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Orphans for the Czar ruefully exposes the duplicity, revenge, and self-interest at the core of a culture about to go up in flames. Suggested by Gorsky's novel The Life of a Useless Man and set shortly before Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, the play focuses on a hapless...
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Scirocco Drama
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2025-12-15
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In this metatheatrical tragicomedy, an ensemble of queer and trans performers cast themselves in a thought experiment, imagining the future heir to the British throne as having a life resembling their own. Jordan Tannahill, one of Canada’s most acclaimed playwrights,...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2025-11-18
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Best friends Bryan and Tyson are out for a night in Toronto before Bryan leaves for Vancouver in the morning. But when they miss the late-night bus with a six-pack in tow, everything the two men have bottled up about their friendship starts pouring out—like Bryan’s...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2025-11-04
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Have you ever had a voice lodged in your memory that won’t go away? Clawing at your skin, bones, and nerves until it’s all you can think about? For Homa, an Iranian refugee living in Canada with her son Pendar, this is her daily torment. Haunted by the trauma of torture...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2025-11-04
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Jo, a sixtysomething recovering alcoholic, struggles to piece together a life shattered by addiction. Once a prominent botanical researcher, she now lectures at the local horticultural centre and begins to open her guarded heart to Rick, a fellow sober soul with his own...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2025-10-21
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Meet Lauren, a journalist in the midst of covering a high-profile domestic violence case while a growing sense of unease pervades her thoughts. Now meet Luke, whom Lauren has asked to tell her story to the audience. Through Luke’s voice, Lauren reflects on buried...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2025-10-21
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“Wasn’t I enough to cross an ocean?”Three generations of Filipina women converge across time and continents as they attempt to bridge the emotional and physical distances that have kept them apart. Sisters Tess and Vicky are inseparable as children, climbing mango trees...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2025-10-21
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When the impressionable young Izzy immigrates with his Arab family to rural Alberta, he becomes the salvation pet project for Pastor Isaac, a local Christian youth leader eager to mould him. Torn between his sexual desires for his friend Will and Isaac’s persuasive...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2025-10-07
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Isidor, a half-Coyote, half-Wolf CoyWolf, has always struggled to find his place as a half-breed. After the untimely death of his mother, he leaves his community to roam across prairies, forests, and mountains, sharing stories in his search for kinship and belonging....
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2025-10-07
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To write this play, Beth started interviewing people who lived with bipolar disorder and those close to them to understand it better and how it can affect a family.First produced as part of the Skirtsafire Festival at the Gateway Theatre in Edmonton from February 29 to...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2025-09-23
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Nick wears a soldier’s uniform but wields only a paintbrush. As an embedded Canadian artist during the Second World War, he is tasked with an impossible mission: to capture the chaos and carnage of battle on canvas. With soldiers, refugees, and showgirls as muses,Nick...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2025-08-05
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After nearly a decade of the Trojan War, the women of Greece are growing restless. Led by the indomitable Penelope and the fierce Clytemnestra, a band of Grecian women defy the odds and bravely set sail for the shores of Troy, determined to end the conflict themselves....
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2025-08-05
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Margaret Shakespeare, age 13, must write her remarkable plays in secret: it is 1577, and a girl who can read and write is in danger from the witch-hunters. After all, as her father keeps reminding her, a woman's place is in the home... next to a big pile of laundry....
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2025-07-29
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Culture, science, and commerce collide when twin white buffalo calves are born on a First Nations ranch in Saskatchewan. Are they the sign of the prophecy or the results of genetic manipulation? As crowds of pilgrims gather to witness what they hope is a miracle in...
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Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2025-07-16
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Win lives on the rez and Roe lives in the city, where she fled after a terrible family tragedy. After years apart, the two cousins reunite in a Toronto alley to recreate a ceremony from their childhood, but can they remember how? Has the world changed too much? Have...
Editeur :
Scirocco Drama
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2025-07-10
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“The map of the land is in our blood.”A woman trawls the bottom of a riverbed with a makeshift plough, hoping to dislodge something—anything. The world has drastically changed: rivers run dry, rampant bushfires leave little left to burn. Still she persists searching for...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2025-06-17
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A wealthy businessman wakes up bound and gagged in a utility shed, kidnapped by his own employees—brothers and icemen Joe and Rennie. In the midst of the Great Depression, the brothers’ ice harvesting livelihood in Kempenfelt Bay is melting away due to the advent of...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2025-03-18
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A young woman is missing. The prime suspect is an affluent member of the secretive Luminia organization. Enter Asha Ray, a deprogrammer who specializes in extracting people from dangerous cults. With no business card or office, Asha is known only by reputation—a last...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2025-03-18
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“No one remembers why it started—What the first stone was for—And so no one can think of a reason to stop.”Can something torn apart by war be put together again? From the award-winning author of Gas Girls and Sound of the Beast, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard’s The First...
Editeur :
Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2025-03-18
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An immersive experience, Eraser delves into the memories and fantasies of a classroom of students as they figure out who they want to be. Six students guide readers through their different journeys, taking them along to the cafeteria, change rooms, and playground, to...
Editeur :
Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2025-03-04
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