Plays

Two people find the courage to end a tortured extramarital affair that never began.

First produced in 1989 at Gas Station Theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Geographic setting: A mental hospital and other locations in Manitoba. Historical period: Late 20th Century. Characters: male...

Geographic setting of play: The theatre. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 2. Play includes speeches suitable for actors auditioning.

It was like a bad, made-for-TV movie. There were two of them: one large and beefy, one short and frail. Mutt and Jeff, in black coveralls and gloves and black balaclavas, looked ridiculous. They...

First produced in 2004 at Goya Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario. Geographic setting: New York City or any suburb. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2; male young adults: 1; female...

First produced in 2011 at Yukon Arts Centre in Whitehorse, Yukon. Geographic setting: Whitehorse. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 3. Play includes...

First produced in 2011 at Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary, Alberta. Geographic setting: Cold War Germany. Historical period: Late 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 2....

First produced in 2009 at Sullivan Mahoney Theatre in St. Catharines, Ontario. Geographic setting: Small town St. Catharines. Historic period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2; female...

This play unfolds in a New York City sanitation garage. The sanitation workers struggle with day-to-day living, prejudice, anger, and violence.

Geographic setting: Montreal, Quebec, and a dream location in ancient myth. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 3; female adults: 1. Play includes speeches suitable for actors...

Translated and adapted from The Wakefield Mysteries, this play depicts three shepherds seeking a stolen sheep from Mak, who pretends it's a baby. On their way back to the fields, the shepherds meet...

A dramatization of Pierre Berton's adventure fiction for children. "In this fantasy adventure four children: Penny, the leader; Pamela, her common-sense sister; Peter, whose life's ambition is to...

First produced in 2009 at La Cite Francophone in Edmonton, Alberta. Geographic setting: Prairies. Historical period: Late 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 2; male seniors: 1; female adults: 1...

The Shoe is "an emotionally profound and wildly funny new play about an unusual young boy named Benoît and the adults who care for him" (https://www.thecherry.org/the-shoe/). This play is...

Sometimes it's easy to forget the power of the sea when you're safe on dry land; that no matter our station at present we will all face the same end; that most of what we know about our past is...

First produced in 1988 at Fire Hall Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: female adults: 2. Play includes speeches suitable for actors auditioning,...

First produced in 2006 at the Motel Theatre in Calgary, Alberta. Geographic setting: Calgary, Alberta. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 2. This play...

First produced in 2000 at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Geographic setting: North America. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: female adults: 1. Play includes...

An American "back to the land" couple, Pam and Eric, and their free-spirited daughter, Sacha, battle to protect a beach near their rural home in Nova Scotia from development.

Working mother Mary pokes a toaster with a knife and the ensuing electrocution jump-starts her super-human powers. Will she save the world or pick up her daughter from school? This two-part series...

First produced in 2010 at Trafalgar Castle in Whitby, Ontario. Geographic setting: Trafalgar Castle, Whitby, Ontario. Historical period: Early 20th century. Characters: female young adults: 2. Play...

First produced in 1985 at Roxy Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta. Geographical setting: Urban apartment. Historical period: 20th Century. Characters: female adults: 3. Play includes speeches suitable...

This play is adapted from "The Cat that Walked Himself" by Rudyard Kipling.

"The Thing Between Us" is a brutal, funny, engaging, and ultimately moving psychological drama that explores love, loss, memory, and the ties that bind. Young Linda Small's life is thrown into...

Geographic setting: Urban. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 1; male seniors: 1; female seniors: 1. Play includes speeches suitable for actors auditioning.

Geographic setting: Prairie Canada. Historical Period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 1.

The youngest of the Harris clan, Teresa was an adventurous Victorian woman who broke free from the shackles of her era and became one of the greatest explorers of her time. In The Triumph of Teresa...

Old-school discipline meets new age understanding and a student with a capital "A" attitude. With the help of a guidance counsellor, a principle tries to resolve a conflict between a teacher and a...

First produced in 1982 by CBC Radio in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Geographic setting: Outdoor balcony high up in an apartment building in winter. Historical period: Late 20th Century, 21st Century....

Four women arrive at a remote lodge, accompanied by a doctor and a nurse. None expect the strange events that occur in the lake and in the forest around the lodge. Physical movement plays an...

Reading staged in 2014 at the Arts and Letters Club in Toronto, Ontario. Geographic setting: An Ontario village. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2; male seniors: 1; female...

The play opens with a woman stumbling and falling with a man close behind her, who bends over her, and then leaves. The play is about five witnesses whose narrative to the police unveils how their...

In this three-part dramatization of Wilkie Collins' novel for radio, a young man meets a woman, dressed in white, on a desolate road near London. She has escaped from an insane asylum. Thus he is...

First produced in 2008 at Theatre Aquarius in Hamilton, Ontario. Geographic setting: Victorian England. Historical period: 19th Century Victorian. Characters: male adults: 5; male teenagers: 1;...

This adaptation of the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" explores motherhood, madness, and the writings of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

We struck it lucky at JubeJubes, a quasi-continental bistro set back from the avenue and decorated with hanging sausages and giant tins of anchovies. We approached a waitress in a sleeveless black...

First produced in 1987 at Theatre Direct Canada in Toronto, Ontario. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male teenagers: 2; female teenagers: 2.

First produced in 1993 at Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Geographic setting: A living room. Historical period: Late 20th Century, 21st Century. Characters: female adults: 4. Play...