First produced in Canada by Canadian Stage, Toronto, in September 2021. First produced by Theater der Welt, Dusseldorf, in June 2021. The title of the play is a striking quote from Greta Thunberg's speech to the UK's parliament in April...
Canadian drama
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Author:Tannahill, JordanSummary: - Author:MacArthur, GregSummary:
Isolated brings together two inventive, disturbing plays by one of Canada's most intriguing dramatic voices. In Recovery, people around the world are addicted to a mysterious substance. Large recovery centres are set up, promising...
- Author:Banks, CatherineSummary:
When Margaret learns of the death of her former husband, she recalls their earliest days together as Ph.D. candidates, beginning a journey through her past. Told through the sensations of Wallace Stevens's poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking...
- Author:McIntyre, HopeSummary:
Jasmine bursts into the world unlike your typical newborn child and is anointed a "jail baby." Born in prison, raised by a mother who revolves in and out of the correctional system, tossed in and out of foster care, Jasmine is...
- Author:Mackey, JuliaSummary:
Canadian World War Two veteran Jake returns to Normandy on the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings. He meets and is totally disarmed by a ten year old French girl. This leads him to confront the ghosts of his brother's death in...
- Author:Cooper, BeverleySummary:
Janet Wilson Meets the Queen begins in Vancouver, 1969, as society is undergoing profound change. Janet, a woman who places great faith in the British monarchy and its traditions, is valiantly trying to hold together her dysfunctional...
- Author:Foster, NormSummary:
When a tireless young runaway comes begging for a job, the girls at Jenny's house might just have to leave their lingerie behind. A delightful new comedy about the oldest profession.
- Author:Poch-Goldin, AlexSummary:
It's morning in the city. Shorty rolls cigarettes on a bench while Jim looks for change in phone boxes. Big Tom is already drunk. As these men on the fringes of society draw us into their world, they trade stories about doughnuts...
- Author:Cseke, ColeSummary:
Jim Forgetting is an unflinching portrait of a year in the life of Jim and Donna, a middle-aged couple struggling with Jim's early-onset Alzheimer's disease. While watching her husband slowly disappear, Donna's patience...
- Author:Foster, NormSummary:
"When life comes knocking you don't want it to find you on the couch in a soiled bathrobe." Norm Foster's quick wit is strong in this lighthearted buddy comedy about living life to its fullest. Barry is annoyed that...
- Author:Gaudreault, Jean-RockSummary:
Le dauphin de France, 12 ans, rêve d'être comédien et rencontre Molière le 17 février 1673, en cachette de son auguste père, juste avant la dernière représentation du Malade imaginaire.
- Author:Dixon, SeanSummary:
In the early fall of 1885, P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show on Earth toured southwestern Ontario, playing to sold-out crowds. On the bill, along with the snake charmer, the tightrope walkers, the contortionist, and the bearded lady,...
- Author:Beaulieu, ChristineSummary:
Hydro-Québec a longtemps symbolisé les plus grands rêves des Québécois, leur prise de pouvoir et leur affranchissement. Mais, plus de 70 ans après la création de cette société d’État, sommes-nous toujours «maitres chez nous»? Envoyée au...
- Author:Harvey, Kim SenklipSummary:
"Come along for the ride to Kamloopa, the largest Powwow on the West Coast. This high-energy Indigenous matriarchal story follows two urban Indigenous sisters and a lawless Trickster who face our postcolonial world head-on as they come...
- Author:Taitt, TanishaSummary:
Keeper is a powerful, intriguing story about a connection between two women–the memory of which carries such weight from each of their pasts that the only means of self-preservation has been to try to shut it down. We witness an evening...
- Author:Fraser, BradSummary:
When Joey enters puberty, his father Jake finds himself in a morally ambiguous position. Joey is severely disabled, but he still has the same sexual desires as any seventeen-year-old boy, only he can't do anything to relieve the...
- Author:Hernandez, CatherineSummary:
In a Catholic high school in Scarborough, Ontario, amidst low-income housing, difficult race relations, and poverty, a young woman struggles to find her sexual identity. In this sincere portrayal of high-school kids pitting the voice of...
- Author:Choi, InsSummary:
Mr. Kim is a first-generation Korean immigrant and the proud owner of Kim’s Convenience, a variety store located in the heart of downtown Toronto’s Regent Park neighbourhood. There, he spends his time serving an eclectic array of...
- Author:Foon, DennisSummary:
Heartwarming and humorous, Kindness sensitively captures the reality of children's feelings as they navigate the small and large events in their world. From Hurricane Katrina to everyday encounters in the school hallway, the play offers...
- Author:Dupont, CatherineSummary:
Du théâtre pour la salle de classe, de la 4e à la 8e année. Le livre compte trois saynètes : La grève des animaux , La caverne des voleurs, Le faux mendiant.
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