Sometimes surviving in dark times involves becoming part of the darknessEgas and dust, two plays about war, introduce a powerful new voice in Canadian theatre.A highly theatrical, violent, and ultimat
Dear Boss: A Fortean Investigation of Jack the Ripper explores the culture of madness and paranoia that seized Whitechapel in the autumn of 1888. It is a murder mystery and a romantic horror story for
A philosophical bartender, a broken-hearted hooker, an idealistic novelist, and a gal from the Sally Ann?four characters play out their desperation and dreams in a dingy New York bar circa 1951. Hrant
Four travelers take refuge from a Huron County blizzard in the secluded farmhouse of Gerald Goldie, retired Latin teacher. All four of the strangers have some things in commonNa working knowledge of L
Welcome to Henderson Tessier McGuire & SmytheOs annual Christmas cocktail party, held at the gracious home of managing partner George Smythe and his lovely wife Buffy. ItOs The Catering Gig Fr
Art, war, and the politics of culture collide in Sally StubbsO moving account of a familyOs legacy of beauty and brutality. Anna, an established painter living in Canada, returns to MunichNthe city sh
More than fifty news plays have been developed and presented by the Scirocco/MAP Manitoba High School Playwriting Competition (so far). This collection will give you a sample of what teenage playwrigh
Nic has autism. Through the eyes of his mother Jennifer, we follow Nic's family on a ten-year journey: from early confusion to a life-altering diagnosis, then through the stages of denial, anger, depr
The empty nest...a time of promise and trepidation. Middle-aged parents everywhere both eagerly await and utterly dread the moment when the children are gone and they are finally alone again "Hey...we
A passionate encounter between a grieving mother and a troubled soldier just back from France illuminates Wild Mouth, a new play by Maureen Hunter. Anna is a British-born immigrant who returns to her
A dramatic and often humorous look at six black Canadians of diverse backgrounds who share a Toronto house. Their lives unfold against the backdrop of civil unrest, which erupted when the Los Angeles
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama. Winner of the Chalmers Play Award. A rhapsodic blues tragedy.Harlem Duet could be the prelude to Shakepeare's Othello, and recounts the tale of Othell
Finalist for the Chalmers Play Award. A neo-Nazi skinhead is charged with murder, and Legal Aid has assigned him a Jewish lawyer. Over the course of developing a defense for the skinhead, the lawyer i
Finalist for the Governor General?s Award for Drama. Monster, a one–man play, begins in the total darkness of a movie theatre. After a long silence, someone in the audience rudely shushes his neighbou
All Restaurant Fires Are Arson is a dark and comic look at our relationship with our own mortality, and with each other, as we struggle to face the inevitable. Tom, an ex-cop in his fifties, and Ron,
It's morning in the city. Shorty rolls cigarettes on a bench while Jim looks for change in phone boxes. Big Tom is already drunk. As these men on the fringes of society draw us into their world, they
This highly theatrical adaptation of Timothy Findley's classic novel traces the brutal coming of age of Robert Ross-a sensitive idealist who goes off to the Great War in 1915. Ross, who has a fondnes
They Call Me Chief tells the fascinating stories of native athletes who overcame tremendous obstacles to star in the National Hockey League. From Fred Sasakamoose (Chief Running Deer on Skates), the f
this is a small northern town is the long-awaited, first full-length collection of poems by Rosanna Deerchild. These are poems about: what it means to be from the north; a town divided along color lin
In June of 1959, 12-year old Lynne Harper was found raped and strangled in a farm woodlot near Clinton, Ontario. A few months later her classmate, 14-year old Steven Truscott, was convicted of the mu
