Title: 2-2-Tango in - Making, Out / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Coach House Press 1992

Description:

roy relationships - LGBTQ+ - men all male cast; two characters two male one act

'. . . a highly stylized presentation that features clipped, overlapping dialogue and rigidly choreographed gestures. . . (MacIvor's) observations about the eternal struggle in relationships between emotional, physical and spiritual need and the assertions of independence easily exceed the gay context in which they are being played out.'

Title: 3... 2... 1 in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO Author: Cuckow, Nathan Craddock, Chris Publisher: Signature Editions 2006

Description:

roy tragicomedy - Alberta playwright all male cast; two characters two male one act

Two guys, Clint and Kyle, armed with several cases of beer, Jack Daniels, a cornucopia of pharmaceuticals and broken dreams, lock themselves in a Wetaskiwin garage the day of their friend Danny’s funeral. As the coke is snorted, the joints rolled and the booze chugged, the emotional walls, built up brick by brick over years come tumbling down as Clint and Kyle fumblingly begin to explore the emotions which have festered since childhood.

Title: 7 Stories in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fourth Edition / CCO Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2001

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy thirteen characters three male; two female (doubling) one act

In this fast-paced, sophisticated and hilarious play, a man contemplating suicide on a seventh storey building ledge confronts the stories of the people who live inside the building - these "seven stories" lead to a charming and surprising ending.

Winner! 6 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, 1989. Title: 7 Stories in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy thirteen characters three male; two female (doubling) one act

In this fast-paced, sophisticated and hilarious play, a man contemplating suicide on a seventh storey building ledge confronts the stories of the people who live inside the building - these "seven stories" lead to a charming and surprising ending.

Winner! 6 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards, 1989.

Title: Abby's Place in - Voices of the Land / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: AU Press 2012

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright - Alberta three characters two male; one female fifteen scenes

The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller's plays. In "Abby's Place" a dying woman draws emotional strength from a lake that she understands as her final resting place.

Title: Accidental Death of a Salesman in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Mitchell, Nick Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama four characters two male; two female one act

Willy, a businessman, confronts Arthur Miller in a restaurant and rewrites Willy Loman's death as an accident, foreshadowing the last event in the play. Title: Account Balanced in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Bunce, Valorie Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama all female cast; two characters two female one act

As her younger female neighbor completes her taxes for her, an older woman settles her other 'accounts'.

Title: Acoose: Man Standing Above Ground in - Studio One / CCO Author: Acoose-Pelletier, Janice Zeman, Brenda Publisher: Coteau Books 1990

Description:

roy storytelling nine characters eight male; one female radio play

The Granddaughter of Paul Acoose, a great Canadian long distance runner in the early 20th century, tells his story.

Title: Adult Entertainment in - Suburban Motel / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1997

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - relationships four characters two male; two female five scenes

A bitter lawyer and a cop resume their relationship after calling it quits, and are interrupted by dreams and realities. Title: Adventures of Ali and Ali and the Axes of Evil, The in - Performing Back: Post-Colonial Canadian Plays Author: Youssef, Marcus Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015

Description:

roy satire - Canadian all male cast; seven characters four male (doubling) one act

prequel to "Ali and Ali: The Deportation Hearings".

"An elaborate agitprop theatrical collaboration where the internal contradictions and duplicitous double-speak of the "war on terror" are exposed as the propaganda vehicles for the neo-colonialism of the West that they are. Ali Hakim and Ali Ababwa, refugees from the imaginary country Agraba, attempt to seduce their audience into providing them with food, refuge, security,

Title: Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God, The in - Up the Garden Path and The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God / Author: Codrington, Lisa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy Canadian playwright - women - God fifteen characters eleven male; four female (doubling possible) one act (five scenes)

Running time: 45 - 60 mins

Based on Bernard Shaw’s short story, The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God follows a black girl who is abandoned by a white missionary for asking too many questions. Taking matters into her own hands, the Black Girl sets off to find out who or what God really is. Along the way she meets a number of characters who have very different views on God, but the

Title: Afrika Solo in - Afrika, Solo / CCO Author: Sears, Djanet Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - women - African many characters two male; one female (doubling) one act

In Afrika Solo, Djanet Sears follows her roots back 400 years to Africa to find a missing link. In a piece that changes time frames, sings, dances, and collides with pop-culture references, Sears explores home, heritage, and identity, in this fast-paced, potent play. A Canadian present, an African past; Sears finds herself in both. Title: After All in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 118 Spring 2004 / PER Author: Anderson, Carol Publisher: Miscellaneous 2004

Description:

roy family relations four characters one male; one female; two male or female one act

Description not available.

Title: After Antietam (or Incident After Antietam) in - After Antietam / Isadora and G.B. / CCO Author: Angel, Leonard Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - war two characters one male; one female one act

"When a Confederate soldier meets a southern woman, the idealism of the Confederacy clashes with the brutal realities of war."

Title: After Baba's Funeral in - After Baba's Funeral / Sweet and Sour Pickles / CCO Author: Galay, Ted Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relations - Manitoba five characters three male; two female one act

"A Ukrainian family gathers in Manitoba for their grandmother's funeral. Confronting cultural and generational differences, Baba's memory helps them to overcome their fear of death and to re-establish family ties.

Winner, 1981 Drama Award, Canadian Author's Association." Title: Afterglow in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO Author: Boychuk, Peter Publisher: Signature Editions 2006

Description:

roy drama - Yukon - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act

The play takes place near Tagish Lake in the Yukon Territory, January 2000. It revolves around the events after a meteorite landed near the lake.

Title: Agokwe in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Fobister, Waawaate Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - LGBTQ+ - Native playwright - monologues all male cast; five characters one male (doubling) one act

"Mike is a hockey player and Jake is a dancer. The boys notice each other at the Kenora Shoppers Mall and ultimately connect through a mutual love of movement — when Mike is skating and Jake is dancing, "like grass blowing in the wind." Playing these and many more characters through the iconic, multifarious persona of Nanabush, the trickster, Waawaate Fobister intertwines the boys' attraction to each other through activities that traditionally separate gender and orientation. "Agokwe" (pronounced "agoo-kway; meaning "wise woman" or "Two-Spirited") is a remarkable and

Title: Ah! But it Sings, But It Sings, Luveena or: Blood Orange in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Boutillier, Fabian Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy comedy - farce - sketch three characters three male one act

Three odd gentlemen get carried away. Title: Air Talk in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Shields, Carol Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy relationships - drama all male cast; two characters two male one act

'A conversation between two men during an airplane flight about the mysterious Joanna.'

Title: Albert in - Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, The / CCO Author: Jones, Andy Publisher: Breakwater Books 2016

Description:

roy drama - solo performance all male cast; one character one male one act (one scene)

1 interior set.

A man at home alone with his budgie tells a story.

Title: Alias in - Blitzkrieg and Other Plays / CCO Author: Wade, Bryan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Lone Ranger four characters two male; two female one act

"While on his way to the Wasteland for a fresh supply of silver bullets, the Lone Ranger suffers an identity crisis but still manages to rescue a woman in distress. Tonto deals with a unique creature." Title: Alien Bait in - New Canadian Drama 8 - Speculative Drama / CCO Author: Green, Michael Brooker, Blake Publisher: Borealis Press

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - alien abduction - science fiction many characters two male; two female (doubling) one act

A One Yellow Rabbit production. Alien Bait meditates on the alien abduction phenomenon. Characterised by a constant switching back and forth between "experts" and "victims". Aside from being a pleasing challenge for actors, the work places ideas concerning abduction in revealing contrast. From the panel's perspective, the audience is presented with a spectrum of current theoretical views, from the abductees, we see the other, perhaps more human side. In the end what is conjured is the loneliness of those afflicted: their isolation, the stunned surprise, and the

Title: Alien Creature in - Voice of Her Own / CCO Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy drama - identity - historical drama - women all female cast; one character one female one act

'Monologue supposedly spoken by the Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwan, who died of alcoholism in 1987; draws on her writings to tell her life story.' Winner of 2000 Dora Award for Outstanding New Play

Title: Alien Mice in - John Lazarus Shorts / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada

Description:

roy comedy two characters two male or female one act

A deranged lecturer, armed with a bomb, holds the audience hostage while explaining his UFO conspiracy theory connecting the fountains at Versailles with Mickey Mouse. Title: Alienor in - Angels & Anger / CCO Author: Chiasson, Hermenegilde translated by Glen Nichols Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy rape six characters three male; three female one act

'The play revolves around Etienne who removed himself and his daughter, Alienor, from progressive encroachments of the world to live deep in the woods until a violent encounter with four hunters forces him back into the world on charges of having sexually abused his daughter. In order to protect Alienor's honour, he holds out against the arguements of his lawyer that he might escape prosecution through a plea of mental incompetence. In the end though, it is Alienor who has the courage to insist on revealing the truth, that it was the hunters who raped her, not

Title: All the Bright Company in - All the Bright Company / CCO Author: Allan, Andrew Publisher: Quarry Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - war four characters three male; one female radio play

"This is one of the many plays produced by Andrew Allan during the 1940s addressing the problem of war, and of the thirty original dramas which he himself wrote for broadcast...The play expresses the dilemma of war: it appears as destiny, it offers greatness; but it maims and kills; can it be avoided? Allan answers perhaps not - but it can be dealt with and survived if life is built around spirituality, imagination and nature."

Title: All the Little Animals I Have Eaten in - Animals / CCO Author: Hines, Karen Publisher: Coach House Books 2017

Description:

roy comedy - women all female cast; many characters four female one act

In this play, we follow Frankie, a sleep-deprived grad student and server on the toughest shift of her life, slinging hyper-local food to insurance adjusters, well-heeled plagarists, equine masseuses and other famished professionals. Inspired by the Bechdel-Wallace Test, this play features an all female cast that includes dead writers, lionhearted lambs, and all manner of female organisms. As Frankie tries, between tables, to finish her term paper entitled 'Why Women Aren't Funny", she finds herself haunted by them all in this comedy that is as dark as blackened fugu and Title: Almost, Again in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Brown, Briana Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

Description:

roy comedy - relationships - romance - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act (five scenes)

" 'Almost, Again' centers on Jack and Ginger, two coworkers at a large, chain bookstore whose shyness, awkwardness and penchant for delightful bursts of earnest nerdiness, immediately draws them together while also creating a sexual tension that both are too hesitant and neurotic to confront. When their first date goes awry, Ginger convinces Jack to erase the encounter entirely from their personal history, to wipe their romantic slate clean and to try the first date again. As the pressure to have the perfect date, create their perfect mood and capture the perfect moment

Title: Amelia Earhart Was Not a Spy in - Triple Play / CCO Author: Curran, Colleen Publisher: NuAge Editions 1990

Description:

roy romantic comedy three characters two male; one female one act

'Hilary and Kevin, her homosexual roommate have been living together for five years, but this evening Hilary has invited someone to dinner - her new fiance.'

Title: American Modern in - Canadian Gothic and American Modern / CCO Author: Glass, Joanna McClelland Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1977

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act

"A highly imaginative evocation of the numbing isolation which besets a couple as they struggle to adjust to urban life. Pat and Mike, an urban couple, find themselves ever more out of touch with the world in which they must live, and with ever less to hold onto and believe in. He toys with the prospect of suicide, and she with the notion of madness, as they reminisce about the events which have brought them to where they are. Their conversation grows ever more bizarre - and revealing - as they seek to 'fill the empty spaces', and to fight back, to survive, against the Title: Amorous Adventures of Anatol, The in - Still Laughing: three adaptations by Morris Panych / CCO Author: Schnitzler, Arthur Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2009

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian adaptation five characters three male; one female (doubling) seven scenes

"In Schnitzler's "The Amorous Adventures of Anatol", all female characters are played by one actress, dramatizing that for Anatol, the only victim of our elaborate and conspiratorial theatrical illusion, all women are the same."

Title: Ana's Shadow in - CTR, Vol. 151 / PER Author: Goldstein, Tara Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy drama six characters six female; all female one act

A play about love, loss and coming of age in an adoptive same-sex family.

Title: Anatomy Lesson in - Talking Bodies / CCO Author: Tremblay, Larry Publisher: Talonbooks 2001

Description:

roy drama - relationships - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act

A professor dissects and re-examines her long relationship with her abusive, slick, lawyer-politician husband. Title: Aneemah's Spot / The Base in - Give Voice / YCL Author: Motion (aka Wendy Braithwaite) Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011

Description:

roy drama two characters one male; one female (can be young adults or adults) one act (two parts)

Strong black accents required.

A man and a woman meet after a funeral to get things off their chests.

Title: Angel, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Nelson, Greg Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy Canadian - drama two characters two male or female one act

Someone is late for a meeting with a friend because of an angel sighting.

Title: Angel's Trumpet in - Sharon Pollock: Three Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy biographical - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

'In (this play) the turbulent relationship between Scoot and Zelda Fitzgerald is encapsulated in a meeting with Zelda's psychiatrist. Scott, on the verge of a mental breakdown himself, demands a diagnosis of Zelda's literary ambitions as evidence of her escalating mental deterioration. While the psychiatrist attempts to mediate, the couple squares off against each other while using as their weapons the events of their past, present and eventually their projected future. The struggle between these two passionate and talented individuals is underscored by the tapping of a Title: Angel's Trumpet in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy biographical - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

'In (this play) the turbulent relationship between Scoot and Zelda Fitzgerald is encapsulated in a meeting with Zelda's psychiatrist. Scott, on the verge of a mental breakdown himself, demands a diagnosis of Zelda's literary ambitions as evidence of her escalating mental deterioration. While the psychiatrist attempts to mediate, the couple squares off against each other while using as their weapons the events of their past, present and eventually their projected future. The struggle between these two passionate and talented individuals is underscored by the tapping of a

Title: Anglomania, or Dinner, English-Style in - The Drama of our Past / CCO Author: Quesnel, Joseph Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1997

Description:

roy verse comedy - comedy, social class, satire eight characters five male; three female one act (twelve scenes)

'Original title "L'Anglomanie ou le dîner à l'angloise". The theme and characters are rooted firmly in the precarious realities of the author's time - in this case, life in Lower Canada at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It was not published for a very long time because the 'foolish anglophiles whose excesses are here so humously depicted were modelled too closely upon prominent citizens of the little community which Quesnel himself had been living since 1793'.

Title: Annie Mae's Movement in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy drama - biography - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright seven characters one male; one female (doubling) one act

Annie Mae’s Movement explores what it must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a man’s movement, a Canadian in America, an Aboriginal in a white-dominant culture at a time when it felt like we could really change the world. Dying under mysterious circumstances, it is still unclear as to what really happened to Anna Mae back in the late 70s. Instead of recounting cold facts, this play looks for the truth from examining the life and death of this remarkable Aboriginal woman; that we cannot know the consequences of our actions; that we live on in the Title: Another Country in - Another Country / bloom / CCO Author: Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Talonbooks 2007

Description:

roy drama - war five characters two male; three female forty-four scenes

(Originally Final Decisions [War]), this play was his response to his home country Argentina’s Dirty War in 1976–83, when leaders of the military junta held that their campaign against “leftist subversives and terrorists” was the beginning of the third world war. The scale of their undertaking was defined by their statement: “First we will kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, those who are undecided.” The public relations firm Burson-Marsteller was hired to make

Title: Any Night in - Summerworks / CCO Author: Arnold, Daniel Hahn, Medina Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - thriller six characters one male; one female (doubling) thirty-nine scenes

Anna is a modern dancer who is looking for a new place to live. Technophile Patrick just happens to have put up a sign for a newly available basement suite at her dance studio. These two disparate individuals will meet, get to know each other, fall in love and become so entwined that their destiny, eerily foretold by their pseudo-psychic neighbour, will ultimately provide us with some clarity as to why they were put together in the first place.

Title: Apocalypse in - Ludwig and Mae: Three plays / CCO Author: Leroux, Louis Patrick translated by Shelley Tepperman and Ellen Wark Publisher: Talonbooks 2009

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Francophone - relationships eleven characters four male; six female (doubling) one act

part two of Leroux's trilogy about Ludwig and Mae.

"Apocalypse" is a monodrama in which Ludwig stages his own suicidal ceremonial (along with unlikely allegorical characters such as a Pope, Giacometti's Cow, and a Leather-Clad Muse). Title: Apple in the Eye, The in - Willful Acts / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Coach House Press 1985

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - marital relations two characters one male; one female one act

"Gemma's attempts to communicate with her husband are repeatedly rebuffed and she survives her unbearable reality by withdrawing into her own fantasy world."

Title: Arabian Nights, The - Part 2 in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 75, Summer 1993 / PER Author: Petch, Steve Publisher: Miscellaneous 1993

Description:

roy fantasy - classic twenty-two characters flexible casting radio play

One part of an eight part series radio play of the traditional story of Alladin.

Title: Are We There Yet? in - Theatre, Teens, Sex Ed / REF Author: Heather, Jane Publisher: University of Alberta Press 2015

Description:

roy young adult - sexual behaviour - sex education - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

"Everybody talks about driving: how to drive, when to drive, what driving is like, drinking and driving, accidents, good drivers, stupid drivers…but sex? Well that’s a different story. "Are We There Yet?" is a funny participatory play by Jane Heather and sexuality health education workshop for 14-16 year olds. Drawing a parallel between mastering driving skills and negotiating relationship dilemmas, this award-winning play humorously opens a dialogue on sex. As teens watch and advise characters on stage, they feel as safe and free to talk about sexuality and Title: Argument, The in - Six Plays by Mavor Moore / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Talonbooks 1989

Description:

roy drama - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act

"A domestic spat between a man and a woman, of indeterminate relationship, develops into a war between the sexes about different attitudes to the truth."

Title: Aria in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987

Description:

roy one woman play - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; many characters one female (doubling) one act

Description not available.

Title: Art of War, The in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Penguin Books 1984

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - war six characters four male; two female one act (eight scenes)

"An hilarious war between art and artlessness, neo-fascism versus the moral centre." Title: Art of War, The in - The Power Plays / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1984

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - war six characters four male; two female one act (eight scenes)

"An hilarious war between art and artlessness, neo-fascism versus the moral centre."

Title: Art of War, The in - Shared Anxiety / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - war six characters four male; two female one act (eight scenes)

"An hilarious war between art and artlessness, neo-fascism versus the moral centre."

Title: As Long as the Sun Shines in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Grant, Christina Dunn, Doug Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy Canadian drama - Native history - Alberta - Native peoples twenty characters; extras twelve male; eight female five scenes

'A dramatic re-enactment of the signing of Treaty No. 8 on June 21, 1899, at Lesser Slave Lake. This historiographic pageant, shuttling back and forth between then and now, uses a late twentieth-century narrator to introduce a series of tableaux which dramatize anxieties in late nineteenth century Cree and White communities about the signing of documents that effectively transformed Native history in the Athabasca, Mackenzie and Peace River Districts.' Title: As Night to the Day in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO Author: Ebbs, Dan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy dramatic comedy four characters two male; two female one act

Forty-year-old Michael returns home to help his mother who is struggling with memory loss. Over the course of a morning, Michael sees her through the eyes of another and learns that there’s a side to her he didn’t know.

Title: Ash in - The Mill / CCO Author: Atkins, Damian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011

Description:

roy drama - Canadian eight characters four male; four female twenty-two scenes

Part 4 of "The Mill".

In part four, Ash, the mill stands: battered and surrounded by ash. Inside, five young people cling to life. Can hope take root on such poisoned ground?

Title: Assembly: A Surreal Self-Improvement Seminar in - Canadian Theatre Review v. 134 / PER Author: Radix Theatre Symington, Emelia et. al. Publisher: Miscellaneous 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - self-awareness - Bristish Columbia four characters two male; two female twelve scenes

"Vancouver-based 'Radix Theatre's collaborative piece is a parody of a self-improvement seminar that promises a "new" you. The production concludes with a buffet of chocolate desserts." Title: At the Gates of the Righteous in - Four Favourite Plays / CCO Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1949

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy six characters four male; two female one act

interior representative set; 19 century costume; music.

"The misconception that all robbers are against the sacred laws of society is proved false when two young aspiring revolutionaries try to join a band of highwaymen in Upper Canada."

Title: Audition Piece in - Rattle in the Dash / CCO Author: Anderson, Peter Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988

Description:

roy drama two characters one male; one female one scene

"In a bar, a woman talks to a man about the losers she has dated."

Title: Babel Rap in - Six Canadian Plays / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - high school all male cast; two characters two male one act

1 exterior set.

An industrious worker and a contemplative smoker are at work on the Tower of Babel. They argue about why they're doing it and what will happen when it's finished. Title: Babel Rap in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - high school all male cast; two characters two male one act

1 exterior set.

An industrious worker and a contemplative smoker are at work on the Tower of Babel. They argue about why they're doing it and what will happen when it's finished.

Title: Back to Berlin in - The Courier and Other Plays / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - war - family relations - Alberta playwright one character all male cast; one male one act

Back to Berlin brings us a man who accompanies his aging father on a visit to the city of his youth, and confronts his own fears of his father's involvement with the Nazis during World War II.

Nominated for a Jessie Richardson Award for Best Original Script.

Title: Back to the Kitchen, Woman in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992

Description:

roy Comedy - women - historical - Alberta playwright eleven characters two male; nine female one act

'Comedy about changing roles of women in 1941 Canada.' Title: Backstreets in - Vittorio Rossi: Two Plays / CCO Author: Rossi, Vittorio Publisher: NuAge Editions 1988

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian all male cast; three characters three male one act

Description not available.

Title: Bad and the Sick, The in - The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1986

Description:

roy comedy - black comedy - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female one act

Brief psychotic comedy of forbidden love in the gutters and drawing rooms of the Austrian capital.

Title: Bathhouse Suite, The in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO Author: Brand, Ken Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - LGBTQ+ - men - monologues all male cast; five characters five male one act

Set in a gay bathhouse, the men tell stories of memorable sexual encounters, the police raids, lost lovers missed and celebrate the bathhouse as a place where love, lust, camaraderie, friendship and political solidarity can be expressed and nurtured. Title: Bathsheba in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Kearney, Jennifer Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - religious - religion all female cast; one character one female one act

No description available.

Title: Bear, The in - Adapt or Die / CCO Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - farce - relationships - romance three characters two male; one female one act

running time: 35 min.; adapted by Jason Sherman

A new version of the vaudeville by Chekhov. "Sherman’s adaptation uses modern language to re-imagine a classic battle of the sexes between a recent widow and a pugnacious creditor. With Elena Popova mourning for her philandering husband, affecting a theatrical grief that is more posthumous defiance than genuine suffering, Grigory Smirnoff arrives to collect on a debt owed

Title: BeatDown a.k.a. Life in - BeatDown / CCO Author: Pierre, Joseph Jomo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - men - fatherhood eight characters four male; four female twelve scenes

Streetlife and fatherhood collide. This play takes place on one night. Jayquese finds out that he is about to be a father, then seeks to escape this news by visiting first with the women in the play and then with his boys. The BeatDowns throughout the play are brief snippets of Jayquese's ongoing nightmare. Title: Beatty in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary - Alberta playwright three characters; one voice on tape one male; two female one act

A telemarketer and her invalid mother try to hit the jackpot.

Title: Beautiful City in - The East End Plays: Part 2 / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1988

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Toronto - Ontario nine characters four male; five female one act; ten scenes

"An urban comedy set in Toronto, pitting the glass and chrome condo set against the traditional, brick walk-up neighbourhoods."

Title: Beautiful Tigers in - Three Plays by Tom Cone / CCO Author: Cone, Tom Publisher: Pulp Press Book Publishers 1976

Description:

roy drama - Canadian eight characters six male; two female one act

"Picasso directs a group of friends including Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in recreating a living picture of Rousseau's painting 'The Dream'." Title: Beautiful View, A in - I Still Love You / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian all female cast; two characters two female twelve scenes

"A play about joy and misery, misunderstandings and connections, and how one moment can alter the whole world; in short, a play about love. A BEAUTIFUL VIEW plays out the story of the relationship between two women, Michelle and Liz—how they came together and how they’ve drifted apart. As Michelle and Liz embark on a journey to find new scenarios for the rest of their lives, the audience is drawn into their world."

Title: Beaver Effect, The in - Hot Thespian Action! / CCO Author: Stubbings, Mark Publisher: AU Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy three characters two male; one female one act

Two hapless 'Ed Wood' filmmakers try to get a obtain Canadian funding to produce their science fiction film. The challenge: to convince Denise at the Canadian Film Society to fund the movie, even though it does not fall under her Canadian content guidelines: "Prairie, Prairie, Prairie, or a small fishing community of some kind"; "The more wheat farmers and girls in frilly dresses the better."

Title: Bedtime Stories in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO Author: Kolpak, Diana Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - fairy tales - women all female cast; four characters four female one act

Four women from fairy tales—Cinderella, the Witch who held Rapunzel hostage, the Queen who outsmarts Rumpelstiltskin and Bluebeard’s wife—each tell the story from their own point of view. A unique look at the way women are treated in classic tales. Title: Beer Room in - Some Angry Summer Songs / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1976

Description:

roy drama - men - relationships all male cast; six characters six male one act

1 interior.

"An actor, painter and young man discuss the value of friendship."

Title: Being at Home with Claude in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 50, Spring 1987 / PER Author: Dubois, Rene-Daniel Publisher: Miscellaneous 1987

Description:

roy drama all male cast; four characters four male one act

"A young man is interogated about killing a trick who has asked to die in a moment of ecstasy."

Title: Being at Home With Claude in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Dubois, Rene-Daniel Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996

Description:

roy drama all male cast; four characters four male one act

"A young man is interogated about killing a trick who has asked to die in a moment of ecstasy." Title: Bellies, Knees and Ankles in - Seven Short Plays from Theatre Ontario / CCO Author: Hamilton, Wendy A. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy women - self awareness all female cast; four characters four female one act

'Women talking to women. The conversations just emerge, encircle, probe, embrace the similarities and analyze the differences. Everyone in the play has secrets, and over the course of the play the audience discovers that each of these four women in her own search for her personal self.'

Title: Belly Up in - Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, The / CCO Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Breakwater Books 2016

Description:

roy drama - disabilities - solo performance all male cast; one character one male one act (eighteen scenes)

1 interior set.

"A blind man is terrified of leaving his home. But he has a little mouth to feed, and he is quickly running out of fish food. Digital video and an original score play backdrop to this one-man audio visual feast."

Title: Beneath the Deep Blue Sky in - NextFest Anthology II / CCO Author: Bartel, Rob Publisher: NeWest Press 2004

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - technology seven characters all male cast; seven male one act

"A strange and stirring geek fantasia written for the stage by award winning poet, playwright, and computer game designer, Rob Bartel. Schizophrenic internet addicts, dispossessed panhandlers, Soviet game programmers, digital Mozarts, defeated chess grandmasters, voyeuristic search engines and more chase their varying destinies in this whirlwind exploration of what it means to be human in the age of the computer." Title: Benedetta Carlini: Lesbian Nun of Renaissance Italy!!! in - NextFest Anthology / CCO Author: Rowe, Rosemary Publisher: NeWest Press 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - women - comedy - feminism seven characters one male; six female one act

"Two modern young women, Clare and Gwen, are engaged in rival Women's Studies projects. Clare is absorbed in her vindication of Bernadetta Calini, a lesbian nun and religious visionary of tarnished reputation. Gwen, the jealous skeptic, is fixated on her own "post-feminist deconstruction" of the Anglo-Saxon epic 'Beowolf' into "Beowolfa, the Need for Mead". Lesbian in inclination herself, Gwen serves in part as a comic foil to the groping visionary yearnings of Clare, a lapsed Catholic once-removed whose meagre spiritual resources include a newly

Title: Beowulf in - Words on Waves: Selected Radio Plays of Earle Birney / CCO Author: Birney, Earle Publisher: Quarry Press 1985

Description:

roy legend all male cast; five characters five male radio play

"A new version for radio of the ancient Anglo-Saxon legend of Beowulf."

Title: Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar, The in - Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media / CCO Author: Finnigan, Joan Publisher: Methuen 1973

Description:

roy Canadian - Ontario fourteen characters; extras eight male; six female screenplay

"A tender and compassionate study of a poor family in an Ontario logging community. Emery Prometer, bush worker and odd-jobber, may be an irresponsible husband and father but he is a man of rich humanity and proud independence. His wife Glad is the archetypal woman who rejoices in the love and vitality of her husband as well as in the abundance and variety of her children. Breeding and working, dancing and fiddling, loving and quarreling, these Ontario people are vanishing representatives of an old and conservative Canadian way of life." Title: Bete Blanche in - Bete Blanche / Tango Noir / CCO Author: Scollard, Rose Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1991

Description:

roy Canadian drama - surrealism two characters one male; one female (doubling) one act

'A figure in white brings Faye money every night, and a story of the white beasts of corruption that women are hitched to - Innocence, Frailty and Purity. Faye must get control of these beasts if she is to preserve the autonomy of her soul.'

Title: Betrayal, The in - Five from the Fringe / CCO Author: Gareau, Laurier Publisher: NeWest Press 1986

Description:

roy drama - Riel Rebellion - Edmonton Fringe Festival all male cast; two characters two male one act

No abstract available.

Title: Better Living in - Shared Anxiety / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy seven characters three male; four female one act; ten scenes

"A prequel to 'Criminals in Love'. Gail's father - long assumed dead - appears and his wife and daughters are reluctant to let him resume authority. The family is forced to reassess what they're doing with their lives." Title: Better Living in - The East End Plays: Part 1 / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy seven characters three male; four female one act; ten scenes

"A prequel to 'Criminals in Love'. Gail's father - long assumed dead - appears and his wife and daughters are reluctant to let him resume authority. The family is forced to reassess what they're doing with their lives."

Title: Better Looking Boys in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Trochim, Dennis Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; four characters four male one act

An examination of a time of change for two gay couples.

Title: Between Mothers in - The Waterhead and Other Plays / CCO Author: Bushkowsky, Aaron Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act

A woman, drinking and waiting for the phone to ring, analyses her relationships with her mother, daughter and ex-husband who is abusing her daughter. Title: Between Then and Now in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Rintoul, Harry Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000

Description:

roy relationships - drama four characters one male; three female one act

A madcap tour through connected relationships.

Title: Beuys, Buoys Boys in - Making, Out / CCO Author: Garnhum, Ken Publisher: Coach House Press 1992

Description:

roy monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act

A young man builds his monument for the world. 'High art takes a tumble with schlock, and from their union a different mode of representation is born, a focal point for a new energy, a hopeful portent for the future.'

Title: Beuys, Buoys Boys in - Alone, on Stage / CCO Author: Garnhum, Ken Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy monologues - men - Canadian all male cast; one character one male one act

A young man builds his monument for the world. 'High art takes a tumble with schlock, and from their union a different mode of representation is born, a focal point for a new energy, a hopeful portent for the future.' Title: Bhopal in - Love, Loss, and Longing / CCO Author: Varma, Rahul Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015

Description:

roy drama - contemporary - social issues seven characters; chorus four male; three female twenty scenes

Bhopal, 1984: With the presence of the Carbide International pesticide factory, the city begins to claw its way out of endemic poverty. But what is to be made of the deformed babies born to women living near the factory? And the poison gas explosion that will leave three thousand people dead in just a few minutes—and will kill tens of thousands more in the years to come. How could have this happened?

Title: Big Blue Bird, The in - The Waterhead and Other Plays / CCO Author: Bushkowsky, Aaron Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - relationships - men all male cast; four characters three male (doubling) one act

Three generations of men - grandfather, father, and son - come to terms with the missing women in their lives and find love and compassion.

Title: Big face in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 92, Fall 1997 / PER Author: de Vries, Marion Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997

Description:

roy monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act

'A poetic monologue about a big-faced woman from the prairies.' Title: Billy Nothin' in - AWOL / CCO Author: Dixon, Sean Publisher: Coach House Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - Canadian eight characters five male; three female one act

A quintessential western with more twists than a lasso. Trapped in a world of leather chaps and cowboy boots, five Wild West characters collide, encountering murder, metamorphosis, mayhem alongside a meta-whore who may or may not have the answers to set them free.

Title: Birds, The in - Performing Back: Post-Colonial Canadian Plays / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015

Description:

roy comedy - fables - Native peoples - Native playwright twelve characters flexible casting one act

"The Birds" is an adaptation of the classical Greek play by Aristophanes. Nolan re-situates the birds in the play to Turtle Island (North America), recasting the two humans who visit the land of the birds as colonizers-come-lately, intent on remaking this Indigenous paradise in their own image. This comic fable brings a 21st century audience inside an Indigenous subjectivity, underscoring the striking realities underlying Indigenous and settler relationships.

Title: Birdwoman and the Suffragettes: a Story of Sacajawea in - Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots / CCO Author: Mojica, Monique Publisher: Women's Press 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - Native peoples fourteen characters five male; five female (doubling) radio play

Description not available. Title: Bitterenders in - Double Exposure / CCO Author: Khalil, Hannah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016

Description:

roy dark comedy - Canadian playwright - relationships four characters one male; three female one act (three parts)

Hannah’s play Bitterenders, a black comedy about a Palestinian family in Jerusalem who are forced to share their house with Israeli settlers, won Sandpit Arts’ Bulbul 2013 competition and

Winner! 2013 Sandpit Productions' Bulbul Playwrighting Competition.

Title: Bittergirl in - Seven Short Plays from Theatre Ontario / CCO Author: Griffiths, Annabel Lawrence, Alison and Mary Francis Moore Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy comedy - relationships four characters one male; three female one act

Annabel Griffiths is also known as Annabel Fitzsimmons.

