Find large cast plays by Canadian women.
Written by: Maggi Feehan
Genre: Drama
Length: 60 min.
In a small prairie town, two teenage girls attend the same school, separated by race, culture and popularity. Jo-Jo is Indigenous and lives with her serpent-tongued mother behind a gas station on an impoverished reserve. Carly is White and lives with her Fred Flintstone loving Dad who is a long-haul...
Written by: Maggi Feehan
Genre: Drama
Length: 100 min.
Aya is only 16 years old when she is abducted and held by two brothers. What will become of her after this trauma? This play explores the three women she may become as a result of her experience. One is a professional speaker who is competent but suffers from paranoia....
Written by: Janet Munsil
Genre: Drama
Length: 75 min.
Be Still is a?fictional play inspired by the multiple-exposure work of Canadian surrealist portrait photographer Hannah Maynard. Consumed by grief at the loss of her daughter, Hannah submerges herself in morbid photographic work and the clockwork routines of daily life with her husband. Intrigued by a friend’s Spiritualist leanings, Hannah...
Written by: Janet Munsil
Length: 130 min.
In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet is an English country gentleman living surrounded by women – his wife and five unmarried daughters – good and beautiful Jane, the headstrong and clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, impish, silly Kitty and wild child Lydia. With no male heirs, the family...
Written by: Wren Brian
Genre: Drama
Length: 40 min.
Situation was commissioned by Gwaandak Theatre Society in partnership with the Yukon Human Rights Commission for Know More! A Free Virtual Conference on the topic of addressing workplace sexual harassment with dramaturgy by Yvette Nolan. This play is a complicated and nuanced look into the situations of several people who...
Written by: Genevieve Adam
Genre: Drama, Musical/Opera
Length: 45 min.
Told within the framework of Canada’s proud but often troubled maritime history, “The Boat Show” encounters sirens, icebergs, Vikings, slave ships, gender fluidity, and forbidden love, while sailing the waters of Toronto’s Harbour during the War of 1812.
Written by: Lisa Coleman-Brown
Genre: Drama
Length: 60 min.
In Fame & Infamy, the madcap days of turn of the 20th century Vaudeville and the slapstick world of the Silent Silver Screen the beloved, rotund yet dainty, actor comedian Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle comes to enjoy world renown. While he from boyhood achieves fame, Virginia Rappe from girlhood craves fame....
Written by: Catherine Frid, Book & Lyrics, Music by Frank Horvat
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical/Opera
Length: 100 min.
In this reverse coming-of-age musical comedy-drama about four seniors who plot to regain control of their finances and escape the Alpine Retirement Home. A newcomer at the Home upsets the status quo, unleashing repressed desires and igniting conflict between staff and residents and their adult children. These struggles, and their...
Written by: Brishkay Ahmed, with Ash Crescent
Genre: Drama
Length: 60 min.
In the midst of a war, a multigenerational group of women take refuge inside a burqa boutique that’s free from political allegiances.’ Somewhere in the region of the Middle East/Central Asia – sometime in our recent past – a civil war erupts in a country held together by opposing ideologies....
Written by: Claire Holland
Length: 60 min.
In Rattled, Lena’s having a baby shower. Her best friend Paige, childless by choice, is considering a move across the country but struggles to share the news with Lena whose newly-minted mommy status has left her preoccupied. Co-host of the party, Michelle, single and situationally infertile at forty, is doing...