The year is 1865. Dr. James Barry lies dying in rented lodgings in London. He is attended by his manservant, an African who has accompanied the doctor for forty years. Dr. Barry rose through the...
In a Blue Moon is a visually beautiful tale about creating a new life in a new landscape. When Ava and her daughter, Frankie, move to an inherited cottage near Kamloops, they discover that Ava's...
First produced in 2010 at Motel Theatre in Calgary, Alberta. Geographic setting: Vancouver Island, Ottawa. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters:
male adults: 2; female adults: 2.
In this Light is an adaptation of An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen. Dr. Thomasina Burke is a well-respected medical doctor in a rural village in the Annapolis Valley in 1931. Just as her...
First produced in 2008 at Blyth Festival Theatre in Blyth, Ontario. Geographic setting: Southern Ontario. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 3; male children: 1; female...
This play explores how stereotypes, belief systems, and life experience impact people's perceptions of good and evil, innocence and guilt, as the main character struggles with his own morality in...
First produced in 2007 at New Ideas Festival in Toronto, Ontario. Geographic setting: Urban. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 1.
Ann, a feisty senior, intends to leave her daughter Kim, and her son-in-law Matt in charge of her thoroughbred horse farm while she goes off to the City for the weekend to celebrate her birthday...
It's 1954, Hollywood. A B-movie director, expat Canadian, makes a film about aliens and finds he's part of a bigger conspiracy. This play is stylistically fun.
First produced in 2011 at Pumphouse Theatre in Calgary Alberta. Geographic setting: North America. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 1. Play includes...
Jasmine bursts into the world unlike your typical newborn child and is anointed a "jail baby." Born in prison, raised by a mother who revolved in and out of the correctional system, tossed in and...
Janet Wilson Meets the Queen is a black comedy about political apathy. The first act is set in Vancouver in 1969, when the political landscape is changing quickly and drastically. The central...
First produced in 2004 at Elephant and Castle in Edmonton, Alberta. Geographic setting: Urban. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 1.
Jason is a mentally challenged young man applying for permission to rent an apartment in subsidized housing. He is being interviewed. (The audience is his "jury.") While answering questions her...
Imagine one woman acting out another woman's life before that woman's eyes. Imagine that the woman improvising is white, and the woman watching is Metis. Imagine that the two women collaborate on a...
Jumpy, a black-tailed prairie dog, is tied of feeling anxious all the time. When he undertakes a global journey to find a safer place to live, he doesn't realize that answer to his happiness lies...
Ever wonder how the elephant got his trunk? Or the leopard got his spots? This play, based on the famous stories by Rudyard Kipling, will have you howling with delight at how things really came to...
This play is based on a true story. A gospel choir helps narrate the enduring friendship between Doug Tjapkes and Maurice Carter, a man who spent 29 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit....
First produced in 2011 at the Kapisanan Philippine Centre for Arts and Culture in Toronto, Ontario. Geographic setting: Scarborough, Ontario. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male young...
"King Pen" is the coming-of-age story of a crèche of king penguins. Left on their own for most of their first winter, they come to terms with their surroundings, their changing bodies, and each...
First produced in 2007 at Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. Geographic setting: USA or Canada. Historical period: 21st Century. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 2. Play includes...
Set against the backdrop of the biggest historical event in Alberta, the 1947 Leduc oil strike, Evalma and Wes struggle in the push-pull of a young marriage in peril, in winter, in a tarpaper shack...
First produced in 2000 at Wildside Festival in Montreal, Quebec. Geographic setting: Whitehorse, Yukon. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 2. Play includes...
Full two-act version produced in 2013 at Pacific Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia. Geographical setting: A bedroom community outside a large Canadian city. Historical period: 21st Century....
Everett Klippert was the last person to be tried, convicted, and jailed for homosexuality in Canada. Pierre Trudeau, acting as Justice Minister, referred to the case with 'there's no place for the...
Written as part of the Humber River Shakespeare Company's 2013 Sonnet Show, and based on Shakespeare's Sonnet #43, "Lei in Love's Shadow" is a modern comedic romance with a twist. Mark brings the...
"When Hannah agrees to a little weekend getaway to one of the Gulf Islands with her husband David, she has no idea what lies in wait. From past lives to deals with the devil “Lesser Demons” takes a...
Set in the present day, this play was inspired by the love triangle between Greta Garbo, Cecil Barton, and Mercedes D'Acosta revealed by the recent release of Garbo's letters to D'Acosta into the...
Lillie and William are orphans from Dr. Barnardo Homes, shipped to Canada in 1906 with promises of a new and better life. The play covers the early years of their struggle to make their hopes come...
Inspired by the playwright's mother's courageous battle with Alzheimer's, the play weaves between her life memories involving loss, some humorous, some tragic, and current status in a nursing home.
Injured and terrified, a woman alone in a sinkhole in Alaska tries to find the strength to remove herself from where she is, both physically and in her marital life.
