Plays

A famous woman flees to her ancestral home in the west of Ireland after a scandal breaks out in the media accusing her of sexual misconduct with a child.

A woman meets a man at a grocery store, and though she longs to have an affair she knows it will destroy her.

He was big and belligerent with a face that Attila the Hun would have envied. His name was Mackenzie York, and he wanted me to do a stakeout on his ex-wife. I wasn't keen; I mean how did I know he...

In this ten-minute play, two runners pause in the park to share their worries about their partners, and their philosophies on the world. Only at the very end of the play do we realize that they are...

Inspired by Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, this historical drama unfolds in the summer of 1933, a summer of intense heat, widespread unemployment, swastika badges in Toronto parks and...

A concert of emotion rips through Justine's first performance in years, and all because of one uninvited guest who got the night wrong. Suddenly the music takes on a life of its own, and dark...

"Love Handles" is a one-woman show in which Iris, a young woman from Jamaica, attempts to straddle two worlds: rural Jamaica and her life as a Canadian doctor. Pulled in several directions, Iris...

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What if Janis Joplin didn't die?

This play explores our storybook romance expectations and real life struggles to live up to the fantasy lives we've created for ourselves. Laurel loves Noah. He's perfect. Except for one small ......

Reading given in 2008 at FemFest in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Geographic setting: France. Historical period: Eighteenth century. Characters: male adults: 2; male seniors: 2; female adults: 3. Play...

Mod is a pop star. In her fever dream, Mae West and Marilyn Monroe return from the dead to battle over influencing Mod's fourth album.

Geographic setting: Urban. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: female adults: 1. Play includes speeches suitable for actors auditioning.

This fantasy of love, politics, and the media, co-written with Paul Thompson, is based on Margaret and Pierre's life together.

First produced in 2001 at Jagged Edge Lunchbox Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta. Geographical setting: Urban. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 3; female adults: 1. Play...

Set in Prescott, Ontario, during the War of 1812, this play very loosely echos Love's Labour's Lost. Fred, Brown, and Mac are three soldiers stuck in the wilds of Upper Canada: the only corner of...

Reading given in 2000 at the Brief New Works Festival in Calgary.

Jessie Award-nominated playwright and actress--and mother--Nicolle Nattrass courageously shares her ode to motherhood in this witty and profoundly moving one-woman play. In turns both hilarious and...

Secrets are revealed when a blind date goes horribly right.

In this ten-minute-play, a mother offers her grown daughter the most unexpected of birthday gifts, with even more unexpected consequences.

Spirits used to know the map of the stars. But they’ve lost their way. Can they find the trail home? Yukon peoples travelled their rivers and trails, guided by the stars. The gold rush and the...

A doctor and his family must learn to face the fact of his terminal illness. This play tackles the subject of death with uncompromising honesty.

Martha, a kind old broom-maker, lives alone peacefully in the woods. When a robber arrives, she must outwit him.

First produced in 2009 at Pantages Playhouse in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Geographic setting: France. Historical period: Early 20th century. Characters: female adults: 1. Play includes speeches suitable...

Self-publishing your own book is hard enough, but then comes the real task of trying to market it. This group of women have formed a co-op to sell their books in a local park, but there are never...

Mella, the king's daughter, lives in long-ago Zimbabwe. The king is sick, and the land is dying. Two warriors go on a quest to bring the Serpent Healer, but it is Mella who must call upon her...

Everyone needs a place to keep their memories.

First produced in 2007 at Pantages Playhouse in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: female adults: 1. Play includes speeches suitable for actors auditioning.

Your hubby comes loping home with an excess of hair and shreds of mouse in his teeth. Your roommate, home from a gruelling day of corporate takeovers clamps her blood-splattered thighs about your...

A young woman struggles with anxiety and channels her pain through music.

In this ten-minute play, two rival metal detectorists stop on a moonlit stone bridge in the middle of the moors. They think they might just camp under the bridge, unless something else gets there -...

Thirty-five hours before her 25th wedding anniversary celebration at the fire hall, Dawna, a hairdresser from a small Nova Scotia town, steals her husband's plumbing van and heads for New York City...

Imagine the world is an asylum. The inmates are Continents and the wardens are Money, Religion, and Government. When a homeless woman is dumped into this allegorical world, she must battle her own...

First produced in 2009 at Factory Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. Geographic setting: Southern Ontario. Historical period: Late 20th Century. Play includes speeches suitable for actors auditioning.

When Evelyn McMillan, a devoted wife and mother of three, goes missing, the police investigation that follows unearths some disturbing revelations about several people involved in Evelyn's...

First produced in 1994 at Chemainus Theatre in Chemainus, British Theatre.

"Molotov Circus" is a coming-of-age story. It centres around an itinerant circus family and their teenaged daughter, Albina, who wants to run away from the circus and join the real world. The play...

Written by Linda A Carson, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard, and Deborah Williams. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: female adults: 6. Play includes speeches...