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...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 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,...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 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...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 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,...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 2022-07-21

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Hot. Burning hot. In the dry, hot summer of 1988, Kate, a young urban woman, moves with her boyfriend to his family's Saskatchewan farm. A world-travelled vegetarian who listens to punk rock, she is not exactly the kind of girl John Richards' parents had thought he...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 2022-07-21

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Colours in the Storm is a musical about the life—and mysterious death—of iconic Canadian painter, Tom Thomson. A play with songs, rather than a traditional musical, the show follows Thomson's development as a painter from his arrival in Algonquin Park in 1912 to his...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 2022-07-21

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These two powerful plays by Ahmad Meree examine the effects of war and the refugee experience. Suitcase considers the lives of refugees and the spaces they inhabit. The play urges the audience to reassess the significance of their possessions, the relationships they...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 2022-07-21

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Anna's daily routine is life, death, bureaucracy. Every call she receives is an emergency. How much trouble is our city in? Vitals is a solo show presenting the story of Anna, a Toronto paramedic. Based on real interviews conducted with local EMS workers, Vitals weaves...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 2022-07-21

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Z.A.K.A is an Orthodox Jewish volunteer force in Israel that collects the remains of Jews killed in accidents. When Jacob, aZ.A.K.A volunteer, makes the split-second decision to treat a young woman -- instead of the soldier she may have killed -- his world is changed...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 2022-07-21

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In 1964, a white man walks into a public restroom in a Washington, DC park looking for sex. The next man who enters is a black man.The Seat Next to the King explores the lives of two men who literally sat next to the most powerful men in America. Bayard Rustin, a friend...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 2022-07-21

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"When we got to the rooftop and sat down, he ordered a half bottle of white wine, dug into the plastic bag and pulled out a tiny book of Shakespeare’s sonnets. Inside was written Pierre Elliott, 1968. 'Somebody gave it to me on my first Christmas as Prime Minister. I...

Editeur : Scirocco Drama
Parution : 2022-07-21

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