'An irrepressibly upbeat comic exploration of abandonment and resilience. It introduces three women, A, B, and C whose somewhat generic man, D, sets the piece in motion by announcing in the first scene that the relationship is over and he is leaving. The women go from shock to grief to anger to relief to vengeance.'

Title: Black Friday in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Butler, Alec Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - lesbian play - LGBTQ+ - Toronto five characters one male; four female four scenes

A classic coming-out story, it also mirrors the coming out of Toronto as an urban centre with a lesbian subculture.

The 1989 production was nominated for the Governor General's Award for English Drama in 1990. Title: Black Friday? in - Radical Perversions / CCO Author: Butler, Audrey Publisher: Women's Press 1990

Description:

roy drama - LGBTQ+ - family relations five characters one male; four female one act

Woman writing about her trade-unionist father returns home with her girlfriend.

Title: Blade in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - murder - Native peoples five characters one male; three female (doubling) one act

Woman reviews her murder after she has died.

Title: Blade in - Blade / Job's Wife / Video / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: ArtBiz Communications 1995

Description:

roy drama - murder - Native peoples five characters one male; three female (doubling) one act

" 'Blade' is based on an incident in the playwrights life. It explores the consequences when a young woman is . . . mistakenly murdered by a psychopath who specializes in knifing prostitutes. . ." Title: Blade in - Blade and Job's Wife; or, The Delivery of Grace / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama - murder - Native peoples five characters one male; three female (doubling) one act

published in Theatrum Magazine (Nov/Dec/Jan 1992/93).

Woman reviews her murder after she has died.

Title: Blind Dancers in - Straight Ahead and Blind Dancers / CCO Author: Tidler, Charles Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981

Description:

roy drama two characters one male; one female one act

"...we meet Louisa two years later on 'the morning after' with a travelling jazz trombonist."

-second play in series

1981 Chalmers Award winner

Title: Bliss (Félicité) in - Once More, With Feeling / CCO Author: Choiniere, Olivier Churchill, Caryl Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - French-Canadian - fantasy four characters two male; two female one act

translated by Caryl Churchill.

'From the other side, you're looking at me. I'm looking at you. We smile at each other.' Welcome to Wal-Mart. On their break, a cashier and her fellow workers flick through celebrity gossip magazines. 'See you later, Celine,' says a headline. What's wrong with Celine? Why is she turning her back on her glamorous public life, her adoring fans? And how is her story connected to the Title: Blitzkrieg in - Blitzkrieg and Other Plays / CCO Author: Wade, Bryan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979

Description:

roy Canadian - black comedy four characters two male; two female one act

"The setting is Berghof, Hitler's chalet in the Bavarian Alps. A new look at the personal lives of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, in whose dreams and desires the full impact and brutality of the war is felt."

Title: Bloom in - Another Country / bloom - CCO Author: Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Talonbooks 2007

Description:

roy drama - war seven characters five male; two female (doubling possible) one act

bloom (the title is taken from a line in Paul Celan’s poem, “Psalm”: “we bloom in thy spite”), overflows with images from T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (“hooded hordes swarming over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth,” among others), and seems utterly contemporaneous with his first, in the context of the current destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, part of the larger effort of an international reorganization of the world we know as “The War on Terror.”

Title: Bluebirds in - Vimy and Bluebirds / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - war - women all female cast; three characters three female one act

Thiessen brings to light the stories of three Canadian nurses who crossed oceans to take care of others in the war. Bonding over their duties and patients, the nurses keep up a positive atmosphere, even as the front line draws closer to their field hospital. Title: Blues For My Grandfather in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Providence, Tien Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy monologue one character flexible casting one scene

'A self contained monologue written for performance at an evening of Caribbean voices, then performed at the 1995 New Ideas Festival at the Alumnae Theatre. It is a story taken from the headlines, giving voice to the other side. It highlights the pain, the sorrow and the anger you feel when someone you love is shot down.'

Title: Body Blows in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Yhap, Beverly Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy drama - marital relations two characters one male; one female one act

'Years earlier, Lydia betrayed herself for Jason, sacrificing all ties to her family and culture, exiling herself from the sources of her power. In this country, she is feared as different by everyone including her adolescent daughter. Lately, she has begun to suspect Jason of cheating. After lengthly avoidance, they are brought face to face with the rift in their marriage.'

Title: Bogus Babbling with an Elbow: Home on the Range in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Renders, Kim Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy monologue - drama one character one female one act

Wanda Cash (a.k.a., Ramona Sabone - Urban Jungle Hunter) delivers a lecture on the homeless. Title: Book of Questions, The in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Chafe, Rick Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female one act

A couple discuss life's big issues in the bathroom.

Title: Boom, Baby, Boom! in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Rubess, Banuta Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Toronto - Ontario six characters; a band of four musicians three male; three female one act; fourteen scenes

'Clem Hambourg. . . runs an after-hours jazz club and is considered a patron saint of the growing Toronto scene. "Boom, Baby, Boom!" is a study of how people confront a painful past and an ominous future within that world of the 1959 Toronto Jazz scene.'

Title: Boom, Baby, Boom! in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 58, Spring 1989 / PER Author: Rubess, Banuta Publisher: Miscellaneous 1989

Description:

roy Canadian drama six characters; a band of four musicians three male; three female one act; fourteen scenes

'Clem Hambourg. . . runs an after-hours jazz club and is considered a patron saint of the growing Toronto scene. "Boom, Baby, Boom!" is a study of how people confront a painful past and an ominous future within that world of the 1959 Toronto Jazz scene.' Title: Borderline in - Public Lies and other plays / CCO Author: Fothergill, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007

Description:

roy drama - historical - Canadian - Africa four characters three male; one female one act

In April, 1994, nearly a million Rwandan Tutsis are massacred by the majority Hutu. In July, when the Tutsi-led Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) gains control of the capital, Kigali, thousands of Hutu are prompted to flee across the border to UN refugee camps. In Borderline, a Canadian aid worker encounters her former student and lover who, as a prominent Hutu, is now in danger of Tutsi reprisal.

Title: Born Buffalo in - 3 Plays / CCO Author: King, Alanis Publisher: Fifth House 2015

Description:

roy comedy - buffalo - native playwright - Canadian seven characters two male; five female (doubling possible) one act

Takes the reader back into the mystical age of the buffalo alongside fraternal twins magically transformed into bison. Born Buffalo is a play about the spirit of the buffalo in a fun, modern-day setting.

Title: Born Ready a.k.a. Black on Both Sides in - BeatDown / CCO Author: Pierre, Joseph Jomo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - men three characters two male; one female one act

Two men, who could have been brothers, meet over a gun called Peggy Sue. Title: Borrow Me in - Four by Four by Four / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Red Deer Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - thriller - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

More of a thriller than a comedy, "Borrow Me" wanders through supernatural territory and there is an ominous note present even before murder and betrayal rear their ugly heads. Even so, it's billed as a comedy and there certainly are elements of that as well. Movie producer, Russel Bennet, and his embittered wife, Sharon, have Russel's naive young mistress, Jenny, to dinner. Filling out the party is Gordon, a university friend of the Bennets who is also Sharon's ex-boyfriend. Yes, the possibilities are indeed endless.

Title: Botticelli in the Fire in - Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom / CCO Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2017

Description:

roy drama - historical - Canadian playwright six characters four male; two female one act (twelve scenes)

While painting The Birth of Venus, famed artist and bon-vivant Sandro Botticelli becomes entangled in sexual and political brinkmanship that puts a lot more than his masterpiece at stake.

Title: Box, The in - West Coast Plays / CCO Author: Rosen, Sheldon Publisher: New Play Centre with Fineglow Plays 1975

Description:

roy drama - relationships - men all male cast; two characters two male one act

1 interior.

"Two men sharing apartment, closely attuned to one another despite personality differences, play verbal games and mentally manipulate each other as they fantasize about contents of box." Title: Box2 - a show in a diner in - Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2006) / PER Author: Fanconi, Kendra Laurenson, Andrew Publisher: Miscellaneous 2006

Description:

roy drama - site specific theatre - diner four characters three male; one female one act

The creation of Box began as an exploration of feelings of uncertainty about the future, contextualized by the awareness of the end of this millennium (the familiar) and the beginning of the next (the unknown). A further development of the themes and ideas behind Box, Box2 returned to the the Templeton diner to offer up a whole new menu, well mostly. This new production included a video segment that followed the busboy down Granville Street and into a XXX shop video booth where he gets transported 'outside the box' into a strange and distant forest before

Title: Boy in the Treehouse, The in - The Boy in the Treehouse; Girl Who Loved Her Horses / CCO Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - Native peoples four characters three male; one female one act

"It deals with the dilemma of being from mixed parentage, specifically Native and non-Native, and the issues that involves. In this increasingly multicultural world, it's a matter that will become more and more relevant to our children as the years pass. Add to that the death of a parent and the world truly does become a confusing place for poor Simon."

Title: Brainstorm Between Opening and Closing Annoucements in - All the Bright Company / CCO Author: Markle, Fletcher Publisher: Quarry Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - drama nine characters six male; three female radio play

"...a satire on the hedonism and anti-intellectualism of the radio in those times [1942]..." Title: Brandy in - Return of the Big Five / CCO Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female one act

1 exterior set.

Sexy, fast, funny action as the Little Guy wins the heart of the Dumb Brunette and the Blonde runs off with the Big Guy.

Title: Branta Canadensis in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Peterson, Ellen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary drama twelve characters six male; six female one act

'Twelve geese fly South and discuss the choosing.'

Title: Brave Hearts in - Making, Out / CCO Author: Rintoul, Harry Publisher: Coach House Press 1992

Description:

roy drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act

After one man punches out another at a party, a third man talks him down and . . .'the relationship that gradually develops between the two men is complex, difficult and convincing. . . ' Title: Breakdown in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Werry, Wilfred Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975

Description:

roy drama - life four characters three male; one female one act

interior set (breakfast room).

"John Bridgman has had a breakdown and is now trying to re-establish himself in the business world. He despairs of his chance of success and contemplates suicide. His wife's faith in him is affirmed when John is offered a job with his old company, in compensation for having been the unknowing victim of a colleague's deception."

Title: Breaks in - Quebec Voices / CCO Author: Gingras, Rene translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Coach House Press 1986

Description:

roy Quebec - drama all male cast; three characters three male one act

"Pete is a loner in his thirties who wants to write music derived from a fusion of art and science. His quiet life is shattered by the intrusion of his landlord, Dupuis, a prosperous businessman, and Francois, an orphaned young punk who is epileptic and knows that Pete can help him to enjoy the ecstasy that he experiences during his seizures. Pete is forced to forge closer relationships with Dupuis and Francois, without the two of them meeting. When they do meet in the last scene, which ends with what may be a fatal confrontation between them, Pete is literally

Title: Breeches From Bond Street in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female one act

1 exterior set.

'Comedy set in late 19th century Canadian border town. Gambler's mail-order bride arrives.' Title: Breeding Drum Majors: A Post Mortem Dream of Betrayal in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Ross, Nadia Cave, Diane Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy death five characters three male; two female one act.

A group of scenes from history where Marie repeatedly gets killed.

Title: Brimful of Asha, A in - Love, Loss, and Longing / CCO Author: Jain, Asha Jain, Ravi Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Indian culture - cultural differences two characters one male; one female one act

In 2007 Ravi Jain had just completed school and was itching to get his feet wet in the theatre scene. With plans to begin his own company, Ravi has put off marriage for a few years, much to the disappointment of his mother, Asha, who was getting impatient with Ravi’s non-traditional approach to life. In this autobiographical story of the Jain family, Ravi recalls a trip to India with his parents in tow, where they ambushed him with a series of prospective wives at every turn. Conveyed through storytelling, "A Brimful of Asha" is a comedic and heartwarming tale of a family

Title: Brothers In Arms in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Denison, Merrill Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975

Description:

roy drama four characters three male; one female one act

interior set (cabin).

"Major Brown and his wife Dorothea are in the north and must return to the city quickly but their taxidriver is on a deer hunt. After an exasperating discussion with Syd, another backwoodsman, regarding the driver's whereabouts, Syd's military service, and deer hunting, the Major learns Syd could have taken him but did not offer to do so because he was not asked." Title: Brown Lady Johnson in - One-Act Plays From Canadian History / CCO Author: Hooke, Hilda Mary Publisher: Longmans Canada 1962

Description:

roy drama - historical ten characters five male; five female one act

"The annals of the Johnson family make fascinating reading in Canadian and American history. Sir William Johnson, a stalwart Irishman who came to New York and settled along the Mohawk River. He was a sturdy gentleman, and had several matrimonial adventures. Molly Brant, the central figure of this play, was a sister of Joseph Brant, the famous Mohawk chieftain; after the death of Sir William, Molly and her children came to Canada and settled in the district along the Grand River, where the city of Brantford later came into being. The characters in the play were all real people,

Title: Brussels Sprouts in - The Factory Lab Anthology / CCO Author: Kardish, Larry Publisher: Talonbooks 1974

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - sex three characters two male; one female one act

An easy-to-take, naturalistic sex comedy about a charming menage-a-trois.

Title: Burden of Self Awareness, The in - Dead Metaphor / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 2015

Description:

roy dark comedy - Canadian - money five characters three male; two female one act (sixteen scenes)

The play has money at the centre of a dramatic conflict of values. Title: Burlap Bags in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 36, Fall 1982 / PER Author: Peterson, Len Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

roy drama - Canadian all male cast; three characters; extras three male (doubling is possible) one act

The re-enactment of a suicide's diary, describing the process by which his life becomes painfully absurd to him.

Title: Burning of the Cruise, The in - The Burning of the Cruise: Three one act plays / CCO Author: Williamson, Hector Publisher: Hillhurst Press 2005

Description:

roy drama - social criticism six characters three male; three female three scenes

An idealistic 17-year-old young lady takes action against the US Government's testing of the Cruise Missile over Northern Alberta in 1984.

Title: Burnt Remains in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Sharplin, Scott Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - history, Edmonton playwright four characters two male; two female thirty-four scenes

'When a software consultant arrives in a basement library with the job of scanning the books which have been carefully sheltered or hoarded by the octogenarian German librarian, uneasy discoveries about the programmer and librarian emerge.' Title: Bushed in - Operators and Bushed / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981

Description:

roy drama - relationships six characters two male; four female one act

"Two elderly men, one Finnish and the other Ukrainian, seek shelter in a laundromat. They reminisce about their past exploits and make futile plans for sexual conquest."

Title: Butler's Marsh in - Robert Chafe: Two Plays / CCO Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy drama two characters ne male; one female one act

'Thirty years ago Nora's mother disappeared into the small, dense forest of Butler's Marsh. She emerged three days later, covered in blood, badly shaken, and completely silent about what had happened. Having never been offered an explanation, Nora ventures to Newfoundland for the first time to explore Butler's Marsh for herself. She is accompanied by her partner Tim, who is adamant that she not be left alone. But as Nora's night in Butler's Marsh unfolds, and Tim's good humour wanes, the primary question of what happened to her mother becomes less troubling than

Title: Buttonholes in Silk in - Seven Short Plays from Theatre Ontario / CCO Author: Fricker, Gail Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - family relations all female cast; three characters three female one act

'Daughter comes home to England in hopes of discovering and asserting her own identity, and to break her estrangement with her mother. The two have not spoken since her emigration to Canada, so she enlists the support of her Grandmother and pushes for a joint holiday and reconciliation.' Title: By a Thread in - Singular Voices / COL Author: Flacks, Diane Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994

Description:

roy comedy - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act

'Astro-projecting', bluesy grandmothers, irrational fears, and flying paint - welcome to Rose's way out.

Title: Cake-Walk in - Four New Comedies / CCO Author: Curran, Colleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy seven characters two male; five female one act

"Five unlikely contestants clash in a cake-baking contest on Canada Day in which each character gets his or her just desserts."

Title: Calamity Jane and The Fat Buffalo Moon in - Adventures for (Big) Girls: Seven Radio Plays / CCO Author: Thompson, Peggy Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama eleven characters six male; five female one act

"Calamity Jane claimed to be a lot of things. She dressed in men's clothes, she rode shotgun on the stage coach, she knocked about the Wild West from the time she was a kid and she lived a wild life". Title: Canadian Fact, The in - Hot Thespian Action! / CCO Author: Watson, Wilfred Publisher: AU Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian theatre all male cast or all female cast; two characters two male or two female one act

A Canadian playwright (who no longer writes plays) and a Canadian director (who has never directed a Canadian play) conspire to produce a "Canadian" play about "the American bombardment of a lunatic asylum in Hanoi [Vietnam] while Peter Brook was directing a Canadian telephone directory there." The play deals with themes of nationalism and the theatre while commenting humorously on playwrights who are too literary and directors who ignore the text.

Title: Canadian Gothic in - Canadian Gothic and American Modern / CCO Author: Glass, Joanna McClelland Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1977

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - relationships four characters two male; two female one act

"A moving and imaginatively conceived study of love and loss. Presented on a virtually bare stage, with characters speaking sometimes to the audience and sometimes to each other, the play illuminates its tale of an ill-fated love affair and the family it destroys. It begins with the memories of the mother and then goes on to explore the love which blossoms between their daughter and a young Indian. Sadly the romance results in tragedy rather than happiness, leading to the conception of a child out of wedlock, and a bittersweet accommodation between father and

Title: Cancun in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO Author: Kearney, Greg Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian⌦all female cast; three characters three female one act

The play concerns two irritable travel agents who try to kill and/or drive each other insane. Title: Cape Enrage in - Angels & Anger / CCO Author: Chiasson, Hermenegilde translated by Glen Nichols Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy teenagers - drama three characters two male; one female one act

'Patrick Leger, a teen with a troubled past, has been accused of murdering a buddy from school and must spend several days in jail while the detective assigned to his case, Victor, interrogates him and his girlfriend Veronica McLaughlin. The dead boy, Martin, was found at the bottom of the cliff and since Patrick was the last of the group of teens picnicing that day at the cliffs to see Martin alive, he is fingered as the guilty one pushing him. In the end it is revealed that Martin in fact committed suicide, but the prolonged interrogations effect important changes in the way

Title: Care - Level 4 in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Hillis, Doris Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary three characters one male; two female one act

Two nursing home aides get caught up in gossip whilst getting a nursing home resident ready for the day.

Title: Cast Iron in - Canadian Theatre Review Vol. 123 / PER Author: Codrington, Lisa Publisher: Miscellaneous 2005

Description:

roy drama - Canadian all female cast one female twenty-three scenes

"The story of Libya Atwell, a seventy-five-year-old woman who was originally from Barbados and now lives in a nursing home in Winnipeg." Title: Catch a Tiger in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Boisvert, Nathalie translated by Bobby Theodore Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy drama - identity - Canadian - women playwrights four characters one male; three female one act (thirty five short scenes)

Original title: L'histoire sordide de Conrad B.

Conrad B. is 34 years old, and eats, sleeps, works and watches TV under his dominating mother's glare. Each and every night, he locks himself in the garage and plays " G.I. Joe ", his boiling inner rage just waiting for a spark to burst into flame. Will Lynda, a new employee at the shop he works for, succeed in saving him from his self imposed slavery?

Title: Cave Painter, The in - The Cave Painter / The Woodcutter / CCO Author: Hannah, Don Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy drama - monologue - women all female cast; one character one female one act

THE CAVE PAINTER tells the story of Dianne, an aging bohemian artist who conjures up personal stories of love and tragedy. Everyone close to her has passed away, with the exception of her only son who has embraced a life of religious fundamentalism in which she has no place. Instead she finds solace in art amid the imperfect world around her.

Title: Cerveau Félé 101 / Broken Brain 101 in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Claude, Nathalie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy drama - LGBTQ+ - solo performance - women all female cast: one character one female one act

Running time: 22 minutes; text in both French and English.

Claude experiments with a straitjacket, a loaf of bread, and an imaginary alter ego. Title: Changes in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Tunooniq Theatre Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples nine characters six male; three female one act

"Changes centers around a seal hunt and the second part around the coming of the strangers, although plot is relatively unimportant."

Title: Changes in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 73, Winter 1992 / PER Author: Tunooniq Theatre Publisher: Miscellaneous 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples nine characters six male; three female one act

"Changes centers around a seal hunt and the second part around the coming of the strangers, although plot is relatively unimportant."

Title: Changing Bodies in - Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp and Other Plays / CCO Author: Brooker, Blake Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act

A surreal and humorous performance that examines personal change. Title: Charismatic Death Scenes in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 98, Spring 1999 / PER Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999

Description:

roy monologue - men all male cast; one character one male one act

Description not available.

Title: Charming and Rose: True Love in - Prerogatives / CCO Author: Burke, Kelley-Jo Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian, fringe three characters one male; two female one act

'Rose, a princess raised by wolves, discusses how she came to murder Prince Charming with her fairy godmother. The marriage is re-examined through magic, and the willing cooperation of the defunct prince.'

Title: Charming and Rose: True Love in - Amazing Plays / CCO Author: Burke, Kelley-Jo Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1992

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - fringe three characters one male; two female one act

'Rose, a princess raised by wolves, discusses how she came to murder Prince Charming with her fairy godmother. The marriage is re-examined through magic, and the willing cooperation of the defunct prince.' Title: Chien, Le in - Lucky Lady and Le Chien / CCO Author: Dalpé, Jean Marc translated Maureen Labonté Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - tragedy - family - Ontario five characters three male; two female one act

Jay returns to his northern Ontario hometown, seeking reconciliation with a father, a family, and a life he left seven years ago. The world he returns to is one of anger and violence, a world raw with hurt, and love. Jean Marc Dalpé's Le Chien is a modern tragedy set in the desolation and beauty of the North about the fine line between love and hate, and the impossibility of burying the past.

Winner of the 1988 Governor General's Literary Award.

Title: Child in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples all female cast; two characters two female one act

'Two young women, Monica and Monique. Monica is a native, Monique white. Monica sits on the floor like a child, Monique stands apart from her. They are not aware of each other, but their stories take up from each other effortlessly, as if they were.'

Title: Child Object in - War Cantata and Child Object / CCO Author: Tremblay, Larry translated by Chantal Bilodeau Publisher: Talonbooks 2014

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - social issues three characters two male; one female one act (eleven scenes)

With child as a blank page, a man sets about constructing his ideal companion manipulating personality, gender, and body. The child becomes the ultimate consumer good. Title: Chile in - Studio One / CCO Author: Crozier, Lorna Lane, Patrick Publisher: Coteau Books 1990

Description:

roy drama four characters two male; two female radio play

Political comment on the politcal unrest in Chile.

Title: Chinese Portrait of an Imposter in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Parenteau-Lebeuf, Dominick translated by Crystal Beliveau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy comedy - identity - women - Canadian - Quebec - women playwrights six characters; voices one male; five female one act (eight scenes)

Original title: Portrait chinois d'une imposteure.

A dramatization of a decisively turning moment in the life of a vibrantly creative artist who must rid herself of delusions and fears and take control of her own ideas, values, visions, and practice. A joyous and compelling theatrical exorcism of many of the demons that beset women working and creating in today's theatre.

Title: Chris Axelson, Blacksmith in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright all male cast; five characters four male; one boy one act

'Swedish blacksmith in Western Canada has ambition to send adopted son to school, but boy prefers working in garage.' Title: Christmas in - Return of the Big Five / CCO Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974

Description:

roy comedy six characters five male; one female one act

"A story without words told from the tree's point of view."

Title: Chronicles of a War Child in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Kamal. Jazz "Nari" Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy drama - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - solo performance all female cast; one character one female one act (three parts)

Her work as an intersectional feminist of Egyptian descent finds itself at the searching centre of speaking truth to power. In these emotional and sometimes angry works, Nari tackles the insidious regularity of racism, the ongoing burden of sexism, and the cross-cultural experience of homophobia.

Title: Citizen Pochsy: Head Movements of a Long-haired Girl in - The Pochsy Plays / CCO Author: Hines, Karen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004

Description:

roy satire, monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act

'In (this play), our little muse is in the waiting room at an audit from hell.' Title: Citrus in - NextFest Anthology II / CCO Author: Craft, Janis Publisher: NeWest Press 2004

Description:

roy drama - Canadian three characters one male; two female one act

"When Richard and his new bride meet up with his twin sister in Spain at the end of their honeymoon, the three quickly find themselves in a sticky mess that, strangely, tastes kind of good."

Title: City of Shadows in - Coyote City and City of Shadows / CCO Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Imago Press 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters three male; three female one act

"A play of voices, haunted by love, a theatrical seance that calls up the spirits of a half dozen urban Indians, including Lena and Johnny, to revisit the scenes of their happiness. In the process, they come home again."

Title: City, The in - Take Five / CCO Author: Milner, Arthur Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

roy drama four characters two male; two female radio play

'(The play) examines the crashing ideals and practical considerations of the thirty-something set in their renovated big-city ghettos.' Title: Claire in - Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays / CCO Author: Gatchalian, C. E. Publisher: The Writer's Collective 2003

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act

An absurdist, Sartrean meditation on the brutal power structures in relationships.

Title: Claposis in - Radical Perversions / CCO Author: Butler, Audrey Publisher: Women's Press 1990

Description:

roy drama - LGBTQ+ - Canadian all female cast; three characters three female one act

Intertwining lives of 3 women - told in reverse.

Title: Clark and I Somewhere in Connecticut in - Canadian Theatre Review 142 / PER Author: Long, James Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010

Description:

roy Canadian - drama all male cast; one character one male twenty-two scenes

In the summer of 2005, James Long salvaged seven photo albums and travel journals from an alley near his East Vancouver home. The collection, complete with detailed captions and letters, documents a family's history between 1950 and 1987, and includes everything from birth notices to a full eulogy for the archivist's Toy Pomeranian, Mandy. Two years later, a team of collaborators traveled in search of the origins of these books, and ran into some serious questions surrounding the legality and morality of working with found materials. Title: Claws in - Women Write for Theatre - Victims / CCO Author: Havard, Lezley Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

roy drama two characters one male; one female one act

'Quarreling shrewish, bored wife of apparently weak husband finds his behavior frightening after he changes to cat, upon learning that the family cat is dead.'

Title: Close Friends in - Some Angry Summer Songs / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1976

Description:

roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act

1 interior.

"A homosexual couple who could not live together, can also not live apart from each other."

Title: Closer Look, A in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 26th Series / COL Author: Hutton, Arlene Publisher: Samuel French 2002

Description:

roy drama - television all female cast; five characters five female one scene

Here is a behind the scenes look at the host and crew of a daytime television talk show as they spar for position during a break between taping segments. Title: Coach Kingston Tells It Like It Is in - High Sticking / CCO Author: Brownell, Mark Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - hockey all male cast; two characters two characters one act

running time: 15 mins.

A crazed coach of a peewee hockey team delivers a pep talk to the mild-mannered father of one of his players.

Title: Cobbler, Stick to Thy Last in - Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media / CCO Author: Hill, Kay Publisher: Methuen 1973

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Nova Scotia five characters two male; three female one act

divided interior set.

Though his wife Faithful isn't quite dead, Standfast, the cobbler knowing she can't last long, has advertised for a new bride. In Nova Scotia in the 1780's, it is the only practical way to get one. Besides, winter is coming and he has a house and six children to be looked after. But Faithful takes a turn for the better just as the local postman arrives with Susannah Comfort, a pleasant lass

Title: Cobbler, Stick to Thy Last in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Hill, Kay Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Nova Scotia five characters two male; three female one act

divided interior set.

Though his wife Faithful isn't quite dead, Standfast, the cobbler knowing she can't last long, has advertised for a new bride. In Nova Scotia in the 1780's, it is the only practical way to get one. Besides, winter is coming and he has a house and six children to be looked after. But Faithful takes a turn for the better just as the local postman arrives with Susannah Comfort, a pleasant lass Title: Cocktails at Pam's in - Cocktails at Pam's & Evelyn Strange / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright eleven characters five male; six female one act

'Pam Cochrane was always the perfect hostess. Always . . . until there were more floral arrangements than suitable vases. . . until the divorcee didn't want her canape. . . until the chit-chat stopped and the charades began. Madness and despair consort merrily with mirth in Teatro La Quindicina's ultimate party piece, a three time hit at the Edmonton Fringe Festival.'

Title: Code Word: Time in - NextFest Anthology II / CCO Author: Bowen, Leah Simone Publisher: NeWest Press 2001

Description:

roy drama - Canadian four characters three male; one female one act

"Bowen's play is a horrific vision of our culture's ubiquitous surveillance technology combined with a seemingly limitless hunger for celebrity, violence, and misogyny. The play presents our culture as fundamentally immoral and that vision is backed up by the reality of "Reality TV", the Internet's niches of dark human behaviour, and our compliant daily acceptance of corruption."

Title: Come Away, Come Away in - Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Methuen 1973

Description:

roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female radio play

'An old man meets the angel of death in the person of a little girl who pries into his life.' Title: Come Away, Come Away in - Six Plays by Mavor Moore / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Talonbooks 1989

Description:

roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female radio play

'An old man meets the angel of death in the person of a little girl who pries into his life.'

Title: Companeras in - Adventures for (Big) Girls: Seven Radio Plays / CCO Author: Bolt, Carol Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama six characters two male; four female radio play

"A story about making a difference, and standing up for what you think is right".

Title: Compensation Will Be Paid in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright nine characters two male; seven female one act

'Scientific testing threatens livelihood of prairie farm family.' Title: Comrades in - The Drowning Girls / Comrades / CCO Author: Vlaskalic, Daniela Graham, Beth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy drama all male cast; four characters two male (doubling) one act

Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco dreamt of the land of the free. Leaving their small, Italian villages, they embarked on the long voyage to the United States, only to encounter a world they never could have imagined. Controversially imprisoned for murder, both men must fight for their lives amidst discrimination and public humiliation. Based on actual events, Comrades brings to life their seven-year imprisonment, and explores the struggles and agonies of two men, tried not for what they did, but for who they were.

Title: Confessions of an Indian Cowboy in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Kane, Margo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - Native peoples - Metis - drama - Native playwright all female cast; eight characters one female (doubling) one act

'Confessions of an Indian Cowboy' is a probing, endearing and sometimes amusing look at the history of contact between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people and at the communities that exist in Canada as a result of this contact. This one-woman musical show tells stories of the Indian and Métis, peoples of mixed heritage who have been pushed aside and ignored for well over a century. Through several distinct characters, Margo Kane explores how the apparent social and cultural contradictions inherent in being both “Indian” and “Cowboy” are reconciled. The

Title: Confinement in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Wyatt, Rachel Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - drama all female cast; two characters two female one act

A mother, confined to a wheelchair, reveals her revenge on her daughter. Title: Constance in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - family relations - murder - Alberta playwright⌦twelve characters; voices five male; five female; two boys one act

An older woman discusses a murder from the past with a new accuser.

Title: Consultation, A in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Chafe, Rick Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary drama three characters two male; one female one act

A judges wife comes back from the dead to inhabit the body of another man's wife, and is awaiting a fair trial for her own murder.

Title: Contract, The in - Graduation Suite / CCO Author: Millar, Thomas P. Publisher: Palmer Press 1987

Description:

roy comedy four characters one male; three female one act

"Life is a series of graduations, some reluctantly coped with, some eagerly embraced. Each graduation requires us to leave an old way of being and embrace a new. Each is an opportunity for growth, or a chance for failure. Graduation Suite consists of three one act plays, each of which deals with such a life' graduation. The first play in the series, The Contract, concerns a UBC, live-together couple about to go through a 'common law divorce'. Maybe! If they can get their act together! The Contract, won the Jacksonville University Playwriting Prize." Title: Conversations with my Neighbour's Pit Bull in - A Three Martini Lunch / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Red Deer College Press 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters four male; one female one act

"The strange but somehow universally recognisable inhabitants include a pathologically analytical professor of philosophy, Robert Teller, trying to befriend the local canine while dealing with his precocious twelve-year-old daughter, Ellen, and his obnoxious neighbour, Tyler."

Title: Counter Offence in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Varma, Rahul Publisher: Talonbooks 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - drama eight characters five male; three female one act

"An East-Indian immigrant daughter marries a foreign student from Iran. One day their world is turned upside down: she charges him with wife-battering and he, in turn, charges the police of being racist in their handling of his arrest. What happens when the "race-card" is used as a ruse to evade responsibility for violence against women?"

Title: Courier, The in - The Courier and Other Plays / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - war - World War II - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male one act

"Spring 1945, occupied Czechoslovakia. David Dyck, a young courier in Hitler's army, must decide whether to open a restricted letter and face truth or remain ignorant and risk death." Title: Court-Martial in - Words on Waves: Selected Radio Plays of Earle Birney / CCO Author: Birney, Earle Publisher: Quarry Press 1985

Description:

roy drama fourteen characters twelve male; two female radio play

"An original play for radio written in collaboration with Mavor Moore."

Title: Courting of Marie Jenvrin, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - romance - Alberta playwright - North West Territores seven characters five male; two female one act

1 set.

'In remote Northwest Territories of Canada, waitress agrees to marry first man who can get a cow into the snowbound settlement.'

Title: Cowboy Boots and a Corsage in - Voices of the Land / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: AU Press 2012

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female eleven scenes

The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller's plays. In "Cowboy Boots and a Corsage" a woman refuses to sell her mother's land for development. Title: Cowboy Island in - Theatrical Exhibitions / CCO Author: Shein, Brian Publisher: Pulp Press Book Publishers 1972

Description:

roy drama - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

music.

