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Yaga
She’s more than just a wicked old witch. Baba Yaga is a legend, usually known as that elderly woman who lives alone in the woods and grinds the bones of the wicked. But what if she was actually a sexy, smart, modern woman operating off of morally ambiguous motives? A detective finds himself in...
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Cyrano de bergerac
From the acclaimed author of The Last Wife and The Virgin Trial comes a new adaptation of one of the finest love stories ever told.
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Salesman in china
Winner of the 2024 Quebec Writers’ Federation Prize for Playwriting Beijing, 1983. Two theatrical titans, Ying Ruocheng and Arthur Miller, are about to embark on one of the most groundbreaking productions in theatre history: Ying’s Mandarin translation of Miller’s influential masterpiece, Death ...
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Queen goneril
Set seven years before King Lear, Queen Goneril centres the struggles of Lear’s daughters as they negotiate patriarchal systems built to keep them relegated to the sidelines. In Goneril, we find a natural-born leader. In Regan, a boundary pusher. And in Cordelia, a reluctant peacekeeper. As the t...
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Kainchee lagaa & jhooti
In this daring and disruptive double bill, Zaiba Baig dismantles the white saviour complex and demolishes the fourth wall with two subversive tales told by unreliable narrators. In Kainchee Lagaa, the lives of two estranged siblings intertwine across space and time. Billo, a tandoori-chicken-lov...
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Ethan claymore
Probably the most produced playwright in Canada.
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Icemen
A wealthy businessman wakes up bound and gagged in a utility shed, kidnapped by his own employees—brothers and icemen Joe and Rennie. In the midst of the Great Depression, the brothers’ ice harvesting livelihood in Kempenfelt Bay is melting away due to the advent of refrigeration, only to further...
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Scorched (revised edition)
A beautifully penned story that paves a path to a mother’s unspeakable pain.
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The directors lab
A new manual containing the collected advice Evan Tsitsias has received from hundreds of directors all over the world through his decade of involvement with The Directors Lab.
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The romeo initiative
Equal parts romantic comedy and spy thriller, The Romeo Initiative follows a government secretary and her suspicions about her boyfriend.
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Espejos: clean
A fascinating investigation of class, trauma, wealth, poverty, and the agonizing need to confront one's past. —BroadwayWorld The lives of two women from very different worlds collide in the illusionary paradise of a Mexican resort. Sarah, a Canadian wedding guest, is a shot glass half empty. Adr...
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Red like fruit
"An expert forensic search into the most ungraspable truths of womanhood." —Divine Angubua, NEXT Magazine Meet Lauren, a journalist in the midst of covering a high-profile domestic violence case while a growing sense of unease pervades her thoughts. Now meet Luke, who Lauren has asked to tell he...
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The melville boys
A new edition of the modern Canadian classic from Norm Foster, Canada's most-produced playwright.
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The extractionist
A young woman is missing. The prime suspect is an affluent member of the secretive Luminia organization. Enter Asha Ray, a deprogrammer who specializes in extracting people from dangerous cults. With no business card or office, Asha is known only by reputation—a last resort for desperate loved on...
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Long story short: an anthology of (mostly) ten-minute plays
A collection of twenty-five very short but powerful plays that pack a punch through a variety of genres and styles.
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Gloria’s guy
Old wounds, new secrets, and a meddlesome mother come face-to-face in this cottage-country rom-com with an edge.
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New magic valley fun town
Cape Bretoner Dougie hasn’t seen his childhood best friend Allen in thirty years. Based on what can be seen on Facebook, things have changed, but Dougie has no doubt they’ll easily reconnect when Allen comes to visit. With the added flair of Dougie’s ex-wife Cheryl and daughter Sandy, the group s...
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Separate beds
A middle-aged couple seeks to reignite the spark in their marriage in this hilarious and heartwarming voyage of rediscovery.
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Afrodisiac
Bursting with colors, aromas, and afro hair products, AFRODISIAC is a vibrant celebration of womanhood, self-love, and the magic of natural hair. Inspired by oral histories and real interviews with hair specialists, Maryline Chery’s spellbinding solo show braids together stories of racism, beauty...
