Written as a stage play and set within a fictional gameshow. Blood Sport, through a satirical lens confronts the absurdity and harmful consequences of false claims of Indigenous identity, and delves into this complex topic of...
Canadian drama
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Author:Rogers, Janet MarieSummary: - Author:Thompson, JudithSummary:
In real and personal stories, these women share their personal stories of triumphs, tragedies, and life's funny moments, while challenging the reader to look beneath the surface of how society views women, especially as they age. Body...
- Author:Green, Nick, St. Bernard, Donna-MichelleSummary:
The point is that we started the conversation. In 1971 Phillip was on the cusp of starting something big. Something that would make history. Now he's an aging journalist trying to make sense of Grindr. Phillip was a founding member...
- Author:Banks, CatherineSummary:
Jamie is twenty-two years old and works twelve-hour shifts operating a wood processor, clear-cutting for pulp. At the end of each shift, he walks through the destruction he has created looking for injured birds and animals and rescues...
- Author:Tannahill, JordanSummary:
Winner of the Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Canadian Play of 2016, Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom presents wildly apocryphal retellings of two events—one historic, one mythic—that reconsider the official...
- Author:O'Donnell, DarrenSummary:
Dr. Thoughtless Actions, a young geneticist, awakes one morning to find a cardboard box secured to his head. Unable to wrench it off, he attempts suicide, not only failing but also, unbeknowst to himself, cloning himself, creating Dr....
- Author:Crawford, Mark E.Summary:
Deep in Simon’s basement, there is a secret world of imagination and adventure. When his new friend Abby comes over after school to work on a class assignment, Simon steers their work toward creating a play. However, Simon’s older...
- Author:Roy, Anusree, Turcott, IrisSummary:
A deal has been struck between two men in India—twenty-one hundred rupees in exchange for a young village woman named Rekha. Sent to Calcutta without knowing why, Rekha finds herself in the confines of a brothel with Jamuna, a...
- Author:Bonnell, YolandaSummary:
Bug is a solo performance and artistic ceremony that highlights the ongoing effects of colonialism and intergenerational trauma experienced by Indigenous women. It is also a testimony to the women's resilience and strength. The...
- Author:Billon, NicolasSummary:
An old man in a military uniform is dumped at the police station-he won't speak English but has a lawyer's card in his pocket. A seemingly innocuous encounter gets stranger and stranger as we gradually realize no one is who...
- Author:Williams, Kenneth T.Summary:
Café Daughter is a one-woman drama inspired by a true story about a Chinese-Cree girl growing up in Saskatchewan in the 1950s and 60s. The story begins in 1957, as nine-year-old Yvette Wong helps out in her parents' cafe in...
- Author:St. Bernard, Donna-Michelle, Shaffeeullah, Nikki, Albert, KernSummary:
A man earns. However little, however nefariously, he earns. Oba, a middle-aged businessman, is torn between his pride and dignity. He's obsessed with making deals in unidentified substances to stay afloat. A powerful client named...
- Author:Vaughan, R. M.Summary:
'There are no lost women, only women who've forgotten their scripts.' RM Vaughan's play about Hollywood director Dorothy Arzner comes off the stage and onto the page in this handsome edition from Coach House Books....
- Author:Yee, DavidSummary:
From the shore of Ko Phi Phi in Thailand to a suburb in Utah to a mysterious Kafkaesque hole in the ground, carried away on the crest of a wave gives us brief glimpses into the lives of a sphinx-like escort, a grieving father, a...
- Author:Gow, DavidSummary:
A neo-Nazi skinhead is charged with murder, and Legal Aid has assigned him a Jewish lawyer. Over the course of developing a defense for the skinhead, the lawyer is forced to examine the limits of his own liberalism, and the demons...
- Author:Payette, CoreySummary:
Children of God is a powerful musical about an Oji-Cree family whose children were taken away to a residential school in Northern Ontario. The play tells the story of one family: Tommy and Julia, who are trying to survive in the harsh...
- Author:Chan, MarjorieSummary:
Su-Ling, an open minded and intelligent young woman in Shanghai, has her feet bound by her grandmother, Poa-Poa. Despite the pain and the crippling effects, custom decrees that the smaller and daintier the foot, the more marriageable...
- Author:Betts, JimSummary:
Colours in the Storm is a muscial about the life - and mysterious death - of iconic Canadian painter, Tom Thomson. A play with songs, rather than a traditional muscial, the show follows Thomson's development as a painter from his...
- Author:Tannahill, JordanSummary:
Concord Floral is a one-million-square-foot abandoned greenhouse and a refuge for neighbourhood kids; a place all to themselves in which to dream, dare, and come of age. But hidden there is a secret no one wants to confront, and when...
- Author:Tannahill, JordanSummary:
Concord Floral is a one-million-square-foot abandoned greenhouse and a refuge for neighbourhood kids; a place all to themselves in which to dream, dare, and come of age. But hidden there is a secret no one wants to confront, and when...
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