A theatrical ritual juxtaposing American legend with pagan rite, climaxing with the killing of a king. A new perspective on the myth of Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, portraying the pattern of betrayal, death and identification of the hunter with his victim.

Title: Crack in - Canadian Theatre Review v. 134 / PER Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Miscellaneous 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - drug abuse two characters one male; one female one act

The play "addresses the addictions faced by two characters, Man and Woman, and the impact of addiction on their lives and the lives of those around them."

Title: Crash in - Love, Loss, and Longing / CCO Author: Sinha, Pamela Mala Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - solo performance - rape - trauma - family relations - grief all female cast; six characters one female one act

After the loss of a loved one, a woman must face the shattering memories of a past trauma. "Crash" is the fractured unraveling of memory; a tour de force narrative about family, faith and love. Title: Crazy Love in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Sklar, David Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

Description:

roy dark comedy - Canadian - relationships two characters one male; one female one act

Leo has just been freed from a rocky relationship and is set to restart his life with his new love. That is until his ex, Rebecca, shows up unannounced to reveal that she is pregnant with their “love” child. Tension ensues, past grudges are rehashed and both parties stop at nothing to win back their life, even at the expense of their furniture. Both are forced to take a deep and honest look into each other’s hearts. Dead baby jokes included!

Title: Creeps in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Freeman, David E. Publisher: Penguin Books 1984

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - disabled adults ten characters eight male; two female one act

1 interior set.

Stealing time from their jobs in a sheltered workshop, four cerebral palsy victims spit out their frustrations and, reluctantly, their dreams. They talk about sex, personalities, scandal and despair while their welfare supervisor pounds on the door.

Title: Creeps in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (3rd ed. ) / CCO Author: Freeman, David E. Publisher: Talonbooks 1993

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - disabled adults ten characters eight male; two female one act

1 interior set.

Stealing time from their jobs in a sheltered workshop, four cerebral palsy victims spit out their frustrations and, reluctantly, their dreams. They talk about sex, personalities, scandal and despair while their welfare supervisor pounds on the door. Title: Creeps in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (rev. ed.) / CCO Author: Freeman, David E. Publisher: Talonbooks 1986

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - disabled adults ten characters eight male; two female one act

1 interior set.

Stealing time from their jobs in a sheltered workshop, four cerebral palsy victims spit out their frustrations and, reluctantly, their dreams. They talk about sex, personalities, scandal and despair while their welfare supervisor pounds on the door.

Title: Crime Against Humanity in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation v. 2 / CCO Author: Billette, Geneviève translated by Bobby Theodore Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004

Description:

roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; one female; one girl one act

In an industrialists office, over the course of two hours, a scene is played out which will determine the fate of his company's growth. Wanting to expand his factory and maximize production - and create 300 much-needed jobs - the industrialist attempts to buy his neighbour (and employee) Kalr's land. But Kalr isn't easily convinced and the ensuing negotiations turn sour destroying the Industrialist's family unit.

Title: Criminal Genius in - Suburban Motel / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1997

Description:

roy drama five characters three male; two female two scenes

A story about criminals and their crime going awry. Title: Criminals in Love in - Shared Anxiety / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1994

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female one act (nine scenes)

Gail and Junior are young and in love in an urban wasteland. Junior's jailbird dad and his schizo girl-friend get them mixed up in a terrorist plot while William, the drunken philosopher, espouses the meaning of destiny.

Title: Criminals in Love in - The East End Plays: Part 1 / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female one act

Gail and Junior are young and in love in an urban wasteland. Junior's jailbird dad and his schizo girl-friend get them mixed up in a terrorist plot while William, the drunken philosopher, espouses the meaning of destiny.

Winner, 1984 Chalmers Canadian Play Award and Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 1985.

Title: Crossing in - Crossing and Other Plays / CCO Author: Gatchalian, C. E. Publisher: Lethe Press

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - family relations two characters one male; one female one act

Crossing explores the tormented, sexually charged relationship between a mother and her teenage son, bound together by guilt and fear over a horrific incident that occurred ten years prior. Title: Crossing Guard, The in - The Crossing Guard; and, In Full Light / CCO Author: Karasik, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011

Description:

roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female one act

Every day after school, seventeen-year-old Timothy waits at the neighbourhood crosswalk where years earlier his older sister disappeared. Every day he crosses the street with Jim, the elderly crossing guard. It's a ritual Timothy thinks might go on forever, until one day he arrives and Jim is absent. Instead, standing at the crosswalk is a young woman - a young woman who looks a lot like his missing sister. "The Crossing Guard" is a tender meditation on the limits of fidelity.

Title: Cubistique in - 3 Plays by Tom Cone / CCO Author: Cone, Tom Publisher: Pulp Press Book Publishers 1976

Description:

roy⌦drama - Canadian - women⌦all female cast; two characters⌦two female⌦one act "Two women share and dispute their recollections of the past which we see, like a cubist painting, from several angles simultaneously."

Title: Cubistique in - West Coast Plays / CCO Author: Cone, Tom Publisher: New Play Centre with Fineglow Plays 1975

Description:

roy⌦drama - Canadian - women⌦all female cast; two characters⌦two female⌦one act "Two women share and dispute their recollections of the past which we see, like a cubist painting, from several angles simultaneously." Title: Curtains For A Crazy Old Lady in - Homework and Curtains / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - drama three characters one male; two female one act

Because of the impending death of his mother, Murray Greenspan is forced to come to terms with the fragility of life and previously unspoken thoughts about the relationship with his mother.

Title: Curve, The in - Three Plays: Tankred Dorst / CCO Author: Dorst, Tankred Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - men all male cast; three characters three male one act

"Absurdist drama. Two brothers' livelihoods depend on cars crashing on a certain curve. A translation."

Title: Customs in - Cues and Entrances / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama - Canadian five characters three male; two female one act

'On the surface, this play is about a young professor returning to Canada from a sojourn abroad trying to "find himself". But when he passes through "customs" (a word which itself has several meanings), he discovers that he isn't the person he thought. It is, therefore, a play about identity, the customs that help to shape us, the conflict between truth and self-image - and probably a lot of other things the author hasn't noticed.' Title: Customs in - Discovering Mavor Moore / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy drama - Canadian five characters three male; two female one act

'On the surface, this play is about a young professor returning to Canada from a sojourn abroad trying to "find himself". But when he passes through "customs" (a word which itself has several meanings), he discovers that he isn't the person he thought. It is, therefore, a play about identity, the customs that help to shape us, the conflict between truth and self-image - and probably a lot of other things the author hasn't noticed.'

Title: Cut! in - Five from the Fringe / CCO Author: Albert, Lyle Victor Publisher: NeWest Press 1986

Description:

roy Canadian - Edmonton Fringe Festival five characters three male; two female one act

No abstract available.

Title: Cut! in - Scraping the Surface / CCO Author: Albert, Lyle Victor Publisher: NeWest Press 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - Edmonton Fringe Festival - comedy five characters three male; two female one act

CUT! chronicles a visit to the land of purgatory - a sort of celestial rest home - for characters allegedly cut from famous plays. A lively pastiche of literary jokes starring such neglected characters as Hamlet's elder brother and Stanley Kowalski's mother. Title: Da Kink in my hair: voices of black womyn in - Testifyin: Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Anthony, Trey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy dramatic comedy all female cast; nine characters nine female one act

1 interior.

Comic drama using hair as a metaphor to explore lives of seven Canadian black women of Caribbean descent.

Title: Damnation of Vancouver in - Words on Waves: Selected Radio Plays of Earle Birney / CCO Author: Birney, Earle Publisher: Quarry Press 1985

Description:

roy drama - canadian - radio play twelve characters ten male; two female radio play

"An original play for radio."

Title: Dance Like a Butterfly in - Canadian Mosaic / CCO Author: Ravel, Aviva Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1995

Description:

roy drama - aging - ethnic - canadian all female cast; one character one female one act

"Tillie, a Jewish octogenarian, reveals vivid memories of her past, and looks forward to the fulfilling days ahead, in a journey that leads us to re-examine our conceptions of old age." Title: Dark diaspora. . . in dub in - Testifyin' / CCO Author: Mandiela, Ahdri Zhina Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000

Description:

roy dub performance - feminism, women all female cast; many characters flexible casting one act

'A dub performance piece. Offers a stunning discourse on Black women's creativity, womanhood, feminism and emancipation.'

Title: Darling Family, The in - 7 Canons / CCO Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

roy drama - comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female one act

"As they face the dilemma of a unplanned pregnancy, this one couple's decision to search beyond their trivial self-definitions, to face every thought, every option, becomes a path to healing, courage and growth."

Title: Darling Family, The in - Sheer Nerve / CCO Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1999

Description:

roy drama - comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female one act

"As they face the dilemma of a unplanned pregnancy, this one couple's decision to search beyond their trivial self-definitions, to face every thought, every option, becomes a path to healing, courage and growth." Title: Day Shift in - Escape Acts / CCO Author: Woodward, Meredith Bain Publisher: NuAge Editions 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - monologue - British Columbia all female cast; one character one female one act

'Monologue by widowed waitress in small British Columbia Town.'

Title: Days May Be Long, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright four characters one male; three female one act

1 set.

'Mother tries emotional blackmail on grown son and daughter when they attempt to lead their own lives.'

Title: Dead Metaphor in - Dead Metaphor / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 2015

Description:

roy dark comedy - Canadian - political - war six characters three male; three female one act (twenty-two short scenes)

Examines the collision of a politician’s personal and professional lives, complicated by a son’s return from Afghanistan. Title: Death in - Four Plays By Larry Fineberg / CCO Author: Fineberg, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy three characters two male; one female one act

Max, dying, determines to make his daughter confront reality. The 16 year old boy taking care of him watches and evaluates ways to live.

Title: Death of a Mouth in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Wynne-Jones, Tim Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy comedy - sketches two characters one male; one female one act

A janitor and a teacher discuss memory and imagination.

Title: Death of Me, The in - One-Actmanship / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - death four characters two male; two female one act

When John bargains with the Angel of Death for a second chance at life, he quickly discovers that fixing the mistakes of your past is difficult, and that perhaps his destiny is not yet etched in stone. Title: Deep Has Many Voices, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eleven characters; extras five male; seven female one act

1 set; background music; singing; dancing.

"Experimental play. Young Greek boy and Canadian girl fight to find themselves, without simply accepting the mores and strictures of the community."

Title: Delivery in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Shore, Talia Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary - comedy two characters one male; one female one act

The birth of a couple's first child does not go as perfectly as planned.

Title: Derailed in - Seven Short Plays from Theatre Ontario / CCO Author: Sher, Emil Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female one act

'A sharply detailed, often shrewdly comic exploration of collapsing relationships, packaged in a frenetic merger of physical theatre, music and clown. Four frequently manic characters take a train ride and turn tawdry lives into vivid expressionistic extravagance.' Title: Dershowitz Protocol, The in - Public Lies and other plays / CCO Author: Fothergill, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007

Description:

roy drama - terrorism four characters three male; one female one act

If the judicially-sanctioned torture of suspected terrorists might actually forestall a repeat of 9/11, why not use it? In its starkest form, this is the question posed in his book, Why Terrorism Works, by Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz. This play dramatizes the first actual use of "rigorous interrogation" of a ticking-bomb terror-suspect by court-appointed US officials under newly established Department of Justice rules.

Title: Devil's Instrument, The in - All the Bright Company / CCO Author: Mitchell, W. O. Publisher: Quarry Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - radio play - Alberta thirteen characters ten male; three female radio play

"At a superficial level, it is a simple story about the tensions internal and external to Hutterite communities on the Southern Alberta prairie. At a deeper level, the play reveals a fundamental tension between community and individual."

Title: Devil's Instrument, The in - Dramatic / CCO Author: Mitchell, W. O. Publisher: Macmillan and Company 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - radio play - Alberta thirteen characters ten male; three female radio play

"At a superficial level, it is a simple story about the tensions internal and external to Hutterite communities on the Southern Alberta prairie. At a deeper level, the play reveals a fundamental tension between community and individual." Title: Devil's Instrument, The in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Mitchell, W. O. Publisher: Bastet Books 1973

Description:

roy Canadian - radio play - Alberta thirteen characters ten male; three female radio play

"At a superficial level, it is a simple story about the tensions internal and external to Hutterite communities on the Southern Alberta prairie. At a deeper level, the play reveals a fundamental tension between community and individual."

Title: Diamond in - Crossing and Other Plays / CCO Author: Gatchalian, C. E. Publisher: Lethe Press

Description:

roy drama - Canadian five characters; voice five male or female one act

Diamond is an elliptical, metatheatrical dissection of one woman's intimate story.

Title: Diamond Cutters in - Cabbagetown Plays / CCO Author: Tipe, David Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1975

Description:

roy drama - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

Two old diamond cutters about to be replaced by machines reflect upon and refine the memories of their youth. Title: Difference of Latitude in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Walter, Lisa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ two characters all female cast; two female one act

England, 1811.

Walter wrote the play after being inspired by the real-life accounts of nineteenth-century women who had carried on successful careers as military men over extended periods of time. Walter creates a composite character, Frances, who arranges to be pressed into service and sent off to serve in the War of 1812 as a mizzen-man on His Majesty's frigate Courageous.

Title: Dinner Party in - Women Write For Theatre Volume One / CCO Author: Sarossy, Via Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - drama five characters two male; three female one act

Description unavailable.

Title: Dinner Party, The in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO Author: Cullis, Rose Publisher: Signature Editions 2006

Description:

roy comedy all female cast; two characters two female one act

The dinner party is a comedy abut the tragic necessity of loss when we make choices in our lives. Two women in a common-law relationship grapple with lost opportunitys and have an identity crisis, while waiting for their guests to arrive for a dinner party. Can love matter enough in the shadow of regret? Title: Dinosaur Dreams in - The River Lady and Other Plays / COL Author: Widdicombe, David Publisher: Icarus Press 2000

Description:

roy drama all male cast; three characters three male six scenes

"Memories of the past collide with hopes for the future as two brothers struggling to survive a cold winter have both their world and their dreams turned upside down with the arrival of their long lost father, who disappeared from their lives more than a decade earlier."

Title: Dinosaurs, The in - Some Angry Summer Songs / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1976

Description:

roy drama - relationships two characters; one male; one female one act

1 exterior.

"A famous actress and an influential drama critic discuss the role of each in the theatre world and in each other's career."

Title: District of Centuries in - AWOL / CCO Author: Dixon, Sean Publisher: Coach House Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - contemporary - fables five characters four male; one female one act

An urban fable of adventure and love, as one brother searches for his long lost sibling. When he finally finds him he discovers that he is in the cursed district of centuries, a place created by a mysterious architect where anything can happen, and usually does. Title: Ditch in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Kavanagh, Geoff Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy drama - comedy all male cast; three characters three male one act

"Deals with the Franklin expedition of 1845 from the perspective of two sailors left in a ditch to make their peace with their culture, their sexuality and each other. The result is a work of tremendous contemporary resonance, emotional power, and humour."

Title: Dollars and Sense in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Sousa, Fatima Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary seven characters four male; three female one act

A family recovers from a death in the family.

Title: Dolorsolatio in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 1 - The Nineteenth Century / CCO Author: Scribble, Sam Publisher: CTR Publications 1978

Description:

roy political comedy - nineteenth century plays eleven characters eight male; three female one act

"The play presents in an enlightened fashion East-West economic desparities and cultural differences, taxation, transportation difficulties and a view of the tensions caused by the American Civil War and threatened annexation to the United States which is also reflected in many later dramas." Title: Don't Blame the Bedouins in - Quebec Voices / CCO Author: Dubois, Rene-Daniel translated by Martin Kevan Publisher: Coach House Press 1986

Description:

roy Quebec - drama - canadian twenty-two characters ten male; three female (doubling) one act

"In a desert, two trains are charging towards one another. Midway between them, a soprano is tied to the tracks and a myopic young man walks towards her without seeing her. High on a ledge of the cliff stands a 'romantic lead' who is powerless to stop the advance of this 'monster' bearing down on his victim. While the trains draw closer, the heat, the sun and the nervous tension of the three humans make them swing in delirium, until they, together, form The Beast. In real time, the action takes place during one scream that begins with Weulf's first line and ends when The Beast

Title: Dot in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Waits, Death Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy drama - death three characters two male; one female one act

A cloudy glimpse of death.

Title: Dough: The Politics of Martha Stewart in - Dough: The Politics of Martha Stewart & The Vajayjay Monologues / CCO Author: Burns, Lindsay Publisher: B house 2008

Description:

roy comedy - monologues - women - Canadian all female cast; nine characters one female (doubling) one act

DOUGH: THE POLITICS OF MARTHA STEWART exposes the lives of nine different female characters as they serve up their recipe for modern “living.” Title: Down Dangerous Passes Road in - Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2000) / PER Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc Publisher: Miscellaneous 2000

Description:

roy drama - AIDS - family relationships all male cast; three characters three male one act

"Fifteen years to the day after the death of their father, three brothers get together and drive out to the place where it happened. . . each is facing a crucial rite of passage. In voices that interweave, alternate and play off one another with the exquisite lyricism of chamber music, the brothers reveal themselves as trapped by their father's inability to let his boys grow up, and their own inability to accept him as an adult."

Title: Down to Earth in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: De Graff, Rosemary Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama - family relationships four characters two male; two female one act

A son tells the story of his mother's farm, and her fierce resistance to change, even when her husband has an affair.

Title: Doze Ease in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Sinclair, Carol Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary six characters three male; three female one act

A woman has discussions with her consciences while her husband tries to get some sleep. Title: Drag Queens in Outer Space in - Painted, Tainted, Sainted / CCO Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy drag queens - surrealism - LGBTQ+ all male cast; three characters three male one act

'Three drag queens discuss the meaning of life, love and self-realization when one of them decides to to put on a masculine image to survive in the "outside world".'

Title: Dragonfly of Chicoutimi, The in - Talking Bodies / CCO Author: Tremblay, Larry Publisher: Talonbooks 2001

Description:

roy drama - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act

Forty years after a trauma-induced aphasia, a man loses his original maternal French and awakes from a dream reinventing his life in English word using French syntax.

Title: Dreamkeeper in - Eureka ! / CCO Author: Sinclair, Bruce Publisher: Coteau Books 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples two characters one male; one female one act

'Series of dream sequences regarding past and future of Canadian Indians.' Title: Dreams of a Drunken Quaker in - Dreams of a Drunken Quaker / CCO Author: Green, Michael Publisher: AB collector publishing 1992

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male three parts

Absurdist comedy with surrealist version of apocalypse and debauchery.

Title: Drowning Girls, The in - The Drowning Girls / Comrades / CCO Author: Graham, Beth Vlaskalic, Daniela Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright all female cast; many characters three female (doubling) one act

Bessie, Alice, and Margaret have two things in common: they are married to George Joseph Smith, and they are dead. Surfacing from the bathtubs they were drowned in, the three breathless brides gather evidence against their womanizing, murderous husband by reliving the shocking events leading up to their deaths. Reflecting on the misconceptions of love, married life, and the not-so-happily ever after, The Drowning Girls is both a breathtaking fantasia and a social critique, full of rich images, a myriad of characters, and lyrical language.

Title: Duchess: Pieces Of Wallis Simpson, The in - Adventures for (Big) Girls: Seven Radio Plays / CCO Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama ten characters five male; five female radio play

"Wallis Simpson lived a decadent life, beset by nightmares of revenge, jewels as big as golf balls, tied to dependant ex-king who had never picked up his socks or made a living." Title: Duck Blind in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Barrie, Shirley Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary four characters and a duck one male; one female; two girls ages (8 &14) one act

A young girl temporarily hides from her family on an outing and relates her story to a duck.

Title: Duel, The in - Words on Waves: Selected Radio Plays of Earle Birney / CCO Author: Conrad, Joseph Birney, Earle Publisher: Quarry Press 1985

Description:

roy drama - canadian - radio play thirty-two characters twenty-seven male; five female (doubling possible) radio play

"A free adaptation by Earle Birney for radio of Joseph Conrad's novella, "The Duel".

Title: Dust in - Gas / Dust / CCO Author: Maghanoy, Jason Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011

Description:

roy drama - war - romance - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act

An unlikely and disturbing love story. At Abu Ghraib Prison, a female office worker and a male prison guard meet and fall in love. As her interest and then her work shifts from the office to cell blocks, he grows increasingly uncomfortable with the prisoner abuse he has taken for granted. Title: Dust in - Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2009) / PER Author: Maghanoy, Jason Publisher: Miscellaneous 2009

Description:

roy drama - war - romance - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act

An unlikely and disturbing love story. At Abu Ghraib Prison, a female office worker and a male prison guard meet and fall in love. As her interest and then her work shifts from the office to cell blocks, he grows increasingly uncomfortable with the prisoner abuse he has taken for granted.

Title: Dying To Be Thin in - Voice of Her Own / CCO Author: Carson, Linda Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy drama - teenagers - eating disorders - canadian all female cast; one character one female one act

1 set.

A look behind locked doors into the secret life of a young teenager battling with the eating disorder bulimia.

Title: Dykes and Dolls in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Lowe, Lisa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ one character all female cast; one female one act

Coming-out, coming-of-age solo performance. Location: A girls bedroom.

Reflecting the precarious existence of the child who refuses to perform her gender properly, Lowe's fantastic recuperation of the female-gendered icons and symbols for her own perverse purposes calls attention to the coercive ways in which female children are enculturated to be child-bearers. Full of grotesque exaggerations, Dykes and Dolls works theatrically by carrying Title: Early Worm Club, The in - Voices of the Land / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: AU Press 2012

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright - Alberta three characters two male; one female two scenes

The land and those who live in intimate terms with it are the focus of Koller's plays. In "The Early Worm Club" Millie realizes a deep sense of belonging to the Alberta parkland and its birds while searching for her mate.

Title: Earthbound in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Fréchette, Carole translated by John Murrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy drama - Quebec - women playwrights five characters two male; three female one act

Original title: Violette sur la terre.

No one knows exactly when Violette appeared. No one knows where she comes from. She's standing next to the abandoned mine shaft, silent. Paul, Étienne, Marie-Jeanne and Judith come to see her and share their disappointments, their doubts, their hopes, their strong desire for life…

Title: Ebb-Tide in - Plays of the Pacific Coast / CCO Author: Fairbairn, A. M. D. Publisher: Samuel French 1935

Description:

roy drama - Native peoples three characters two male; one female one act

"In an isolated Native village lives a young Canadian school teacher, Ann. There are no other white women in the village and but three white men. After three years in the village she yearns to return to her own kind but fears to. Billy, a young half-breed, seeks to marry Ann and she is tempted to accept him when the thought of becoming a squaw and forever abandoning all hope of returning to civilization impels her to turn to Dick (a derelict), one of the three white men, who, stirred by Ann's impassioned appeal to the spark of decency left in him, agrees to marry her and, Title: Eden's Moon in - New Canadian Drama 8 - Speculative Drama / CCO Author: Young, William R. Publisher: Borealis Press

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - fantasy three characters one male; two female eighteen scenes

A woman lives alone on her self made planet. Her only connection to humanity is through a sense-stimulated robot named Viola.

Title: Edward Curtis Project, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Clements, Marie Leistner, Rita Publisher: Talonbooks 2013

Description:

roy drama - Native peoples - Canada - USA - Native playwright ten characters two male; two female (doubling) one act

Edward Curtis saw his job as that of creating a photographic record of "the vanishing race of the North American Indian". His work therefore became as much a projection of colonial attitudes upon aboriginal peoples as it was an authentic record of their lives. This project began when Presentation House Theatre commissioned Marie Clements to write a play that would stage the issues raised by Curtis' monumental but controversial achievement - to dramatize not only the creation of his twenty-volume photographic and ethnographic epic and the enormous

Title: El Clavadista in - Triple Play / CCO Author: Curran, Colleen Publisher: NuAge Editions 1990

Description:

roy dark comedy all female cast; two characters two female one act

'Two school teachers on vacation in Mexico await the latest tourist attraction - el clavadista (the cliff diver) - and discuss Elvis and life. A Fringe favourite.' Title: Eleanor in - High Sticking / CCO Author: Brownell, Mark Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - sports all female cast; one character one female one act

running time: 15 mins.

A teenage field hockey player confesses her sins while waiting out a series penalties on the sidelines.

Title: Electric Gunfighters in - Blitzkrieg and Other Plays / CCO Author: Wade, Bryan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - men all male cast; two characters two male one act

"Pete and Bob enact Western movie cliches with a TV set's white noise in the background. High camp comedy about the effect of media on our lives."

Title: Elephant Wake in - Ethnicities: Plays from the New West / CCO Author: Tremblay, Joey Christenson, Jonathon Publisher: NeWest Press 1999

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - French - monologue - Saskatchewan all male cast; one character one male one act

"Surrounded by empty beer bottles and a zoo of papier-mache animals, the village idiot of a French-Canadian hamlet in Saskatchewan recounts the history of his community's vanishing." Title: Elevator in - One Spring Morning and Elevator / CCO Author: Stewart, Cherie Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1974

Description:

roy Canadian all female cast; two characters two female radio play

Two elderly women on an elevator ride.

Title: Elisa's Skin in - Carole Frechette: Three Plays / CCO Author: Frechette, Carole translated by John Murrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000

Description:

roy monologues - women - love all female cast; one character one female one act

'Young woman tells delicate tales of love.'

Title: Embedded in - Ludwig and Mae: Three plays / CCO Author: Leroux, Louis Patrick translated by Shelley Tepperman Publisher: Talonbooks 2009

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Francophone - relationships three characters two male; one female three scenes

part one of Leroux's trilogy about Ludwig and Mae.

Ludwig, trained as an engineer, hasn't been able to find work since graduating. The fact that he is sardonic, philosophically inclined, and suicidal hasn't helped in this regard. Mae, on the other hand, is an actress who has never been out of work. Caught in a relationship of co-dependency, she plays into Ludwig's constant mind games until one day she decides she's had enough. Title: Encore in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: McLean, Dirk Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy romance two characters one male; one female act one, scene three

'Loners Adriel, and Sally, both in their late 20's, claim to have sworn off relationships, yet either of them would be willing to re-open their hearts if the right person were to come along - especially with an invisible spiritual guide ready to nudge them. They have both been invited to a Halloween party by mutual friends, Desmond and Carmen, but are bored there. This is their first encounter.'

Title: End of Civilization, The in - Suburban Motel / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1997

Description:

roy drama - murder five characters three male; two female four scenes

A pair of detectives unravel homicides and missing persons surrounding a couple living in a hotel room.

Title: End, The in - Dramatics, May 2008 / PER Author: Wilner, Sheri Publisher: Miscellaneous 2008

Description:

roy friendship six characters three male; three female one act

On the eve of their college graduation, six friends gather at a lakeside cabin to read the final installment of a hugely popular book series about fledging superheroes. As they try to predict the fates of their favorite characters, their hopes and fears about post-college life emerge. Before trading in their superhero costumes for caps and gowns, they spend one last weekend avoiding the real world by inventing their own. Title: Entertainment at the Cafe Terminus, An in - Theatrical Exhibitions / CCO Author: Shein, Brian Publisher: Pulp Press Book Publishers 1975

Description:

roy Canadian four characters three male; One female radio play

songs.

"Radio play about the execution (in 19th century Paris) of an anarchist guilty of terrorist acts."

Title: Eros At Breakfast in - Four Favourite Plays / CCO Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1949

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy five characters four male; one female; off stage voice one act

Non-representative set.

"'A psychosomatic interlude' which explains the relationship between body and soul. Takes place inside Mr P. S. who falls in love and upsets the daily routine of the internal departments of heart, liver, soul and intelligence."

Title: Escape from Golf Camp in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Shaw, Rebecca Wreggitt, Andrew Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

Two golf addicts connect at a golf camp. Title: Escape From Happiness in - Shared Anxiety / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy ten characters six male; four female one act

1 interior set.

'Absurdist comedy about eccentric urban blue-collar family entangled with drug dealing, pornography and police corruption.

Title: Escape From Happiness in - The East End Plays: Part 1 / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy ten characters six male; four female one act

1 interior set.

'Absurdist comedy about eccentric urban blue-collar family entangled with drug dealing, pornography and police corruption.

Title: Essay in - The Russian Play and Other Short Works / CCO Author: Moscovitch, Hannah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female two scenes

A female student is told to write an essay on an 18th Century military leader. She upsets her tutor by writing about a female leader. Title: Eternal Hydra in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 115, Summer 2003 / PER Author: Piatigorsky, Anton Publisher: Miscellaneous 2003

Description:

roy comedy seven characters two male; two female (doubling) one act

'A woman reveals to a publisher that she has the playwright Carbuncle's lost script.'

Title: Ever! That Nanabush! in - Stories from the Bush / CCO Author: Odjig-Beavon, Daphne De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - Native peoples - folk tales large cast; chorus flexible casting (doubling) one act

originally performed with six actors

An adaptation of traditional stories as retold by Daphne Odjig-Beavon. The 9 stories teach lessons about how best to survive and thrive. Beware, they say: much trickery occurs; and, know your limitations. Animals and plants are given their traits as protection (roses) or as reminders of betrayal (rabbits, raccoons). Mutual sustenance despite weather, lack of food or aging results

Title: Everybody Wants Something in - In Character / CCO Author: Moore, Yan Publisher: Nelson Canada 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - television plays - high school ten characters five male; five female television play

"From the original television series 'Degrassi High.' Adapted from the original script." Title: Everything I've Got in - Canadian Theatre Review, No. 149 / PER Author: Dobkin, Jess Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy performance art all female cast; one character one female one act

Performance art piece. No description available.

Title: Exquisite Hour, The in - The Alberta Advantage / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - relationships - Canadian - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female one act

A couple form a relationship on a porch in the summer of 1962.

Title: Facts in - Double Exposure / CCO Author: Milner, Arthur Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016

Description:

roy drama - murder mystery - Palestine - Canadian playwright all male cast; three characters three male one act (two scenes)

running time: 75 mins.

A murder mystery, set in the West Bank. Palestinian and Israeli detectives try to solve the murder of an American archaeologist teaching in Ramallah. Inspired by an actual event. Title: Fade to Black in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Gillies, David Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama two characters one male; one female one act

An actor, very recently deceased, meets up with the 'stage manager' of the play of life.'

Title: Fair Grit, The in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 1 - The Nineteenth Century / CCO Author: Davin, Nicholas Flood Publisher: CTR Publications 1978

Description:

roy Canadian - farce - political - nineteenth century plays all male cast; thirteen characters; extras eleven male (doubling) one act

"Through his depiction of the love affair of Angelina, the fair Grit, and George, the son of a Tory, Davin focuses on the divisiveness caused in Canadian society by political antagonisms. Davin satirizes Prime Minister Mackenzie in the figure of Angelina's father, Alexander McPeterson, and brings party patronage and the partisan press under especially strong fire. When the lovers attempt to gain suport for their marriage from the Liberal and Conservative newspapers, Smasher and Dasher, they find the editorial offices filled with satanic torture instruments operated by mad

Title: Fairies Are Thirsty (Les Fées ont soif), The in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO Author: Boucher, Denise translated by Alan Brown Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - French - social issues - women all female cast; three characters three female one act

Three women - a housewife, a whore, and the Virgin Mary - fight to break out of the stereotypes in which they've been imprisoned for years. Title: Faroe Islands in - Fault Lines / CCO Author: Billon, Nicolas Publisher: Coach House Press 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act

A young woman's idealism is challenged by the whale hunt in "Faroe Islands".

Title: Fathers and Sons in - Shoreline / CCO Author: Hannah, Don Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1999

Description:

roy comedy - family relations three characters two male; one female four scenes

A tender and funny evocation of one lifelong relationship captured in four movements.

Title: Fear in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Nelson, Greg Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - drama two characters flexible casting one act

A person shares philosophies with the other. Neither of them can figure out the results. Title: Featuring Loretta in - Suburban Motel / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1997

Description:

roy drama four characters two male; two female five scenes

A young woman, pregnant and running away, entangles herself with two very different men.

Title: Fertile Imagination, A in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Cole, Susan G. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ three characters all female cast; three female (one black female) ten scenes

"The story of a lesbian couple's quest for recognition of their rights to live as equal, if separate, members of society. In keeping with its aim of carving out a lesbian space, the play capitalizes on the seductive powers of stage naturalism to legitimize the existence of an idealized lesbian couple seeking to have a child."

Title: Fighting Fear at the Bus Stop in - John Lazarus Shorts / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada

Description:

roy comedy three characters; voice two male; one female one act

A street scene about sexual misunderstanding between strangers. Title: File, The in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO Author: Nelson, Greg Publisher: Signature Editions 2006

Description:

roy drama - family relationships four characters one male; one female (doubling) one act

A woman travels to Ottawa after doing research on a Supreme Court Justice, and interviews his son.

Title: Filthy Rich in - The Power Plays / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1984

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - detectives six characters four male; two female one act; eight scenes

"Tyrone Power, reporter, has retired to write a novel when a murder case involving corrupt tycoons and bankrupt politicians bursts through his office door, grabs him by the throat and pulls him back onto the investigative trail."

Title: Fine Coloured Easter Egg, A in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy comedy - domestic relations - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

1 set.

