A listing of plays written by Canadian women playwrights featured in this database.


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  • "Wendy, Darling is a contemporary, full-length musical comedy based on J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. Telling the story from Wendy’s perspective, we discover what happens to Neverland and its beautiful...
  • Is there life without the Fantasyland Hotel? Not for Christine. West Edmonton Mall is a one-woman play about isolation, go-nowhere jobs and been-nowhere boyfriends... and it's about getting from...
  • First produced in 2008 at Dancing Sky Theatre in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Geographic setting: Canadian Prairies. Historical period: 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 1.
  • First produced in 2004 at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto, Ontario. Geographic setting: Montreal. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 2. Play includes...
  • First produced in 1994 at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto, Ontario. Geographic setting: London, Ontario. Historical period: Early 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 3. Play...
  • This sung-through musical is about four thirty-something friends who tell each other everything and nothing. While they may be "the best of friends" they keep much of what they feel to themselves...
  • Jade and her mom Lu-Anne are finally home, back on the West Coast with a new high school, new store, new life. No more moving, running, hiding. But Lu-Anne has a beau for the first time in years....
  • It sounded like an explosion more than a gun, not sharp but definitely loud enough to make me put my hands to my ears. And Barney.... Barney clutched the side of his face, spun a little and dropped...
  • First Produced: Jan. 9, 2008 at Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Ontario...
  • Tis the night before Christmas, and all is quiet -- or is it? It is the most magical time of year; expect the unexpected when three characters, Thomas, Silverglitter, and Teddy, come alive. While...
  • 2020-01-24
    Three very odd triplets are consumed by suffering; an unusual couple is inflamed by love; a lonely woman's heart is kindled by forbidden desire. Somewhere between black comedy and Greek tragedy,...
  • This play meditates on relationships, terrorism, forgiveness, and the Mystery of God.
  • Geographic setting: A theatre. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: female adults: 2. Play includes speeches suitable for actors auditioning, and for young actors.
  • After seeing what she takes to be a vision, a mother tries to explain her reaction to her preoccupied adult children--or are things not quite what they seem?
  • Can Dierdre drift into her fifties without falling into lust one last time? Just when it looks like the doors to desire are closing and the only ones creaking open lead to bedsocks and spectacles,...
  • First produced in 2016 by Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Ontario. Geographical setting: Urban. Historical setting: contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 2. Play includes speeches...
  • First produced in 2002 at Festival House in Vancouver, British Columbia. Geographic setting: Prairies. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: female adults: 1. Play includes speeches...
  • First produced in 1983 by CBC Radio in Toronto, Ontario. Geographic setting: Airport lounge. Historical period: Late 20th Century, 21st Century. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 2.
  • Yo Canada! is an ensemble comedy about five roommates chasing their dreams while their dreams are chasing them.
  • 2017-09-21
    Bridget finds her brother Jeremy in a closet attempting suicide. Again. Determined to help him find some kind of happiness, she loiters around grocery stores looking for his potential wife. Bridget...
  • In May 2007, 15-year-old Jordan Manners was shot in the hallway of his Toronto school. In early June 2007, the Toronto District School Board commissioned an investigation into school safety, which...
  • 2000-11
    Co-authored with Annabel Fitzsimmons and Mary Francis Moore, "bittergirl" charts the break-ups of three women: one single and dating, one co-habiting, and one married with a child. Together, the...
  • 2000-11
    Co-authored with Annabel Fitzsimmons and Mary Francis Moore, "bittergirl" charts the break-ups of three women: one single and dating, one co-habiting, one married with a child. Together, the...
  • The class science teacher Miss McColl energizes her students with her passion for physics and discovery, and challenges them to win first prize at this year's science fair.
  • Geographic setting of play: The theatre, back stage. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2.

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