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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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After the Black Lives Matter protest at the 2016 Toronto Pride Parade, two friends find their racial and queer politics aren’t as aligned as they thought, and the playwrights behind them must figure out how to write about the fallout.
Cathy Ann, a straight Black...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
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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It’s time to make every moment count.
Sixteen-year-olds Pria and Theo—or as they know each other online, the aspiring opera singer PriaSoprano and outer-space aficionado Eagle19—have decided to have sex. There’s just one catch… they both have life-threatening...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-03-29
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Writing from her own upbringing, Michaela wanted to explore the psychology of immigrants’ ideals and conception of home, as well as challenge comedies that reinforce simply feeling represented with ways to do better, open doors to other communities, and address...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-03-22
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The Empire Trilogy was produced by PARADIGM productions, with all three plays premiering in Toronto:The Philosopher’s Wife in December 2018 at the Aki Studio,The Scavenger’s Daughter in January 2019 at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, and Four Sisters in June 2019 at the...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-03-15
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Hannah and Maev began working on the show in 2012 as an exploration into their curiosities about the truth of motherhood, and over the years of development became mothers themselves.The authors have kept a fifty-page document of hundreds of emotional audience responses...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-01-11
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A woman runs into her former abuser and is surprised by the power he still holds over her. In an attempt to uncover the truth of what really happened between them, she recalls her adolescent self: a synchronized swimmer struggling to make sense of the world around her....
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-01-11
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From the acclaimed author of Huff & Stitch comes a new dark comedy about the lies we tell each other in order to make the best of a desperate situation.
Maria and her kids—Lisa, a pregnant teenager, and Jude, an excitable preteen—are on the run following the murder...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-01-11
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Twelve-year-old Genevieve has been having a hard time at home, and all she really wants is to be an altar server at her church. Except it’s 1963 and Father Paul tells her that’s not allowed. After having her dreams crushed and being made fun of by her classmate and star...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2021-11-30
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Nam, a procrastination-prone Vietnamese Canadian university student, sets out with the vague ambition to write a musical about his diaspora as embodied by food, particularly the world-famous noodle soup pho. What follows is pure meta musical, genre-bending through...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-11-01
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