"Man in Scrubs" follows the story of a queer black nurse who is getting awfully tired of being put in a box. He's queer, not gay, and he'll tell you the difference. He's always been an outcast, and constantly finds himself at the bottom...
Canadian drama
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Author:MacIovr, DanielSummary: -
Author:Kemick, Richard KellySummary:Losing religion one false beard at a time.On a whim, armchair-atheist Richard Kelly Kemick joins the 100-plus cast of The Canadian Badlands Passion Play, North America's largest production of its kind and one of the main tourist...
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Author:Ouchi, MiekoSummary:Fighting words . . . Lainie and Mariam have it out for each other, so it’s no surprise when they finally come to violent blows in the middle of their high school’s drama room. That’s when Caddell Morris, an ex-professional actor and...
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Author:Cardinal, CliffSummary:In huff, brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father’s abusive whims and their mother’s recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pull destructive pranks. Preyed upon by...
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Author:Anthony, TreySummary:Claudette still can't forgive her mother, Daphne, for leaving. For six years of her childhood, Claudette and her sister Valerie were left with their grandmother while their mother moved from Jamaica to Canada to start a new chapter...
- Author:Wagner, ColleenSummary:
Two families, four languages, one house. "Home" puts its characters into a unique and challenging conflict across language and history and asks difficult questions about the illusion of ownership and the definition of "...
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Author:Thompson, Judith, Ashperger, CynthiaSummary:In Hedda Gabler, a moving exploration of female oppression, a recently married Hedda navigates her new identity as a wife and the intense constraints put on her by society. She prefers pistols to cooking and does not care for raising a...
- Author:Sinha, PamelaSummary:
Happy Place explores the lives of seven women aged 23 to 60 who are residents of an in-patient care facility: a microcosm for the world outside its walls. What is it to live inside the suffering of these women...addressing the idea that...
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Author:Maxwell, Brooke, Palmer, Judd, Bátiz-Benét, MercedesSummary:The grass really is greener on the other side. But a hideous troll has taken up residence under the bridge, and the promised land is forever unattainable ? if you're a goat born on the wrong side of the craggy chasm. The troll is soon...
- Author:Healey, MichaelSummary:
What happens when someone is overwhelmed by a desire to help? Does it matter if people only do good in order to feel good? One of Canada’s finest playwrights tackles tricky questions in Generous–four short interconnected plays that...
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Author:Griffiths, LindaSummary:In the aftermath of a local high-school boy’s mysterious death, Dan and Marion Metcalf are increasingly worried about their son Zach. He’s apathetic and shuts himself away in the basement to play video games and spend time with Keira,...
- Author:Ly, MinhSummary:
Ga Ting, which means "family" in Cantonese, is about an immigrant Chinese couple trying to come to terms with the suicide of their son, Kevin. When they invite Kevin's Caucasian boyfriend to dinner, the evening devolves...
- Author:MacFarlane, GlendaSummary:
A teenager is dead after facing sexual assault and cyberbullying. Two friends go camping, and one reveals a secret. A conflict between two band students erupts into violence. A refugee celebrates the new year in Canada. A bereaved teen...
- Author:Gatchalian, C. E.Summary:
Raw in its emotionalism and bold in its theatricality, Falling in Time is set in Vancouver in 1994 and tells the story of four individuals, across two continents and over a span of more than forty years. The lives of these characters...
- Author:Minogue, LeeannSummary:
Hot. Burning hot. In the dry, hot summer of 1988, Kate, a young woman from the city moves with her boyfriend to his family’s Saskatchewan farm. A world-travelled vegetarian who listens to punk rock, she is not exactly the kind of girl...
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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...
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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:Banks, CatherineSummary:
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...
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Author:MacIovr, DanielSummary: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...
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Author:Burkett, RonnieSummary: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...
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