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Reckoning is a triptych of three short plays: Witness is a dance-movement piece featuring a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner who unravels as he confronts the brutal testimony of residential school survivors; in Daughter, the daughter of a teacher who was accused of...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Growing up on the Six Nations native reserve, Salt Baby never quite fit in, as a "white" looking "Indian" -- fair skin and curly hair made her more of a Shirley Temple type than a Pocahontas type. Salt Baby navigates the native reserve and the city while explaining...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Janet Wilson Meets the Queen begins in Vancouver, 1969, as society is undergoing profound change. Janet, a woman who places great faith in the British monarchy and its traditions, is valiantly trying to hold together her dysfunctional family: her teenaged daughter,...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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In this powerful new play based on work with incarcerated women, hilarious parody is interspersed with the harsh reality of the cycle of incarceration.
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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One moment, Mona's father is teaching her to make pasta sauce at 2 AM and the next, she sits next to him in a hospital room, counting the seconds between beeps. When a curiously familiar barefooted boy runs in, carrying a blue umbrella and singing a song Mona's heard...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Anyone who has delved into the history of the Red River Settlement will have come across the name Sarah Ballenden. Her 1850 trial is one of the most famous in Manitoba legal history. The fact that her name isn’t officially attached to the trial -- we know it as Foss v....
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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It's May 1945, liberated Holland. The war is over, but because of a shortage of troop ships the Canadian Army remains in the Netherlands. Emma, an independent Dutch woman, meets Alex, a young Canadian private from rural Alberta. Emma has lived through five harrowing...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Deep in Simon's basement, there is a secret world of imagination and adventure. When his new friend Abby comes over after school to work on a class assignment, Simon steers their work toward creating a play… but Simon's older brother, Zach, is having none of it. Zach's...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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What happens when someone is overwhelmed by a desire to help? Does it matter if people only do good in order to feel good? One of Canada's finest playwrights tackles tricky questions in Generous--four short interconnected plays that explore the complications and moral...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Happy Place explores the lives of seven women aged 23 to 60 who are residents of an in-patient care facility: a microcosm for the world outside its walls. What is it to live inside the suffering of these women… addressing the idea that we are not so different from each...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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bittergirl charts the break-ups of three women--one single and dating, one co-habiting, one married with a child. This trio of Women Scorned experience heartbreak, hilarity, fairy-tales gone wrong, tequila, mounties, love, honour, car-keying, repeated viewings of An...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Daniel MacIvor's How it Works introduces us to four unforgettable people: Al, his ex-wife Donna, his new partner Christine, and his troubled daughter Brooke. Brilliantly weaving past and present, this play illuminates these four lives as they come to terms with their...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Two grown sisters face off over their mother's deathbed. Together they confront one another, their own identities, and what will remain when their mom leaves this world. A contemporary look at the significance of faith and family, Honour Beat evokes both laughter and...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Ga Ting is a powerful and emotionally charged story about an immigrant Chinese couple trying to come to terms with the death of their son Kevin. When they invite Kevin's Caucasian boyfriend for dinner after the funeral, the evening devolves into a fiery cultural and...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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Haley McGee was on the phone with Visa, promising to pay off her bill by having a yard sale, when she realized that the only things she could sell were gifts from her exes. Inspired by this call, The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: a play about love is a hilarious and daring...
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Scirocco Drama
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2022-07-21
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The play is inspired by the modern classic Sunrise by Cao YuFirst produced in February 2020 by Factory Theatre, Toronto
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-06-28
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After an unexpected night in a Regina hospital emergency room, Robert Chafe can’t shake the burning question of whether he’s Tennessee Williams or Dorothy Zbornak. Are his symptoms a harbinger of a terrifying undiagnosed condition, or is it all just in his head?
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-06-07
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Nick is the creator of the Social Distancing Festival, an early adopter of virtual events during the pandemic, which showcased work from around the world.Andrea is a story editor on CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries, and was recently awarded an opportunity to pitch a series to...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-05-31
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This is Daniel’s seventh solo show developed with collaborator Daniel BrooksFirst produced by reWork Productions at Canadian Stage, Toronto, in December 2019
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-05-10
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While very similar to a COVID-era love story, it premiered in 2019A study guide is available from Young People’s TheatreThe condition the main characters have is based on cystic fibrosis. It originated from an operatic project called Breath Cycle developed with cystic...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-03-29
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