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    MacIvor, Daniel, Brooks, Daniel
    Summary:

    Giving his characters life in a whirlwind of words, Daniel MacIvor showcases his talents as a writer and performer in two of his most celebrated solo shows. Published here for the first time in their newly revised scripts, House and...

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    Foster, Norm
    Summary:

    The madcap antics start as Jack and Ruth Tisdale celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary with an evening at the theatre. It's a dream come true for Ruth and an imposition for Jack who would rather be at home watching the World...

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    Napoli, Rose
    Summary:

    One moment, Mona's father is teaching her to make pasta sauce at 2 AM-and the next, she sits beside him in a hospital room, counting the seconds between beeps. When a curiously familiar barefooted boy runs in, carrying a blue...

  • Author:
    Parent, Johanne
    Summary:

    Une pièce au parler cru et authentique où les personnages remontent le temps en quête de vérités qui ne les laisseront pas indemnes. À mi-chemin entre le canard et le castor, l'ornithorynque est un mammifère ovipare...

  • Author:
    Gagnon, Steve
    Summary:

    Bouleversé par le décès de sa mère, un jeune archéologue accepte d’aller travailler sur un chantier de fouilles à des milliers de kilomètres de chez-lui. Loin de Montréal, étourdi par une fuite en avant qui ne semble pas combler l’...

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    Simamba, Makambe K.
    Summary:

    Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through the unknown, as Slimm grapples...

  • Author:
    Foster, Norm
    Summary:

    A young Canadian homesteader travelling far from home finds himself accused of murder in the state of Kansas in 1871. With only his wits to defend himself, he turns the law of the land—and the men hell-bent on enforcing it—upside down....

  • Author:
    Dunn, Paul
    Summary:

    Inspired by the kinds of real-life stories that prompted the It Gets Better campaign, Paul Dunn's play for middle-grade and high-school students brings the discussion around homophobia, bullying, mental health, and gay-straight...

  • Author:
    Thompson, Judith
    Summary:

    Based around the lives of three distinct characters—a young soldier imprisoned for her misconduct at a prison camp in Iraq, a microbiologist-cum-weapons inspector who exposes the false justifications for war, and a mother/political...

  • Author:
    Yee, David
    Summary:

    An unhappy orphan who finds solace in paper cut-outs of her parents, an Indian doctor who displays his medical degree in his taxi cab, and waiters who tamper with fortune cookie are some of the vibrant characters who are brought to life...

  • Author:
    Flather, Patti
    Summary:

    After a traumatic assault in Central America, Rachel returns home, but it isn’t the reprieve she expected. She comes back to turmoil between her parents, and a part-time job in her dad’s medical office. Her father, George, full of...

  • Author:
    Kirkham, Gary
    Summary:

    The elderly Gidley sisters lead unassuming and unexciting lives in Blyth, Ontario in 1971. Tart-tongued Pearl and the more romantically-minded Edith live frugally, renting a room to the occasional boarder to help make ends meet. But the...

  • Author:
    Burkett, Ronnie
    Summary:

    Humanity is facing extinction, and Penny Plain, elderly and blind, can only sit and wait for the end. After a heartbreaking farewell from her dog, Geoffrey, who leaves to live as a man, Penny faces the inevitable by herself. But she isn...

  • Author:
    Robinson, Mansel
    Summary:

    A picaresque black comedy about a two-bit repo-man, his angry ex-wife and their smart-alec teenaged daughter whose lives collide with an enigmatic hitchhiker named Chekhov and a kid with a serious grudge.

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    Castelein De La Lande, Andre
    Summary:

    Composées au cours des années 1930, Pièces en un acte s'inspirent de la vie familiale dans laquelle les parents règnent en maîtres incontestés, les belles-mères s'épuisent en dévouements inutiles, les couples se...

  • Author:
    Castelein de la Lande, André
    Summary:

    Composées au cours des années 1930, Pièces en un acte s’inspirent de la vie familiale dans laquelle les parents règnent en maîtres incontestés, les belles-mères s’épuisent en dévouements inutiles, les couples se déchirent à...

  • Author:
    Murphy, Colleen
    Summary:

    At 4:00 a.m. on a secluded farm, a woman fights to take her life back from a serial killer as her desperate sister and a haunted police officer reach across time and distance in an attempt to rescue her.

  • Author:
    Burgess, Tony
    Summary:

    In the sleepy town of Pontypool, Ontario, no one is safe from an epidemic so devastating it will leave you literally speechless.

  • Author:
    Peeteetuce, Curtis
    Summary:

    As a condition of his parole, Darren has been ordered by the court to live with his father, Wally, on the rez. The two have always had a contentious relationship: Wally is a problem drinker, and Darren's got a short fuse. But Wally...

  • Author:
    Cloutier, Fabien
    Summary:

    Carl et Steven en arrachent ; pères à temps partiel, fils ou amoureux décevants, ils peinent à garder la tête hors de l'eau et à préserver un semblant de dignité. Pour survivre, ils feront des petits boulots pour Mario Vaillancourt, le...

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