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Halfway there
There’s no such thing as a secret in Stewiacke. Not when the gossips meet for coffee every day at the local diner. Vi, Rita, Mary Ellen, and Janine are all as close as can be, and they know everybody’s business. But when Sean, a heartbroken doctor, moves in to take a temporary job at the clinic, ...
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The best brothers
A bittersweet comedy, from one of Canada's most beloved playwrights, that explores grief and love in unexpected places.
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Prince faggot
A ferociously audacious what-if, brimming with unbridled sexuality, wit, and imagination In this metatheatrical tragicomedy, an ensemble of queer and trans performers cast themselves in a thought experiment, imagining the future heir to the British throne as having a life resembling their own. F...
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(everyone i love has) a terrible fate (befall them)
"Cardinal spins an absurdist tale of self-acceptance singed with cigarette butts, a cocaine-fueled fever dream with an acid wit." —Intermission Magazine Robert is cursed. The moment he falls in love with someone, they’re struck by a fatal illness, mangled in a bungee-jumping accident, or flatten...
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Comfort food
“Fully satisfying.” —Glenn Sumi Bette, a beloved YouTube cooking sensation, built her brand as a relatable single mother with her toddler sous chef, KitKat, by her side. Now the host of a major network show, she struggles to stay palatable while teenage Kit grows increasingly withdrawn, his emer...
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Diggers
Winner of the 2024 Carol Bolt Award Abdul and Solomon introduce newbie Bai to the intricacies and dignity of gravedigging for the town down the hill, until exposure to a deadly illness sweeping through the community means they are prohibited from entering town. The three must make the best of a ...
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Come down from up river
“Come Down From Up River is a breath of fresh air—in more ways than one.” —The Wellington Advertiser Shaver Bennett lives a solitary life as a logger up river in the remote woods of northern New Brunswick. So it comes as a surprise when he asks to stay with his estranged niece Bonnie and her wif...
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It's all tru
Love, sex, and pharmaceuticals are put to the test when a gay couple’s open relationship is threatened with dangerous consequences.
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Pyper
Winner of the 2025 Tom Hendry Theatre for Young Audiences Award An assembly of ten cyborg-AI teenagers known as Real Kids are trying to build a time capsule to prove they exist. Or maybe…it’s actually a play? Together they trace their origins back to the arrival of a strange piper in Hamelin in ...
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Raised by women
"Barker is a natural-born raconteur." –Holly Harris, Winnipeg Free Press After the sudden death of his father, Keith is flooded with memories—not of the man who left, but of the woman who stayed and raised three children on her own. Growing up surrounded by his mother, sisters, aunties, and frie...
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Acquiesce
From the award-winning author of carried away on the crest of a wave and lady in the red dress comes a moving story of tradition, family, and pain passed down through generations.
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From the ashes
From the Ashes collects solo plays by Black Canadian women and womxn that together celebrate the hope, humour, and healing that can come after devastation and loss. From lighthearted comedies to heavy dramas, this anthology contains a multitude of stories on Blackness, love, motherhood, sexuality...
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Squawk
In this refreshing play for young audiences that is both accessible and humorous, a young First Nations girl must find empowerment and identity despite the best efforts of others who attempt to control her from behind a mask of kindness.
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Post-democracy
Welcome to the world of the one per cent, the corporate elite, the C-suite, the kingmakers. A world managed by payoffs, press releases, NDAs, and company policies. What happens to morality in this world when its people have limitless power? When a CEO and his highest executives are on an internat...
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Love and human remains
"Stunningly blends punk popular appeal and poetic power." -Time
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East of berlin
East of Berlin premiered at SummerWorks in the fall of 2007.
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Speed dating for sperm donors
A play based on the author’s personal search with her wife for a sperm donor, which she also wrote about in her memoir Double Pregnant: Two Lesbians Make a Family.
