    After suffering a crippling injury during a tour of Afghanistan, Michael has returned home to a Canadian veteran's care facility. The last thing he wanted was to spend his time with a twelve-year-old girl, but Halley, a spirited,...

  • Author:
    Sandler, Kat
    Summary:

    Lila, a young Black ex-cop, has been on leave from the police force ever since she shot an unarmed Black youth. She's moved back in with her mother, Karen, and is drinking beer for breakfast. So when Tim, a white playwright, shows...

  • Author:
    Grant, Michael
    Summary:

    In an effort to rekindle their spark, empty nesters Norm and Ruth book a trip to a familiar family campground, only to realize that it's now a nudist camp.

  • Author:
    Shields, Erin
    Summary:

    There's a great deal of rage underlying [Beautiful Man], but also many humorous elements, and so many things to admire about Shields's acute observations and inversions of expectation . . . Every new play from her is a challenge, and a...

  • Author:
    Dey, Claudia
    Summary:

    In a white trash, northern Ontario gothic, we follow Beatrice "Beaver" Jersey as she learns to grow beyond her circumscribed world, struggling with her whacky extended family, her alcoholic father, and her chain-smoking ghost of a...

  • Author:
    Scott, Andrea
    Summary:

    In Better Angels: A Parable, Akosua Mansa leaves Ghana to work for Greg and Leila Tate in the tony suburbs of a metropolitan city. But she soon finds herself in an impossible situation: like more than forty million people, she's...

  • Author:
    Chafe, Robert
    Summary:

    Dr. Jon Lien is a risk-taker and respected researcher, working for over twenty years in the dangerous waters off Newfoundland to rescue massive humpback whales and save the fishing gear in which they're trapped. With his head down...

  • Author:
    Mand, Jordi
    Summary:

    Marion, a working mother with a special-needs child, has discovered a devastating secret: her husband Curtis has been engaging in a torrid love affair with none other than their son's young teacher, Teresa. Armed with love notes between...

  • Author:
    Burkett, Ronnie
    Summary:

    Standing at the edge of the ship, contemplating a watery demise, Billy is called back to reality when his dead mentor Sid Diamond appears as a handpuppet. Sid forces Billy to re-enact his life as a puppet show, rekindling the passion...

  • Author:
    MacIovr, Daniel
    Summary:

    Five classmates come together for their thirtieth high-school reunion. Some see it as a welcome trip home, while others see it as an obligation, and a few never even left. But as the night wears on, the one-time classmates start to...

  • Author:
    Mouawad, Wajdi
    Summary:

    In this sweeping new drama from the prolific Wajdi Mouawad, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict hits close to home as a straight-laced family is forced to confront everything they know about their identities. Is it really important to...

  • Author:
    Banks, Catherine
    Summary:

    These two plays by renowned playwright Catherine Banks explore the stories of strong women as they work through their pasts. In Bitter Rose, after a morning of racing around the small liberal arts town where she lives in her bloodied...

  • Author:
    Heiti, Matthew
    Summary:

    Two is fraught. While dealing with the impossible expectations of her parents, she is trying to understand why her brother, a bright and talented teenager, has taken his own life. It’s not until a fateful school detention that she meets...

  • Author:
    Braem, Meg
    Summary:

    Twin sisters Poubelle and Angelique are bonded in both biology and shared tragedy after a car accident leaves them orphaned along a prairie highway in a pool of blood. But the young twins are brought home with Dr. Glass after their...

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