'Domestic comedy set in 1950's Alberta. Ukrainian pretends suicide and hides at cousin's house. When his wife arrives, husband must explain actions.' Title: Firing Lines in - Her Voice, Her Century / CCO Author: Cheoros, David Simonson, Karen Publisher: Brindle & Glass 2012

Description:

roy drama - journalism - war - women - Canadian many characters one male; two female (doubling) thirty-four scenes; one act

running time: approximately 90 min.

Journalist Beatrice Nasmyth covers the First World War and returns to Alberta and enters the political arena.

Title: Five Episodes from the Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 105, Winter 2001 / PER Author: King, Thomas Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001

Description:

roy comedy - Native peoples - Native playwright three characters two male; one female radio play

Five sketches from CBC's radio program "The Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour".'

Title: Five or Six Characters in Search of Toronto in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 94, Spring 1998 / PER Author: Bose, Rana Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998

Description:

roy comedy eight characters five male; three female one act

Description not available. Title: Flesh and Blood in - Making, Out / CCO Author: Thomas, Colin Publisher: Coach House Press 1992

Description:

roy drama - AIDS - relationships four characters three male; one female eighteen scenes

'. . . a play about AIDS that doesn't moralize of simplify. . . The economical, episodic script centres on the relationship between two brothers - Jim a gay man diagnosed with AIDS, and Allan, a troubled high-school student. The script is full of humour. . . the dialogue is smart and snappy. . .it's a refreshingly honest and complex look at human relationships.'

Title: Follow the Leader in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO Author: Libman, Carol Publisher: Alive Press

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - war - men all male cast; three characters three male one act

Non representative set.

"Three men, a leader and two followers, build an imaginary war and empire for righteousness."

Title: Forfeits in - Women Write for Theatre - Victims / CCO Author: Havard, Lezley Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

roy drama three characters one male; two female one act

'A reunion of two women who had been childhood friends and the husband of one of them, reveals the need for revenge by one of them. A game is played to obtain forfeit, and the forfeit is the vengence.' Title: Forthcoming Wedding in - West Coast Plays / CCO Author: Angel, Leonard Publisher: New Play Centre with Fineglow Plays 1975

Description:

roy black comedy - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

"A young woman is about to be married; her father is jealous of her fiance and threatens him. In retaliation, Rose turns a gun on Papa. A misunderstanding, nothing more, and they exit to the movies" - Doollee.com

Title: Four Lives of Marie, The in - Carole Frechette: Three Plays / CCO Author: Frechette, Carole Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy biography nine characters flexible casting one act

'Account of woman's life, from age 11 to death, told in four elliptical Tableaux.'

Title: Fourteen Years in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Nagle, Maggie Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary two characters one male; one female one act

A paralyzed woman tries desparately to communicate with her husband. Title: Fragment in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993

Description:

roy scene two characters one male; one female one scene

'A study in stylized symbolism. A dramatization of a short story,'The Lady in a Green Dress'.'

Title: Free's Point in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Adams, Philip Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act

"The play recreates the final moments in the life of Michael Oros, who tried to live alone in remote bush south of the British Columbia / Yukon border."

Title: Freedom Fighters in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy Canadian four characters flexible casting one act

An opinionated Senator and his idealistic young assistant define democracy. Title: French Republicans, or An Evening in the Tavern in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 4 / CCO Author: Quesnel, Joseph Publisher: CTR Publications 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - Quebec - comedy seven characters five male; two female one act

period - Robespierre's reign of terror, Paris 1794.

"'Paris has never been so enjoyable', Charlot declares nevertheless. And in a mixture of grotesque contrasts, Pince declares 'there is not a single instant of the day which fails to offer some new pleasure: the parades, the games, the arrests, the balls, the troops, the executions, the concerts, the shows and the guillotine'. The drama's fierce attack on revolutionary France can be seen as

Title: Friday, 6:32 p.m. in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Friesen, Patrick Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary all female cast; one character and extra voices one female one act

A woman battles with an answering machine and her life.

Title: Friends in - The Burning of the Cruise: Three one act plays / CCO Author: Williamson, Hector Publisher: Hillhurst Press 2005

Description:

roy drama - social criticism - friendship six characters three male; one male or female (doubling) one act

A play about friendship and how it is suspect in Canada with our fast paced lives bent on materialism. Title: Frosted Icing in - Rewrite and Frosted Icing / CCO Author: Clark, Stanley Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - seniors three characters one male; two female one act

"Two elderly spinsters with dim memories, think they're awaiting an old suitor, when in fact, it is the salesman collecting their last payment on their funeral arrangements and plots."

Title: Frugal Repast in - Frugal Repast & The Grand Hysteric / CCO Author: Rosen, Sheldon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female one act

The play brings to two harlequin figures of Picasso's famous painting to life.

Title: Fugue For Female Voices in - Canadian One Act Plays For Women / CCO Author: Hurley, Joan Mason Publisher: A Room of One's Own Press 1975

Description:

roy Canadian - women - monologues all female cast; one character one female one act

1 interior.

"Play for woman to characterize five different types of women. In monologue form." Title: Full Speed Sideways in - All the Bright Company / CCO Author: Tweed, Tommy Publisher: Quarry Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - men all male cast; eight characters eight male radio play

"The play concerns, of all things, a naval battle in the middle of the prairies during the Riel Rebellion."

Title: Funeral Fore! in - Palliser Suite / CCO Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Frontenac House 2014

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - family relations five characters three male; two female one act

part 3 of a trilogy of plays called "Palliser Suite"; can be produced as a one act or in conjunction with the other two, "Mr. Fix It" and "Second Chance, First Love".

Family is complicated and this is never as clear as in the death of a parent. In "Funeral Fore!", two brothers deal with the death of their father, revelations, competition and laughs. Holed up in a hotel room, funeral planning has never been funnier.

Title: Furies, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - tragedy - Alberta playwright all female cast; eight characters eight female one act

1 set.

'Old Indian takes punishment of rapists of her granddaughter into her own hands.' Title: Furies, The in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934 - 1984 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - tragedy - Alberta playwright all female cast; eight characters eight female one act

1 set.

'Old Indian takes punishment of rapists of her granddaughter into her own hands.'

Title: Game of Inches, A in - Sheer Nerve / CCO Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1999

Description:

roy drama - monologue - woman all female cast; one character one female one act

1 interior.

Woman reflects on Zen, baseball and sex.

Title: Game of Patience in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation v. 2 / CCO Author: Farhoud, Abla translated by Jill MacDougall Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - women - Quebec all female cast; three characters three female six scenes

Two worlds clash when Monique/Kaokab, a successful Canadian author who emigrated from Lebanon when she was a child, approaches her newly-arrived and embittered cousin, Miriam. Miriam has escaped the war-torn country, but she has lost her daughter. The daughter, Samira, appears frequently, perched on bookcases or on a swing above the audience. She reveals through the author's voice that she has killed herself in order to live. It is her vibrant spirit which eventually unites the two women. Title: Game of Patience in - Canada and the Theatre of War - Vol. II / CCO Author: Farhoud, Abla translated by Jill MacDougall Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - women - Quebec all female cast; three characters three female six scenes

Two worlds clash when Monique/Kaokab, a successful Canadian author who emigrated from Lebanon when she was a child, approaches her newly-arrived and embittered cousin, Miriam. Miriam has escaped the war-torn country, but she has lost her daughter. The daughter, Samira, appears frequently, perched on bookcases or on a swing above the audience. She reveals through the author's voice that she has killed herself in order to live. It is her vibrant spirit which eventually unites the two women.

Title: Games They Play, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 32, Fall 1981 / PER Author: Mahieu, Roma Publisher: Miscellaneous 1981

Description:

roy children - allegory eight characters five male; three female one act

'An Argentinian allegory about children, politics and repression.'

Title: Garage Sale in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Penguin Books 1984

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - seniors - Alberta playwright - aging two characters one male; one female one act

"Elderly couple reflect on the loneliness of old age." Title: Gas in - Gas / Dust / CCO Author: Maghanoy, Jason Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011

Description:

roy drama - war - Canadian all male cast; five characters five male one act

"Gas" follows two American soldiers who kill two Iraqis and dump their bodies in a bombed-out building. This story is inter-cut with that of Rocky, a young soldier who goes AWOL after refusing to escort a tanker full of contaminated diesel to another military base. The play examines the collision of these two stories, the tragic aftermath.

Title: Gawain and the Green Knight in - Words on Waves: Selected Radio Plays of Earle Birney / CCO Author: Birney, Earle Publisher: Quarry Press 1985

Description:

roy canadian - legend ten characters; extras eight male; two female radio play

"An original adaptation for new year's radio presentation of the anonymous fourteenth-century verse romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."

Title: Gentleman Caller in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Vaughn, R.M. Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy drama two characters one male; one female one act

Young drag queen and old married woman share make-up and experiences. Title: Gently Down the Stream in - Canadian Mosaic II / CCO Author: Ravel, Aviva Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1996

Description:

roy drama - historical, Jewish immigrants, seniors all male cast; two characters two male one act

"In 'Gently Down the Stream' the author explores the lives of two Jewish immigrant old men. They ritually evoke memories of their European misfortunes before immigrating to Canada, and recount experiences of their early poverty-stricken years in the new country. Detached from the strangers they observe in the park, they finally depart for the community center for support and warmth."

Title: George Johnson is a Son-of-a-Bitch in - The Art of Communication / CCO Author: Smiley, George Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - high school - comedy three characters two male; one female one act

"A battle of wits develops when a high school teacher is confronted by a student."

Title: Get Yourself Home Skyler James in - Age of Minority / CCO Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - gender roles all female cast; one character one female one act

suggested for TYA touring.

Based on a true story, "Get Yourself Home Skyler James" follows the harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when she is outed by fellow soldiers.

Winner! The play is in a collection that won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, Title: Getting In in - Six Plays by Mavor Moore / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Talonbooks 1989

Description:

roy drama - men - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male one act

"A man applies for admission into an organization. His facade and his confidence are shattered when the interview takes an unexpected direction."

Title: Getting it Straight in - Voice of Her Own / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy monologue - Canadian - drama - women - mental illness - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female one act

Thoughts of a woman suffering from mental illness.

Title: Getting it Straight in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy monologue - Alberta playwright - Canadian - drama - mental illness all female cast; one character one female one act

Thoughts of a woman suffering from mental illness. Title: Getting Lucky in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO Author: Lloyd, Christian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - LGBTQ+ - relationships - drama - one acts all male cast; two characters two male one act

On Tuesday, September 7th, 2004, at roughly 9:00 a.m., Christian Lloyd found himself waking up in the most dangerous neighbourhood in New Orleans with someone he didn't remember meeting. Anything can happen during Southern Decadence weekend! Inspired by true events.

Title: Ghost of a Voice in - Canadian Theatre Revew: No. 79-80, Fall 1994 / PER Author: Blais, Marie-Claire translated by Nigel Spencer Publisher: Miscellaneous 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - canadian playwright two characters one male; one female radio play

"The first English-language publication of this haunting radio play by celebrated Quebec writer Marie-Claire Blais".

Title: Ghost Trains in - Rock 'n Rail / CCO Author: Robinson, Mansel Publisher: Thistledown Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - men all male cast; two characters two male (may be played by one person) one act

A man's tribute to his father told in poetry and music. Title: Gift, The in - Stories from the Bush / CCO Author: De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - Native peoples three characters two male; one female one act

A storyteller/actor relates the Frog Monster legend in which Manitoulin Island is created and the medicine pouch of a Nameless Man in the legend spilled over the island. On Manitoulin, where De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre is located, many medicines still grow. The storyteller takes what he needs from the legend and in performing it invites the audience to do the same. What or who is the Frog Monster who prevents water from flowing? What is your name?

Title: Girl Who Loved Her Horses in - The Boy in the Treehouse; Girl Who Loved Her Horses / CCO Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Native playwright five characters three male; two female one act

"Some consider this an adult memory play, but at its core, it's a story of a little girl whose imagination is her only friend and the power that such a friend can give. In some unfortunate cases, it's the only thing that keeps us alive. I think we all have a little Danielle in us."

Title: Girl Who Loved Her Horses in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995

Description:

roy Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright five characters three male; two female one act

"Some consider this an adult memory play, but at its core, it's a story of a little girl whose imagination is her only friend and the power that such a friend can give. In some unfortunate cases, it's the only thing that keeps us alive. I think we all have a little Danielle in us." Title: Girls!girls!girls! in - Exposure / CCO Author: MacArthur, Greg Publisher: Coach House Press 2005

Description:

roy drama - teenagers five characters one male; four female one act

Splitz 'deserved' to win. Missy 'stole' first place. Set in the cutthroat world of high school gymnastics, this play follows the Friday night exploits of four teenage chums as they seek revenge for a loss on the vaulting horse. Told in a hypnotic, rap-meets-nursery-rhymes style, this play, which takes its cue from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, the Reena Virk murder and the Columbine massacre, is a brutally violent exploration of what happens when emptiness becomes the norm.

Title: Gisele's Wedding Dress in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Vincent, Julie translated by Maureen LaBonté Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy drama - love - women - theatre - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian twelve characters two male; three female (doubling) one act (twelve parts)uu

Original title: La robe de mariée de Gisele Schmidt.

This play is a tribute to one of Quebec's most admired actors, Gisele Scmidt (1921 - 2005). Composed of six fictitious scenes - anecdotally, geographically, and historically separate but thematically linked - that could have been played by Schmidt, but were not. While none of the characters find the grand love they seek, the play as a whole is a great, theatrical love story

Title: Glass Box, The in - Once More, With Feeling / CCO Author: Theatre Terrific Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014

Description:

roy drama - disability - sexuality - Canadian three characters one male; two female one act (twelve scenes)

devised by Kyla Harris, Watson Moy, and Susanna Uchatius.

"The Glass Box" is a pastiche of sketch comedy, dramatic scenes, dance and exciting, climactic monologues exploring the fact and fiction around the themes of sex and disability. Inspired by the true life and sex stories of the performers, "The Glass Box" blends and refracts the experiences and perceptions of three disparate, sexually active people: a 55 year-old, straight, Title: Glass Darkly, A in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO Author: Gilbert, S. R. Publisher: Alive Press

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - men all male cast; four characters four male one act

Non-representative set.

"A man, devoid of name or direction, is summoned to the strange world of bob and dod, mirror images, to regain his identity and his mirror reflection."

Title: Gloria Star in - La Duchesse de Langeais and Other Plays / CCO Author: Tremblay, Michel Publisher: Talonbooks 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - Quebec - drama nine characters two male; seven female one act

"Backstage at the Coconut Inn cabaret the artists gossip about one another and await the appearance of the 'star'."

Title: Going Down the River in - Canadian Mosaic / CCO Author: Longfield, Kevin Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1995

Description:

roy drama - racism four characters two male; two female one act

"Racial tension underlies the discussions of a black principal, a young white teacher, and the black mother of a problem son. The principal's father acts as her conscience." Title: Good Daughter, The in - Breakout / CCO Author: Collins, Ginny Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004

Description:

roy black comedy - women four characters one male; three female one act

'(This play) dives deep into the delicious genre of black comedy, exposing a highly disfunctional family of three women running rum on the prairies.'

Title: Good Life, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 113, Winter 2003 / PER Author: Brooks, Daniel Publisher: Miscellaneous 2003

Description:

roy love six characters three male; three female one act

' A meditation on love based on Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from a Marriage" and Plato's "Symposium".'

Title: Gossip in - The Power Plays / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1984

Description:

roy comedy - detectives nine characters six male; three female one act; nine scenes

"Tyrone Power, cynical reporter, tries to uncover who killed 'Bitch' Nelson, wealthy darling of the local avante garde art scene. A witty expose of our TV-saturated society in which news becomes entertainment and gossip becomes news." Title: Government Inspector, The in - Still Laughing: three adaptations by Morris Panych / CCO Author: Gogol, Nikolai Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2009

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian adaptation eighteen characters twelve male; five female (doubling) four scenes

Adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's play. "Inspired by Gogol himself, who has the characters in "The Government Inspector" speak to the audience directly, Morris Panych made the lead characters former members of an acting troupe, opening up the fourth wall of the theater."

Title: Graceful Rebellions in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Latif, Shaista Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy drama - solo performance - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian all female cast; three characters three female (doubling possible) one act (four parts)

Running time: 50 minutes

Love is a sacred act of grace. Rebellion is the refusal of obedience. Joy is a state of divinity and destruction. Power is given to those who take. Can a queer Afghan woman identify herself in a occupied land? Part storytelling, part folklore and myth. Tradition is history repeated. Contains four monologues: A Wedding for Leili; One Hundred Poppies; What's in a Name?; and Leili in

Title: Gramsci 1: The Young Officer from Cagliari in - Plays at the Iron Bridge / CCO Author: Watson, Wilfred Publisher: NeWest Press 1989

Description:

roy experimental seven characters; speaking chorus four male; three female two scenes

'Nieces of Antonio Gramsci, imprisoned leader of Italian Communist Party seek revenge against pompous officials.' Title: Gramsci 2: Finding Tatiana in - Plays at the Iron Bridge / CCO Author: Watson, Wilfred Publisher: NeWest Press 1989

Description:

roy experimental theatre five characters; extras two male; three female fourteen scenes

'Gramsci leaves Moscow and wife, returns to Italy to find her sister Tatiana and to speak out about Mussolini's brutal regime.'

Title: Gramsci 3: The Doing-to death of Antonio Gramsci in - Plays at the Iron Bridge / CCO Author: Watson, Wilfred Publisher: NeWest Press 1989

Description:

roy experimental drama three characters two male; one female eleven scenes

'Struggle between Mussolini and Tatiana for Gramsci's freedom from prison are interwoven with scenes representing his calvary as the Stations of the Cross.'

Title: Grand Hysteric, The in - Frugal Repast & The Grand Hysteric / CCO Author: Rosen, Sheldon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female one act

A psychological drama centering on a young man's final meeting with his psychiatrist and a tug-of-war among various levels of reality. Title: Grand Tirade at the Town Hall in - Three Plays: Tankred Dorst / CCO Author: Dorst, Tankred Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - drama four characters three male; one female one act

"A woman comes to the walls of an occupied town to demand the return of her husband, one of the occupying soldiers. A translation."

Title: Grappa in - Grappa, The Spider's Feast and Potato Prayers / CCO Author: McFarlane, Anita Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama two characters one male; one female one act

Published in Theatrum Magazine (Feb/Mar 1994). No further description available.

Title: Greenland in - Fault Lines / CCO Author: Billon, Nicolas Publisher: Coach House Press 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - drama three characters one male; two female one act

The naming of a new island off the nation's coast mirrors a growing rift between the island's discoverer and his family. Title: Griffin and the Minor Canon, The in - Words on Waves: Selected Radio Plays of Earle Birney / CCO Author: Stockton, Frank R. Birney, Earle Publisher: Quarry Press 1985

Description:

roy collection twenty-three characters flexible casting radio play

"A free adaptation by Earle Birney for radio of Frank R. Stockton's short story from his collection of stories, "The Lady or the Tiger?"

Title: Ground Zero in - Theatrical Exhibitions / CCO Author: Shein, Brian Publisher: Pulp Press Book Publishers 1971

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - satire five characters four male; one female radio play

music.

"Radio play version of stage play 'Steady-state Doomsday'. Satire on nuclear warfare."

Title: Growing Up Suites, Parts I and II and Object/Subject of Desire in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Dempsey, Shawna Millan, Lorri Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ one character all female cast; one female eleven vignettes

The experiences that Dempsey and Millan went through growing up in the bleak suburban landscapes of Scarborough and Etobicoke in the 1960s and 1970s. Title: Grumplestock's in - NextFest Anthology II / CCO Author: Jesuino, Kevin Lorenz, Trish Publisher: NeWest Press 2005

Description:

roy drama - Canadian four characters three male; one female one act

"The play's title refers to the four principal characters. They are marionettes but are played by human actors. These four characters, being performers, take on the task of presenting all other characters in their story who are - with the exception of Grumplestock - residents of Bowble. Bowble is organized by a rigid caste system."

Title: Half-Chinx Taking Over the World in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 110, Spring 2002 / PER Author: del Rio, Bobby Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002

Description:

roy comedy two characters; dancers two male or female one act

"Bobby del Rio's hilarious account of bi-racial role models in the entertainment industry.'

Title: Hands in - Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays / CCO Author: Gatchalian, C. E. Publisher: The Writer's Collective 2003

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relations three characters two male; one female one act

"Hands" traces the disintegration of a tormented family.

Short-listed for the Playwriting Award at the 1996 Pacific Northwest Writers Conference Literary Contest. Title: Hanlon House in - Voices from the Landwash / CCO Author: Thomey, Greg Hennessy, Brian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997

Description:

roy comedy - family relations all male cast; two characters two male one act

'This deceptively simple one act play is a modest and unassuming look at a moment in the lives of two very ordinary people, Gary Hanlon and his crabby father, Gus. They spend the entire play dancing around each other, avoiding conflict, trying and failing to communicate with each other.'

Title: Happy in - String Quartet / CCO Author: Burkett, Ronnie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy drama - grief - puppet play - Canadian many characters one male; puppets one act

Happy, a cheerful veteran, homespun philosopher, and pensioner, wanders through episodes of grief in the lives of his fellow rooming-house tenants. Alongside happy is Antoine Marionette, the emcee of the Grey Cabaret, who introduces arch presentations of sadness in song, pantomime, and burlesque that mirror and parody the stages of grief experienced by each character.

Title: Happy Birthday, Arnie in - Studio One / CCO Author: Warren, Dianne Publisher: Coteau Books 1990

Description:

roy drama four characters two male; two female radio play

The final birthday party of a grumpy man. Title: Happy Toes in - Witness to a Conga and Other Plays / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press

Description:

roy comedy - mystery - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female one act

Happy Toes is a contemporary comedy with a mystery at its centre. Good friends Tony and Edgar, a pair of recreational runners, become intrigued when a third friend, Alex suspects his wife Janine of a decidedly peculiar form of infidelity. Their efforts to better understand this particular predicament has far-reaching and unexpected consequences involving an affable bank teller, a chamber music concert gone terribly awry, and a startling collection of emotional outpourings, all of which lead to a surprising conclusion with a delicious international twist.

Title: Having in - Magpie; Having; Hunger Striking / COL Author: Brennan, Kit Publisher: NuAge Editions 1999

Description:

roy drama five characters two male; three female one act

"David Dafoe, an entrepreneur on the rise, is managing his business, his daughter, his widowed mother and her finances, as well as a new romance. Can he have it all without paying a big price? Erin, his teenage daughter, feels marginalised by her father's ambition and her own recurring seizures, until a stranger from another era- a highwayman - appears in her bed."

Title: Health Class in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO Author: Craig, David S. Morgan, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - teachers all male cast; two characters two male one act

Two teachers prepare a sex ed presentation for male high school students. Through their discussions, their own experiences, fears and doubts about sexuality, masculinity and gender come to the fore, engaging the audience and asking us to look at our own opinions and beliefs when it comes to sex. Title: Heart of a Distant Tribe in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Ross, Ian Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters two male; four female one act

Native group of people make their way in modern day Winnipeg.

Title: Hedges in - Six Canadian Plays / CCO Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy six characters two male; four female one act

"Mr. Esker and Ms Drumlin are two ultra-compatible neighbours, until the mercantile manipulation of a local merchant sets them on a course of destruction, in this parable of Canada's involvement in the arms race."

Title: Hedges in - Cues and Entrances / CCO Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy six characters two male; four female one act

"Mr. Esker and Ms Drumlin are two ultra-compatible neighbours, until the mercantile manipulation of a local merchant sets them on a course of destruction, in this parable of Canada's involvement in the arms race." Title: Helen's Necklace in - Carole Frechette: Two Plays / CCO Author: Frechette, Carole translated by John Murrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007

Description:

roy drama - Canadian two characters (can be played by up to six characters) one male; one female one act

"The necklace is irreplaceable. The city is a maze of danger and emotion. Time and reality are slipping through Helen's fingers."

Title: Helene of New France in - One-Act Plays From Canadian History / CCO Author: Hooke, Hilda Mary Publisher: Longmans Canada 1962

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - historical seven characters four male; three women one act

"Very few of Champlain's biographers have given more than a passing references to his marriage and short span of wedded life with Helene Boule, daughter of Huguenot parents, whom he married when she was a child of twelve. Champlain himself does not mention it in his journals, which deal with his work of exploration and colonization and give little attention to his personal affairs. Helene's part in his life at Quebec was a brief one of four years' duration, although there were intervals in his pioneering when they lived together in France. After his death she became an

Title: Hell's Bells in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO Author: Spensley, Philip Publisher: Alive Press

Description:

roy Canadian - mime nineteen characters flexible casting one act

Non representative set.

"A mime. Two loner figures, one meek and one self-confident, are eventually forced into the mould of society." Title: Helper, The in - West Coast Plays / CCO Author: Grainger, Tom Publisher: New Play Centre with Fineglow Plays 1975

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy five characters four male; one female one act

No further description available.

Title: Henrik Ibsen: On the Necessity of Producing Norwegian Theatre in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Palmer, John Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - theatre three characters two male; one female one act

In a frenetic monologue, Ibsen speaks to "The Society for the Encouragement of Norwegian Theatre." A still-timely allegory; the need for Canadian drama is clarified and explained.

Title: Henrik Ibsen: On the Necessity of Producing Norwegian Theatre in - Canadian Theatre Review No.14, Spring 1977 / PER Author: Palmer, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - theatre three characters two male; one female one act

In a frenetic monologue, Ibsen speaks to "The Society for the Encouragement of Norwegian Theatre." A still-timely allegory; the need for Canadian drama is clarified and explained. Title: Here Lies Henry in - One Voice / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act

An idyllic sort of miserable sort of nightmarish sort of story book sort of remarkable sort of regular sort of story. A man alone in a room with a mission to tell you something you don't already know.

Title: Here Lies Henry in - Alone, on Stage / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - monologues - men⌦all male cast; one character one male one act

An idyllic sort of miserable sort of nightmarish sort of story book sort of remarkable sort of regular sort of story. A man alone in a room with a mission to tell you something you don't already know.

Title: Here Will I Nest in - One-Act Plays From Canadian History / CCO Author: Hooke, Hilda Mary Publisher: Longmans Canada 1962

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - historical six characters four male; two female one act

'The story of the arrival of female settlers to Talbot Settlement on Lake Erie.' Title: Heroes in - Six Canadian Plays / CCO Author: Mitchell, Ken Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - high school four characters three male; one female one act

"Superman and the Lone Ranger find themselves in a battle of egos while awaiting interviews with the "Chief." Lois Lane and Tonto arrive raising banners of Women's Lib and Red Power."

Title: Herringbone in - Twenty Years at Play / CCO Author: Cone, Tom Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - musical - men - monologues all male cast; eleven characters one male (doubling) one act

"An old trooper softshoes onto centre stage and recreates the 'living legend' of his vaudeville life."

Title: Hide and Seek in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO Author: Carnwath, Drew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy drama - women - friendship all female cast; four characters four female one act

The unresolved disappearance of one of their childhood friends causes three women to continually return to that day. Beautifully lyrical and hauntingly poetic, Hide and Seek reminds us about those who are left behind. Title: High Green Gate, The in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - Alberta playwright nine characters four male; four female; one girl radio play

'Radio play set in 1952 Canadian city examines institution of marriage and need for healthy and safe child care.'

Title: High-Gravel-Blind in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 115, Summer 2003 / PER Author: Dunn, Paul Publisher: Miscellaneous 2003

Description:

roy drama four characters two male; two female one act

Description not available.

Title: Highland Reprise in - Graduation Suite / CCO Author: Millar, Thomas P. Publisher: Palmer Press 1987

Description:

roy comedy - high school graduation nine characters; voices four male; three female; one boy; one girl one act

"Life is a series of graduations, some reluctantly coped with, some eagerly embraced. Each graduation requires us to leave an old way of being and embrace a new. Each is an opportunity for growth, or a chance for failure. Graduation Suite consists of three one act plays, each of which deals with such a life' graduation. Highland Reprise, the third play; tells it like it was being a Seaforth High School in that Dieppe summer of 1942". Title: Hilda Morgan in - All the Bright Company / CCO Author: Sinclair, Lister Publisher: Quarry Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - abortion seven characters three male; four female radio play

"The issue addressed in the play - the choice among the abortion of a child conceived out of wedlock, the acceptance of the child, or its surrender for adoption - shocked many listeners...There is also a hint at a new role for women in the world depicted in the play - a world in which women have a choice, in which the double standard is seen for what it is, and in which love dominates over concern for reputation."

Title: Hindsight in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Foon, Dennis Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama - Canadian two characters one male; one female one scene

A young woman accuses a man of using his glass eye.

Title: Home for Heroes, The in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Bowering, George Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975

Description:

roy drama - men all male cast; four characters; one loudspeaker four male one act

interior set (bare room)

"A 'parable' in which the rigidly conventional and unquestioning role of the hero is explored. The play deals with the pathetic inadequacy of pop-culture heroes." Title: Homestead in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992

Description:

roy Canadian drama - relationships - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

'First performed with the title 'The Man Who Wouldn't Fight Back'. Revised version performed with title 'God made the Country'. Drama set in 1930 Canada. Married woman, unhappy with life of homesteading, has an affair with bachelor neighbor.'

Title: Homework For Men in - Homework and Curtains / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - comedy all male cast; two characters two male one act

Murray Greenspan stumbles upon an essay he wrote as a teenager in the 1960's. Through a series of flashbacks, he reviews his relationship with his father and begins to draw parallels to his relatiohship with his own son.

Title: Hope Deferred in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 3 / CCO Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: CTR Publications 1980

Description:

roy Canadian - drama four characters three male; one female one act

Interior representative set (apt. in Chateau St. Louis); late 17c costumes.

"The clergy blocks Count Frontenac's proposal to stage Moliere's 'Tartuffe', using the talents of a young Indian actress. To have her art appreciated the young lady has to go to Paris. Hope that art will come to Canada must be deferred." Title: Hope Slide, The in - 7 Canons / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Coach House Press 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act

"An actress travels back in memory from the present to the mid-sixties, from North Vancouver to the Doukhobor prison outside the town of Hope, the site of a mountain collapse in 1965. Natural disaster becomes a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, and anarchy is examined both as a liberating social force and as a frightening presence in the natural world."

Title: Hope Slide, The in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy Canadian - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act

"An actress travels back in memory from the present to the mid-sixties, from North Vancouver to the Doukhobor prison outside the town of Hope, the site of a mountain collapse in 1965. Natural disaster becomes a metaphor for the AIDS crisis, and anarchy is examined both as a liberating social force and as a frightening presence in the natural world."

Title: Horticulturist, The in - The Art of Communication / CCO Author: Smiley, George Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy four characters two male; two female one act

"A man is troubled by his observation that everything and everyone is becoming frigid." Title: Hot 'n' Soft in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Miguel, Muriel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - solo performance - Native peoples - LGBTQ+ - Native playwright all female cast; one character one female one act

"Hot 'n' Soft" is a lesbian erotica/trickster story created by Muriel Miguel (Kuna-Rappahannock). After encountering only male trickster stories, Miguel decided to build a piece around a female lesbian coyote trickster (the Coyote often plays the role of trickster and is usually male). Adding erotica to the mix, Miguel bases her tale on taboos not normally spoken of in the Native lesbian community, hair, two-timing, being uncomfortable, and getting older.

Title: House in - One Voice / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy dramatic comedy - monologue - men all male cast; one character one male one act

'House' is stand up sit down one man comedy nightmare about Victor, a man on the edge.

Title: House in the Quiet Glen, The in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 3 / CCO Author: Coulter, John Publisher: CTR Publications 1980

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - relationships five characters three male; two female one act

Interior representative set (kitchen)

"Mr. and Mrs McCann arrange for Sally to marry Robert, not realizing she loves his son Hughie. All ends well when Robert gives his blessing to the young people." Title: House of Glass in - A Three Martini Lunch / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Red Deer College Press 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters one male; two female (doubling) five scenes

"In 'House of Glass' twelve-year-old Ellen must make amends with her obsessive neighbour Beth for stealing condoms from her store."

Title: House on Hermitage Road, The in - Canadian Mosaic II / CCO Author: McLean, Dirk Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1996

Description:

roy Canadian - biography fourteen characters seven male; seven female radio play

" 'The House on Hermitage Road' describe's Dirk McLean's childhood in Trinidad. While his mother left him for eight years in search of a better life, Dirk was raised in a loving family, participating in strong cultural traditions and bonding to his heritage. The writer brings with him to his new home in Canada these traditions which he describes with pride and pleasure."

Title: House that Jack Built, The in - Endangered Species / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1988

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - relationships - Toronto - Ontario two characters one male; one female one act

designed to be presented with 'It's Only Hot for Two Months in Kapuskasing'.

Jack builds a house on the outskirts of Toronto for Jenny, who is reluctant to leave the city. As she adjusts to their new home, their marriage undergoes a frightening change. Title: House Wife, The in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO Author: White, Sherry Lawrence, Ruth Publisher: Signature Editions 2006

Description:

roy canadian - drama - confederation - political - Newfoundland all female cast; two characters two female one act

An analogy of for Newfoundland in Confederation and what happened in a very short time. Two sisters have to learn to live together after one returns from the West Coast and moves in. The politics of the day come out in ordinary housework.

Title: How an Intellectual Can Aspire to Savagery! in - The Earth is a Witch, The Witch is a Saint, The Saint is Applause / CCO Author: Waits, Death Publisher: Exile Editions 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - radio play six characters five male; one female one act

"Takes the form of a panel discussion in which six prominent young actor/intellectuals explore with insightful and often hilarious results, the important (but often neglected) issue of how to live in an immoral world."

