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  • The catering queen
    Author:
    Lawrence, Alison
    Summary:

    Welcome to Henderson Tessier McGuire & Smythe’s annual Christmas cocktail party, held at the gracious home of managing partner George Smythe and his lovely wife Buffy. It’s The Catering Gig From Hell. Behind the scenes is Melanie,...
  • Thanks for giving
    Author:
    Loring, Kevin
    Summary:

    Nan's family is home for Thanksgiving, but some unsolicited truths are about to be dropped at the dinner table. Old wounds and new realities collide, and sibling rivalry is stoked, but the enduring spirit that guides this family charges...
  • Suitcase ; : Adrenaline
    Author:
    Meree, Ahmad
    Summary:

    These two powerful plays by Ahmad Meree examine the effects of war and the refugee experience. Suitcase considers the lives of refugees and the spaces they inhabit. The play urges the audience to reassess the significance of their...
  • Stag and doe/bed and breakfast
    Author:
    Crawford, Mark E.
    Summary:

    In Stage and Doe, Bonnie and Brad are throwing a party to pay for their upcoming wedding. Their Maid of Honour, Dee, is still getting over being left at the altar seven years ago. Mandy and Rob are getting married today, even though...
  • Someone else
    Author:
    Thomson, Kristen
    Summary:

    Lately Cathy, a middle-aged comedian, has found very little to laugh about. Everything seems either tragic or frustrating, especially her eighteen-year marriage to Peter, a doctor at a local community clinic. Their list of complaints...
  • Skin and Liars
    Author:
    Foon, Dennis
    Summary:

    A Canadian drama classic, these two plays--one dealing with racism, the other with alcoholism--explore some of the most pressing issues facing teenagers today.
  • Skin & Liars
    Author:
    Foon, Dennis
    Summary:

    Skin introduces us to a group of Canadian teenagers who are coming of age in the late 1980s. Faced with racial discrimination, Phiroza, Jennifer, and Tuan must navigate the choppy waters of high school, each confronting his or her own...
  • Sinners
    Author:
    Foster, Norm
    Summary:

    A furniture store owner is having an affair with the local minister's wife. The situation becomes complicated when the minister comes home unexpectedly. An intricate web of deceit is hilariously exposed as the police, members of the...
  • Shylock
    Author:
    Leiren-Young, Mark
    Summary:

    Second Prize Winner, Canada's National One-Act Playwriting Competition (1994).

    Shylock is an award-winning play about a Jewish actor who finds himself condemned by his own community for his portrayal of Shakespeare’s notorious...
  • Shakespeare's dog
    Author:
    Chafe, Rick
    Summary:

    Living in a wild world full of unpredictable creatures—beasts, beggars, witch hunters, and actors—William's family must find a way to cope with their changing Elizabethan world. With four legs, a keen eye, and a sharp tongue, Hooker,...
  • Sequence
    Author:
    Lakra, Arun
    Summary:

    Theo has been named Time Magazine's Luckiest Man Alive. For twenty consecutive years he has successfully bet double or nothing on the Super Bowl coin toss. And he's getting ready to risk millions on the twenty-first when he is...
  • Self-help
    Author:
    Foster, Norm
    Summary:

    A married pair of second-rate theatre actors cast themselves as nationally renowned self-help gurus. Their lives unravel in a farce as they try to conceal a body and hold on to their falsely won fame.
  • See Bob run & Wild abandon
    Author:
    MacIvor, Daniel
    Summary:

    Bob is on the road. Bob is on the run. But from what, or whom, is she running? Follow Bob as she hops from car to car telling her story to unsuspecting drivers as she tries to put her life in the rear-view mirror. Will she make it to...
  • Scratch
    Author:
    Corbeil-Coleman, Charlotte
    Summary:

    When fifteen-year-old Anna is told that her mother is dying of cancer, she responds in the only way she knows how—by ignoring the issue. Friends and family are unable to understand her reaction and Anna is increasingly frustrated by...
  • Salt baby
    Author:
    Johnson, Falen
    Summary:

    Growing up on the Six Nations native Reserve, Salt Baby never quite fit in -- her fair skin and curly hair made her more of a Shirley Temple type than a Pocohontas type. As a young woman, Salt Baby begins to explore her identity. Blood...
  • Relative good
    Author:
    Gow, David
    Summary:

    In Relative Good, David Gow grapples with the complex implications of the War on Terror, and the resulting sweeping changes to law that allow authorities to violate basic civil rights. Mohamed El Rafi is a Syrian-born Canadian engineer...
  • Redheaded stepchild
    Author:
    Walker, Johnnie
    Summary:

    Nicholas is a twelve-year-old with red hair whose dad just remarried. This makes Nicholas a redheaded stepchild. Literally. And tomorrow at lunch, the biggest boy in grade six plans to beat him up—he even made a Facebook event about it...
  • Picking up Chekhov
    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.
  • Performing Turtle Island : Indigenous theatre on the world stage
    Author:
    Archibald-Barber, Jesse Rae
    Summary:

    Comprised of multidisciplinary and diverse perspectives, Performing Turtle Island considers theatre as a tool for community engagement, education, and resistance, and examines how communities in turn influence the construction of...
  • Pearl Gidley
    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...

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