In a world where authority does not always care about their best interests, the Millhaven prison inmates rely on outside memories and inspirations to survive. As a complicated bonds slowly forms...
In this ten-minute play, a retired couple are viewing a WWII torpedo boat being sold as a live-aboard houseboat - but is there more to be discovered below decks than rusty fittings and poor...
A social worker, a business exec, and a guy who lives in the basement, all walk into a park. Their mom is missing, and they all want to get her safely back to the seniors’ home … or do they? As...
First produced in 2011 at Ellis Street Theatre in Winnpeg, Manitoba. Geographic setting: Sweden. Historical period: 19th Century / Victorian, early 20th century. Characters: adult females: 1. Play...
In this contemporary drama a mother and her three daughters negotiate the challenges and politics of transnational adoption in a same-sex family. The play begins when Harriet reluctantly gives her...
Based on a true story of incest and infanticide, the play explores the journey of Marie. After years of incest, Marie's daughters are now giving birth to her husband's children. Marie kills the...
First produced in 2009 at the Shackter Theatre in Calgary, Alberta. Geographic setting: Western Canada. Historical period: Early 20th century. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 1.
A sequel to The Darling Family, this play explores the complex feelings of a couple of former lovers whose relationship ended due to an unplanned pregnancy.
First produced in 2001 at Studio 303 in Montreal, Quebec. Geographic setting: Montreal, Quebec. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: female adults: 2. Play includes speeches suitable for...
In this radio play, Hillary's family history indicates a prevalence of breast cancer. She would like to have genetic testing done to see if she has the defective gene that caused her grandmother’s...
First produced in 1998 at Infinititheatre in Montreal, Quebec. Geographic setting: Whitehorse, Yukon. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2. Play includes speeches suitable...
First produced in 1994 at the Toronto Fringe Festival in Ontario. Geographical setting: Near East. Historical period: Old Testament. Characters: female adults: 3. Play includes monologues suitable...
First produced in 2003 at Factory Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. Geographical setting: Romania. Historical period: Late 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 4; female adults: 4. Play includes...
Set in Pierre Elliot Trudeau Secondary School in Toronto, Ontario, "Hong Kong, Canada" tells the story of Wendy Chan, the assistant editor of the student newspaper, as she struggles with the...
This play imagines the courtship and marriage of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, exploring the relationship between artistic creation and the use of opiates.
Geographic setting: Canada. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: female adults: 1. Play includes speeches suitable for actors auditioning, and for young actors.
This play presents the first session of a night school class designed to teach what men really mean when they talk. You may find that your audiences want to take notes. This play was originally...
Based loosely on true events, Hunger is the story of one woman's struggle against political and emotional turmoil. Jesse is a human rights lawyer who married the commandante of a Guatemalan...
First produced in 1982 in Guelph, Ontario. Geographic setting: Small town anywhere. Historical period: Medieval, 21st Century, Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 3; female adults: 2.
When Jesse receives a legacy from Walter, a soldier she danced with 50 years before, she is not that delighted. She can scarcely remember the guy, and feels he’s manipulating her from the grave....
When Margaret Shakespeare – William’s sister – writes her remarkable plays, she must do so secretly, under cover of night… because in 1577, a girl of thirteen who can read and write is in danger of...
A young woman calls her two sisters and one brother to her home to tell them she is dying of cancer and wants to plan her own funeral and have it while she is still alive. Their reactions vary from...
Evelyn loses her husband in a bar bet. The thing is, she's not entirely sure she wants him back. A smart, feisty, hilarious, sneakily feminist comedy about the important things in life: love,...
First produced in 1986 at the Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Geographic setting: The Hill, the Schoolyard, the Bridge. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2;...
On Valentine's Day, Rachel and Joe receive the news that he has terminal melanoma. Fleeing his resentment, and risking the disapproval of her community, she leaves him. But then things get...
This radio play was originally written as a play entitled "I See You, I See You, Hiding behind the Chair." T.O. interviews D.D. Their conversation ranges from politics and business to Shakespeare...
If Truth Be Told is a fictional response to cases of censorship in the late 1970s when Christian groups and concerned parents attempted to ban books by Alice Munro (Lives of Girls and Women) and...
Also known as Prairie Landscape, this play is a collective creation by Twenty-Fifth Street Theatre. The actors based their script on actual events and conversations, in effort to capture an...
In this darkly comic monologue, Louise weighs the pros and cons of living her life. Can she overcome her fear of being alive? She has thirty minutes to decide.
First produced in 2003 on the Staten Island Ferry in New York City. Geographical setting: New York City. Historical period: 2003. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 3.
