Plays

A couple can't decide whether to break up or not.

A dissatisfied taxidermist longs to start his life over with one of his customers, but both have obligations that hold them as rigidly as the animals they preserve.

A wealthy and successful business woman, bedridden by disease, has visions in her dreams that her dogs speak to her. She also has a philandering husband and a secretary who wants to run away with...

Three best friends meet in a shack after whacking their husbands. But did they all go through with it?

"Shadow Island" is a Radio Horror Podcast created by teens at Longhill High School, Rottingdean, with the support of Rottingdean and West Saltdean Local Action Team and The Safer Sussex Fund.

First produced in 2005 at Ship's Company Theatre in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. Geographic setting: Halifax, Nova Scotia. Historical period: Early 20th Century. Characters: male young adults: 1; female...

A transvestite private detective takes on a puzzling new case and an even more puzzling new secretary.

First produced in 1995 at Pumphouse Theatre in Calgary, Alberta. Geographic setting: Belfast and Toronto. Historical period: Late 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 5; female adults: 5. Play...

A new adaptation of the astonishing story of Sheherazade, who desperate weaves rollicking and preposterous tales in a brilliant bid not only to restore the sanity of the King of Persia, but in...

This love story is set during the Spanish Civil War. Sheila, a naive Canadian girl from a wealthy family, follows a soldier she has fallen in love with to Spain. There she is educated.

Warrior / motivational speaker, Ingrid, reveals the untold truth of Viking shield maidens. Imagine a 10th-century Viking TED Talk. "Shield Maiden" is a clarion call. It empowers women to claim...

This play is an adaptation of the short story by Bobbie Ann Mason. Leroy struggles to connect with his wife, Norma Jean, after a work injury keeps him at home. The loss of their infant child years...

"Alexander Graham Bell connected people around the world by inventing the telephone. But it was of little use to his wife, Mabel, who was deaf. Written from Mabel’s point of view, the story begins...

First produced in 1998 at Teatro Escambray in Cuba. Geographical setting: Cuba. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 2. Play includes speeches suitable for...

First produced in 2007 at Factory Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. Geographic setting: Scarborough, Ontario. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 3. Play includes...

First produced in 1999 at Chemainus Theatre in Chemainus, British Columbia. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 1. Play contains speeches suitable for actors...

It is 1938 and female private detective Bea has been assigned to escort teenaged Miri across France to safety. She knows Miri’s background will elicit...

Aimée, a Quebecois with separatist leanings, and Geri, a newly divorced Albertan, are attending a conference on synchronicity. Sharing the same table at a restaurant one evening, the two women find...

It’s nearly winter solstice when Henry gets out of jail, ready to straighten out his life. Of course it’s not that easy: his old buddies just want to party, his girlfriend’s moving ahead of him,...

This play is about perception and self-image. A woman who perceives herself as fat bargains with the devil to be slender but she wants a sampling before she signs irrevocably. He hypnotizes others...

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

This play captures the political conflicts and tensions that occurs when a group of experienced teachers, student teachers, and their students decide to put on a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender...

A woman fantasizes about killing her husband whose snoring has kept her awake for 22 years of marriage.

Lily goes to London to fulfill her grandpa’s last wishes, but gets caught in 1666 in a romantic search for her own place in the world.

First produced in 2007 at Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon. Geographic setting: Yukon. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 2. Play includes speeches...

This musical was based on a soap series written by Wylie for the Toronto Star, and was written with composer Victor Davies.

A young widow meets a new man who pulls her our of mourning and into another kind of pain... and strength. She offers monologues over a period of weeks as she copes with the encounters.

Two Lesbians meet, fall in love, and want to start a family. They just need a little help, so they set off on a series of speed dates to find "Mr. Right" to be their donor.

In this collective creation, an under-ground actress struck with a mysterious illness relives her tortuous adventures with the Clan of the Dirty Theatre. The dirty theatre is not, nor has it ever...

First produced in 2001 at Jagged Edge Lunchbox Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta. Geographic setting: Urban. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 2.

A woman's husband dies suddenly. The widow, Amanda Loveable, goes through the steps of recovery into a new life--with all the men in her life (undertaker, minister, insurance agent, young lover,...

The host of a party is dead; the two couples who were at the party are sequestered while they await the detective who will take their statements.

From the abuse of the sweatshop to the fantasy of costume and the empowerment of sewing-it-yourself, the sewing machine has been a force for liberation and exploitation since its invention in the...

Susan has just brought her mother, Mary, home with her, because Mary’s hording has rendered her house unlivable. Mary doesn’t see it that way and places the blame for her troubles on the man from...

This intelligent comedy is about love-weary people and fractured families struggling to become whole. Since her divorce, Bea wants to date plenty of men, complain about her ex, and cancel Christmas...

"Summer's End" is a light and entertaining piece about three sisters who inherit the family cottage. The plot thickens when young Kristen reveals she has different plans for it than her older half...

A man diagnosed with cancer takes his death into his own hands rather than face treatment with little hope of recovery. As his grieving family members come together to mourn, some call him a coward...