Title: Huff in - Huff & Stitch / COL Author: Cardinal, Cliff Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy drama - Native peoples - Native playwright - family relations - solo performance many characters one male (doubling) one act (one scene)

"Brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father’s abusive whims and their mother’s recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pull destructive pranks. Preyed upon by Trickster and his own fragile psyche, Wind looks for a way out, one that might lead him into his mother’s shadow." Title: Human Remains in - Four Plays by Larry Fineberg / CCO Author: Fineberg, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

Billy, Olive and Jeremy have all loved one another. It has left them confused, lonely and intensely vulnerable. In the aftermath of Billy's failed suicide, they are forced to recognize their mutual needs and individual capacities.

Title: Hunger Striking in - Magpie; Having; Hunger Striking / COL Author: Brennan, Kit Publisher: NuAge Editions 1999

Description:

roy drama all female cast; one character one female one act

"Sarah's student, Katie, has just died of anorexia. Her death propels Sarah into her own memories, taking her from her present day reality as a high school English teacher into multiple pasts: her own past as an anorexic girl twenty years earlier, her Celtic heritage with its vivid creatures and mythology passed on to her by her father, and the world of the hunger-striking suffragettes at the beginning of the last century. "

Title: Hungry Spirit, The in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - historical - feminism - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female one act

'Drama set in 1930's Canadian West. Young woman, to the dismay of family, opts to attend university rather than marry.' Title: Huron Bride, The in - The Mill / CCO Author: Moscovitch, Hannah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011

Description:

roy drama - Canadian seven characters three male; three female; one girl thirteen scenes

Part 2 of "The Mill".

In The Huron Bride it is 1834 and Hazel Sheehan has braved the perilous journey across the Atlantic to work as a hired hand at her cousin’s sawmill. When her cousin James asks her to marry him, Hazel is overjoyed, but will the ghost of James’s ex-wife spoil their wedding plans?

Title: I in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 110, Spring 2002 / PER Author: Ng, John Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002

Description:

roy relationships - drama - Chinese five characters two male; three female one act

'The first play in the "Panda Trilogy" by John Ng, "I" focuses on three siblings and their relationship with an illegal immigrant.'

Title: I Chink in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 110, Spring 2002 / PER Author: Luu, Yung Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002

Description:

roy drama - monologue - male - Chinese all male cast; one characters one male one act

'Yung Luu's third play in his Fringe trilogy, "I Chink" focuses on the experience of an immigrant family.' Title: I Hate You on Mondays in - Prerogatives / CCO Author: Miles, Kate Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy contemporary drama three characters two male; one female fifteen scenes

This play is a gritty depiction of three young people living in downtown Toronto.

Title: I Wandered Lonely in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Schafer, Heldor Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary two characters one male; one female one act

A nurse and patient help the patient get over feeling sorry for himself.

Title: I, Claudia in - Voice of Her Own / CCO Author: Thomson, Kristen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy drama - monologue - women all female cast; four characters one female (doubling) one act

'Claudia is an official pre-teen, still reeling from her parent's divorce. Her father is getting re-married, she has a science fair project coming due, and she is in the physical and emotional throes of puberty. Finding refuge in the basement of her school, Claudia discovers the pain at the centre of her brimming child's heart. Some important adults in Claudia's life - her grandfather, her new father's new girlfriend, and the school custodian - shed light on her situation.' Title: I, Claudia in - Tonight at the Tarragon / CCO Author: Thomson, Kristen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011

Description:

roy drama - monologue - women all female cast; four characters one female (doubling) one act

'Claudia is an official pre-teen, still reeling from her parent's divorce. Her father is getting re-married, she has a science fair project coming due, and she is in the physical and emotional throes of puberty. Finding refuge in the basement of her school, Claudia discovers the pain at the centre of her brimming child's heart. Some important adults in Claudia's life - her grandfather, her new father's new girlfriend, and the school custodian - shed light on her situation.'

Title: I'd Kiss You But . . . in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: White, Wendy Ward, Victoria and Diane Flacks Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy comedy all female cast; nine characters three female one act

Various discussions about the opposite sex.

Title: Ice land in - Hot Thespian Action! / CCO Author: Seinen, Jonathan Publisher: AU Press 2008

Description:

roy drama four characters three male; one female one act

[ice land] is a brutal and disturbing incursion into the extreme depths of torture and human suffering. Coming upon a bunker in the basement of a house in prairie Saskatchewan some time after a nuclear holocaust, Iris finds herself held hostage by three "desperate, dangerous" men bent on survival and growing "mad" by the day: the blind and controlling Frederick, the aggressive Luther, and the simple Pluto. As Luther contemplates shooting and eating campers in a nearby settlement, Frederick is consumed by his own sexual appetite (primarily for Pluto), and Pluto, Title: Iceland in - Fault Lines / CCO Author: Billon, Nicolas Publisher: Coach House Press 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - monologues three characters one male; two female one act

Greed and sex fuel a confrontation between a corrupt real estate agent, an Estonian prostitute and a naive tenant.

Title: If Betty Should Rise in - Canadian Brash / CCO Author: Demchuk, David Publisher: Coach House Press 1990

Description:

roy drama - family relations - mental illness - tragedy all female cast; two characters two female one act

Monologue material. A young woman relates in bits and pieces the story of her abuse at the hands of her father.

Title: If Jesus Met Nanabush in - 3 Plays / CCO Author: King, Alanis Publisher: Fifth House 2015

Description:

roy comedy - fantasy - native playwright - Canadian four characters two male; one female; one male or female one act (five scenes)

Merging Native and Western traditions, If Jesus Met Nanabush is a and often hilarious cosmological First Contact story. When Jesus turns up at the Champion of Champions Pow-Wow, the first person he meets is Nanabush. Together they form an odd pair. Nanabush is earthy, irascible, fun-loving. Jesus is formal, introverted, a fish out of water. However, as they venture across the back roads, bars and bus depots of Turtle Island, the two will discover that they are not so different after all. Title: Illegal Playwriting Class, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary drama four characters two male; two female one act

A doctor teaches a woman about scriptwriting on office time.

Title: Illegal Playwriting Class, The in - John Lazarus Shorts / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada

Description:

roy comedy - playwriting four characters two male; two female one act

The fiendish plot strangely echoes the principles being taught in the playwriting class within the play...

Title: In Dreams in - New Canadian Drama 4 / CCO Author: Williams, Alan Publisher: Borealis Press 1986

Description:

roy drama four characters two male; two female one act

Description not available. Title: In Full Light in - 5 Hot plays / CCO Author: Karasik, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - relationships five characters three male; two female one act

Ben's teenaged daughter Claire is hit by a car. To ease his conscience, Leon, the driver, approaches Ben with a cheque. Which Ben takes. But now why is Leon calling Ben at work and showing up on his front lawn? And what's going on with Claire, now recovered, throwing rocks at the window of the boy who lives across the street? "In Full Light" is a riveting exploration of obligation, obsession and desire.

Title: In Full Light in - The Crossing Guard; and, In Full Light / CCO Author: Karasik, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - relationships five characters three male; two female one act

Ben's teenaged daughter Claire is hit by a car. To ease his conscience, Leon, the driver, approaches Ben with a cheque. Which Ben takes. But now why is Leon calling Ben at work and showing up on his front lawn? And what's going on with Claire, now recovered, throwing rocks at the window of the boy who lives across the street? "In Full Light" is a riveting exploration of obligation, obsession and desire.

Title: In On It in - I Still Love You / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama all male cast; many characters two male (doubling) one act

"A spiraling narrative about a dying man trying to make plans for the end, a pair of lovers trying to make it work and two men trying to make a play. A world where accidents happen. A story about control. A play that keeps its option open."

Winner of the 2001 Village Voice OBIE Award. Title: In Search of a Friend in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Tunooniq Theatre Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples seven characters flexible casting one act

"A play about addiction, represented not as an individual disease but as an evil enchantment, something like the famine of the old days: to get the better of it, in the individual needs powerful help from a stronger enchantment, the support of the community, and his or her own fortitude."

Title: In the Yichud Room in - Three on the Boards / CCO Author: Fishbane, Joel Publisher: Signature Editions 2007

Description:

roy Canadian - dark comedy three characters two male; one female five scenes

"A young woman mourned by a grieving father."

Title: Indeo: The Wood Mountain Stampede: Intertribal in - Studio One / CCO Author: Suknaski, Andrew Publisher: Coteau Books 1990

Description:

roy Native peoples - poetry - monologue - Canadian one character flexible casting radio play

Description not available. Title: Indian in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Penguin Books 1984

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples all male cast; two characters two male one act

"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians."

Title: Indian in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples all male cast; two characters two male one act

"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians."

Title: Indian in - The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: General Publishing 1971

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - men all male cast; two characters two male one act

"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians." Title: Indian in - Cues and Entrances / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples all male cast; three characters three male one act

"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians."

Title: Indian in - George Ryga: The Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2004

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples all male cast; two characters two male one act

"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians."

Title: Inside Out in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Bastet Books 1973

Description:

roy comedy - relationships - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act

A father comes to rescue his daughter from her lover. Title: Inside Out in - Discovering Mavor Moore / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy comedy - relationships - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act

A father comes to rescue his daughter from her lover.

Title: Interview, The in - Canadian Theatre Review - No. 77, Winter 1993 / PER Author: Bick, Tamara C. Publisher: Miscellaneous 1993

Description:

roy monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act

' "The Interview is about a single woman, who is an actress putting on a show. It takes place today, her twenty-seventh birthday. It is a series of six monologues.

Title: Intimacy in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation v. 2 / CCO Author: Haché, Emma translated by Arthur Milner Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - women - Quebec seven characters two male; one female (doubling) eleven scenes

running time: 1 hour 30 min.

A caustic portrait of how a couple, Frauke and Alex, met in Nazi Germany. Based on a true story, this sharp satire of the “responsible society” delivers a tale of two people who feel most alive when they are inches from death. In this context, illness becomes the best way to protect oneself… but also to reveal oneself. Title: Into in - Taking Liberties and Into / CCO Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy four characters two male; two female one act

'An urban nun, a disaffected youth, a philandering businessmen and a melancholic beauty are caught in a magic traffic jam. They create a unique society amid the chrome and exhaust - but then something begins changing on the horizon ...'

Title: Into in - 3 Plays by Dave Carley / CCO Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2003

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy four characters two male; two female one act

'An urban nun, a disaffected youth, a philandering businessmen and a melancholic beauty are caught in a magic traffic jam. They create a unique society amid the chrome and exhaust - but then something begins changing on the horizon ...'

Title: Inuk and the Sun in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Beissel, Henry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy drama eleven marionettes - eight characters three male; two female; spirits ten episodes

" 'Inuk and the Sun' aims to conjure something of the spiritual quality of the Inuit people, not to depict their daily life. It is a fantasy which explores on an archetypal level the fundamental human experience of life and death, and of the need to understand and accept our place in nature in order to survive. Canada's First People have much to teach us on that score. It was for this reason, and because the North is a challenge that demands of humans the utmost in courage, endurance and wisdom, that I chose an Inuit setting, Inuit characters and their mythology, to tell a story Title: Invention of Music, The in - Martini with a Twist / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NeWest Press 2012

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female one act

A mismatched pod of whales in the Pacific Ocean contend with identity, love, and interspecies dating. "Three bull whales retreat from their usual oceanic care to a remote portion of the South Pacific to determine how their lives have gone so drastically awry. When a mysterious female orca appears, the already tenuous balance of the lagoon is upset and the facade of control collapses." - Lunchbox Theatre

Title: Investigator, The in - All the Bright Company / CCO Author: Ship, Reuben Publisher: Quarry Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - satire - political sixteen characters fifteen male; one female radio play

"...is a bitter and hilarious satire on the activities of Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. 'The Investigator' turns on a simple satiric displacement: the nameless Investigator, the chairman of an American committee very much like that of McCarthy, is killed in an airplane crash and lands in heaven. Ship asked himself what such a person would do in these circumstances, and the answer is hilarious - and frightening."

Title: Irene and Lillian Forever in - Escape Acts / CCO Author: Farmer, Bonnie Publisher: NuAge Editions 1986

Description:

roy Canadian - tragedy - drama - Nova Scotia all female cast; two characters two female one act

'Tragedy set in Nova Scotia. Contentious relationship between poor black women.'

Won the Award for Best Director at the 1986 Quebec Drama Festival. Title: Isadora and G. B. in - After Antietam / Isadora and G.B. / CCO Author: Angel, Leonard Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female one act

"G. B. Shaw visits Isadora Duncan's studio to see her dance in the nude. She tries to seduce him, but he warns 'what if the child were to have my beauty and your brains?"

Title: Island of Demons, The in - Two Plays / CCO Author: Woodcock, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1977

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - historical - exile six characters; extras four male; two female thirteen scenes

4 interiors; 3 exteriors.

"Historical romance in verse. Banished to uninhabitable island off Canada in mid-16th century, Marguerite de Roberval is beset by allegorical Demons of Doubt, Discord and Regret, but still survives the deaths of her lover, newborn child and faithful servant."

Title: Islands in - Willful Acts / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Coach House Press 1985

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relations all female cast; three characters three female one act

"Six months after "Alli Alli Oh!" Now living alone, Muriel receives a visit from her widowed mother and her new fiancé. Alli also arrives unexpectedly, and events climax when each woman discovers ways to relate to past events." Title: Issues of the Night Time in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 112, Fall 2002 / PER Author: King, Charles Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002

Description:

roy drama six characters; extras three male; three female one act

'A moody and contemplative play with blues music set in residential Vancouver in the summer leading up to Expo.'

Title: It's all make believe, isn't it? - Marilyn Monroe in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, Vol.2 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright⌦all female cast; two characters two female one act

"Marilyn Monroe" and her companion prepare for a visitor.

Title: It's all make believe, isn't it? - Marilyn Munroe in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - Alberta playwright all female cast; two characters two female one act

"Marilyn Monroe" and her companion prepare for a visitor. Title: It's Only Hot for Two Months in Kapuskasing in - Endangered Species / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1988

Description:

roy drama - relationships - Canadian four characters two male; two female one act

designed to be presented with 'The House that Jack Built'.

A woman goes to help a friend who she thinks is being abused by her lover.

Title: Jack and the Joker, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright seven characters three male; four female one act

1 setting.

'Based on an incident in Canada, 1904. Wife of local shyster tries to prevent newspaper editor from publishing scandals about him.'

Title: Jane's Thumb in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO Author: Burke, Kelley-Jo Publisher: Signature Editions 2006

Description:

roy comedy - pregnancy all female cast; many characters two female (doubling) one act

A pregnant librarian addicted to metaphor, has a conversation with her unborn child. Title: Je Me Souviens in - Voice of Her Own / CCO Author: Gale, Lorena Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy dramatic monologue - women, autobiography all female cast; one character one female twenty-six scenes

'In this powerful dramatic monologue, Lorena Gale remembers, by reconstructing for the audience, her childhood and coming of age as an African-Canadian in Montreal.'

Governor General's Drama Award Finalist, 2002.

Title: Je Me Souviens in - Afrika, Solo / CCO Author: Gale, Lorena Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011

Description:

roy dramatic monologue - women - autobiography all female cast; one character one female twenty-six scenes

A third-generation Canadian faces a crisis in belonging in Je me souviens. Divided by language, isolated due to her skin colour, and lost in the social and political margins, Lorena Gale’s play shows life through her eyes as she struggles to claim identity and belonging on her own terms. Written in part as a reaction to Jacques Parizeau’s remarks about “ethnics” following the 1995 Quebec referendum, Gale’s piece calls into question the rules of identity and place in Canada.

Title: Jewel in - Toronto, Mississippi & Jewel / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act

"It's Valentine's Day and Marjorie reminisces aloud about the loss of her husband on the Ocean Ranger and her decision to begin her life anew." Title: Jewel in - The Shape of a Girl / Jewel / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 2002

Description:

Roy Canadian - drama - monologues - women All female cast; one character One female One act

"It's Valentine's Day and Marjorie reminisces aloud about the loss of her husband on the Ocean Ranger and her decision to begin her life anew."

Title: Jim Dandy in - Painted, Tainted, Sainted / CCO Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy dramatic comedy - LGBTQ+ thirteen characters six male; seven female one act

'A history of the "dandy", (Oscar Wilde, Andy Warhol, etc.) interspersed with Warholesque home movies of sexually naturalistic grotesquerie.'

Title: Jingo Ring, The in - The Factory Lab Anthology / CCO Author: Canale, Raymond Publisher: Talonbooks 1974

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian nine characters eight male; one female one act

1 exterior set.

Set in a sun-baked, poverty-stricken village where for years the Chief of Police has ritually ordered his policemen to arrest someone. The ritual ends when a mysterious stranger arrives and gives himself up, throwing the town into a panic. Title: Jinker, The in - All the Bright Company / CCO Author: Schull, Joseph Publisher: Quarry Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - tragedy nine characters eight male; one female radio play

"'The Jinker' is a powerful and moving play, both a traditional and a modern tragedy. Based on a turn-of-the-century Newfoundland seal-hunt through the treacherous arctic seas, it portrays an epic conflict between two contending leaders of the sailors' tribe, with inevitable tragic consequences. It also exhibits a colossal struggle with opposing Nature, in the form of the irresistible and threatening ice-floe which finally grinds up the antagonist. This powerful arctic symbol of tragic Nature is in a particularly Canadian tradition..."

Title: Job's Wife; or, The delivery of Grace in - Blade / Job's Wife / Video - CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: ArtBiz Communications 1995

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - religious - Native peoples - Native playwright three characters one male; two female one act

" 'Job's Wife' presents an intelligent alternative to traditional ideas about religion in effective dramatic terms."

Title: Job's Wife; or, The delivery of Grace in - Blade and Job's Wife; or, The Delivery of Grace / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - religious - Native peoples - Native playwright three characters one male; two female one act

Published in Theatrum Magazine (Nov/Dec/Jan 1992/93). " 'Job's Wife' presents an intelligent alternative to traditional ideas about religion in effective dramatic terms." Title: Job's Wife; or, The delivery of Grace in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995

Description:

roy Canadian - Native peoples - drama - religious - Native playwright three characters one male; two female one act

" 'Job's Wife' presents an intelligent alternative to traditional ideas about religion in effective dramatic terms."

Title: John and Beatrice in - Carole Frechette: Two Plays / CCO Author: Frechette, Carole translated by John Murrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - love - romance two characters one male; one female one act

"High above the city, Beatrice sits on the 33rd floor of an office tower waiting for the right man to respond to her ad. When John appears, the games begin. But if he wins, what then? A play about the difficulty of connection and the meaning of love."

Title: Johnny Mangano and His Astonishing Dogs in - La Duchesse de Langeais and Other Plays / CCO Author: Tremblay, Michel Publisher: Talonbooks 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - Quebec - drama four characters three male; one female one act

"Carlotta forces Johnny to confront what he is: the inept trainer of a third-rate dog act." Title: Johnnyville: An Official Secrets Act in - Johnnyville: An Official Secrets Act; and, Total Body Washout / CCO Author: Carnwath, Drew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998

Description:

roy drama three characters two male; one female one act

'In a post cold-war world, where love is the exception and not the rule, no-one is really what they seem. 'Johnnyville' gives us spies, lies and the search for a lot more than love as three characters take a surreal spin on the dance floor of deception.'

Title: Jouliks in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Le-Huu, Marie-Christine translated by Crystal Beliveau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy drama - family relationships - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian five characters two male; two female; one girl one act (eighteen parts)

Jouliks is a darkly tender drama exploring the vast, bumpy, and treacherous terrain of love. The play dramatizes a few days in the life of a family; grandparents, parents child, and neighbour. The grandparents, Mam and Pappy, have come for a visit after seven years of estrangement, in which time they did not see their daughter, Vera, her partner Zak, or The Little One. From the very moment of her arrival, Mam sets to work reconstituting her daughter's home and family so they conform to her extremely conventional sense of propriety. As the clash between the conflicting

Title: Journey to Mapu in - Fronteras Vivientes / CCO Author: de Guevara, Lina Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy drama - Latina/o playwrights - Canadian - native peoples - identity large cast flexible casting one act

A series of recollections by Lautaro/Tato, a Chilean Mapuche immigrant, of the struggles of his childhood as the root source of his current day activism in connecting issues concerning both the First Nations and South American Indigenous groups. These memories challenge questions of identity, nationalism, historiography, a sense of place, and indigeneity. Title: Joy in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation v. 2 / CCO Author: Pelletier, Pol translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - women - Quebec all female cast; one character one female two parts

A two-part play for one person in which Pol Pelletier casts a retrospective eye on the years between 1975 and 1985 when she began her professional career as a theatre artist. Following the strands of her own career, Pelletier writes a particular kind of theatrical biography. History and fiction combine to form a stunning narrative driven by passionate creativity. 'Joy' is the vivid dramatization of a well-known woman artist's life on stage, a documentary testimony to the rise of a vibrant and distinctive Quebec culture, and an exhilarating theatrical invention.

Title: Just in - Hot Thespian Action! / CCO Author: Schmidt, Trevor Publisher: AU Press 2008

Description:

roy monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act

A tense yet delicate story told by a woman who comes to a home for young, pregnant girls to adopt a baby. By way of a sensitive dramatic monologue we gradually learn why she has been troubled for so long as she waits for her husband to meet her.

Title: Just a Kommedia in - Canadian Mosaic / CCO Author: Rylski, Nika Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1995

Description:

roy comedy - recollection - Ukrainian heritage nineteen characters three male; three female (doubling) one act

"Staged like a church variety show, this comedic look at growing up Ukrainian in Canada examines the struggle of immigrant children to balance tradition with assimilation." Title: Just an Ordinary Person in - George Ryga: The Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2004

Description:

roy drama - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male one act

A short soul-searching, autobiographical play.

Title: Justice of the Piece in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Monkman, Kent Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - Native peoples - drag queen all male cast; one character one male one act

Kent Monkman returns as his cheeky alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Miss Chief dons the judicial robes to hold court over a new inclusive nation in this deconstruction of blood quantum, ethnicity and sovereignty. ImagineNATIVE

Title: Keys in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2016) / PER Author: Johnson, Falen Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy drama - gender-based violence - women - Native playwright all female cast; one character one female one act

A woman discusses her methods of defending herself against street harassment and violence. Shoe choice, headphones, and keys as weapons all come into play. Title: Kharkiv Letters, The in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Gilker, Alexa Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - marriage - Ukrainians - civil rights four characters two male; two female one act

Vlad and Masha have been together for seven years, but Masha refuses to say yes to Vlad's proposals. Katya, Masha's mother, is desperate to get her daughter out of the Ukraine and out of poverty. Katya finds Masha a husband through Heavenly Hearts International Marriage Agency and Masha is forced to make a decision about her future and her freedom.

Title: Kicked in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 97, Winter 1998 / PER Author: Healey, Michael Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998

Description:

roy monologue all male cast; four characters one male (doubling) one act

Description not available.

Title: Kim's Convenience in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Choi, Ins Publisher: Talonbooks 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - immigrants - Toronto - Ontario eight characters three male; two female (doubling) one act

Mr. Kim is a first-generation Korean immigrant and the proud owner of Kim's Convenience, a variety store located in the heart of downtown Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood. There, he spends his time serving an eclectic array of customers, catching petty thieves, and helpfully keeping the police apprised of illegally parked Japanese cars. As the neighbourhood quickly gentrifies, Mr. Kim is offered a generous sum of money to sell - enough to allow him and his wife to finally retire. But Kim's Convenience is more than just his livelihood - it is his legacy. As Mr. Title: Kiss Me Outside the Box in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Cartterfield, Carmen Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - romance - LGBTQ+ - relationship all female cast; two characters two female one act

"Kiss Me Outside the Box" follows Nico and Riley's friendship and more-than-friendship during their first year of college.

Title: Komagata Maru Incident, The in - Six Canadian Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright - racism - British Columbia six characters three male; three female one act

The true story of the ignorance and racism which, in 1914, prevented a ship carrying East Indian immigrants from docking in Vancouver harbour.

Title: Komagata Maru Incident, The in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act

The true story of the ignorance and racism which, in 1914, prevented a ship carrying East Indian immigrants from docking in Vancouver harbour. Title: Komagata Maru Incident, The in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works: Volume One / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act

The true story of the ignorance and racism which, in 1914, prevented a ship carrying East Indian immigrants from docking in Vancouver harbour.

Title: Kreskinned - a one act hypnotism comedy in - The Road to Hell / CCO Author: Healey, Michael Lynch, Kate Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy comedy - marital relations - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act

" 'Kreskinned' is a one act comedy asking the important question, what if you could hypnotize your partner into forgetting every time you've done something wrong?"

Title: Kyotopolis in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy Canadian - dark comedy - monologue - Native peoples all female cast; one character one female one scene

'Who was that woman we saw riding the space shuttle last night, riding it into orbit - and the obituaries? An Indian Princess? A New Age Shamaness? Or just little Babe Fisher? Even her family isn't sure anymore. A darkly comic fantasia about the ways we communicate and the future of Native identity in the Global Village. Ricky Raccoon is just one of the characters she encounters." Title: Laddie Boy in - George Ryga: The Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2004

Description:

roy drama - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

A short sketch of failed human beings, the inevitable consequence of living in a decaying social order. A man has just arrived in Halifax and finds himself, allegedly mistakenly, in jail. There he engages in banter with his cellmate, Jess, a local 'rounder' and Bell, a cleaning woman.

Title: Lament for Harmonica (Maya) in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - tragedy - Alberta playwright - Native peoples seven characters two male; five female one act

'Half-Indian girl's hopes to leave reservation are destroyed by arrival of former white lover.'

Title: Lament for Harmonica (Maya) in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - Native peoples seven characters two male; five female one act

'Half-Indian girl's hopes to leave reservation are destroyed by arrival of former white lover.' Title: Lament for Harmonica (Maya) in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - Native peoples seven characters two male; five female one act

'Half-Indian girl's hopes to leave reservation are destroyed by arrival of former white lover.'

Title: Land Called Morning, The in - Five from the Fringe / CCO Author: Selkirk, John Publisher: NeWest Press 1986

Description:

roy Canadian - Edmonton Fringe Festival four characters two male; two female one act

No abstract available.

Title: Land, The Animals, The in - Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp and Other Plays / CCO Author: Brooker, Blake Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female one act

In an attempt to discover why a forlorn geologist committed suicide, three scientists investigate the land and the animals of a modern city in the future. Title: Landscape With Pigeons in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Owen, Mark Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy Canadian all female cast; two characters two female one act

Two mothers from distinctly different social classes, talk about their lives and their sons, who were lovers.

Title: Lapine-Moi / Rabbit-I in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Claude, Nathalie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy drama - women - LGBTQ+ - identity - solo performance - Canadian all female cast; five characters one female (doubling) one act (five parts)

Running time: 16 minutes; text in both French and English

A dream-like excavation of the fragmentary nature of identity within the overlapping sphere of life art. Claude plays a rabbit, a hunter, herself, and herself as an omnipotent narrator in a metatheatrical interrogation of reality and fantasy where the artist realizes that she is both hunter and hunted, both the object of desire and the source of desire.

Title: Last Caveman, The in - The Hungry Spirit / CCO Author: Gowan, Elsie Park Publisher: NeWest Press 1992

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright eleven characters eight male; three female one act

'Comedy set in 1946 Alberta. Provincial family arms itself in misguided effort to defend their land.' Title: Last Kiss in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Foon, Dennis Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary two characters one male; one female one act

Two people share a moment and a kiss.

Title: Last Rites in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 75, Summer 1993 / PER Author: Hamson, Leslie Publisher: Miscellaneous 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - death six characters one male; five female one act

"Charlotte and Rachel, lesbian women, have taken refuge in the trapline cabin of Native friends who provide support. Charlotte is dying and makes contact with the daughter that her sister raised as her own. Eventually, all the women come together."

Title: Last Setting of the Sun, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 117, Winter 2004 / PER Author: Garcia, Freddy and Grant, Cynthia Publisher: Miscellaneous 2004

Description:

roy drama two characters one male; one female one act

" A bilingual piece that shows how a teenaged actor involved himself in theatre, an act that ultimately led to his exile. Beside his comrades, he established his career and a small theatre company in the middle of the civil war in El Salvador." Title: Last Walk of Adolfo Ich, The in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2015) / PER Author: de Vries, Marion Publisher: Miscellaneous 2015

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - documentary - legal - civil rights eight characters two male; three female one act

"The Last Walk of Adolfo Ich" is a verbatim play that documents the atrocities committed by a Canadian mining company in Guatemala as well as the historic and unprecedented legal case that is bringing a Canadian company to justice for human rights abuses committed against a foreign national in another country.

Title: Laundry Service in - Dramatics, April 2008 / PER Author: Novick, Beth Publisher: Miscellaneous 2008

Description:

roy relationships two characters one male; one female one scene

A young man practices his magic act on an Polish cleaning woman who tries to get rid of a stain from her employer's dress.

Title: Learning to Drive in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Peterson, Ellen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama two characters flexible casting one act

A student and teacher have very different recollections of the same set of driving lessons. Title: Learning To Live With Personal Growth in - New Canadian Drama 5 / CCO Author: Milner, Arthur Publisher: Borealis Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - political - drama four characters two male; two female one act

'Jeff's relationship with his wife is going nowhere and his job has become more boring and more difficult, but then he makes two new friends who change his life forever.'

Title: Lena's Car in - Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays / CCO Author: Gladstone, Amiel Publisher: Coach House Press 2007

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - marriage - monologue - women all female cast; one character one female one act

A woman whose marriage is on the verge of collapse reflects on how it got to that point, harkening back to a youth when things were both more simple and more complicated.

Awarded the Sydney Risk Award for Outstanding Original Script at the Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards.

Title: Lenz in - Canadian Theatre Review vol. 127 / PER Author: Bluemouth inc. Publisher: Miscellaneous 2005

Description:

roy drama - mental illness nine characters seven male; two female; flexible casting one act

"Inspired by Georg Buchner's short story of the same title, LENZ is a poetic "inter" play of dance, theatre, music and film. A tale of mental illness and murder." Title: Letters From Battle River in - Her Voice, Her Century / CCO Author: Cheoros, David Simonson, Karen Publisher: Brindle & Glass 2012

Description:

roy historical biography - Alberta - Canadian - monologues - midwifery all female cast; one character one female forty-nine scenes (one act)

running time: 65 minutes.

The adventures of Dr. Mary Percy Jackson as she comes to Alberta from England in 1927 to practice medicine.

Title: Letters in Wartime in - The West of All Possible Worlds / CCO Author: Brown, Kenneth Scriver, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - war - romance - Alberta playwright - Edmonton two characters one male; one female seven scenes

"During World War II, Allan, a young RCAF pilot, and Moira, an auxiliary worker at the Blatchford Field in Edmonton, try desperately to maintain their long-distance relationship. But is the printed word enough to keep love alive in a world turned upside down?"

Title: Letters to My Grandma in - Pyaasa and Letters to My Grandma / CCO Author: Roy, Anusree Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - India - social issues - immigrants all female cast; five characters one female (doubling) thirteen scenes

"In the haunting "Letters to My Grandma", Malobee unearths letters detailing her grandmother’s fight to survive the 1947 partition of India, which resonates with Malobee’s own struggles to create a new life in present-day Toronto. A grand multi-generational tale of hatred, regret, love, and forgiveness, "Letters to my Grandma" weaves the remarkable stories of these two women together, inextricably linking their histories and delving into how the hatred bred between Hindus and Muslims in the Old World consumes families in Canada today." Title: Life After Hockey in - Five from the Fringe / CCO Author: Brown, Kenneth Publisher: NeWest Press 1986

Description:

roy comedy - monologue - men - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male one act

No abstract available.

Title: Life History of the African Elephant in - Escape Acts / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NuAge Editions 1989

Description:

roy Canadian - black comedy - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

'Depressed elephant keeper and accident-prone woman discover connection between their tragic pasts.'

Title: Life History of the African Elephant in - Martini with a Twist / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NeWest Press 2012

Description:

roy Canadian - black comedy - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

'Depressed elephant keeper and accident-prone woman discover connection between their tragic pasts.' Title: Life Without Gretzky (A Tragedy) in - High Sticking / CCO Author: Brownell, Mark Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - hockey all male cast; one character one male one act

running time: 20 mins.

A theatrical meditation on the selling of Wayne Gretzky.

Title: Lifeguard in - Blitzkrieg and Other Plays / CCO Author: Wade, Bryan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy five characters three male; two female one act

"A surrealistic encounter between a middle-aged couple and a lifeguard on the beach."

Title: Like the Sun in - Canadian Mosaic II / CCO Author: Warkentin, Veralyn Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1996

Description:

roy drama - Irish - historical eleven characters eight male; three female (doubling possible) one act

"In 'Like the Sun' Veralyn Warkentin recreates the well-known struggles of her immigrant Irish ancestors. With respect and compassion, she describes their suffering from famine and disease that took countless lives. Fiercely proud of their endurance, the narrator notes at the end of the play that 'the descendants of the Irish in Canada number 3.5 million'." Title: Lillian's Lament in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Palmer, John Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy contemporary - drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act

An exploration of a mother/son relationship over many years.

