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While revisiting the shores of Juno Beach, Jake, a Canadian World War II veteran, encounters a precocious ten-year-old from the local village. Isabelle's inquisitive nature challenges the old soldier to confront some long-ignored ghosts–most notably, the wartime death...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-10-05
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In Relative Good, David Gow grapples with the complex implications of the War on Terror, and the resulting sweeping changes to law that allow authorities to violate basic civil rights. Mohamed El Rafi is a Syrian-born Canadian engineer. He's arrested in New York's JFK...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-10-05
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The elderly Gidley sisters lead unassuming and unexciting lives in Blyth, Ontario in 1971. Tart-tongued Pearl and the more romantically-minded Edith live frugally, renting a room to the occasional boarder to help make ends meet. But the sisters' orderly life is turned...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-10-05
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When Jackie comes back to her childhood home after separating from her husband, she thinks her biggest problem will be readjusting to life on a smaller bed. She's surprised to learn, however, that her mother has given that bed away to Deng, a Sudanese refugee. But the...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-10-05
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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 trade stories about doughnuts and smokes, sisters and girlfriends,...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-10-05
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Picking Up Chekhov is a picaresque black comedy about a two-bit repo-man, his angry ex-wife, and their smart-alec teenaged daughter whose lives collide with an enigmatic hitchhiker named Chekhov and a kid with a serious grudge.
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-10-05
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How does a farm girl in 1950s Ontario escape the stall-cleaning, cow-milking, hay-baling drudgery of life on Rural Route 2? She becomes a movie star, of course! The quickest route to Hollywood for a plucky gal in the mid-twentieth century was to enter as many beauty...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-10-05
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This Christmas season, things have gone awry for the kohkoms of Kiwetinohk. Clare Bear is engaged to be married, Zula Merasty is moving off-reserve and Sihkos Sinclare is in jail. It all comes to fruition at Clare’s stagette. Nicimos is dedicated to the memory of Lacy...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-10-05
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November 2, 1965. Norman Morrison drives to the Pentagon with his infant daughter, a jug of kerosene and a box of matches. With Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara looking on, the young Quaker carries out a final act of witness against the horrors of the Vietnam War....
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-10-05
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Gordon Winter is an RCMP hero, a life-long champion of First Nations rights, and a bigot. He's challenging the next generation of chiefs to stand up to the federal government when he spews a Nazi-inspired racist and homophobic rant. Suddenly, the one of the most revered...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-10-05
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Two families, four languages, one house. Home puts its characters into a unique and challenging conflict across language and history and asks difficult questions about the illusion of ownership and the definition of "home". Home is the story of an aging man, Toomas,...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-10-05
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When celebrated writer Peg Dunlop returns to Wayford to care for her ailing mother she soon discovers the people in her hometown community don't appreciate the stories she writes, stories that seem to reveal secrets and truths about their own lives. If Truth Be Told...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-10-05
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The historical accounts from King Henry VIII and Queen Anne's time are steeped in controvery, contradiction, and irony. Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII, was put to death on trumped up charges of adultery and incest. In fact, her husband, frustrated by...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-10-05
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Three generations of a family argue over current events, finances, and culture, with everyone looking to blame someone else for society’s ills in this satirical examination of how judgment can both divide and unite people.Elizabeth, the matriarch, has invited her...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-10-04
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After years of running from her dysfunctional past, Sarah returns home to the family farm in Saskatchewan to find her mom Kathleen yelling into the wind, setting off a turbulent new chapter in her life. Instead of finding comfort in “home,” Sarah learns nothing is how...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-09-27
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In another life I was a small bubble of foam on a wave coming to shore, and the wave broke, and I burst, and that was it. Before that I was a small stream, for centuries. And in another life I was a mortal girl. Which is this life. After thousands of years, I have a...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-09-13
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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 is forced to examine the limits of his own liberalism, and the demons...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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God's Middle Name is the compelling tale of one mother's journey through the uncharted territory of raising an autistic child. Jennifer is the mother of the child with autism. The play, in a series of episodic scenes, follows Jennifer's family over the course of 10...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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A teenager is dead after facing harassment and cyberbullying. Two friends go camping, and one reveals a secret.A conflict between two band students erupts into violence.A refugee celebrates the new year in Canada.A bereaved teen joins her school volleyball team. Five...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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In Care is about a mother's quest to get her children out of foster care. Janice Fisher has not had an easy life. She worked the streets as a teenager, was addicted to cocaine, and had her first daughter taken from her when she was just 15. But she's since turned her...
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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