Drama

A Live Bird In Its Jaws

A Live Bird In Its Jaws

Jeanne-Mance Delisle

Translated by Yves Saint-Pierre

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama, this is a play within a play. Hélène is writing a play which draws heavily on the past of her lover and his twin brother, but refuses to... >>

Canada Split: A Flush of Tories & Rexy!

Canada Split: A Flush of Tories & Rexy!

Allan Stratton

Read together, A Flush of Tories and Rexy! form comic bookends, the first viewing our current dilemmas in the context of Conservative leadership in the last century; the second, in the context... >>

Emphysema (A Love Story)

Emphysema (A Love Story)

Janet Munsil

Silent-film performer Louise Brookes was living in obscurity when bad-boy theatre critic Kenneth Tynan, who was infatuated with her film persona Lulu, tracked her down for a New Yorker profile.... >>

Evidence to the Contrary

Evidence to the Contrary

Hélène Pedneault

Translated by Linda Gaboriau

Lena Fulvi has been arrested for her mother's murder. She insists it was an accident, but she has been accused by a nurse who saw her do the deed, and her sisters happily furnish a motive. But... >>

Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

Robert Astle

Based on Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov's scathing 1925 satire Heart of a Dog, Robert Astle's one-man show brilliantly recreates the story of a dog's-eye view of tyranny and social injustice.... >>

L’Affaire Tartuffe, The Garrison Officers Rehearse Molière

L’Affaire Tartuffe, The Garrison Officers Rehearse Molière

Marianne Ackerman

A riveting drama of cross-cultural love affairs, seditious plans to join the Yankees and the stranglehold of Church and State, L'Affaire Tartuffe is inspired by historical fact: this was the... >>

Magpie, Having, Hunger Striking

Magpie, Having, Hunger Striking

Kit Brennan

Three plays from award-winning playwright Kit Brennan which explore secrets, obsessions, and desire through the stories of three women, Bernice, the victim of small-town repression, Sarah, a... >>

One for the Road: New Plays for One Actor

One for the Road: New Plays for One Actor

Edited by Kit Brennan

Written by Briana Brown, Berend McKenzie, Pam Calabrese MacLean, Kirsten Van Ritzen, Collin Doyle, and Ron Fromstein

One for the Road is a collection of recent Canadian plays for one actor. >>