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I forgive you
In October 2013, Scott Jones was leaving a bar in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, when he was attacked, stabbed in the back, and left paralyzed from the waist down. In the months following his attack, Scott Jones’s story garnered international attention, not only for its brutality, but also for his unc...
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Sultans of the street
Together, four children must work to escape servitude to the mysterious "Aunty" and set a course for a new life.
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Freda and jem's best of the week
A love story that explores the struggle for identity as a couple accepts their new familial reality.
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You are happy
A funny, clever story about young couples, conformity, and expectations by one of Quebec’s fresh young voices.
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Fronteras vivientes
The first anthology to showcase the work of established and emerging Latina/o playwrights in Canada.
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Black dog: 4 vs the wrld
The Breakfast Club meets Franz Kafka and Shirley Jackson in a fusion of live theatre and technology.
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Take d milk, nah?
In this funny, fresh, and skeptical take on the identity play, Jivesh Parasram blends personal storytelling and ritual to offer the Hin-dos and Hin-don’ts within the intersections of all of his highly hyphenated cultures.
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Love and relasianships, volume 1
Works that represent cultures from all over Asia and the place those cultures have in Canada.
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Forget me not
Welcome to “The New Now,” a time in which written language has been forbidden and forgotten. Those who desire to have their love letters written and read must make a dangerous journey to the secret and illegal camp of She, the Keeper of the Lost Hand. Aided by the mysterious showman Me, She recou...
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The art of war
Nick wears a soldier’s uniform, but wields only a paintbrush. As a Canadian embedded artist during the second world war, he is tasked with an impossible mission: to capture the chaos and carnage of battle on canvas. With soldiers, beggars, and showgirls as muses, Nick embarks on a surreal odyssey...
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Mustard
This darkly comedic bedtime story by Canadian theatre's indie darling blurs imagination with reality in order to save a family from its own destruction.
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Triple play: three plays by norm foster
Three eclectic plays by one of Canada's most celebrated playwrights, Norm Foster.
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Punch up
The Most Pathetic Guy Ever kidnaps the Funniest Man Alive to make the Saddest Girl in the World laugh.
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Darrell dennis: two plays
"Dennis' tales [are] told with unflinching honesty and comedic sparkle" --The Globe and Mail
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Waiting room
With wry humor and sharp insight, Waiting Room examines medical ethics and compassion in critical situations.
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Einstein's gift
An updated edition of the compelling play that won the 2003 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama.
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Interdependent magic
Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada is a collection of plays and interviews by, for, and about Disabled theatre artists that invites readers into the magical worlds of Disability arts culture. The book features four plays as well as interviews with artists Justin Manyfingers an...
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Fish eyes
Three coming-of-age solo shows that follow the lives of teenage girls who attend the same high school.
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Proud
A biting political satire from the acclaimed author of The Drawer Boy.
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Silence
It only takes one spark of love to change the world forever. Mabel Hubbard Bell was a strong, self-assured woman—bright, passionate, and a complete original. Despite a near-fatal case of childhood scarlet fever that cost her the ability to hear, she learned to talk and lip-read in multiple langua...
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The goodnight bird
A dark comedy about changing love and newfound courage that challenges social inequality, upending the notion of class distinction.
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The law of gravity
Dom has had a rough go of things so far. At fourteen, he has the hardened look of someone who’s had to fight for everything. And he’s sick of pronouns, but when push comes to shove, he uses he. Fred has just moved to Not-The-City, a new place where he can try to disappear. But he didn’t expect to...
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Bears
A multidisciplinary dark comedy about the Trans Mountain Pipeline, Bears asks what the hell it is we think we’re doing here.
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Sexual misconduct of the middle classes
Jon, a star professor and author, is racked with self-loathing after his third marriage crumbles around him when he finds himself admiring a student—a girl in a red coat. The girl, nineteen-year-old Annie, is a big fan of his work, and also happens to live down the street. From their doorways to ...