Title: Little Bit Left, A in - A Collection of Canadian Plays: Volume 5 / CCO Author: Mercier, Serge Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1978

Description:

roy Canadian - Quebec - drama - aging - french three characters one male; one female; one male voice three parts

"...the weak echo of what could be called living...the theme of old age as developed there is probably peculiar to Quebec in its generalized symbolism of impotence and collective dispossession...He and She have no hold on reality and are carried away in a semi-dream towards a fatal ending, sleep and disappearance."

Title: Little Blood Brother in - Vittorio Rossi: Two Plays / CCO Author: Rossi, Vittorio Publisher: NuAge Editions 1988

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian all male cast; three characters three male one act

Description not available. Title: Little Dragon in - Summerworks / CCO Author: Loughran, Keira Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - identity - China - comedy six characters one male; four female (doubling) one act; twenty-three scenes

The story of Jen McDonald, a Chinese-Canadian student at Queen's University who discovers her Eastern roots. While Jen explores her previously unknown Chinese heritage, she invents a whole mythology for herself to draw strength from; she becomes convinced that she's the illegitimate daughter of Bruce Lee.

Title: Little Guy Napolean in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO Author: Pluta, Leonard Publisher: Alive Press

Description:

roy Canadian - drama five characters four male; one female one act (six scenes)

Interior (schoolhouse, farmhouse); and exterior (farmyard) sets.

"In Poland, at the end of the Second World War, Martha, a school teacher and collaborator, and her son Augustine are mentally tortured for the role they played in the execution of four boys for stealing a horse."

Title: Little One in - Little One and Other Plays / CCO Author: Moscovitch, Hannah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015

Description:

roy drama - psychological thriller - family relations two characters one male; one female one act

A chilling psychological thriller, "Little One" is the haunting story of adopted siblings Aaron and Claire - one the definition of normal, the other deeply disturbed and unpredictable - and the strange lives of their neighbours, a man and his mail-order bride. Title: Living Thing, A in - Women Write For Theatre Volume One / CCO Author: Hamer, Maimie Lustig, Helen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - drama all female cast; four characters four female one act

Mrs. Gold Can't cope with the fact her husband left her and two other women can't dispel her depression. Happily, Mrs. Gold discovers she can find joy in life again.

Title: Lizardboy in - Fronteras Vivientes / CCO Author: Gómez, Víctor Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy drama - Latina/o playwrights - Canadian large cast flexible casting one act (three scenes)

Depicts the struggles of a family coping with the fears and uncertainties of their living conditions through the eyes of Hector Fernando, a lively nine-year-old rascal known as Lizardboy for his unique ability to climb walls (as well as his inability to hold his tongue). It is an exploration of the cultural dimensions of violence encountered in everyday life in Columbia of the 1980s and a look at the erosion of social values brought about by changes in the economic, political, and social fabric of the country.

Title: Lodge, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright ten characters five male; five female one act

3 sets.

'Reunion at family's old hunting lodge is upset, as members who love the wilderness argue with those who see area as profitable and exploitable.' Title: Lola Shuffles the Cards in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO Author: Brennan, Kit Publisher: Signature Editions 2006

Description:

roy biography - Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female one act

A short version of the playwright's longer work. Other description not available.

Title: Looking for a Job in - A Collection of Canadian Plays: Volume 5 / CCO Author: Roussin, Claude Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1978

Description:

roy Canadian - Quebec - drama - french six characters three male; three female one act; six scenes

No abstract available.

Title: Lord, What Fools! in - In Character / CCO Author: Pody, David Publisher: Nelson Canada 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - shakespeare - adaptation five characters three male; two female one act; ten scenes

"In 'Lord, What Fools!' (which is based on Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream') a mischievous, Puck-like character, named Punk, magically sets the elements of the story in motion. The title of the play is a quotation from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream,' in which Puck remarks, 'Lord, what fools these mortals be.' As you will see, the characters in 'Lord, What Fools!' do indeed make fools of themselves - with some help from Punk." Title: Louis and Dave in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy all male cast; two characters two male one act

A young man confesses his true nature to his buddy while 'cruising for chicks' on a Saturday night.

Title: Love and Anger in - The East End Plays: Part 2 / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1999

Description:

roy drama - legal - women six characters three male; three female one act

1 interior set.

Drama set in Canadian city. Once successful lawyer defends poor black woman against wealthy publisher of redneck tabloid.

Title: Love and Deception in - Take Five / CCO Author: Findley, Timothy Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

roy Canadian large cast flexible casting radio play

An adaptation of three Chekov plays: Lady with Lapdog, The Kiss and The Grasshopper. Title: Love and Ladybugs in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Schroeder, Lora Kowalchuk, Tannis Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama two characters one male; one female one act

A couple, both living in their own minds, meet each other in a berry patch.

Title: Love Mouse in - A Collection of Canadian Plays, Volume 1 / CCO Author: Rosen, Sheldon Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1972

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy three characters two male; one female one act

1 interior.

"Comedy of the absurd. Man and wife are trapped in apartment which is without hot water and electricity, where the dining room is flooded, and a wolf has settled himself. Prologue."

Title: Love Song of Rotten John Calabrese, The in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO Author: Leeds, Charlie Publisher: Alive Press

Description:

roy Canadian - drama four characters three male; one female one act

No abstract available. Title: Macdonalds of Oak Valley, The in - All the Bright Company / CCO Author: Boyle, Harry Publisher: Quarry Press 1987

Description:

roy drama - farming nine characters seven male; two female radio play

"Grandfather Macdonald, working a farm inherited from his immigrant father, uses a steam-driven threshing machine and equipment powered by horses; and he drives an automobile. His resistance to tractors and to new varieties of grain seed is not simply an old man's refusal to accept new ways of doing things, but an objection to a dimly-perceived threat to a long established way of life. This is not a play which simply romanticizes rural life; nor is it strictly a play addressing intergenerational conflict. It is an even-handed consideration of the effects on

Title: Madwoman and the Fool: A Harlem Duet, The in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Sears, Djanet Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy drama - relationships four characters two male; two female one act

'This is a play about Shakespeare's Othello and his first wife, Sybil (Billie), before he married Desdemona. It is set in contemporary Harlem. The other characters include Magi, the landlady of the building where Othello and Billie live, and Canada, Billie's father.'

Title: Magic Hour, The in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Dobkin, Jess Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy drama - solo performance - Canadian - LGBTQ+ - women all female cast; one character one female one act (four parts)

The playwright engages the tipping point between life and art by asking what constitutes performance to begin with. Invoking the question of when and where things begin and end makes Dobkin's practice a balancing act between the real and the performed as she recollects and re-collates the time of her own lived experience. Title: Magic Key to Colorful Conversation, The in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Lynch, Peter Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy comedy - relationships four characters and a voice over two male; two female one act

Getting to know other people through eloquent conversation.

Title: Magnet, The in - Three Women / CCO Author: Garner, Hugh Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1974

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - romance - relationships five characters three male; two female one act

1 interior; 1 exterior.

"Farmer's widow hires carefree young virile man to work her land, and is attracted to him deeply. Eventually plans to marry are cancelled because of young woman who claims he made her pregnant."

Title: Magnet, The in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Garner, Hugh Publisher: Bastet Books 1973

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - romance - relationships five characters three male; two female one act

1 interior; 1 exterior.

"Farmer's widow hires carefree young virile man to work her land, and is attracted to him deeply. Eventually plans to marry are cancelled because of young woman who claims he made her pregnant." Title: Magpie in - Magpie; Having; Hunger Striking / COL Author: Brennan, Kit Publisher: NuAge Editions 1999

Description:

roy drama three characters two male; one female one act

"Bernice is large, middle-aged, and prone to fantasies. Her small town life is disrupted by the arrival of a gifted dance instructor. He is everything she aspires to be, and everything that her upbringing has rejected as frivolous. As a result, her fantasy world escalates into a desperate, croaking lie."

Title: Mail-Order Annie in - Seven Short Plays from Theatre Ontario / CCO Author: Cashin, Carl C. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - relationships - historical drama five characters three male; two female (some doubling possible) one act

'During the 1900's, thousands of Canada's "Lonely Hearts" hoped to find companionship, love and a future through advertisements in a national magazine. Many a prosperous young farmer used this, along with the cost of a train fare, as a vehicle to find himself a hard-working wife and companion.'

Title: Maison Rouge, La in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Beaudoin, Manon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy drama four characters; voice; extras one male; three female one act

'The story unfolds in the family home, which embodies their past lives. Rose and Rostand return to the family home after a twenty-five year absence. Their mother is dying. Blanche's spirit has come too; she drowned 25 years earlier. Rose, who stays at her mother's bedside, is desperately trying to share her secret. Rostand who never enters the house is waiting for Rose. He is struggling with the memory of Blanche's death.' Title: Making of Warriors, The in - Airborne / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

roy drama - historical - Canadian - Alberta playwright ten characters four male; six female radio play

"In this play, Pollock weaves together the lives and deaths of two activists - for women's suffrage and Native rights - through a mix of storytelling, documentary and drama that crosses centuries."

Title: Making of Warriors, The in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991

Description:

roy drama - historical - Alberta playwright - Canadian ten characters four male; six female radio play

"In this play, Pollock weaves together the lives and deaths of two activists - for women's suffrage and Native rights - through a mix of storytelling, documentary and drama that crosses centuries."

Title: Malaysia Hotel, The in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO Author: Fyffe, Laurie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy drama all female cast; three characters three female one act

In the middle of Bangkok, the rundown Malaysia is a traveller’s hotel with a long history. There, on her last night in Thailand, Kris, a Canadian English teacher, is confronted by Molyka, a young Cambodian refugee who makes a strange and seemingly impossible request. Title: Man Out of Joint in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright fourteen characters eleven male; three female six scenes

Pollock demonstrates the ways in which the political response to the September 11 disaster has taken away the rights and freedoms of Canadians.

Title: Man Out of Joint in - Canada and the Theatre of War - Vol. II / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - terrorism - Alberta playwright fourteen characters eleven male; three female six scenes

Pollock demonstrates the ways in which the political response to the September 11 disaster has taken away the rights and freedoms of Canadians.

Title: Man Was Killed, A in - Canadian Theatre Review No.14, Spring 1977 / PER Author: Cohen, Leonard Layton, Irving Publisher: Miscellaneous 1977

Description:

roy drama eight characters six male; two female one act

Description not available. Title: Man with a Bucket of Ashes in - All the Bright Company / CCO Author: Peterson, Len Publisher: Quarry Press 1987

Description:

roy drama - religious - Canadian eight characters; extras five male; three female radio play

"An existential tragedy of the loss of faith in God's love and forgiveness. The image here is of the Old Testament Lord of anger and revenge: the major archetypes are of Abraham sacrificing his son Isaac and of the life-destroying Flood. What converts the play from sheer epic fantasy to a play with which the audience cannot help but identify is its strong realistic and psychological levels. The protagonist may possibly be God's messenger of warning and punishment or he may be a homicidal maniac in a world devoid of meaning..."

Title: Man You Mus' in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Jacob, Bianca Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy drama - relationships five characters two male; three female scenes one and three of act one

'Act one, Scene One estalishes the relationship between Jean, Gloria and Kemba and gives a peep into village politics and small-place gossip. This scene also establishes the character of Jean who is a nice, good church girl and Gloria who is somewhat of a vamp. We also learn about Pernel who is apparently trying to swindle Jean - his fiancée.'

Title: Margin of the Sky, The in - A Teatro Trilogy / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press 2004

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

'In "The Margin of the Sky" an addled Canadian playwright finds himself unable to embrace the basic tenets of American popular culture in order to create a script for his soap star brother-in-law.' Title: Marina, the Blush of Life in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation v. 2 / CCO Author: Magny, Michèle translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - women - drama three characters one male; two female ten scenes

Set in Paris in 1939, 'Marina' is the story of well-loved Russian poetess Marina Tsvetaeva: her struggles during the October Revolution and against the Communist regime, her exile, her work, her loves and friendships.

Title: Masada in - Modern Jewish Plays / CCO Author: Milner, Arthur Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy monologue - Israel - history one character one male or female one act

A visiting Israeli professor delivers a stunning and disquieting lecture about the history of Israel.

Title: Masada in - Singular Voices / COL Author: Milner, Arthur Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994

Description:

roy drama - monologue - Israel - Zionism one character one male or female one act

A visiting Israeli professor delivers a stunning and disquieting lecture on the history of Israel and Zionism, and the troubles in the middle east. Title: Masque of Blackness, The in - Spectacle of Empire / CCO Author: Jonson, Ben Publisher: Talonbooks 2009

Description:

nonroy historical drama - British theatre multiple characters flexible casting one act

"The first true court masque was The Masque of Blackness which Ben Jonson and Inigo Jones presented on Twelfth Night in 1605 for James I. It was Queen Anne who introduced the masque to the Jacobean court. Elizabeth I is said to have sent one to Anne and James as a wedding gift, and it is known that Anne’s brother, the King of Denmark, had similar entertainments at his court." - The Literary Encyclopedia

Title: Matador Love in - Summerworks / CCO Author: Brebner, Morwyn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - romance two characters one male; one female one act

The blind date from hell.

Title: Mathematics in - Return of the Big Five / CCO Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974

Description:

roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act

"A play for and about objects, without characters or dialogue, in which a man who comes home from the office and a woman who has been doing housework get into bed." Title: Mathematics in - Western & Mathematics / CCO Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973

Description:

roy comedy two characters one male; one female one act

"A play for and about objects, without characters or dialogue, in which a man who comes home from the office and a woman who has been doing housework get into bed."

Title: Me'n' Alfred in - Eureka! / CCO Author: Beechy High School Drama Club Publisher: Coteau Books 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - drama twenty-one characters ten male; eleven female (doubling possible) one act

'Flashbacks punctuate the life of a homeless man who has lost his family and his job due to his drinking.'

Title: Meeting of Minds, A in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Pinkus, Phillip Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary fifteen characters flexible casting one act

A group of English Department professors attempt to sit down for a meeting. Title: Meeting, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 110, Spring 2002 / PER Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002

Description:

roy drama - Alberta playwright - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male one act

'An encounter between a writer and his editor.'

Title: Memoir in - Heroines: Three Plays / CCO Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - women - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female one act - two parts

Sarah Bernhardt's seventy-seventh and last summer.

Title: Men and Angels in - Eureka! / CCO Author: Kirk, Lynn Publisher: Coteau Books 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female one act

'Wealthy young man and cleaning woman discuss price of not following one's dreams.' Title: Merchant of Showboat in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy drama - contemporary all male cast; two characters two male one act

'A politician seeks to change the script of a play in a businessman's theatre.'

Title: Métis Mutt in - NextFest Anthology II / CCO Author: Elter, Sheldon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Metis - Native peoples one character all male cast; one male one act

"The hilarious and heartbreaking one-man show that reveals the coming of age of a young Metis actor and comedian growing up between two cultures. Earnest without losing its sense of humour, Metis Mutt is an intimate, personal tale that unravels racial issues, and embraces the choice of life."

Title: Mexico City in - The Russian Play and Other Short Works / CCO Author: Moscovitch, Hannah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy two characters one male; one female one act

A comedy about a suburban Canadian couple on holiday in Mexico City in the 1970s. They have brought everything with them from Mississauga – cameras, Hawaiian shirts, and their frustrations with each other – but the city gradually works its transformative magic on them. Title: Meyer's Room in - A Collection of Canadian Plays, Volume 1 / CCO Author: Rosen, Sheldon Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1972

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - men all male cast; three characters three male one act

1 interior.

"Mixture of horror and comedy of the absurd. Three men occupy single claustrophobic shabby room, two of whom cannot leave. Only Meyer (the 'blind' beggar) is free."

Title: Mine Sincerely (Bien à moi) in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO Author: Savard, Marie translated by Louise H. Forsyth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy monologue - Canadian - women - drama all female cast; one character one female one act

Description not available.

Title: Miss Kentucky in - Dramatics (Nov 2003) / PER Author: Williams, Allison Publisher: Miscellaneous 2003

Description:

roy family relations all female cast; two characters two female one act

A mother and daughter reconcile while the daughter is taking a smoke break from a beauty pagent. Title: Miss Orient(ed) in - Love + Relasianships vol. 2 / CCO Author: Aquino, Nina Villasin, Nadine Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy comedy - satire - Canadian - racism all female cast; five characters five female nineteen scenes

The authors explore the charged atmosphere of the Filipina Canadian Beauty pageant as three "friends", one born in the Philippines, one second-generation Filipina Canadian and one "fresh-off-the-boat", compete for the title.

Title: Mommy (Maman) in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO Author: Dussault, Louisette translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - monologues - women all female cast; seventeen characters one female (doubling) one act

On a bus, halfway between Montreal and Québec City, a "mommy" accompanied by her 3 year old twins whose exuberance is obviously disturbing the other passengers. She decides to reject her role as mother-cop. This comedy takes a scathing look at the traditional roles foisted upon mothers. All the characters, including the twin daughters and the other passengers, are played by one woman.

Title: Money Tree, The

Author: Watson, Robert Publisher: Miscellaneous 2016

Description:

roy Canadian - children - friendship - financial literacy - responsibility - bullying six characters one male; two female (doubling) seven scenes

grades K - 6.

"When Shasta’s father loses his job, she is devastated to learn that previously laid plans for her upcoming birthday party must be significantly downsized. As the story progresses, Shasta and Simon meet a mysterious Traveler who gives them a seed that will make a tree grow leaves of money. Through a truly magical journey, the two ultimately learn that being a loyal friend is worth Title: Monk, The in - Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays, The / CCO Author: Flynn, Aiden Publisher: Breakwater Books 2016

Description:

roy drama - religion - historical two characters two male one act (seven scenes)

1 interior set.

"Tells the story of an ancient Norse town in the throes of an ideological upheaval. The arrival of a Christian monk and all his crazy, new-fangled beliefs upsets the placid old-world settlers, who are perfectly content with their old gods."

Title: Monkey Business in - Four by Four by Four / CCO Author: Zylstra, Nicole Publisher: Red Deer Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - romance - Canadian - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female one act

In Zylstra’s play, paleoanthropologist Myriam and her young research assistant Horace find themselves alone in the rainforest, catching monkeys and clashing over their views on evolution, their philosophies of life and their seemingly unbridgeable age gap.

Title: Monument, The in - 7 Canons / CCO Author: Wagner, Colleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy Canadian - war - drama all male cast; two characters two male one act

"A young soldier is convicted of war crimes. Stetko is the boy next door who comes from respectable parents and has gotten caught up in the political events of a war he never understood. Like the good son, the good soldier, he obeys his superiors only to find that, at the conclusion of war, he has become the scapegoat for crimes 'everyone was doing'. He is 'rescued' by a woman from the enemy side. 'The Monument' examines the paradox of a soldier today, and the ambiguities of morality and justice." Title: Monument, The in - Canada and the Theatre of War - Vol. II / CCO Author: Wagner, Colleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - war - drama all male cast; two characters two male one act

"A young soldier is convicted of war crimes. Stetko is the boy next door who comes from respectable parents and has gotten caught up in the political events of a war he never understood. Like the good son, the good soldier, he obeys his superiors only to find that, at the conclusion of war, he has become the scapegoat for crimes "everyone was doing." He is "rescued" by a woman from the enemy side. 'The Monument' examines the paradox of a soldier today, and the ambiguities of morality and justice."

Title: Moon People in - Six Canadian Plays / CCO Author: Ravel, Aviva Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1971

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - relationships - adoption - women all female cast; two characters two female one act

"An adopted teenager confronts her birth mother and through their mutual regret, pain, anger and love, the two women reach an understanding of one another."

Title: Moonlodge in - Singular Voices / COL Author: Kane, Margo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994

Description:

roy drama - monologues - Native peoples - women all female cast one character one act

As a child, Agnes, a Native girl, was snatched from her home and family by the government and brought up in white foster homes. This is her story of separation and repatriation with her people, her culture, and spirituality - her quest for her identity. Title: More Than Feathers and Beads in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Borst, Murielle Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - Native peoples - drama - Native playwright all female cast; four characters one female (doubling) eight scenes

'More than Feather and Beads' is Murielle Borst's semi-autobiographical one-woman show which examines contemporary issues of identity for Native American women. Borst is a champion shawl dancer and wrote this theatrical comedy about her experiences competing in pow-wows across the country. As the title implies she finds there's more than feathers and beads to the pow-wow scene.

Title: More Things in Heaven in - One-Act Plays From Canadian History / CCO Author: Hooke, Hilda Mary Publisher: Longmans Canada 1962

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - historical seven characters four male; three female one act

"Innumerable stories are told by Long Point residents about Doctor Troyer; his skill with witches, his dealings in magic, the great age to which he lived. This tale of the hawk is vouched for by several authorities. Whatever percentage of truth there may be in these stories, it is certain that the Doctor was a remarkable man and highly thought of by all who knew him."

Title: Motel Hélène in - Tonight at the Tarragon / CCO Author: Boucher, Serge Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011

Description:

roy drama three characters two male; one female thirty scenes

Judith Thompson's adaptation of Serge Boucher's work. From a translation by Morwyn Brebner. "Motel Hélène" traces the relationship between a troubled young man, clerking at his father's depanneur in a small town outside Montreal and the troubled woman who occupies the apartment across the hall. Title: Mother Is Watching in - All the Bright Company / CCO Author: Joudry, Patricia Publisher: Quarry Press 1987

Description:

roy drama - war - women - canadian ten characters; extras four male; six female radio play

"'Mother Is Watching' spoke with bitterness and hope to the many young women trapped in the post-war suburbs which had sprung up in the outskirts of Canada's metropolitan centres. It was in these new middle-class communities that the struggle between consumerism and culture and between individualism and community expressed itself. The play is at once a commentary on the contradictory values of the new life styles on women, effects which sowed the seeds for the feminist movement of the last two decades."

Title: Mother Tongue in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Quan, Betty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relations four characters two male; two female one act

"Weaves together Cantonese, English, and American Sign Language. About family loyalties, youthful dreams, and generational and cultural differences."

Nominated for the 1996 Governor General's Award for Drama

Title: Mother Tongue in - Love + Relasianships / CCO Author: Quan, Betty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relations four characters two male; two female twelve scenes

"Weaves together Cantonese, English, and American Sign Language. About family loyalties, youthful dreams, and generational and cultural differences."

Nominated for the 1996 Governor General's Award for Drama. Title: Motherhouse, The in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Lagrandeur, Tamara Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

Description:

roy comedy - seniors - religious - Canadian all female cast; one character one female one act

" 'The Motherhouse' recounts the scheming of Sister Constance McMullen after she learns about the inevitable eviction of the last nuns from the Grey Nuns Motherhouse building." - thelinknewspaper.ca

Title: Mothers of Invention, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Laxdal, Vivienne Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary all female cast; three characters three female one act

Three nurses of the future, with no one left to nurse, try to take control of their situation.

Title: Motifs and Repetitions in - Motifs & Repetitions & Other Plays / CCO Author: Gatchalian, C. E. Publisher: The Writer's Collective 2003

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - love three characters two male; one female one act

A racy, comical, and ultimately shattering portrait of young love. Title: Moving Along in - Public Speaking and Other Plays / CCO Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: NeWest Press 2014

Description:

roy solo performance - comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male (doubling) one act

Craddock ricochets wildly through the story of his own life — through childhood traumas, adolescent tragedies, adult triumphs, and frequent philosophical tangents.

Title: Moving Pictures in - Sharon Pollock: Three Plays / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy biography - Nell Shipman - Alberta playwright nine characters three male; two female (doubling) one act

'This play is a theatrical tracing of the life of Nell Shipman, who as an actress sang, danced and hummed her way across North America in the early 1900's... "Moving Pictures" explores the meaning of story-telling in our lives, and the artists addiction to creation whatever the cost.'

Title: Moving Pictures in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works, v. 3 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy biography - Nell Shipman - Alberta playwright nine characters three male; two female (doubling) one act

'This play is a theatrical tracing of the life of Nell Shipman, who as an actress sang, danced and hummed her way across North America in the early 1900's... "Moving Pictures" explores the meaning of story-telling in our lives, and the artists addiction to creation whatever the cost.' Title: Mr. Arcularis in - All the Bright Company / CCO Author: Noxon, Gerald Publisher: Quarry Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - drama ten characters; extras seven male; three female radio play

A man on the operating table comes to terms with the great tragedy of his life and meeting his own death.

Title: Mr. Fix It in - Palliser Suite / CCO Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Frontenac House 2014

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - marriage two characters one male; one female one act

part 1 of a trilogy of plays called "Palliser Suite"; can be produced as a one act or in conjunction with the other two, "Second Chance, First Love" and "Funeral Fore!".

Mel awakes in his hotel room to find out he isn’t divorced to his ex-wife after all. He has made such a mess of his marriage. Can he fix it now that he has been given a second chance?

Title: Mrs. Ferguson's Bed in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Melnyk, Sherryl Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - seniors - marriage - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female one act

At 73 years old, Violet is finally ready to speak up for herself and say goodbye to her husband. Title: Ms Canada in - The Burning of the Cruise: Three one act plays / CCO Author: Williamson, Hector Publisher: Hillhurst Press 2005

Description:

roy comedy - identity three characters one male; two female one act

In the tradition of the Theatre of the Absurd. A play about schizophrenic Peggy, as Ms. Canada, who is confused about who she really is in our modern world.

Title: Ms. Canadian Reality in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2016) / PER Author: Bowen, Leah Simone Publisher: Miscellaneous 2016

Description:

roy dark comedy - women - satire - social issues - Alberta playwright six characters one male; five female one act

Ms. Canadian Reality - the only pageant that the contestants win simply by staying alive. Watch as Ms. Single Mother, Ms. Temporary Foreign Worker, Ms. First Nations, Ms. Invisible, and Ms. Young and Pretty play to win Ms. Canadian Reality.

Title: Murder Pattern in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 3 / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: CTR Publications 1980

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - murder twenty characters flexible casting one act

"Mr. Voaden has told his story (the grim record of an actual crime in the North Country) in the 'way that takes most doing'. We witness the killing, the hunt for the body, the growing suspicion, the murderer's remorse and confession, the trial, the unexpected sentence, the prison cell, the intervention of executive clemency, the long sickness, the release, the passing, but all in briefest flashes, while the living web of orchestral harmony sweeps us along in a kind of aesthetic ecstasy in which the sensuous appeals of many arts are fused and blended in a higher unity." Title: Murder Pattern in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - murder twenty characters flexible casting one act

"Mr. Voaden has told his story (the grim record of an actual crime in the North Country) in the 'way that takes most doing'. We witness the killing, the hunt for the body, the growing suspicion, the murderer's remorse and confession, the trial, the unexpected sentence, the prison cell, the intervention of executive clemency, the long sickness, the release, the passing, but all in briefest flashes, while the living web of orchestral harmony sweeps us along in a kind of aesthetic ecstasy in which the sensuous appeals of many arts are fused and blended in a higher unity."

Title: My Beatles in - Canadian Theatre Review No.20, Fall 1978 / PER Author: Makoto, Sato Publisher: Miscellaneous 1978

Description:

roy comedy seven characters six male; one female one act

Description not available.

Title: My Husband's an Angel in - Angels & Anger / CCO Author: Couturier, Gracia translated by Glen Nichols Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy comedy - monologue - men all male cast; one character one male one act

'The ironic underpinning of (the play) is evident from the first appearance of Tarzan Mazerole, middle aged and bearded, "dressed in his wedding suit, shakily playing the wedding march on a harmonica" and showing the unmistakeable silhouette of advanced pregnancy! Tarzan, who is described as "your average guy", explains why he let himself get pregnant, in vitro, in order to let his opera star wife, Jane, pursue her singing career. . . The result is a lighthearted, ironic look at what motherhood is all about, what being a parent is all about.' Title: My Morocco in - Harvest and Other Plays / CCO Author: Cameron, Ken Publisher: NeWest Press 2010

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - family relations - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male one act

Ken was in Morocco for a week when he called home to let his parents know he was safe. They were at the funeral home. His sister had died unexpectedly. The thing is . . . Ken and his estranged sister had not spoken in two years.

Title: My Mother Dog in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Bombardier, Louise translated by Leanne Brodie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy drama - death - family relations - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian nine characters three male; six female one act (forty-two scenes)

Original title: Ma mére chien.

Dramatizes the final thirty-six hours in the life of a seventy-year-old woman who is dying of cancer. Her oldest daughter, an aspiring novelist, is with her throughout this time. Despite her pain and difficulty in breathing, the mother is determined to hang on until the arrival from Mexico of her other daughter, an aspiring actor.

Title: My Narrator in - One-Actmanship / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - romance four characters two male; two female one act

Imagine what would happen if that little voice inside your head – the one that tells you how to behave and what choices to make – suddenly took on a life of its own? For Lacy and Miles, love is what happens, and with hilarious results. Title: My Narrator in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - romance four characters two male; two female one act

Imagine what would happen if that little voice inside your head – the one that tells you how to behave and what choices to make – suddenly took on a life of its own? For Lacy and Miles, love is what happens, and with hilarious results.

Title: My One and Only in - Harvest and Other Plays / CCO Author: Cameron, Ken Publisher: NeWest Press 2010

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters two male; two female (doubling) one act

running time: 90 minutes.

Marilyn Monroe comes to Banff in 1953 to shoot a movie and has an affair with Scout, a fifteen-year-old boy; meanwhile in 1962, Scout has been stopped by the side of the road and is clearly hiding something. Fall in love with the Rockies and Marilyn Monroe!

Title: My Own Private Oshawa in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 100, Fall 1999 / PER Author: Wilson, Jonathan Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999

Description:

roy LGBTQ+ - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act

'On a GO train from Toronto to Oshawa, a young man returns to memories of growing up gay and the liberation of his friendship with the Flamboyant Gordon. First produced at the Toronto Fringe Festival.' Title: My Three Dads in - Stars in the Sky Morning / CCO Author: Taylor, John Publisher: Killick Press 1992

Description:

roy drama - relationships - monologues - men - Newfoundland all male cast; one character one male one act

'The play presents the autobiographical account by the son of Newfoundland-American parents of his journey to discover his estranged father who lives in the United States.'

Title: My Town in - Studio One / CCO Author: Kerr, Don Publisher: Coteau Books 1990

Description:

roy drama - monologues, men all male cast; two characters two male radio play

A man describes the town he knows so well.

Title: Naked West in - Dreams of a Drunken Quaker / CCO Author: Green, Michael Publisher: AB collector publishing 1992

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - men all male cast; eight characters four male (doubling) one act

dancing.

Absurdist exploration of masculinity. Title: Nanay (Mother): A Testimonial Play in - Once More, With Feeling / CCO Author: Pratt, Geraldine Johnston, Caleb Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - immigrants large cast flexible casting one act

The play draws on research that Pratt has done over the last 15 years on Canada’s Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) in collaboration with the Philippine Women Center of BC (PWC of BC). It takes conventional research materials and turns them into a performance installation, with the objective of bringing academic research to a wider public in an immediate, engaging way. It is designed to get people to care and think more deeply about the LCP, and to initiate a public conversation about the massive expansion in this program over the last decade, and of temporary

Title: Napolean of the Nile in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Seremba, George Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy drama - Canadian three characters one male; one female; one boy one act

'The story of three individuals who are part of an exodus from the Sudan; Napolean, a boy of 13 who leaves his family and home town and joins up with Mama Aleur, a woman of great resources, and Old Man, whose wisdom and knowledge help them through their journey. Napolean eventually promises Old Man that he will tell the story of their crossing of the Nile.'

Title: Nazi\Jew\Queer in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO Author: Achtman, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - LGBTQ+ - monologues all male cast; three characters three male (doubling possible) one act

Told in three monologues - a gay man, a neo-Nazi and a Jew tell their stories. Title: Neils Bohr's Pre-amble to a Dramaturgical Theory in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 92, Fall 1997 / PER Author: Brask, Per Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997

Description:

roy monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act

'Per Brask's solo closet drama, a posthumous monologue by physicist Neils Bohr about "the whole quantum thing".'

Title: Nellie Bly: Ten Days In A Madhouse in - Adventures for (Big) Girls: Seven Radio Plays / CCO Author: Cooper, Beverley Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama eleven characters five male; six female radio play

"A tale of an independent woman who went against the system and won".

Title: New Art Book in - Canadian Theatre Review No.91, Summer 1997 / PER Author: Garnhum, Ken Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997

Description:

roy monologue one character flexible casting one act

'A picture monologue.' Title: New Voices Woman in - Stories from the Bush / CCO Author: Lewis, Larry E. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - Native peoples twenty characters flexible casting one act

In "New Voices Woman" the protagonist is nameless until she overcomes fears and dangers, earns her medicine pouch, and finds her song. "New Voices Woman" both expresses self-knowledge and because she is androgynous, points towards the renewal of tradition. Music has great power in this story, speaking to deep desires, as does love; both must be valued. The real and powerful perils of greed, on the other hand, must be overcome, and life protected. The spectacle of ugliness depicted and of figures changing forms provide vivid theatre.

Title: Night in - CTR Vol. 148 / PER Author: Morris, Christopher Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy drama - Inuktitut five characters two male; three female one act

Tells the story of a Torontonian museum worker who at the request of an individual in a Northern community has taken it upon herself to return something of value to that community. Her effort is an attempt to reconcile a historical crime, but her naivety results in a series of culture shocks.

