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A new apartment should be a warm and welcoming signal to a fresh chapter of life. It shouldn’t be where a family waits in the dark, surrounded by unpacked boxes, as missiles rain down around them.Already eight years into the Iran–Iraq War, Nasrin and her two adult...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2023-03-28
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She’s more than just a wicked old witch. Baba Yaga is a legend, usually known as that elderly woman who lives alone in the woods and grinds the bones of the wicked. But what if she was actually a sexy, smart, modern woman operating off of morally ambiguous motives?
A...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2023-01-31
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First produced by PIECE OF MINE Arts for Black Theatre Network, Memphis, in July 2018.
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2023-01-31
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Welcome to the world of the one per cent, the corporate elite, the C-suite, the kingmakers. A world managed by payoffs, press releases, NDAs, and company policies. What happens to morality in this world when its people have limitless power?
When a CEO and his...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2023-01-24
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Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII:Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild their lives and their families after the war, Ralph andMitsue...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2023-01-10
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Reenie wants to dance, following in her mother’s footsteps. Just like the rest of her ensemble, she believes she has what it takes to earn the coveted solo at the year-end recital. But when she notices that their strict maestra is not holding everyone to the same...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2023-01-10
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Most of us, when faced with death, wish we could just have a little more time. But what if this is the little more time that we wished for? What are you going to do with it?
Grieving siblings Natalie and Bart have differing views on how we die. Natalie, a...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2023-01-10
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The one thing everyone knows is that we’re all going to die. Which means our loved ones are going to die. So how can we prepare for, experience, and honour their deaths? And does that look different if we have to make the decision to end their lives for them if they’re...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2022-12-13
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The title of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It holds a double meaning that teasingly suggests the play can please all tastes. But is that possible? With his subversive updating of the Bard’s classic, Indigenous creator and cultural provocateur Cliff Cardinal seeks to...
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Playwrights Canada Press
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2022-12-13
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In a town ruled by a shadowy cult, outliers Wasp and Janey nurture a dwindling community of queer resistance. Faced with social isolation and medical barriers, they remain determined to make things work and defend their home. Meanwhile, the Prophet’s daughters grapple...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2022-12-06
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A significant moment in Canadian history is portrayed in this documentary musical about race relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Weaving hundreds of real interviews conducted with Saskatchewan residents and the court transcripts surrounding the...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2022-12-06
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The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of the war play out, the family bears witness from their new home of...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2022-11-22
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With spark and spunk, these two dark yet absurdly charming comedies offer a kaleidoscopic perspective of those who are destined to go down a lonely path and those who choose to share the weight of others’ journeys.
In Wildfire, three odd triplets, two misfits, and...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2022-11-22
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In Anishnaabemowin, Okinum means dam.In deciphering a recurring dream about beavers, Émilie Monnet discovers how to break down interior barriers, to trust in the power of intuition, and to deconstruct cultural walls. A circular and immersive experience that interweaves...
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Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2022-11-14
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Anne Frank has survived the war, and at age 25, she's ready to start a new chapter in New York City. Eager to publish a memoir of her time in hiding,Anne is sure it will launch her career as a writer. But when the only interested publisher suggests drastic rewrites,...
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Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2022-11-14
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kai was inspired by going through their own transition and journey in connecting with their Italian family.First produced as a reading by Ergo Arts Theatre in Toronto, March 2019.
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2022-11-01
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Fourteen-year-old Simone is caught between cultures: Canadian, Québécois, and Trinidadian. She’s also torn between friends and the projects they want her to take part in. Her best friend Sarah wants them to compete in the talent show with a dance routine, but her new...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2022-10-25
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Étaples, France, 1918. Nurses Christy, Maggie, and Bab have crossed oceans to care for wounded Canadian soldiers in the Great War. Despite the terrible injuries they must deal with, they manage to stay hopeful as the dangers of the front draw closer to their hospital.
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2022-10-11
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Jerry Wilson has always planned to pass his family farm on to the next generation. When Jerry's broken leg spurs he and his wife Marlene to retire sooner than expected, the couple moves to a new home in nearby Stony Valley and their son Greg comes home from the city to...
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Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2022-10-05
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Keeper is a powerful, intriguing story about a connection between two women—the memory of which carries such weight in each of their pasts that the only means of self-preservation has been to try to shut it down. We witness an evening in the lives of Avalon and...
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Scirocco Drama
Parution :
2022-10-05
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