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The black drum
Hailed as the world’s first Deaf musical—told entirely in American Sign Language and Signed Music—The Black Drum revolves around Joan and her journey to healing after the death of her wife, Karen. Since Karen’s passing, Joan has been unable to share her music with the world, anguish snatching her...
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Bang bang
This dark, fast-paced comedy by the author of Punch Up and Mustard traces the responsibility we have as artists in storytelling and the impact of what it means to be inspired by true events.
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Judith thompson
A series that sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work readily available.
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Staging coyote's dream, vol. 1
The first anthology of First Nations drama to be published in Canada, this volume includes seminal work by Spiderwoman Theatre, Daniel David Moses, Monique Mojica, Drew Hayden Taylor, Yvette Nolan, and Marie Humber Clements, and features previously unpublished plays by Tomson Highway, Maria Campb...
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Dividing lines | líneas divisorias
The one thing everyone knows is that we’re all going to die. Which means our loved ones are going to die. So how can we prepare for, experience, and honour their deaths? And does that look different if we have to make the decision to end their lives for them if they’re suffering? Dividing Lines |...
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Skin flick
A lighthearted comedy told from the perspective of Rollie, Skin Flick puts a steamy spotlight on a group of innocent people navigating the world of pornography.
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Twisted
A fresh collaboration between Charlotte Corbeil–Coleman and Joseph Jomo Pierre, and in a style that’s part Dickens, part Drake, Twisted samples from Oliver Twist to create a vivid, urban story about disenfranchised youth in Toronto.
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Freedom: a mixtape
Freedom: A Mixtape is a soulful artistic response to recent and historical violence on Black bodies, presented through a collection of original songs, stories, poems, anecdotes, spoken-word pieces, and musical instrumentation from folks living in the Niagara Region. A community conversation about...
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Armstrong's war
A new play about unlikely friendship, uncomfortable truths, courage and heroism.
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New
It’s 1970s Winnipeg—a time of revolution and radical possibilities—and an apartment building of Indian immigrant friends is about to be transformed by their latest arrival. A young Bengali Muslim woman, Nuzha, has just married Qasim over the phone at his mother’s insistence, and can’t wait to sta...
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Blow wind
After years of running from her dysfunctional past, Sarah returns home to the family farm in Saskatchewan to find her mom Kathleen yelling into the wind, setting off a turbulent new chapter in her life. Instead of finding comfort in “home,” Sarah learns nothing is how she remembers it, and with K...
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Too good to be true
Maria and her kids—Lisa, a pregnant teenager, and Jude, an excitable preteen—are on the run following the murder of Lisa’s rapist. As the police close in, Maria is determined to give her kids a last supper that prepares them for everything they’re going to need to survive in the world without her.
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The virgin trial
In this gripping follow-up to The Last Wife, Kate Hennig continues her Tudor Queens Trilogy by cleverly exploring victim shaming, sexual consent, and the extraordinary ability of girls becoming women as she reimagines the scandalous and little-known story of Elizabeth the First before she was Queen.
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Is my microphone on?
Young people cannot avoid the consequences of climate change. In this urgent and lyrical play, they reckon with the generations who have come before them. They hold the audience to account for the broken world they have inherited, questioning the choices that have been made, and the ones that the...
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A bomb in the heart
This new play from internationally-acclaimed playwright Wajdi Mouawad explores the understanding of the voice deep within.
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True love lies
A new play by Governor Gerneral Literary Award winner Brad Fraser.
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Paradise lost
Erin Shields turns heaven and hell upside down in this witty, modern, feminist retelling of John Milton's epic poem about the first battle between good and evil.
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The children's republic
Confined within the walls of the Warsaw ghetto, Dr. Janusz Korczak struggles to protect the children at his orphanage from the horrors of the Second World War. There is not enough food or pairs of eyes to keep watch over them. Between a trouble-making thief, an abandoned girl, a malnourished boy,...