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Fundamentals of directing
A guide for aspiring directors in the professional world of theatre, in Canada and beyond.
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I am for you
Lainie and Mariam want to destroy each other...until a new drama teacher arrives and transforms their anger into something positive.
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Our fathers, sons, lovers and little brothers
Slimm, a seventeen-year-old Black boy in a hoodie suddenly finds himself in the first moments of his afterlife. He calls out for God. God does not respond. What happens next is a sacred journey through the unknown, as Slimm grapples with the truth of the life he lived and the death he didn’t choo...
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Niizh
It’s summertime on the rez, the frybread is sizzling, and the local radio station plays bluegrass, Anishinaabemowin lessons, and Friday-night bingo numbers. Lenna, the youngest of the Little family, is preparing to leave home for her first year at college, with little enthusiasm or help from her ...
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Through the bamboo
Twelve-year-old Philly is literally pulled into an action-packed adventure while mourning the loss of her lola when she opens an old book and finds herself tossed into the fantastical land of Uwi. In Uwi, memories are stories, and all stories are forbidden since the datu’s storytelling-loving wif...
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Bunny
From one of Canada's boldest playwrights comes an intimate look into the sexual life of a young woman as she struggles with the power of her desires.
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The foursome
Four old college friends, home for their fifteen-year reunion, hook up for a round of golf and to share their successes and failures.
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Adventures of a black girl in search of god
"One of the most profound yet joyous new Canadian plays in recent memory."--Richard Ouzounian, Toronto Star
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Earworm
Earworm is as gorgeous as it…a sinister, gorgeously conceived exploration of abuse and femicide in post-revolution Iran. —Aisling Murphy, Intermission Magazine Have you ever had a voice lodged in your memory that won’t go away? Clawing at your skin, bones, and nerves until it’s all you can think...
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Play
From escape rooms to TikTok to Tim Horton’s “Roll Up the Rim to Win” to DIY everything, participatory performance is ingrained in the very fabric of our contemporary society. Written in a series of alphabetical, standalone mini essays that activate the reader as a participant who chooses their ow...
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1979
A fast-paced political comedy from Michael Healey, the critically acclaimed author of The Drawer Boy and Proud, that examines the space between ideals and political reality during a monumental moment in Prime Minister Joe Clark’s career.
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The enchanted loom
Presented in English and Tamil, this poetic play is both medical and mystical, drawing a connection between trauma and memory that creates a stark reminder of loss, hope, family, and freedom.
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Robert chafe: two plays
Two plays set in Newfoundland by an award-winning playwright in residence there.
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The shakespeare's mine
Chronicles the playwright's fraught and changing relationship to Shakespeare, while claiming the right to the language.
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Past lives: performing canada's histories
A companion anthology to Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies, Past Lives: Performing Canada’s Histories brings together plays that not only stage moments in Canada’s past but also act historiographically, generating new histories for the present moments at which they were written ...
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Stories from the bush: the woodland plays of de-ba-jeh-mu-jig theatre group
The work done by De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre makes a significant contribution to Aboriginal theatre, culture, Canadian theatre.
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6 essential questions
From celebrated novelist and poet Priscila Uppal comes a startling playwriting debut; a poetic and powerful carnival of tragicomic theatre.
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The bombay plays
From renowned author Anosh Irani comes an updated edition of The Bombay Plays featuring two plays that explore the depths of the back alleys of Bombay.
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Whimsy state
Based on an absolutely true story, this hilarious play about friendship shows that when ordinary people set out to do extraordinary things, the possibilities are endless.
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After the fire & the particulars
From the author of Bears comes two dark comedies that expose the effects of disturbing the natural order and what we’re capable of when pushed to our breaking point. Set in the aftermath of the disaster that nearly destroyed Fort McMurray in 2016, After the Fire centres around two couples whose l...
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Beautiful man & other short plays
An eviscerating satire of gender roles in popular culture, Beautiful Man imagines a world in which women are the subjects and men the objects. As three women dissect the latest Hollywood blockbuster, narrative after narrative of strong female characters fold into each other, fusing into a brutall...