Title: Night (L'Homme gris) in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO Author: Laberge, Marie translated by Rina Fraticelli Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - family relations two characters one male; one female one act

This is a play about a tragic night in a garish motel room. It portrays an impossible dialogue between a father who says too much, too loudly and too late, and an anorexic daughter who takes refuge in silence. Title: No Here Comes Ulrike Meinhof in - Adventures for (Big) Girls: Seven Radio Plays / CCO Author: Rubess, Banuta Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama fifteen characters nine male; six female radio play

"Having witnessed the lies and repression of the Nazi Reich as a child, she suspected the politicians of the 1960s of leading Germany right back into that nightmare."

Title: No Man's Land in - Canadian Mosaic / CCO Author: Varma, Rahul Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1995

Description:

roy drama - immigrants eight characters five male; three female one act

"They left East India for a better life for their daughter, but Qaiser and Jeena are cheated and exploited by employers and landlords; they sacrifice everything, including Jeena's health."

Title: No Means No! in - Eureka! / YCL Author: Frost, Richard Olson, Greg Publisher: Coteau Books 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - drama eleven characters; extras seven male; four female one act - nine scenes

'Drama examines the effect of date rape on teenagers.' Title: No More Medea in - Flowers and No More Medea / CCO Author: Porter, Deborah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - women all female cast; two characters two female one act

"Medea meets the Virgin Mary in the afterlife - they embark on a stormy friendship and a whirlwind tour of life on Earth as it exists for women now. The shopping is better, but has anything else changed in 5,000 years?"

Title: No, Please- in - NextFest Anthology / CCO Author: Callaghan, Sean Publisher: NeWest Press 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female one act

"...'So I wrote a play about a society or environment where the people have stretched so far away from any kind of self recognition that they have inverted and become cannibalistic. What happens when one of them breaks out of the shell to see herself?' For this he has created a rigidly regimented futuristic world where the retro '50's characters begin to crack under the strain of the imposed conformity of an "antiseptic" authoritarian society (as in George Orwell's '1984'). Facades crumble as husband, wife, and lover each give way to some degree of human passion, uncovering

Title: NO' XYA (Our Footprints) in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Diamond, David Blackwater, Hall et al. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy Canadian - Political - Native peoples fourteen characters; extras ten male; four female (doubling possible) one act

A play about ancestral land. 'A collaboration between Headlines Theatre, a western theatre company, the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs and many individuals in the area surrounding Hazelyon, BC. It is an understanding between cultures and philosophies.' Title: No' Xya' (Footprints) in - New Canadian Drama 5 / CCO Author: Diamond, David Publisher: Borealis Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - Political - Native peoples - drama fourteen characters; extras ten male; four female (doubling possible) one act

A Play About Ancestral Land

'A collaboration between Headlines Theatre, a western theatre company, the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs and many individuals in the area surrounding Hazelyon, BC. It is an understanding between cultures and philosophies.'

Title: Noble Savage, Savage Noble in - The West of All Possible Worlds / CCO Author: Amstrong, Bob Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004

Description:

roy comedy all male cast; three characters three male thirteen scenes

Voltaire, Rousseau and a trapper named Pierre le Breton are plunked into the Canadian western wilderness of 1757.

Title: Nobody of Consequence in - Martini with a Twist / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NeWest Press 2012

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female one act

A severed head in a suitcase life support system is given a second chance at life.

Winner! Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama, 1992. Title: Nobody Waltzes Carrying a Thirty-pound Underwood in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: O'Neil, Deborah Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy Canadian two characters one male; one female one act

The owner of a second-hand store ingeniously sets a dinner date with an irate customer.

Title: Nor the Cavaliers Who Come with Us in - CTR No.135 / PER Author: Cox-O'Connell, Frank Tellez, Marc Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy drama - Canadian four characters three male; one female one act

A present day visitor to Mexico and Cortez conquest.

Title: Northern Song in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama all male cast; three characters three male three scenes

'The play dramatizes discussions that the Group of Seven may have had together which led to their painting expeditions on the North Shore of Lake Superior. Title: Northern Storm in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama four characters three male; one female three scenes

A school teacher, on the eve of her departure, makes comments to the father of one of her students with disasterous results.

Title: Not To Hong Kong in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO Author: Bullock, Michael Publisher: Alive Press

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy three characters two male; one female one act

Interior representative set; exterior rep set.

"Bella and Mendel discuss the ownership of a coat, help their son read a book that hasn't been written, and discuss the swimming abilities of their invisible dog."

Title: Now Look What You Made Me Do in - Prerogatives / CCO Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy drama - domestic violence eight characters two male; six female one act

'Now Look What You Made Me Do' poetically suggests the responses of women to their sexuality within the context of domestic violence. Title: Now We are Brody in - The Mill / CCO Author: MacFadzean, Matthew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011

Description:

roy drama six characters three male; two female; one voice one act

It’s 1854 at the start of Now We Are Brody. The mill is boarded up as the townsfolk attempt to bury a dark shame from their past, but the arrival of a young woman with the deed to the mill threatens to unearth its secret.

Part 1 of "The Mill" roy

Title: O.D.! in - Cues and Entrances / CCO Author: Wiseman, Janice Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama nine characters flexible casting one act

The play is the grown-up rememberances of a latch-key, single parent kid who thought no one loved her.

Title: Objects in the Mirror are Stranger Than They Appear in - Scraping the Surface / CCO Author: Albert, Lyle Victor Publisher: NeWest Press 2000

Description:

roy comedy - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act

This play sees "Vic" jamming all of his earthly possessions in the back of his 1996 Honda Civic and setting off on a perilous 1000-mile journey through the Rocky Mountains, in search of a new life in Vancouver, BC. He may not know where he's going, but he sure knows what he's leaving behind. Title: Oblivion: A Story of Isabelle Eberhardt in - Adventures for (Big) Girls: Seven Radio Plays / CCO Author: Rubess, Banuta Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama thirteen characters nine male; four female radio play

"Life as a series of exotic adventures and misadventures, Isabelle Eberhardt spent much of her life travelling the Sahara on horseback dressed as a man, and worked as a journalist and a writer of short stories."

Title: Occupation of Heather Rose, The in - Modern Canadian Plays, Volume II third edition / CCO Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1994

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples all female cast; one character one female one act

'Nurse Rose goes north to work on an Indian reserve. Her adventure turns to a painful exploration of her own fragile cultural identity.'

Title: Occupation of Heather Rose, The in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples all female cast; one character one female one act

'Nurse Rose goes north to work on an Indian reserve. Her adventure turns to a painful exploration of her own fragile cultural identity.' Title: Ocean (L'Océan), The in - Anthology of Quebec Women's Plays in English Translation / CCO Author: Blais, Marie-Claire translated by Ray Chamberlain Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - family relationships - Canadian eleven characters three male; four female; two boys; two girls one act

A famous writer has died. His three children are reunited in their father’s house near the sea. François, the father’s favourite, defends the writer’s spiritual and material legacy, contested by Simon and Maria. Flashbacks reveal quarrels not easily forgotten.

Title: Oculist's Holiday, The in - Witness to a Conga and Other Plays / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press

Description:

roy comedy - romance - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female one act

In a pleasant alpine setting, a diverse group of travelers are linked by a shared experience which will haunt them forever after. Set in Switzerland in the early 1930’s, The Oculist’s Holiday is a sort of evocation of the style of F. S. Scott Fitzgerald’s short stories of North Americans abroad in Europe. The story revolves around a widowed Canadian teacher on holiday in Lausanne, whose encounter with an emotionally volatile tourist couple has a catastrophic effect on her burgeoning romance with an American optometrist.

Title: Off the 401 in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 89, Winter 1996 / PER Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Miscellaneous 1996

Description:

roy drama two characters one male; one female one scene

'Judith Thompson's scene from Stolen Lands, Ground Zero's 1995 multi-authored play on the legacy of 500 years of occupation and resistance.' Title: Offensive Shadows in - 5 Hot plays / CCO Author: Dunn, Paul Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy four characters two male; two female one act

What happens when the two sleeping couples in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' wake up?

Winner, Audience Choice Award, SummerWorks 2007.

Title: Ogre in - Talking Bodies / CCO Author: Tremblay, Larry translated by Sheila Fischman Publisher: Talonbooks 2001

Description:

roy satire - monologue - men all male cast; one character one male one act

In this biting media satire; a thoroughly odious character's actions become ever more disgusting as he begins to believe a hidden camera is recording his every move.

Title: Oh Nest Honest Insanity in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Posno, Helen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy sketches two characters flexible casting one act

'Phase One' and 'Face Two' describe their thoughts about their encounter. Title: Oh, Baby: Pochsy's Adventures by the Sea in - The Pochsy Plays / CCO Author: Hines, Karen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004

Description:

roy monologues - women - satire all female cast; one character one female one act

'Pochsy is at the Last Resort, on holiday from her job packing mercury.'

Title: On the Dock of the Bay in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: McBurney, Phil Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy drama - Canadian all male cast; four characters four male one act

Three fishing buddies at a cabin, fishing.

Title: On the King's Birthday in - One-Act Plays From Canadian History / CCO Author: Hooke, Hilda Mary Publisher: Longmans Canada 1962

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - historical ten characters five male; five female one act

"Thomas Talbot, who performed a colossal task in the opening up and colonizing of a great portion of western Ontario, lived a romantic and colourful life. Lifelong friend of Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, Talbot came of a fine old Irish family, and before his first journey to Canada was aide to the Marquess of Buckingham in Dublin. Two romances are credited to Talbot, one with Susanne Johnson, daughter of Molly Brant of the famous Johnson-Brant family, and one of with Amelia, youngest daughter of George the Third of England." Title: Once Upon a Greek Stage in - In Character / CCO Author: McMaster, Beth Publisher: Nelson Canada 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - tragedy seven characters; chorus; audience flexible casting one act

"The classical idea of tragedy - that an important person's downfall is due to some character weakness or flaw - comes to us from the ancient Greeks. This is an adaptation of the tragedy 'Antigone' by Sophocles, written nearly 2500 years ago. As you will see, the stagecraft of Greek plays is very different from modern drama. In place of complicated sets and lighting, we have only the words of the Chorus to create the setting. The Chorus, either a single actor or a group, serves as narrator and commentator. It tells us what kind of story we will see (tragedy or comedy), when

Title: Once Upon a Greek Stage in - Cues and Entrances / CCO Author: McMaster, Beth Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1993

Description:

roy drama - family relationships - young adult four characters; chorus two male; two female one act

Based on "Antigone". '(The play) is about conflict: conflict between generations - children against their elders, both firm in the points of view, both sure of the justification of their arguments. It's about duty: how far should duty push us? It's about loyalties: where do they belong? with family? with country? And it also concerns classical tragedy: how a character flaw or weakness can cause the downfall of an important person. The play doesn't answer all these questions but it does reassure us that these problems are universal and timeless.'

Title: Once Upon an Island in - Take Five / CCO Author: Keens-Douglas, Richardo Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

roy folklore - Grenada - storytelling - monologue all male cast; one character one male radio play

The telling of four folk tales from the Island of Grenada. Title: One Beautiful Evening in - Five from the Fringe / CCO Author: Small Change Theatre Publisher: NeWest Press 1986

Description:

roy Canadian - Edmonton Fringe Festival five characters three male; two female one act

No abstract available.

Title: One Man's House in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Christmas - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act

1 set.

'Polish family in Canada cannot understand father's involvement in labour politics, which threatens his job.'

Title: One Ocean in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Quan, Betty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy drama - family relations three characters one male; two female radio play

'Using the Chinese myth of the Jingwei bird, a daughter tries to bridge the emotional gulf with her father in this memory play about the ideas of immigration and subsequent separation of families.' Title: One Spring Morning in - One Spring Morning and Elevator / CCO Author: Stewart, Cherie Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1973

Description:

roy drama four characters two male; two female one act

An old man and woman's experiences at a bus stop.

Title: One Word in - Canadian Theatre Review No.91, Summer 1997 / PER Author: Garnhum, Ken Publisher: Miscellaneous 1997

Description:

roy drama all male cast; two characters two male one act

' "Chairman" and "Walkman" are caught in a maze - trying to get from "a to b". They are in conflict about how to proceed. As the action progresses this conflict increasingly takes on the quality of one person arguing with himself. "Chairman" and "Walkman" are, in fact, two aspects of the same person.'

Title: One's a Heifer in - Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media / CCO Author: Ross, Sinclair Dorn, Rudi Publisher: Methuen 1973

Description:

roy Canadian - men all male cast; three characters three male television play

"Sinclair Ross has chosen the persona of a young boy to tell his story. By presenting us with a view of the adult world as seen through the eyes of a young person, the author is able to utilize an ambiguity in which the reader is never certain whether what the child sees is a true reflection of reality or the child's subjective version of that reality. In 'One's a Heifer' this ambiguity gives the story an almost surrealistic atmosphere in which images of broken machinery and dead calves hint at a psychological landscape of terror and madness." Title: Open Doors in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 3 / CCO Author: Kerr, Lois Reynolds Publisher: CTR Publications 1980

Description:

roy Canadian - drama eight characters six male; two female one act

"...reaches a high note of human interest, depicting the suffering of the unemployed labourer which reaches the breaking point with the importation of 120 foreigners willing to work on non-union wages. The kindness of the capitalist's daughter, the poetry of life to which the labourer's sick wife still clings, the justice and injustice of the situation are the threads of a story which has a rather unusual climax."

Title: Operators in - Operators and Bushed / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981

Description:

roy drama - women - relationships all female cast; three characters three female one act

"Three women are working a northern nightshift. The probing of the youngest leads to disturbing revelations about the fears and dependencies of the older two."

Title: Operators in - West Coast Plays / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: New Play Centre with Fineglow Plays 1975

Description:

roy drama - women - relationships - British Columbia all female cast; three characters three female one act

"Three women are working a northern nightshift. The probing of the youngest leads to disturbing revelations about the fears and dependencies of the older two." Title: Optimists, The in - Tonight at the Tarragon / CCO Author: Brebner, Morwyn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011

Description:

roy comedy - romance - relationships four characters two male; two female one act

"A weekend in Vegas. The chance for hopes and dreams to come true provides the backdrop for Morwyn Brebner’s humorous look at love. It’s the night before the chapel wedding and the promise of “happily ever after”. Old friends confront their regrets, lies, betrayals and disappointments. Will hope be the elusive wild card?"

Finalist for the 2006 Governor General’s Award

Title: Organic Divide in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Fulford, Robin Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy drama - marital relations - LGBTQ+ two characters one male; one female one act

Woman in her perfect world discovers her husband is gay.

Title: Other People's Children in - Little One and Other Plays / CCO Author: Moscovitch, Hannah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015

Description:

roy drama - relationships - marriage - social class⌦three characters one male; two female one act (ten scenes)

A wealthy young power couple Ben and Ilana hire Sati, a live-in nanny, to care for their baby daughter, but Sati ends up being more than a caretaker, exposing the fragility of Ben and Ilana's marriage. Is she filling the holes in their relationship, or widening cracks that will shatter their family? Title: Other World of David Wiseman, The in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Noble, Dennis Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama five characters two male; one female (doubling) one act

A young man who is subjected to his parents faulty attempts to raise him in neutral religious territory, imagines that his two grandfathers, one Jewish and one Italian Catholic, agree to a contract on his father's life.

Title: Our Eliza in - The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays v. 2 / CCO Author: Coles, Megan Publisher: Breakwater Books 2014

Description:

roy Canadian - dark comedy - Newfoundland - family relations three characters two male; one female one act

The play, by Megan Coles, is the story of Eliza, who could be one of any number of women in rural Newfoundland, at a time when traditional ways of life are dying and a hard life is becoming even harder. - The Chronicle Herald

Title: Our Father in - Summerworks / CCO Author: Brebner, Morwyn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - family relations four characters one male; one female (doubling) one act

Siblings journey to the dying father who abandoned them. Title: Out for Blood in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 86, Spring 1996 / PER Author: Clichettes, The Publisher: Miscellaneous 1996

Description:

roy comedy - women twenty characters one male; three female (doubling) one act

"A psychedelic romp through women's rage."

Title: Out of Body in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Cooper, Beverley Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy Canadian all female cast; two characters two female one act

A woman who has developed out of body experiences, confronts her friend about her friends affair with her husband.

Title: Over in - Inoculations / CCO Author: O'Donnell, Darren Publisher: Coach House Press 2001

Description:

roy Canadian - drama two characters one male; one female one act

The paranormal in ordinary lives. Title: Overlaid in - At My Heart's Core & Overlaid / CCO Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1966

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

1 interior set.

"This comedy is concerned with 'intellectual and cultural starvation'. Pop, an 'op'ry' buff, unexpectedly receives a large amount of money and he decides to live extravagantly in New York. His daughter considers this selfish and he gives her the money to buy a gigantic tombstone for the family plot."

Title: Overlaid in - Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media / CCO Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: Methuen 1973

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

1 interior set.

"This comedy is concerned with "intellectual and cultural starvation". Pop, an opera buff, unexpectedly receives a large amount of money, and he decides to live extravagantly in New York. His daughter considers this selfish and he gives her the money to buy a gigantic tombstone for the family plot."

Title: Overlaid in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

1 interior set.

"This comedy is concerned with 'intellectual and cultural starvation'. Pop, an op'ry' buff, unexpectedly receives a large amount of money and he decides to live extravagantly in New York. His daughter considers this selfish and he gives her the money to buy a gigantic tombstone for the family plot." Title: Pacific Coast Tragedy, A in - Plays of the Pacific Coast / CCO Author: Fairbairn, A. M. D. Publisher: Samuel French 1935

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - tragedy - Native peoples five characters three male; two female one act

"Ernest Hopwood has been ministering to the spiritual needs of the Indians in a native coastal village for twenty-six years. As a young man he married an Indian girl. Disillusionment followed. His two older daughters married badly; his only son is serving time in jail and his Indian wife has reverted to the primitive life. Unknown to her father, his youngest daughter, Mary, is also in trouble. Ernest's older brother is dying in England and sends out his solicitor to induce Ernest to come home. Ernest is explaining the utter impossibility of this when he learns of Mary's trouble..."

Title: Pact in - Breakout / CCO Author: Ferber, David Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004

Description:

roy dark comedy - teenagers - suicide five characters two male; three female one act

'"Pact" looks at teenage suicide with a darkly hilarious, disturbing and ultimately hopeful effect.'

Title: Palace of the End in - Canada and the Theatre of War - Vol. II / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - war - drama three characters one male; two female three parts

Based around the lives of three distinct characters-a young soldier imprisoned for her misconduct at a prison camp in Iraq, a microbiologist-cum-weapons inspector who exposes the false justifications for war and a mother/political opponent of Saddam Hussein-Palace of the End detail the reality of the war in Iraq from three unique perspectives.

Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 2008 Title: Panel, the in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Liitoja, Hillar DNA Theatre Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy comedy large cast flexible casting one act

Parody of a game show.

Title: Paper SERIES in - Love + Relasianships vol. 2 / CCO Author: Yee, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy drama - Canadian six characters three male; three female six parts

six scenes that are related, but not a series.

"Paper Series is a collection of six short pieces using paper as a linking device. One revolves around the writing of a Dear John letter, another concerns tampering with fortune-cookie fortunes, a third skit uses paper dolls to tell a foster child’s story, and so on. It’s a clever means for Yee to showcase his own diversity as a young playwright, jumping from crime thriller to

Title: Paper Wheat in - In Character / CCO Author: Twenty-Fifth Street House Theatre Publisher: Nelson Canada 1992

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - historical - ethnic - immigration five characters three male; two female excerpts from act one

A collective creation about the sod-busting immigrants to the Prairies and the Saskatchewan Co-operative Movement that followed, drawn from discussions and interviews with the pioneers themselves. Title: Papier in - Canadian Theatre Review vol. 143 (Summer 2010) / PER Author: Le Collectif Moncton-Sable Publisher: Miscellaneous 2010

Description:

roy drama - experimental theatre - Canadian large cast flexible casting one act

Over many months LE COLLECTIF MONCTON-SABLE tore, ripped, shredded, taped, folded, crinkled, wrapped, licked, ate, cut, and handled paper like never before. What emerged from this is a playful and provocative piece of theatre—and a general ambiance of productive anarchy.

Title: Parents' Day in - Canadian One Act Plays For Women / CCO Author: Hurley, Joan Mason Publisher: A Room of One's Own Press 1975

Description:

roy Canadian - women all female cast; five characters; five female one act

1 interior.

"Set in a private girls' boarding school, with conflicts between teachers of older strict standards and modern teachers with laxity in both discipline and scholarship."

Title: Park, The in - Eureka! / CCO Author: Ursell, George Publisher: Coteau Books 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - drama eleven characters; extras flexible casting one act

'Apartment dweller resists eviction and leads movement to preserve local park.' Title: Pasque Flower in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 2 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: CTR Publications 1979

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - farming - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

"Besides its own considerable literary and dramatic merits, 'Pasque Flower' is of interest for its close thematic proximity to Gwen Pharis Ringwood's best known works, 'Still Stands the House' and 'Dark Harvest'. For the three plays were not only written and produced in chronological order; their depiction of the relationship between a struggling wheat farmer and his younger wife also progresses and develops from play to play. All three dramas are placed in a prairie depression setting."

Title: Pasque Flower in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - farming - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

'Set in Alberta farmhouse. Small gesture from woman's husband pulls her out of depression and anger.'

Title: Passacaglia in - Canadian One Act Plays For Women / CCO Author: Hurley, Joan Mason Publisher: A Room of One's Own Press 1975

Description:

roy Canadian - tragedy - women - seniors all female cast; six characters six female one act

1 interior.

"Tragedy of the lonely elderly living in old age home, especially one mean lady who deliberately punctures the ego-protecting illusions of the others." Title: Path With no Moccasins in - Canadian Mosaic / CCO Author: Cheechoo, Shirley Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1995

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - women - self realizations - Native peoples all female cast; one character one female one act

"A young Cree girl endures life at a residential school, and later heals herself. The play raises issues of identity, discrimination, and self-destruction, but ends positively."

Title: Path With no Moccasins in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Cheechoo, Shirley Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - women - self-realizations - Native peoples all female cast; one character one female one act

"A young Cree girl endures life at a residential school, and later heals herself. The play raises issues of identity, discrimination, and self-destruction, but ends positively."

Title: Peace Replaced, A in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 26th Series / COL Author: Maloney, Brian Publisher: Samuel French 2002

Description:

roy drama two characters one male; one female one scene

A liver transplant recipient is compelled to have a meeting with the grieving Hispanic widow of his donor. Title: Pearl Divers in - Some Angry Summer Songs / CCO Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Talonbooks 1976

Description:

roy drama - LGBTQ+ four characters one male; three female one act

1 interior.

"A homosexual looking for a job in a restaurant is discriminated against. Singing."

Title: Penelope in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 78, Spring 1994 / PER Author: Atwood, Margaret Seagrove, Susan Publisher: Miscellaneous 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - poetic - drama - verse large cast flexible casting one act

Adapted from Margaret Atwood's 'Circe/Mud Poems' by Cynthia Grant, Susan Seagrove and Peggy Sample. Additional text from ancient Greek plays, 'The Odyssey of Homer' and original songs and text by members of the cast.

Title: Penetration in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO Author: Russell, Lawrence Publisher: Alive Press

Description:

roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female one act

Interior representative set (kitchen in western farmhouse)

"A mysterious woman arrives at the home of two bachelor brothers, and subtle, peculiar things begin to happen." Title: People Are Horrible Wherever You Go in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Roche, David Bateman, David Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy contemporary all female cast; two characters two female one act

Two women in conversation.

Title: Perambulance in - Perambulance and Pipe Dream / CCO Author: Botting, Gary Publisher: Harden House 1972

Description:

roy black theatre - comedy - Alberta playwright - Canadian seven characters four male; three female one act

exterior set.

"Black comedy which features 2 babies in a carriage and a grocer who stocks his shelves with garbage."

Title: Perfect Plastic in - Perfect Plastic and The Whispering Time / CCO Author: Snukal, Sherman Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980

Description:

roy comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female one act

"A window dresser and a security guard meet in a deserted shopping plaza. As she arranges her mannequins and her maintains his official posture the barriers between them crumble, but to whose benefit?" Title: Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes in - Age of Minority / CCO Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - monologues - LGBTQ+ - Germany all male cast; one character one male one act

"Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes" chronicles the last hour of Peter Fechter’s life, a teenager in East Berlin shot while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall in 1962 with his companion.

Winner! The play is in a collection that won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 2014.

Title: Peter Gzowski, Peter Gzowski in - Studio One / CCO Author: Morrissey, Kim Publisher: Coteau Books 1990

Description:

roy comedy two characters one male; one female radio play

Mayhem on the Morningside Show.

Title: Pickle in - The Suicide Meet / CCO Author: Junor-Moore, Sheila Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1977

Description:

roy Alberta playwright - Canadian three characters two female; one male one act

Description not available. Title: Piers Plowman in - Words on Waves: Selected Radio Plays of Earle Birney / CCO Author: Birney, Earle Publisher: Quarry Press 1985

Description:

roy collection - drama 'Dream I' - twenty-one characters 'Dream II' - seventeen characters flexible casting radio plays

" A dramatic adaption for radio of the fourteenth dream allegory, 'The Visions of Piers the Plowman', attributed to William Langland."

Title: Pile, The in - Six Plays by Mavor Moore / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Talonbooks 1989

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - men all male cast; two characters two male one act

"An engineer and a businessman buy a pile of something - that lies where the audience sits - and try to find a use for it."

Title: Pile, The in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Bastet Books 1973

Description:

roy comedy - men - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male one act

"An engineer and a businessman buy a pile of something - that lies where the audience sits - and try to find a use for it." Title: Pillbox Hat, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Curran, Colleen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary drama all female cast; two characters two female one act

A dubious woman tries to sell her story and a hat supposedly worn by Jaqueline Kennedy on the day of the JFK assassination to a museum curator.

Title: Pink in - Late 20th Century Plays / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - monologues - women - Canadian all female cast; one character one female monologue

A ten-year-old white girl speaks to her dead black nurse.

Title: Pipe Dream in - Perambulance and Pipe Dream / CCO Author: Botting, Gary Publisher: Harden House 1972

Description:

roy tragedy - drama - Canadian - black comedy - Alberta playwright all male cast; seven characters seven male one act

interior set.

"A timid clerk is victimized in a public washroom, a microcosm of the real world." Title: Pitch, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy drama three characters two male; one female one act

A fading movie director pitches an old movie idea to a Canadian production team.

Title: Pith! in - A Teatro Trilogy / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press 2004

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

'1931. An epic tale of travel and adventure told with the most economical means. An itinerant sailor leads a grieving society widow and her stoic housekeeper on an exhilarating and treacherous journey into the heart of the South American jungle, without ever taking them out of the living room. With only four chairs and a phonograph, Jack Vail propels Virginia Tilford and Nancy Kimble from Providence, Rhode Island to New Orleans, Panama, and Ecuador, where hilarious encounters with explorers, shysters, gigolos, natives, and all manner of tropical wildlife

Title: Playing With Angels in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Short, Donn Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy Canadian two characters one male; one female one act

Jess and Cal and their marriage. Title: Pochsy's Lips in - Canadian Theatre Review - No.75, Summer 1993 / PER Author: Hines, Karen Publisher: Miscellaneous 1993

Description:

roy monologues - female all female cast; one character one female one act

'Writer and performer Karen Hines presents Poschy, a contemporary antidote to the pain and suffering of living.'

Title: Pochsy's Lips in - The Poschy Plays / CCO Author: Hines, Karen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004

Description:

roy monologues - female - satire all female cast; one character one female one act

'Writer and performer Karen Hines presents Poschy, a contemporary antidote to the pain and suffering of living. In this play, Poschy's in the hospital, convinced she's sick because there's a squid where her heart should be.'

Title: Polygraph in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Lepage, Robert Brassard, Marie Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996

Description:

roy drama - French - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

'A metaphysical detective story. A murder mystery film-and-play-within-a-play. 'Polygraph presents a reality in which truths are layered within lies, mirroring and distorting one another in the deceptions that make up life, art and the technologies we use to help structure them both.' Title: Polygraph in - Modern Canadian Plays, Volume II (3rd ed) / CCO Author: Lepage, Robert Brassard, Marie Publisher: Talonbooks 1994

Description:

roy drama - French - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

'A metaphysical detective story. A murder mystery film-and-play-within-a-play. 'Polygraph presents a reality in which truths are layered within lies, mirroring and distorting one another in the deceptions that make up life, art and the technologies we use to help structure them both.'

Title: Polygraph in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fourth Edition / CCO Author: Lepage, Robert Publisher: Talonbooks 2001

Description:

roy drama - French Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

'A metaphysical detective story. A murder mystery film-and-play-within-a-play. 'Polygraph presents a reality in which truths are layered within lies, mirroring and distorting one another in the deceptions that make up life, art and the technologies we use to help structure them both.'

Title: Polygraph in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 64, Fall 1990 / PER Author: Lepage, Robert Publisher: Miscellaneous 1990

Description:

roy drama - French - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

'A metaphysical detective story. A murder mystery film-and-play-within-a-play. 'Polygraph presents a reality in which truths are layered within lies, mirroring and distorting one another in the deceptions that make up life, art and the technologies we use to help structure them both.' Title: Polygraph in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Lepage, Robert Publisher: Talonbooks 2013

Description:

roy drama - French Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

'A metaphysical detective story. A murder mystery film-and-play-within-a-play. 'Polygraph presents a reality in which truths are layered within lies, mirroring and distorting one another in the deceptions that make up life, art and the technologies we use to help structure them both.'

Title: Poochwater in - Two Hands Clapping / CCO Author: McPhaden, Mike Publisher: Signature Editions 2006

Description:

roy comedy all male cast; two characters two male one act

A man finds a wallet in a park and tries to return it to its owner - who is suffering with amnesia.

Title: Poppycock in - Endangered Species / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1988

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - relationships four characters one male; three female twelve scenes

Three of the most powerful men of the century, Pablo Picasso, Adolf Hitler and Ezra Pound, are examined in relationships with one woman who is featured in each of their lives. Title: Porn Star in - Public Speaking and Other Plays / CCO Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: NeWest Press 2014

Description:

roy solo performance - comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; eight characters one male (doubling) one act

A mousy small-town librarian is titillated to learn that she has unwittingly become an internet sensation thanks to an X-rated viral video starring her and her ex-boyfriend (much to the horror of her mother, a family-values right-wing politician).

Title: Potato Prayers in - Grappa, The Spider's Feast and Potato Prayers / CCO Author: McFarlane, Anita Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama three characters two male; one female one act

Published in Theatrum Magazine (Feb/Mar 94). No further description available.

Title: Prim and Duck, Mama and Frank in - Endangered Species / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1988

Description:

roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female four parts

A mother, her two adult children and a mysterious uncle struggle with questions of self-identity, social acceptance and perceptions of reality. Title: Princess of the Snows, The in - One-Act Plays From Canadian History / CCO Author: Hooke, Hilda Mary Publisher: Longmans Canada 1962

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - historical five characters three male; two female one act

"Some of Talbot's biographers attribute his abrupt withdrawal from the Army and subsequent settlement in Canada to a love affair with the Princess Amelia. Whether or not this was so, there was undoubtedly a friendship between the young Talbot and the little princess, and it is known that he was often received at Buckingham House, having served in Quebec with the Duke of Kent and in Flanders with the ill-fated army headed by the Duke of York."

Title: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots in - Canadian Theatre Review No.64, Fall 1990 / PER Author: Mojica, Monique Publisher: Miscellaneous 1990

Description:

roy parody - Native issues - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; large cast two female (doubling) one act

'A cynical, parodic and historical overview of the experience of Native women in the Americas.'

Title: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots in - Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots / CCO Author: Mojica, Monique Publisher: Women's Press 1991

Description:

roy parody - Native issues - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; large cast two female (doubling) one act

'A cynical, parodic and historical overview of the experience of Native women in the Americas.' Title: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Mojica, Monique Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990

Description:

roy parody - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; many characters two female (doubling) one act

'A cynical, parodic and historical overview of the experience of Native women in the Americas.'

Title: Privilege in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Hodgson, Corrina Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LBGTQ+ four characters one male; three female (doubling) fourteen scenes

"Hodgson revisits the 'coming-out' story of the 'disturbed' adolescent school girl by having her protagonist Ginny expose the prejudices which still surface when girls are discovered engaging in same-sex acts. Riffing on the ongoing denial of the existence of female-female sexual desire, Hodgson uses Ginny's situation to interrogate the stereotypical reactions to sexual activities that fall outside heteronormativity. However, she also makes it clear that Ginny's hallucinatory reactions are aimed at breaking down any kind of restrictive labelling that would explain away

Title: Problem Child in - Suburban Motel / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1997

Description:

roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female seven scenes

Part of 'Suburban Motel'. A couple endeavors to get their baby back from the social welfare agency.

Dora Award Winner 1998 Title: Problem Child in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fourth Edition / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 2001

Description:

roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female seven scenes

Part of 'Suburban Motel'. A couple endeavors to get their baby back from the social welfare agency.

Dora Award Winner 1998.

Title: Problem Child in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 2013

Description:

roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female seven scenes

Part of 'Suburban Motel'. A couple endeavors to get their baby back from the social welfare agency.

Dora Award Winner 1998.

Title: Professionally Ethnic in - Canadian Theatre Review 139 / PER Author: del Rio, Bobby Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy satire - theatre four characters three female; one female one act

The play takes a satiric look at the current, suspect interest in"ethnic" casting among Canada's large theatre companies. Title: Prometheus Bound in - George Ryga: The Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2004

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - political ten characters eight male; two female (doubling possible) one act

A modernized version of the Aeschylus myth portrays the individual warring with what he sees as evil in society - a specific critique of socialism.