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The grandkid
A grandfather and granddaughter must negotiate a new relationship as housemates and friends in this delightful new play.
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Solo performance
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The party & the candidate
In these two entwined, fast-paced plays, the hilarious goings-on behind the scenes of a controversial election chaotically unfold first at the fundraiser that will decide the party’s nominee and then months later at a debate the night before the election. The top candidates for the Left are Bill...
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Marriage
What could help patch up a marriage better than a home renovation?
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Double exposure: plays of the jewish and palestinian diasporas
A groundbreaking anthology of plays about the Israel-Palestine conflict penned by diaspora playwrights of Jewish and Palestinian decent.
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Yukonstyle
In this deftly-written play, the characters grapple with the harsh Yukon winter within a world of racism, addiction, and loneliness.
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Lion in the streets
An enduring classic that looks at the inner emotional turmoil in ordinary people and the ways in which they cope.
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Canadian performance histories & historiograpies
As Canada celebrates its 150th centenary in 2017, Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies asks what currently defines the field of theatre and performance history in Canada?
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The bridge
Winner of the 2020 Robert Merritt Award for Outstanding New Play by a Nova Scotian Set in a rural Black Nova Scotian community, The Bridge explores the complex relationship between two brothers strained over twenty years of secrecy, deception, and dishonour. Secrets are revealed one by one from t...
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Jennie's story & under the skin
A double volume from Playwrights Canada Press.
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Outside
Inspired by the kinds of real-life stories that prompted the It Gets Better campaign, Paul Dunn’s play for middle-grade and high-school students brings the discussion around homophobia, bullying, mental health, and gay-straight alliances directly to the young people who are on the front lines.
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I claudia
Claudia is "an official pre-teen" still reeling from her parents' divorce. Her father is getting re-married, she has a science fair project coming due, and she is in the physical and emotional throes of puberty. Finding refuge in the basement of her school, Alcudia discovers the pain at the cente...
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The gentleman clothier
A new play from one of Canada's most-produced playwrights.
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The doorman of windsor station
The mirrored realities of Montevideo in 1973 and Montreal in 2005 fuse together in a time-travelling story about one man who escaped a harrowing coup d’état in order to find a better life, but instead finds further struggles as an immigrant.
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Homecoming
Wasn't I enough to cross an ocean? Three generations of Filipina women converge across time and continents as they attempt to bridge the emotional and physical distances that have kept them apart. Sisters Tess and Vicky are inseparable as children, climbing mango trees and sharing dreams in thei...
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Aboriginal drama and theatre
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Lady sunrise
From the glittering high-rise condos to the desperate streets of Vancouver, powerful stories told by women reveal the fraying social fabric among the wealthy and hangers-on in the city’s Asian Canadian community. Lady Sunrise introduces us to six women who are risking everything, all motivated by...
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The monument
Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, and produced on stages across the world.
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Coywolf
Isidor, a half-coyote, half-wolf coywolf, has always struggled to find his place as a half-breed. After the untimely death of his mother, he leaves his community to roam across prairies, forests, and mountains, sharing stories in his search for kinship and belonging. But as Sharp-Tooths are incre...
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Mermaid legs
Winner, Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Outstanding New Play 2024 Sisters Billie, Ava, and Scarlet start a new tradition of family dinners every second Sunday, rain or shine. But when Billie doesn’t show up one night, her sisters have every reason to worry. With a history of self-harm and re...
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Ransacking troy
After nearly a decade of the Trojan War, the women of Greece are growing restless. Led by the indomitable Penelope and the fierce Clytemnestra, a band of Grecian women defy the odds and bravely set sail for the shores of Troy, determined to end the conflict themselves. The journey is fraught with...
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Rise, red river
Winner of the 2025 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama A woman trawls the bottom of a riverbed with a makeshift plough, hoping to dislodge something—anything. The world has drastically changed: rivers run dry, rampant bushfires leave little left to burn. Still she persists searching for ...
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