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Among men
1959, Ameliasburgh, Prince Edward County, Canada. On the edge of spring, two men are finishing an A-frame cabin on Roblin Lake. In the coming decade all three of them—Al, Milt, and the A-frame—will become famous and change the face of Canadian poetry. But now all they have is the stench of sweat,...
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Refractions: scenes
Refractions: Scenes is a collection of scenes from diverse contemporary works by Canadian playwrights that reflect the country’s artistic landscape through a breadth of themes, styles, cultures, regions, and creative practices.
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Games: who wants to play?
In the aftermath of a local high-school boy’s mysterious death, Dan and Marion Metcalf are increasingly worried about their son.
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Heavens
From the author of Scorched comes the highly anticipated, fierce and poignant final installment in the critically acclaimed dramatic quartet.
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Iphigenia and the furies (on taurian land) & antigoneantigone: 方
From the author of trace comes two adaptations that transport mythological stories from Ancient Greece to modern-day civilizations. Led by people of colour, these darkly comedic plays depict recognizable plights for justice. Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) highlights the repetition of ...
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Little pretty and the exceptional
In the vibrant heart of Toronto’s Gerrard India Bazaar, Dilpreet and his daughters, Jasmeet and Simran, are frantically preparing to open their new sari shop in time for Canada Day. If dealing with their overprotective father isn’t enough stress, these young women face their own personal pressure...
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Her2
This new play is a poignant meditation on the uneasy relationship between science and the human spirit.
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Design and scenography
Sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.
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Haven
Winner of the 2019 Governor-General’s Award for French-language Drama Strangers Elsie and Matt are both feeling great voids in their lives. Elsie, a literature professor, is grieving her famous novelist mother’s tragic death. Matt, a city engineer, is trying to regain childhood memories from livi...
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Straight jacket winter
This beautiful story mixes whimsy and disturbance as a couple looks over their motivations for a fresh start, delivering a charming meditation on isolation.
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Theatre and (im)migration
Theatre and (Im)migration shines a bright light on the impact that immigrant artists have made and continue to make on the development of Canadian theatre, from themes, characters, and world issues to financial structures and artistic techniques.
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White biting dog & other plays
A collection of some of acclaimed playwright Judith Thompson's earlier, hard-to-find plays.
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21 black futures
What is the future of Blackness? Obsidian Theatre presents twenty-one versions of it.In 2021, Obsidian Theatre engaged twenty-one writers to create twenty-one new stories about imagined Black futures. Twenty-one to celebrate Obsidian’s twenty-first anniversary in 2021. Each playwright was tasked ...
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The drowning girls and comrades
Includes Drowning Girls, winner of the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding New Play.
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Palace of the end (second edition)
The winner of the 2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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A million billion pieces
It’s time to make every moment count. Sixteen-year-olds Pria and Theo—or as they know each other online, the aspiring opera singer PriaSoprano and outer-space aficionado Eagle19—have decided to have sex. There’s just one catch… they both have life-threatening genetic disorders that may cause them...
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Toronto the good
A provocative new play about race relations.”CBC News
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The wanderers
A sweeping, episodic drama spanning thirty-six years in the lives of two families, The Wanderers explores the effects of war.
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Pig girl
Inspired by the Robert Pickton murders, the devastating parallel stories of women who suffered at the hands of a killer.
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The patron saint of stanley park
A riveting new play about siblings grappling with loss and grief.
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Acha bacha
Acha Bacha boldly explores the intersections between queerness, gender identity, and Islamic culture in the Pakistani diaspora. It’s about the way we love, the way we are loved, and what it takes to truly accept love.
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Shakespeare's will (new edition)
Same as the old version (same cover, copy and reviews), except it has some revised text.
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Perfect pie
An internationally respected playwright.
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Up the garden path & the adventures of the black girl in her search for god
From the author of Cast Iron comes two plays that feature young Black women who suddenly find themselves navigating unfamiliar territory on their own. As they embark on journeys from the only homes they’ve ever known, they’re challenged to think for themselves and to fight for what they want and ...
