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Rita and Alfred Allmers live in an isolated family cabin on native leasehold land overlooking Indian Arm, a still untamed glacial fjord just north ...

When Frankie’s dad dies, her mom, Ava, can’t afford to live in the city anymore. The only asset they’re left with is a farmhouse situated on twenty...

Hunting Stuart, about an Ottawa civil servant’s royal connection, and The Voice of the People, a one-act play about a letter to the editor, are amo...

This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of...

Gracie is a dramatic monologue that tells the story of a girl raised in a fundamentalist community that transports child brides between polygamist ...

Forward was partly inspired by a ten-day sailing expedition around the Svalbard Archipelago, located halfway between Norway and the North Pole. Spa...

Robertson Davies has been called the most important Canadian playwright of the postwar period. These two plays from the 1940s prove that great writ...

False Starts presents a series of determining moments between two people stuck reliving the same moment over and over, but in unexpected ways and i...

Conversations with twelve Canadian woman playwrights give a lively insight into their craft.

Empire of the Son is an original one-hander that blurs the boundaries between artistic disciplines and continents. It is a unique theatrical hybrid...

This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto p...

A deeply personal new play by Jordan Tannahill about mortality and the fragments that constitute a life.This is a pressed bruise. This is Greta Gar...

Based on true events, Daisy is a political drama that presents the moment in TV history that ushered in the age of negative advertising and forever...

A heartwarming comedy about two middle-aged First Nations seniors, Evie and Cecil, on their very first trip out of the country. Evie and Cecil remi...

The play explores the politics and issues surround a real life event still happening in the Kawartha Lakes region of Central Ontario. An Indigenous...

Concord Floral is a one-million-square-foot abandoned greenhouse and a refuge for neighbourhood kids; a place all to themselves in which to dream, ...

Late spring in Oslo, Ontario. The annual Ibsen Festival begins with auditions, then rehearsals, and, finally, performances. This year, the Ibfest f...

From the shore of Ko Phi Phi in Thailand to a suburb in Utah to a mysterious Kafkaesque hole in the ground, carried away on the crest of a wave giv...

Canadian Mosaic II is the second volume in a series of popular drama anthologies edited by Aviva Ravel. The plays, written by Canadian playwrights,...

The plays in this anthology have been selected to reflect the wide spectrum of ethnic communities in this country, and to illuminate the often pain...

‘I used to want a black enamel farmhouse sink. Now, I just want shelter.’From acclaimed playwright Karen Hines come two darkly comic meditations on...

Based on a true story, Get Yourself Home Skyler James follows the harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when she is outed ...

Sit your butt down and learn your three Rs: ranting, resisting, and respect.In two new plays, Canada‘s king of black comedy takes on the failing ed...

Of all the subjects taught in the school system, dramatic arts probably has the greatest potential to help students prepare for life. The study of ...

Everything we eat tells a story. In A Taste of Empire, delectable samples from a real-time cooking demonstration offer food for thought about colon...

Prosper is a fisherman trying to get by in the face of everyday problems: there’s the spectre of the baby his wife desires, the ghost of his dead m...

Nominated for the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama It's 1606 and Europe is at war over God. At the behest of the Holy Roman Empero...

The purpose of A Collection of Canadian Plays is to present to the Canadian public good plays which have received regional acclaim but not national...

It’s December 1979 and Clark’s minority Progressive Conservative government is under threat of dissolution before it has a chance to accomplish any...