This play is a collective creation by Twenty-Fifth Street Theatre, and was created by Aiden Beck, Linda Griffiths, Sharon Bakker, Michael Fahey, Bob Bainborough, Brenda Leadly, and Catherine Jaxon....
A haunting, poetic story about four characters struggling to find grace and humanity, "Paradise" explores trauma, mental illness, addiction, and the lengths we’ll take for personal freedom. After a...
First produced in 2010 at Arts Club Theatre Company in Vancouver, British Columbia. Geographic setting: Westcoast, Canada. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults...
First produced in 2007 at Waterdale Theatre in Edmonton, Alberta. Geographic setting: Urban. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 3; female adults: 1.
Perfect Love is a collection of playlets on the theme of relationship break-ups. Structurally, four actors have one scene with every other actors, as well as a monologue, and one scene in which...
16-year-old Steffie can't leave the ICU where she lost her mum, as her father wrestles with his grief at home. Barb is slowly losing her husband Frank as his memory dims. Frank's doctor John can...
This play depicts the trajectory of a stolen kidney, from unwilling donor to black-market buyer. It is a darkly comic story that winds into a place where ethics and morals blur.
First produced in 1986 at Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Geographic setting: Prairie farmhouse. Historical period: Late 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 2....
This piece is a satirical look at the war against weight that tells the story of five women and their award-winning leader of "fighting fat" on a program called Pound Predators. But when the going...
A week before the Jewish holiday of Passover, finding their mother laid up in bed with a deep depression and hot anger towards God, five sisters arrive at home to clean and make it ready for...
First produced in 1998 at Western Canada High in Calgary, Alberta. Geographic setting: New Orleans. Historical period: 21st Century. Characters: male adults: 2; female adults: 3. Play includes...
A young teacher, Eleanor, adrift in her life and in her marriage, moves from Toronto to the small town her husband is from and begins working at the local school. Searching for meaning, she forms a...
Drawing on Japanese folk song and Die Winterreise, composer Juliet Palmer and writer Anna Chatterton have crafted a set of songs exploring the tension between inner reflection and outer journeying....
First produced in 1992 by CBC Radio in Toronto, Ontario. Geographic setting: Montreal, Quebec. Historical period: Late 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 10; male seniors: 1; female adults: 4
First produced in 2012 at Colin Jackson Theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Geographic setting: England. Historical period: 19th Century / Victorian, Early 20th Century. Characters: male adults: 1;...
Shy, fourteen-year-old Maddie wasn’t expecting to have to worry about taking care of herself just yet. Her sixteen-year-old party-girl sister Bea has scandalously moved in with their mom’s ex...
This play is based on the memoir by Fredelle Bruser Maynard. The daughter of the only Jewish family in town yearns to be a part of the Christmas celebrations in the 1930s Canadian Prairies.
This play offers six cliffhanger episodes in the lives of two very opposite sisters in turn-of-the-century Toronto, each grabbing for the gusto in this lighthearted tale of love, lust, and liberation.
Marianne Kohn, a twelve-year-old Jewish refugee from Berlin, Germany, arrives in Britain shortly before World War II. The play chronicles her experiences in England and Wales during her first...
Three women are shipped to the new world (Canada) on a convict ship from Britain. Molly's journey begins with great hope of her new life; Sarah has been taken against her will and forced to leave...
Sixty-year-old River conjures her thirty-something parents to ask questions, relive their journey, and find a way to let them go in a private ritual of healing on the river.
There are two rival robber gangs residing in Dufferin Grove Park. The robber chieftains are long time bitter enemies. What happens when their daughters secretly become friends? And then…decide they...
"Robert" humorously examines questions of identity, family, and loss as two siblings await the death of their father in a hospice...with a set of bagpipes.
A modern adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's short story, "Rocking Horse Winner" explores the relationship between Paul, a young man with developmental challenges, and his emotionally distant mother....
First produced in 2011 on Green Thumb Theatre's Theatre for Young Audiences Tour in Vancouver, British Columbia. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 2. Play...
First produced in 2005 at FemFest in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Geographic setting of play: New York City. Historical period: 21st century. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 1. Play includes...
Geographic setting: Saskatchewan. Historical period: Contemporary. Characters: male adults: 1; female adults: 1; female teenagers: 1. Play includes speeches suitable for actors auditioning, and for...
