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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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Explore a world on the edge of change through three epic stories spanning five hundred years of imagined history, unpacking systems of power and what we are capable of in the pursuit of freedom.
The story starts in The Philosopher’s Wife. Deep in the North, a...
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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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Premiered in November 2018 at Studio 58 in association with Touchstone Theatre in Vancouver.Mortified is a loose adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid.Amy was inspired to write this after finding old diaries from when she was a teenager.
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-01-11
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Premiered in April 2019 at VideoCabaret in Toronto.Too Good To Be True was the play that opened VideoCabaret’s new Toronto theatre.The play is inspired by Cliff’s mother.
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-01-11
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Premiered in January 2019 at Factory Theatre in Toronto in a production by Hotake Theatre and presented by fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre Company.Won Best Production honours at the University of Toronto Drama Festival in 2017.
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-11-01
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Premiered in April 2019 at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto in a production by b current performing arts with Alberta Theatre Projects and Banff Playwrights Lab.The play is inspired by the life of Trayvon Martin and his murder.
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-09-07
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Premiered in December 2019 at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.Announced but postponed productions set for London, ON; Edmonton, AB; and Melbourne, Australia.
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-07-27
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What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact?What is the cost of revolution?
In this contemporary retelling of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city’s perimeter comes to a head when a young princess named Alison tries...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-07-13
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Premiered in July 2019 at Factory Theatre as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival in a production by Uwi Collective.The story has many Philippine influences but became its own unique myth through the authors’ Filipinx Canadian lens.
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-07-06
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Premiered in July 2019 at Factory Theatre as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival in a production by Uwi Collective.The story has many Philippine influences but became its own unique myth through the authors’ Filipinx Canadian lens.
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-07-06
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Premiered in October 2019 at Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon.While the story features adolescent characters, it is primarily intended for adults to see the challenges issued by youth today. Michaela was inspired after seeing an image of a young Girl Scout protesting at...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-06-22
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•The play’s structure is based on the form of “prayers” pujas and yagnas, as practised in the Trinidadian Smarta tradition.•Take d Milk, Nah? has been performed in Toronto and Vancouver, and will be performed in Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal in 2020.
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-05-11
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Premiered in August 2016 at the Foster Festival in St. Catharines, ON.To be produced in Summer 2021 at The Lighthouse Festival Theatre in Port Dover, ON
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-04-12
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Is there a limit to free speech? Who gets to decide?
Isabelle’s film theory students are stunned that she would open an unmoderated online discussion group to complement a controversial syllabus. Her intention was for them to learn from each other, but when an...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-02-22
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From the acclaimed playwright behind A Beautiful View, The Best Brothers, and This is What Happens Next comes a moving portrait about what we choose to forget and how we decide to move on.
Cape Bretoner Dougie hasn’t seen his childhood best friend Allen in thirty...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-02-01
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Silence opened the National Arts Centre’s 50th anniversary season in 2018.A part of the story takes place in Baddeck, NS, where the Bell family had, and their descendants continue to maintain, a summer home. Baddeck is also home to the Alexander Graham Bell National...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2020-12-07
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Award-winning playwright Erin Shields has crafted three thought-provoking plays that centre on the inner lives of women, offering space for those who dare to listen.
An eviscerating satire of gender roles in popular culture, Beautiful Man imagines a world in which...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2020-12-07
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The play was inspired by Christina Rosetti’s poem “The Goblin Market.”
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2020-11-30
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