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The master plan
In 2017, when the public agency Waterfront Toronto decided to put up a parcel of land for development, Sidewalk Labs, a subsidiary of Google’s Alphabet Inc., swept in with a proposal to create the city of the future. Waterfront Toronto jumped at the opportunity to advance housing sustainability a...
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Hurricane mona
Winner of the 2024 Sydney J. Risk Foundation Award, and the 2023 David King Prize It’s not easy being green, especially for Mona, a diehard environmental activist sentenced to a year of house arrest for her topless vandalism at the Global Climate March. Exiled from her commune co-op, Mona is fo...
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A perfect bowl of pho
Nam, a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup pho. What follows is pure meta musical, genre-bending through thousands of years of history, f...
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Scripting (im)migration
In this companion anthology to Theatre and (Im)migration, plays by immigrant artists take a look at communication, historic moments, the immigrant and refugee experiences in Canada, accents, and more.
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Small talk
Everyday conversation has always been a challenge for Julie, a lonely and anxious researcher who spends her days bent over a microscope in a basement laboratory. She struggles through discussions with her co-workers and challenging family. She tries everything, but nothing can budge her verbal ro...
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The blunt playwright
A new edition of an invaluable guide to the craft of playwriting, featuring more scenes and new writing exercises.
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'da kink in my hair
Staged to great success at the Fringe Festivals in New York and Toronto, and was the basis for a TV special on Vision TV.
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State of denial
A young filmmaker learns a shocking secret about her interview subject, and resolves to share it at any cost.
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Latina/o canadian theatre and performance
A foundational collection of essays establishing the field of Latina/o theatre and performance studies in Canada.
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Secret life of a mother
A playwright writes an exposé of modern motherhood full of her own darkly funny confessions and taboo-breaking truths. One of her real-life friends, an actress, performs the piece, and through it her own experiences of motherhood start to surface. These mothers are not the butts of jokes, the vil...
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Indian act
An important new collection with works by First Nations playwrights Drew Hayden Taylor, Tara Beagan, Curtis Peeteetuce, Yvette Nolan, and more.
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Sequence (second edition)
With razor-sharp wit and playful language, Sequence asks, in our lives, in our universe, and even in our stories, does order matter?
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Between the sheets
This debut play depicts an intense power struggle between two women who may have more in common than they thought.
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Quiver
Shy fourteen-year-old Maddie wasn’t expecting to have to worry about taking care of herself just yet. Her sixteen-year-old party-girl sister Bea has scandalously moved in with her mom’s ex-boyfriend, and, in turn, their brassy mother Sheila has run straight to the comfort of another lover. Feelin...
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Vimy, second edition
Governor General’s Literary Award winner Vern Thiessen explores how a nation’s defining moment is reflected in the lives of everyday people, their hopes, and their dreams.
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The green line | خطّ التماس
A poetic, heartbreaking story of intergenerational queer history in Lebanon, The Green Line weaves together civil war Beirut with a contemporary nightclub, following one family’s journey to discover their past. In the present day, Rami, a twentysomething queer Lebanese Canadian, has returned to ...
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This is the story of the child ruled by fear
David has written a play for himself and a gathering of friends and strangers to read together out loud. It tells the story of the rise and fall of an imaginary civilization in an imaginary land. Some of it is fact, some fiction. But at any point you may be part of a Greek chorus, playing a main ...
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Power moves
This collection of essays focuses how dance and movement engage and enact political questions around agency, mobility, pedagogy, and resistance. Committed to crossing disciplinary boundaries, Power Moves looks to movement knowledge for its radical insights and critical forms of public interventio...
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Chasing champions
In boxing terms, it’s a knockout.—Lynn Saxberg, Ottawa Citizen Sam Langford was a fighter his whole life—inside and outside of the ring. Born in the small town of Weymouth Falls, Nova Scotia, he rose from humble beginnings to become one of the greatest boxers of all time to never hold a world ti...
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