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First produced by le Centre du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui and l’Activité at Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui, Montréal, in February 2015Public Enemy was supposed to have its English premiere at Canadian Stage in 2020, but has been pushed back due to the pandemic.
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-10-04
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First produced in May 2018 by Dancing Sky Theatre in Meacham, SaskatchewanProductions of the play have featured musicians on stage with the cast.The play takes some inspiration from King Lear but is not an adaptation.
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-09-27
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First produced in Canada by Canadian Stage, Toronto, in September 2021.First produced by Theater der Welt, Dusseldorf, in June 2021.The title of the play is a striking quote from Greta Thunberg’s speech to the UK’s parliament in April 2019.
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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...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Darren, newly on parole from prison, has been ordered by the court to live with his father on the rez. Wally and Darren have always had a contentious relationship: Wally is a problem drinker, and Darren's got a short fuse. But Wally tells his son that he's changed, has...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Ayinom, a former soldier from Eritrea, has arrived in Canada without papers, and seeks refugee status. Seen through the eyes of the couple that take him in and the lawyer who represents him, the play lays bare some of the shortfalls of the refugee system as it exists in...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Jim Forgetting is an unflinching portrait of a year in the life ofJim and Donna, a middle-aged couple struggling with Jim's early-onset Alzheimer's disease. While watching her husband slowly disappear, Donna's patience and love is pushed to heartbreaking limits. She is...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Prairie Nurse, which premiered at the Blyth Festival, is a comedy about two Filipino nurses who come to work at a small-town Saskatchewan hospital in the late 1960s. Cultural clashes, personality differences, homesickness, and the amorous but dim-witted goalie from the...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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In the early fall of 1885, P.T. Barnum’s Greatest Show on Earth toured southwestern Ontario, playing to sold-out crowds. On the bill, along with the snake charmer, the tightrope walkers, the contortionist, and the bearded lady, were 28 elephants, led by the...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Daniel, a washed-up Dollywood rhinestone cowboy, returns home to the farm near Wingham after many years, on the occasion of his mother's death. Despite his best intentions, Daniel gets drawn right back into scrapping with his old man, Walter, who used to play fiddle...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Sean Harris Oliver's The Fighting Season is a searing investigation into the Afghan War through the eyes of a Canadian field medic (Kristy), an OR surgeon (Terry), and a recovery room nurse (Karine). When all three medical professionals experience a life changing event...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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This weekend may be the last-ever Turkey Days, but for these four characters, that is just the beginning! Sarah, a turkey farmer, has just left her husband and moved back home to live with her mom Gail. Gail's a beekeeper and she has other things to worry about—like why...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Anabel gives her heart to a man she meets on the subway and he disappears with it. Her limbs begin to fall asleep. George is on the run but keeps getting distracted by romantic comedies. He begins to blame his mother. Mona resorts to seeking therapy from GoogleShrink,...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Moishe Yukle Bernstein was a poor pedlar who bought land near Pontypool, Ontario, a tiny Protestant town outside Toronto. The spot became a summer getaway for Jewish garment workers from Kensington Market -- and for six decades, families made their way to the small...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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is the rousing true story of a group of Canadian gold miners’ wives who came together in 1941 to stand up for better conditions for their families. These least-likely activists ended up as part of a continent-wide labour movement that lasted for decades and that...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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One of the most controversial and uncompromising Canadian plays in recent memory, C. E. Gatchalian's Falling In Time is an epic exploration of armed conflict, masculinity, sexuality, love, and forgiveness. Set in Vancouver in 1994, the year of the death of North Korean...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Children of God is a powerful musical about an Oji-Cree family whose children were taken away to a residential school in Northern Ontario. The play tells the story of one family: Tommy and Julia, who are trying to survive in the harsh environment of a religious school,...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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