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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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The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking new play by the acclaimed author of What a Young Wife Ought to Know and Bunny.
Jon, a star professor and author, is racked with self-loathing after his...
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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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Convinced the world at large can’t be trusted to prioritize the well-being of adolescent girls in the event of a cataclysmic event (or just in general), a determined troupe of preteen “doomers” commit to preparing for survival in the post-collapse society they...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-06-22
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Jiv is “Canadian.” And “Indian.” And “Hindu.” And “West Indian.” “Trinidadian,” too. Or maybe he’s just colonized. He’s not the “white boy” he was teased as within his immigrant household. Especially since his Nova Scotian neighbours seemed to think he was Black. Except...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-05-11
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Dom has had a rough go of things so far. At fourteen, he has the hardened look of someone who’s had to fight for everything.
Fred has just moved to Not-The-City, a new place to try to disappear. But he didn’t expect to actually make friends. He just hopes he’s...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-05-11
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Set in a rural Black Nova Scotian community, The Bridge explores the complex relationship between two brothers strained over twenty years of secrecy, deception, and dishonour. Secrets are revealed one by one from the brothers themselves, as well as a trio of community...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-04-26
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There’s no such thing as a secret in Stewiacke. Not when the gossips meet for coffee every day at the local diner. Vi, Rita, Mary Ellen, and Janine are all as close as can be, and they know everybody’s business. But when Sean, a heartbroken doctor, moves in to take a...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-04-12
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At the instruction of their marriage counsellor, empty nesters Norm and Ruth book a trip to a place where they remember being in love, the Bear Bones Family Campground, in order to rekindle their spark. After arriving late in the night, the conservative couple wakes to...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2021-03-16
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Theory won the Herman Voaden Prize in 2015, was nominated for the Carol Bolt Award in 2019, and is being developed as a feature film.Theory is a call for empathy—to listen and to learn from one another.Since its first draft in 2009,Theory has drastically changed to...
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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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It only takes one spark of love to change the world forever.
Mabel Hubbard Bell was a strong, self-assured woman—bright, passionate, and a complete original. Despite a near-fatal case of childhood scarlet fever that cost her the ability to hear, she learned to talk...
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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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Donald Wellner knew success when he wrote a hit play thirty-five years ago, but now he’s recently separated, living in a small apartment, and promising that he’s trying to start a new script. His fortysomething son Blake is a travel writer with commitment issues who...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2020-11-30
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Stories of the Canadian Arctic intersect in this epic five-hundred-year journey led by a one-eared polar bear.
In 1535, Hummiktuq, an Inuk widow, has a strange dream about the future. The next day, she discovers a bear cub floating on ice near a breathing hole. Despite...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2020-11-23
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A new year of high school is full of excitement and potential—but three teens didn’t expect it to bring such a dark change to their lives. After spending a summer reinventing herself in Paris, Emma is ready for her new life to start, while her best friend Lily is eager...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2020-11-23
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It is the tenth year of the Trojan War. The Greek allies have laid siege to the city of Troy, but the leaders of the Greek factions are beginning to turn on one another. When Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae, angers Achilles, leader of the Myrmidons, the gods begin to...
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ClassicBooks by KTHTK
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2020-11-19
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