Gordon Winter is an RCMP hero, a life-long champion of First Nations rights, and a bigot. He 's challenging the next generation of chiefs to stand up to the federal government when he spews a Nazi-ins
A Tale of Two Divas tells the story of two Canadian singers who began as soloists in church choirs, but eventually moved on to spectacular careers. Soprano Jean Forsyth and contralto Edith Miller knew
Stages is packed with drama exercises and ideas that work, tested on the harshest of critics—high school students. Laid out in a clear, concise manner, they are categorized according to their purpose.
Growing up on the Six Nations native reserve, Salt Baby never quite fit in, as a “white” looking “Indian”—fair skin and curly hair made her more of a Shirley Temple type than a Pocahontas type. Salt B
November 2, 1965. Norman Morrison drives to the Pentagon with his infant daughter, a jug of kerosene and a box of matches. With Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara looking on, the young Quaker carrie
Jim Forgetting is an unflinching portrait of a year in the life of Jim and Donna, a middle-aged couple struggling with Jim’s early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. While watching her husband slowly disappea
Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems, Melanie Dennis Unrau’s debut collection, is an elegantly spare, thoughtful, and fiercely tenacious meditation on the trials and tribulations of modern motherhood.
One starry night the body of young man, still strapped into his airplane seat, falls from the sky into the yard of Harold and Elsie’s chicken farm. As the night unfolds, their mysterious guest effects
In this powerful new play based on work with incarcerated women, hilarious parody is interspersed with the harsh reality of the cycle of incarceration.
How does a farm girl in 1950s Ontario escape the stall-cleaning, cow-milking, hay-baling drudgery of life on Rural Route 2? She becomes a movie star, of course! The quickest route to Hollywood for a p
In Relative Good, David Gow grapples with the complex implications of the War on Terror, and the resulting sweeping changes to law that allow authorities to violate basic civil rights. Mohamed El Rafi
Vic and Kat were the stars of iconic 90s punk band, Trigger. A decade or so after both the band and their friendship imploded on stage, they meet again to make an appearance at a fundraiser--provided,
The elderly Gidley sisters lead unassuming and unexciting lives in Blyth, Ontario in 1971. Tart-tongued Pearl and the more romantically-minded Edith live frugally, renting a room to the occasional boa
Intermission is an uncommon and refreshing excavation of popular culture, memory, and relationship. It offers startling interpretations of the fashionable sitcoms and young-adult novels which were pre
A self-described tuff grrl with two ffs there is no doubt that after poet Katherena Vermette s first collection of poetry i won t ever learn, she will also be known as one tuff poet. Chronicling sever
Elizabeth Smart, author of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (1945), has been heralded as a complicated and passion fuelled artist who dared to live in disregard of the burdensome expectati
One of the most controversial and uncompromising Canadian plays in recent memory, C. E. Gatchalian s Falling In Time is an epic exploration of armed conflict, masculinity, sexuality, love, and forgive
The Walnut Tree tells the story of the intense journey of S ssel, a young, privileged Jewish woman who grows up in Chernowitz, studies in Prague and Paris, endures the horrors of World War II in Easte
Art, war, and the politics of culture collide in Sally StubbsO moving account of a familyOs legacy of beauty and brutality. Anna, an established painter living in Canada, returns to MunichNthe city sh
Four travelers take refuge from a Huron County blizzard in the secluded farmhouse of Gerald Goldie, retired Latin teacher. All four of the strangers have some things in commonNa working knowledge of L
Welcome to Henderson Tessier McGuire & SmytheOs annual Christmas cocktail party, held at the gracious home of managing partner George Smythe and his lovely wife Buffy. ItOs The Catering Gig Fr
More than fifty news plays have been developed and presented by the Scirocco/MAP Manitoba High School Playwriting Competition (so far). This collection will give you a sample of what teenage playwrigh
Late September, 1995. Cathy and her family are waiting for her youngest brother to call them on his birthday. For years it has been a family tradition that no matter where in the world David might beN
Do you hear booing from the blue fairies when you tread the boards? Did your clap trap work on the claque? Did that flash pot set off OMr. SandsO in the first electric? Do you even know what those las
Murdoch is a charming, yarn-spinning, old-school, white Canadian cop. His wife is a doctor: young, beautiful, smart, a Muslim UyghurNand a suspect. She has a lot to confess. So does he. Murder, betray
Allen ColeOs extraordinarily powerful musical adaptation of Frank Parker DayOs classic novel is a theatrical tour-de-force. Filled with passion, tragedy spiked with humour, and conflict, Rockbound is
Find out what yoga, residential schools and the missing thirteenth floors have in common in the new comedy by Kenneth T. Williams. Bannock Republic reunites the cousins Jacob and Isaac Thunderchild 10
110 years after its Moscow premiere, Bruce McManus weaves a praireie story from the threads of the originalNfaithful to the tragic comedy of ChekhovOs characters in an environment often hostile to dre
Finally, an anthology of scenes designed specifically for the young female actor. Sixteen female playwrights, some emerging (Jessy Arden, Alison McLean, Tricia Cooper), some established (Maureen Hunte
Between 1928 and 1972 nearly three thousand citizens were sterilized, lied to, experimented on, and subjected to daily abuse at hands of provincial staff in Alberta. Most Albertans have forgotten the
Sometimes surviving in dark times involves becoming part of the darknessEgas and dust, two plays about war, introduce a powerful new voice in Canadian theatre.A highly theatrical, violent, and ultimat
The empty nest...a time of promise and trepidation. Middle-aged parents everywhere both eagerly await and utterly dread the moment when the children are gone and they are finally alone again "Hey...we