Title: Prometheus Bound According to Alberto Kurapel, the Guanaco Gaucho in - Fronteras Vivientes / CCO Author: Kurapel, Alberto translated by Hugh Hazelton Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy drama - mythology - Latina/o playwrights - Canadian nine characters; chorus flexible casting one act

A play which takes place in the spaces of the classic tragedy.

Title: Proper Perspective, The in - Who's Looking After the Atlantic? & The Proper Perspective / CCO Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright five characters four male; one female one act

"An hysterically delightful play within a play, which poses the question: 'What is the nature of reality?'"

Winner, Ottawa Little Theatre Playwriting Competition Title: Property in - Alone, on Stage / CCO Author: Diamond, Marc Kugler, D. D. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - monologues - men all male cast; many characters one male (doubling) one act

adapted by D. D. Kugler Description not available.

Title: Protest in - Short Plays for Reading and Acting / COL Author: Williams, Norman Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1970

Description:

roy drama - Japanese four characters one male; three female one act

1 interior

"Elderly Japanese woman kills herself in protest against her granddaughter's disbelief in traditional way of life. Set in Japan in 1900."

Title: Protest in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Williams, Norman Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975

Description:

roy drama - Japanese four characters one male; three female one act

1 interior.

"Elderly Japanese woman kills herself in protest against her granddaughter's disbelief in traditional way of life. Set in Japan in 1900." Title: Provenance in - String Quartet / CCO Author: Burkett, Ronnie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy drama - love - beauty - obsession - Canadian many characters one male; puppets one act

Pity Beane, a young art academic, travels to Europe to trace the provenance of the subject of her obsession, a painting of a young man known simply as Tender. What she finds is so much more than she had ever imagined. In a brothel run by an aging madam, the twentieth-century art scene is played out from Paris, London, and Vienna in an unrivalled exploration of beauty: our obsession with it, our fantasies about it, our addiction to it, and our ownership of it.

Title: Provincetown Playhouse, July 1919 in - Quebec Voices / CCO Author: Chaurette, Normand translated by William Boulet Publisher: Coach House Press 1986

Description:

roy Canadian - Quebec - drama - mental institution - mental illness all male cast; four characters four male (doubling possible) nineteen scenes (one act)

'Play within a play. 38-year-old actor confined to mental institution forces himself to confront truth concerning his role in murder of child onstage 19 years earlier.'

Title: Public Disorder in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: de la Cheneliere, Evelyne translated by Morwyn Brebner Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy drama - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian large cast flexible casting one act (twenty-three scenes)

Original title: Désordre public.

The character who serves as the focal point in this story is a young unemployed actor, who does not understand why he no longer has work, is never invited to auditions, and does not even have the opportunity of doing commercials. He uses public transportation. The public disorder arises on the bus from the ability he suddenly develops, and from which he cannot escape, to share the Title: Public Servant, The in - Canadian Theatre Review (Spring 2016) / PER Author: Brewin, Jennifer and Haley McGee McVie, Sarah and Amy Rutherford Publisher: Miscellaneous

Description:

roy tragicomedy - political - Canadian - autobiographical nine characters (doubling) three female one act (seventeen scenes)

"The Public Servant" is a comic-tragedy about the women who administer the affairs of our country. Step inside the halls of power as Madge, a young, idealistic and enthusiastic civil servant, gets ready to write her first official memo. Inspired by interviews with more then 40 federal, provincial, and municipal public servants, "The Public Servant" offers a rare window into a world so familiar, yet so foreign to many Canadians.

Title: Public Speaking in - Public Speaking and Other Plays / CCO Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: NeWest Press 2014

Description:

roy solo performance - comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; six characters one male (doubling) one act

An amoral lifestyle guru finds his message of guilt-free self-interest tested when his sex-addicted daughter is kidnapped by a pair of dangerous thugs.

Title: Puppets in - John Lazarus Shorts / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada

Description:

roy comedy - romance four characters two male; two female one act

A man and a woman meet by chance in a department store, and the audience gets to watch both their inner and outer behaviour. Title: Pusha-Man a.k.a. The Seed in - BeatDown / CCO Author: Pierre, Joseph Jomo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - men - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

A place where placebos meet everyday needs - a woman is giving birth to a man's child.

Title: Put Me Away in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Ryder, Lisa Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy contemporary seven characters one male; six female one act

"A piece about a woman, Maureen, and her mind's attempt to piece together what happened after she is raped and then hospitalized."

Title: Pyaasa in - Love, Loss, and Longing / CCO Author: Roy, Anusree Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - India - social issues all female cast; four characters one female (doubling) nine scenes

set in present day Bengal, India.

"The story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more than learning her times tables. When Chaya’s mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give Chaya a job at a local tea stall, Chaya’s journey from childhood to adulthood begins and ends over ten days. A moving and heartfelt play, Pyaasa illustrates with subtlety and nuanced truth the Title: Pyaasa in - Pyaasa and Letters to My Grandma / CCO Author: Roy, Anusree Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - India - social issues all female cast; four characters one female (doubling) nine scenes

set in present day Bengal, India.

"The story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more than learning her times tables. When Chaya’s mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give Chaya a job at a local tea stall, Chaya’s journey from childhood to adulthood begins and ends over ten days. A moving and heartfelt play, Pyaasa illustrates with subtlety and nuanced truth the

Title: Pyg in - Breakout / CCO Author: Condo, Rose Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004

Description:

roy comedy - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female one act

'"pyg" tells the funny and touching story of one woman's struggle with loneliness and the relentlessly impossible ideals our culture's media imposes on us.'

Title: Quiet Place, A in - Minor Complications / CCO Author: Gall, Brendan Publisher: Coach House Press 2010

Description:

roy tragicomedy - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male one act

Two amnesiacs in a room with no door attempt to solve the puzzle of their own existence while trying not to kill each other or fall in love. A great reckoning in a little room, this play will take you from mystery to comedy to tragedy - all with just two men, one chair and a light bulb. Title: Quiller in - Tiln & Other Plays / CCO Author: Cook, Michael Publisher: Talonbooks 1976

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - monologues - men all male cast; three characters one male (doubling) one act

"As he slowly dies, Quiller carries on a running conversation with God, recalling his life and struggles with his thwarted sexuality."

Title: Radio Rooster Says That's Bad in - Inoculations / CCO Author: O'Donnell, Darren Publisher: Coach House Press 2001

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - monologue all male cast; one character one male one act

Paranoia and psychosis.

Title: Radio Rooster Says That's Bad: A Lecture in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: O'Donnell, Darren Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy contemporary two characters; mostly a monologue one male, one female one act

"If you're still at a loss as to the theme of my lecture I'll spell it out: Subjectivity is transparent, objectivity is fast." Title: Radio: 30 in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 108, Fall 2001 / PER Author: Earle, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001

Description:

roy comedy all male cast; two characters two male one act

'A sinister comedy about crumbling confidence.'

Winner - 2001 Chalmers award for best new play - Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding new play in the Independent Theatre Division

Title: Raft: An Interlude, The in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Leacock, Stephen Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975

Description:

roy satire - romance two characters one male; one female one act

exterior set.

"Satire of romantic adventures. A 'story tale adventurer -- rafts, rescues and other specialties', fishes a girl out of the sea and acts in true gentlemanly fashion despite the close quarters to which they are confined."

Title: RAGE in - Once More, With Feeling / CCO Author: Riml, Michele Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - high school - murder two characters one male; one female one act

A high school office, a teacher and a student, and a loaded gun. These are the tense ingredients of a riveting work by playwright Michele Riml. Raymond, or Rage as he likes to call himself, is a violent student. Laura, on the other hand is a guidance counsellor, well known for her pacifism. When Laura calls Rage into her office to account for his recent bad behaviour, she suddenly finds herself facing a life or death situation, and a gut-wrenching dilemma. There is a way out, but it may mean going against everything she believes. This intense drama ponders what makes a Title: Rainmaker, The in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 3 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: CTR Publications 1980

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - Alberta twenty characters; extras thirteen male; eight female one act

Exterior representative set (street); 20's costume.

"The play is a portrait of Medicine Hat during a drought. Its focal point is the visit of a rainmaker from California."

Title: Rainmaker, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - Alberta twenty characters; extras eleven male; four female; four boys; one girl one act

1 setting; music.

'Town hires professional rainmaker to end drought and save crops.'

Title: Random Acts in - Lesbian Plays: Coming of age in Canada / CCO Author: Flacks, Diane Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ one character all female cast; one female (doubling) one act

Using the persona of the Oprah-like feminist talk-show guru, Antonella Bergman, Flacks invites us to engage with her in the search for meaning in a random universe. To suggest Antonella's prophetic qualities, Flacks opens the play with an apocalyptic appearance of the Jewish matriarch Sarah who became pregnant at the age of ninety. As she morphs into a pre-accident Antonella, we are invited to listen in on one of her inspirational talks and thus become directly implicated in participating in her journey. Title: Rattle In The Dash in - Rattle in the Dash / CCO Author: Anderson, Peter Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988

Description:

roy drama - comedy - men - Canadian all male cast; three characters three male one act

"Carl and Brandon are two young guys who set out on a cross-country car trip from Detroit to Vancouver in pursuit of a woman, but before long mystery and doubt turn their journey into a very strange adventure."

Title: Ravine, The in - Dead Metaphor / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 2015

Description:

roy dark comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female one act (twenty-one short scenes)

A mayoral candidate earns that his ex-wife is living in a gully nearby and wants to put a hit on him.

Title: Razed by Wolves in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: McBurney, Phil Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama - family relations three characters two male; one female one act

A son returns to his father's house to retaliate for the abuse his mother suffered. Title: Reading Hebron in - Modern Jewish Plays / CCO Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Jewish - historical five characters three male; two female one act

A Toronto Jew named Nathan Abramowitz investigates the Hebron Massacre - in which a Jewish settler murdered 29 Muslims at prayer - as a way of questioning his own responsibility for the oppression of Palestinians.

Title: Recounting Our Riches in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2014) / PER Author: Martineau, Maureen Publisher: Miscellaneous 2014

Description:

roy comedy - political - social issues - social class sixteen characters one male; one female (doubling) one act (twelve scenes)

In "Recounting Our Riches" two street people, Lulu and Baloune, who are trying to recycle themselves as entertainers, set out to find the answers and, following the circuitous route of the clown, discover that we need better ways to measure what is really important in life. An invitation to leave a world of things and enter a world of relationships, "Recounting Our Riches" is the English translation of the Théâtre Parminou’s "Contes de la Richesse". It is part of a trilogy based on the works of economist Patrick Viveret and inspired by work by the French theatre company La

Title: Red in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Hall, Jordan Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - fables - fairy tales three characters one male; one female one act

Trapped inside the belly of a wolf, Rose contemplates the twisted tale that led her there, and the terrible things she may have to do to escape. Little Red Riding Hood is turned inside out in this post-modern fable, and if you're a woman, you're gonna bleed. Title: Red Flag At Evening in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - sketches - skits - Alberta playwright - Canadian three characters one male; two female one act

1 set.

'Spinster receives unusual response when she asks her beau of fourteen years his intentions.'

Title: Remembrance of Miracles, A in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright nine characters five male; four female one act

1 set.

'Battle in small town to ban certain literature from Secondary English classes makes teacher involved question her own reasons for introducing controversial items.'

Title: Replacement, The in - Martini with a Twist / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NeWest Press 2012

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

A quiet shut-in wrestles with the jealous ghost of his wife. "The Replacement" is the story of Norman, a widowed man who decides to take the leap back into the dating world. He invites a woman over for dinner but is surprised that, when she backs out of the date, a replacement guest shows up at his door.

Nominated! Outstanding New Play. 2003 Betty Mitchell Awards. Title: Requiem for August in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Posno, Helen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy sketches two characters one male; one female one act

Two people, her and him, take audience on a tour of images.

Title: Respecting the Action for Seduction in - Her Voice, Her Century / CCO Author: Cheoros, David Simonson, Karen Publisher: Brindle & Glass 2012

Description:

roy drama - scandal - historical - Alberta - political six characters one male; one female (doubling) sixteen scenes; one act

running time: approximately 60 min.

The story of the affair between John Brownlee, Premier of Alberta and a married man, and seventeen-year-old Vivian MacMillan which caused his fall from office.

Title: Reverb-ber-ber-rations in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Spiderwoman Theatre Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1992

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; three characters three female one act

Deals with the persistence of memory across generations. Title: Revolutions in - Willie and the Watchers and Revolutions / CCO Author: Theissen, Cherie Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1978

Description:

roy social issues four characters flexible casting one act

'While watching clouds pass overhead, four physically handicapped people find the courage to discuss their social alienation.'

Title: Rewrite in - Rewrite and Frosted Icing / CCO Author: Clark, Stanley Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975

Description:

roy comedy - marital relations five characters three male; two female one act

1 interior.

"Reunion of divorced, middle-aged playwright husband with his lawyer ex-wife is complicated by the latter's secretary, who is also an amateur actress, and her suspicious boyfriend."

Title: Rex Morgan, M.D. in - Theatrical Exhibitions / CCO Author: Shein, Brian Publisher: Pulp Press Book Publishers 1975

Description:

roy comedy - satire three characters two male; one female one act

Experimental play satirizing comic strip Rex Morgan, M.D. Title: Ride to the Hill in - Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media / CCO Author: Taylor, Ron Publisher: Methuen 1973

Description:

roy Canadian drama three characters two male; one female television play

"'Ride to the Hill' is a delicate sketch of a young girl who must regretfully abandon her childhood and enter a world of more mature values. The play catches sympathetically the confusion and awkwardness of young people on the brink of puberty and suggests that this confusion and awkwardness, like the ugly duckling's feathers, may one day turn into beauty."

Title: Rider Girl in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2017) / PER Author: Sutton, Colleen Publisher: Miscellaneous 2017

Description:

roy comedy - football - monologues - Canada all female cast; nine characters; voice overs two female (doubling) one act (fifteen scenes)

running time: 80 mins

A prairie girl is seduced into sports fandom and discovers the rules don't apply to the game. Loaded with laughs, it's a fast paced, physical, and trash-talking march down the field that will haul your heart into the game.

Title: Riel Commission: An Inquiry into the Survival of a People, The in - Studio One / CCO Author: Deverell, Rex Schmaltz, Wayne Publisher: Coteau Books 1990

Description:

roy historical fiction eight characters six male; two female radio play

An official inquiry into the events surrounding Louis Riel. Title: Rinse the Blood Off My Toga in - Plays on a Comic Theme / COL Author: Wayne, Johnny Shuster, Frank Publisher: North Productions 1955

Description:

roy comedy eleven characters ten male; one female one act

"It is a parody of the death of Julius Caesar, using the cool, gangster-type style of the novels of Mickey Spillane to poke fun at Shakespeare's tragedy."

Title: Rise and Fall of Peter Gaveston, The in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO Author: MacArthur, Greg Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - historical ten characters seven male; one female; two male or female one act

Description not available.

Title: Risk Everything in - Suburban Hotel / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1997

Description:

roy drama - crime four characters two male; two female four scenes

An older woman and her daughter in a battle of wills over getting out of crime. Title: River Lady, The in - The River Lady and Other Plays / CCO Author: Widdicombe, David Publisher: Icarus Press 2000

Description:

roy drama two characters one male; one female one act

"A drifter meets a dishwasher in an all-night diner. She collects marbles from every town she visits and longs for a better life. He's frustrated by the world he sees reflected back at him through television and wants to start a religion based on "Planet of the Apes". Together they desperately try to make sense of their lives as the night slowly closes in on them."

Title: Rock, Paper, Jacknife... in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Perreault, Marilyn translated by Nadine Desrochers Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy drama - teens - immigration - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian five characters two male; three female one act (thirteen parts)

Original title: Roche, papier, cousteau.

The teens of the play take us into the experience of forced emigration when the country of their origin has exploded in violence, their parents are dead, their crossing was unbelievably difficult, and they find themselves in exile in a new country where they do not know the language, they are without means, and the reception in the community is one of distaste and distrust. Along with

Title: Rocks in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993

Description:

roy music four characters two male; two female one act

Description not available. Title: Rosalie Sings Alone in - Canadian Brash / CCO Author: Demchuk, David Publisher: Coach House Press 1990

Description:

roy drama - identity - trans-sexuality all male cast; one character one male one act

A woman in a job interview gradually discloses who she is.

Title: Rum Runners of Rainbow Ravine, The in - Studio One / CCO Author: Ursell, Geoffrey Publisher: Coteau Books 1990

Description:

roy drama - Canadian history eight characters seven male; one female radio play

A story of Moose Jaw, SK during prohibition.

Title: Running: Our Lives and Struggle on Stage in - Canadian Theatre Review - No. 99, Summer 1999 / PER Author: Heather, Jane Publisher: Miscellaneous 1999

Description:

roy drama - historical eight characters two male; four female (doubling) one act

Commissioned by CUPE Locals 30 and 474, Edmonton, Alberta, August, 1995.

'In 1995 two Edmonton locals of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) launched an ambitious project of cross-cultural work and popular theatre aimed at representing the effects of Alberta's politics of privatization and contracting out on our members lives.' Title: Runtkiller in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Bennett, Carolyn Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary three characters one male; two female one act

A woman attempts to get an arts grant from an agency that employs two people with very different views about art.

Title: Russian Play, The in - 5 Hot Plays / CCO Author: Moscovitch, Hannah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy drama - love - Canadian three characters two male; one female one act

A bittersweet love story of a flower shop girl who falls in love with a gravedigger - but love does not run smoothly in Stalinist Russia.

Title: Russian Play, The in - The Russian Play and Other Short Works / CCO Author: Moscovitch, Hannah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - love three characters two male; one female one act

A bittersweet love story of a flower shop girl who falls in love with a gravedigger - but love does not run smoothly in Stalinist Russia. Title: Sacred Time in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Webb, Brian Publisher: Miscellaneous 2002

Description:

roy drama - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - monologue one character; dancers; musicians one male one act

'Through the media of solo and ensemble dance, live music, voiced narrative and large screen video projection, Brian Webb's "Sacred Time" relates two parallel stories of predatory, brutalizing space. Profound and disturbing connections link the first story of an elk hunt west of Rocky Mountain House and the second, the stalking of a gay would-be lover in a large city, possibly Edmonton.'

Title: Saga of the Elk, The in - The Suicide Meet / CCO Author: Taylor, Jim Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1977

Description:

roy Alberta playwright - Canadian multiple characters two female; one male one act

Description not available.

Title: Salome's Clothes in - Performing Back: Post-Colonial Canadian Plays / CCO Author: St. Bernard, Donna-Michelle Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015

Description:

roy tragedy - African four characters one male; three female one act (seventeen scenes)

Inspired by events unfolding in Cote d’Ivoire, "Salome’s Clothes" symbolically illuminates the potential cost of our globalized demand for short-term material comfort. Are we selling our future for worthless trinkets? Title: Salon Automaton, The in - Once More, With Feeling / CCO Author: Claude, Nathalie King, Moynan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - fantasy - burlesque four characters flexible cast one act (eleven scenes)

translated by Nathalie Claude in close collaboration with Moynan King.

Welcome to "The Salon Automaton"… a literary salon, a burlesque confrontation, an infernal 'huis-clos' between a sublime hostess and her three distinguished guests: The Dandy Poet, The Cabaret Artist and The Drinking Patroness. Three authentic human size automatons, fill an ultra modern solitude with their conversation, talent and wit.

Title: Salvador Dali's Unspeakably Comic History of the Twentieth Century in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Millan, Jim Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy drama four characters two male; two female one act

A brief visit with Salvador Dali and his world.

Title: Sam Slick the Clockmaker in - Cues and Entrances / CCO Author: Ledoux, Paul Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1993

Description:

roy comedy - satire thirteen characters six male; seven female one act

'"Sam Slick" is based on the writing of Judge Thomas C. Haliburton of Windsor, Nova Scotia. He was Canada's first published satirist. In 1836, "The Clockmaker" (his book) caused quite a stir with its rich blend of political humour and comic characters. It was such a success that during Haliburton's time, he rivaled Charles Dickens in popularity.' Title: Sand, The in - Escape Acts / CCO Author: Fyffe, Laurie Publisher: NuAge Editions 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - monologue all female cast; one character one female one act

'Wife of business executive learns to belly-dance.'

Title: Sand, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No.22, Spring, 1979 / PER Author: Czerniecki's, Marion Andre Publisher: Miscellaneous 1979

Description:

roy drama - Jewish thirteen characters; extras eight male; five female one act

Description not available.

Title: Saturday Night in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relations - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female one act

1 set.

'Teenagers argue for the right to borrow family car on Saturday Night.' Title: Schoolyard Games in - Not So Dumb / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Coach House Press 1981

Description:

roy Canadian - family - youth all female cast; three characters three female one act

An unflinching account of the power games that schoolgirls play. "Eleanor and Binnie are sisters and as different from each other as they can manage to be."

Title: Séance in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Monkman, Kent Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - Native peoples all male cast; one character one male one act

"Séance" was performed on October 19, 2007 by Kent Monkman at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, Ontario. Monkman created the piece in response to being censored from the First Peoples Gallery at the ROM during the Shapeshifters exhibition. In her conversations with the spirits of nineteenth-century painters Eugene Delacroix, Paul Kane and George Caitlin, Miss Chief's costumes grow increasingly larger and more outlandish as the responses of each successive artist draws more of her ire.

Title: Search for a Friend in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 73, Winter 1992 / PER Author: Tunooniq Theatre Publisher: Miscellaneous 1992

Description:

roy script outline - Canadian - Inuit - drama - Native peoples all male cast; six characters six male one act

'Tunooniq's script outline for a play concerning ways of dealing with and overcoming substance abuse individually and as a community.' Title: Second Chance, First Love in - Palliser Suite / CCO Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Frontenac House 2014

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - relationships three characters two male; one female one act

part 2 of a trilogy of plays called "Palliser Suite"; can be produced as a one act or in conjunction with the other two, "Mr. Fix It" and "Funeral Fore!".

Decades later Zelda meets up with her first love, Stanley, a washed up sit com star in the hotel room. Does Zelda want to re-kindle her romance with Stanley or is something else her first love?

Title: Secrets in - Not So Dumb / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Coach House Press 1992

Description:

roy Canadian - youth - relationships - social issues four characters two male; two female one act

"Lazarus' newest play initiates his characters, now teenagers, into the mysteries of trust, love, and sex."

Title: See Bob Run in - See Bob Run and Wild Abandon / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - drama all female cast; one character one female one act

An emotionally disturbed young woman reflects on her life of abuse and confusion as she flees the scene where she shot her boyfriend. Title: See Bob Run in - See Bob Run and Wild Abandon / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - solo performance all female cast; one character one female one act

An emotionally disturbed young woman reflects on her life of abuse and confusion as she flees the scene where she shot her boyfriend.

Title: See Bob Run in - See Bob Run and Wild Abandon / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - monologue - women all female cast; one character one female one act

An emotionally disturbed young woman reflects on her life of abuse and confusion as she flees the scene where she shot her boyfriend.

Title: Senetta Boynton Visits the Orient in - Escape Acts / COL Author: Curran, Colleen Publisher: NuAge Editions 1990

Description:

roy Canadian three characters one male; two female one act

'Woman author, addressing church audience about her world travels, has surprise for congregation.' Title: Seven Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse in - Carole Frechette: Three Plays / CCO Author: Frechette, Carole translated by John Murrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy comedy three characters two male; one female one act

'Play within a play. Earnest, unemployed young man invites public to witness scenes from his life.'

Title: Shades of Brown in - Breakout / CCO Author: Knazan, Primrose Madayag Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004

Description:

roy racism all female cast; multiple characters three female one act

'"Shades of Brown" uses the Filipino immigration experience to explore cultural assumptions, interracial dating, racism and that elusive sense of belonging that we call 'home'."

Title: Shadows in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 114, Spring 2003 / PER Author: Findley, Timothy Publisher: Miscellaneous 2003

Description:

roy drama - storytelling seven characters three male; four female one act

A group of theatre people telling stories during a dinner party. Title: Shape of a Girl, The in - The Shape of a Girl & Jewel / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 2002

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - women - bullying - historical - British Columbia all female cast; one character one female one act

"Without directly mentioning the tragic 1997 beating and drowning of a 14-year-old Victoria girl, Reena Virk, by a group of teens, or the 2000 suicide of Dawn-Marie Wesley, another 14-year-old British Columbia girl, and the resulting criminal conviction of a fellow classmate on charges of harassing her, The Shape of a Girl shares the sorrow, guilt and fear of bullying. The angst is shared through the voice and experience of Braidie, the play's 15-year-old sole character and narrator, horrified by a 'monster in the shape of a girl'."

Title: Shape of a Girl, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 2013

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - women - bullying - British Columbia all female cast; one character one female one act

"Without directly mentioning the tragic 1997 beating and drowning of a 14-year-old Victoria girl, Reena Virk, by a group of teens, or the 2000 suicide of Dawn-Marie Wesley, another 14-year-old British Columbia girl, and the resulting criminal conviction of a fellow classmate on charges of harassing her, The Shape of a Girl shares the sorrow, guilt and fear of bullying. The angst is shared through the voice and experience of Braidie, the play's 15-year-old sole character and narrator, horrified by a 'monster in the shape of a girl'."

Title: Shards in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation v. 2 / CCO Author: Roy, Emmanuelle translated by Don Druick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - women six characters one male; five female one act

running time: 1 hour 30 min.

The play is set in a decrepit bar somewhere on the edge of a northern reserve. It’s summer and it’s hot. Time seems to have stopped for the four characters who are bound together by the painful memories they share. Memories haunt them and the place, Nothing seems to have budged in this bar for years. There is no music, no customers. There are only these people frozen in their Title: She Mami Wata and the Pussy Witchhunt in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Anitafrika, D'Bi.Young Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - women eleven characters three male; eight female one act (thirteen scenes)

Part of the Orisha Trilogy. The play centres on gender, sexuality, and the erotic through the life of four friends growing up in present-day Jamaica, who are challenged to re-negotiate their complex relationship under "buggery" laws. Raised in the violence and silence of misogyny and homophobia, Niki lives on the margins of church, the burlesque pole and womxn's thighs.

Title: Shifting Gears in - Graduation Suite / CCO Author: Millar, Thomas P. Publisher: Palmer Press 1987

Description:

roy comedy four characters; voices two male; two female one act

"Life is a series of graduations, some reluctantly coped with, some eagerly embraced. Each graduation requires us to leave an old way of being and embrace a new. Each is an opportunity for growth, or a chance for failure. Graduation Suite consists of three one act plays, each of which deals with such a life' graduation. Shifting Gears, the second play, tells the story of a fiftyish lady graduating from a dutiful marriage to a life of computer crime".

Title: Shoe Fly Blues in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: McNair, Rick Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary two characters; chorus one male; one female one act

A young woman celebrates her first job after high-school with a shoe company. Title: Shopaholic in - Four by Four by Four / CCO Author: Stirling, Glenda Publisher: Red Deer Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright thirteen characters one male; two female (doubling) one act

prequel to "Shopaholic Husband Hunt" and "Shopaholic Wedding Bells".

Abigail Adams is an addict, but she isn’t addicted to something nasty like heroin or even booze or cigarettes. Abbie is a shopaholic, and her addiction inspires more laughs than sympathy. She can’t go by a mall without picking up a few things. She bemoans the state of her finances, but she can’t pass up a sale. Her love life is rocky, but she makes up for it by adding something new to

Title: Shoulder Pads in - Cues and Entrances / CCO Author: Ravel, Aviva Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1993

Description:

roy comedy - family relations three characters one male; two female one act

'The new rebellious spirit of the sixties and the beginnings of the modern women's liberation movement are presented in the character of a domineering mother who pretends to be a part of this spirit. In reality, however, she retains her deeply-ingrained old-fashioned values that focus on material possessions and social status. She has systematically imposed these values on her timid, over-protected daughter and hen-pecked husband. In a comic reversal, the tide turns on the mother, as her daughter and fiancé leave their repressive homes to lead independent lives,

Title: Sideshow of the Damned in - The Eldritch Plays / CCO Author: Woolfe, Eric Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - horror four characters (doubling) two male; two female one act

"Mad scientists, werewolves, would-be necromancers and ghouls... juxtaposed against the quotidian, to great comic effect." Title: Simon's Wife: A Black and Blue Comedy About Relationships in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: King, Moynan Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy drama - relationships two characters one male; one female one act

Simon's wife loses herself by doing what Simon says.

Title: Sinners Three in - The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1986

Description:

roy comedy - black comedy - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female one act

"Brief and psychotic comedy of forbidden love in the gutters and drawing rooms of the Austrian capital."

Title: Sir Richard Wadd, Pornographer in - Perfectly Abnormal / CCO Author: Postoff, Shawn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy comedy - LGBTQ+⌦all male cast; five characters five male one act

Sir Richard Wadd is a fun-loving, law-abiding, genre-defying showman; an intelligent, proud and unapologetic producer of home-made gay porn with a decidedly literary flair. Assisted by Tristan and Troy, his two dashing and loyal performers, Sir Richard takes his voyeuristic web-cam audience on a wide-ranging romp through the anals [sic] of modern-day cyber-erotica. But when Kevin, a 14 year-old runaway, shows up on his doorstep looking for work (not to mention validation, compassion, and love), Sir Richard’s humanity is suddenly put to the test: the law makes it extremely dangerous for the pornographer to have underage kids anywhere near him, yet Title: Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia in - Hedda Gabler & Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy drama - Canadian Playwright - family relations - war sixteen characters nine male; seven female one act (twenty-six scenes, prologue, epilogue)

Sirens: Elektra in Bosnia is a gripping story about the horrors of collective and personal wars as a family torn apart by death and destruction becomes their own worst enemy. When a deal between Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus goes awry, Iphigenia becomes the blood sacrifice leading to truths her sister Elektra can no longer hide from. Against the backdrop of a family drama, Judith Thompson gives voice to the women who were silenced during the Bosnian War, examining a cultural trauma and its place in our collective history.

Title: Sistahs in - Testifyin' / CCO Author: Lewis, Sharon Bailey, Maxine Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000

Description:

roy comedy - drama - women all female cast; five characters five female one act

'. . . brings together five powerful women for the communal preparation of a meal, but the situation in this home is a charged one. . . The coming together of the five characters parallels the creation of the soup that is the focus of the meeting. Seasoned by various viewpoints, backgrounds, and memories, the result is a flavorful, tantalizing, and filling meal.'

Title: Sistahs in - Canadian Theatre Review - Number 83, Summer 1995 / PER Author: Lewis, Sharon Publisher: Miscellaneous 1995

Description:

roy comedy - drama - women all female cast; five characters five female one act

'. . . brings together five powerful women for the communal preparation of a meal, but the situation in this home is a charged one. . . The coming together of the five characters parallels the creation of the soup that is the focus of the meeting. Seasoned by various viewpoints, backgrounds, and memories, the result is a flavorful, tantalizing, and filling meal.' Title: Sister Mary's a Dyke?! in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Peña, Flerida Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - women - religion - Canadian - solo performance all female cast; one character one female one act (sixteen scenes)

A playful attack on the church and the oppressive educational systems it has spawned. Peña uses high theatricality ro illustrate her queer vision and empower her characters to be as fully rebellious as she can dream them. What seems at first to be a coming out story quickly turns into a fantastical rebellion of comic book proportions. This action-packed play is a fun foray into the triumph of imagination in the face of oppression - one that culminates in nothing less that a dramatic overthrow of the Vatican.

Title: Six Dry Cakes for the Hunted in - Two Plays / CCO Author: Woodcock, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1977

Description:

roy drama - Metis - men - Canadian all male cast; nine characters nine male radio play

music.

"Radio play depicting the rise and fall of the Metis leader, Louis Riel, and his provisional government."

Title: Skid, The in - Take Five / CCO Author: Lackey, Thomas Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

roy drama eight characters six male; two female radio play

'(The play) displays the full potential of radio for evoking just about any environment and event - even the creation of the world!' Title: Sliding for Home in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Yoon, Jean Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relationships eight characters flexible casting one act

'A young Korean-Canadian woman returns to Korea for the first time, only to be 'held hostage' by her relatives. There's nothing to watch on television but the Family Reunification Program and baseball.'

Title: Small Room at the Top of the Stairs, The in - Small Room at the Top of the Stairs; and, Thinking of Yu / CCO Author: Frechette, Carole translated by John Murrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2012

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - relationships five characters one male; four female one act

In "The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs" Grace finds herself irresistibly drawn to the mystery of the room her husband has forbidden her to enter. She stumbled into a fairy-tale marriage, complete with her own Prince Charming and resplendent mansion, but it could all come apart if she chooses to defy his wishes. Will she let her curiosity get the best of her and encounter the secret life of the man she loves?

Title: Smudge in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 108, Fall 2001 / PER Author: Bulmer, Alex Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001

Description:

roy drama all female cast; two characters; extras two female one act

'Powerful play about a woman's farewell to her sight.' Title: Smudge in - Lesbian Plays : Coming of Age in Canada / CCO Author: Bulmer, Alex Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - lesbian - LGBTQ+ three characters all female cast; three female (doubling) thirty-three scenes

'Powerful play about a woman's farewell to her sight.'

Title: Sniffer, The in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Francis, Marvin Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy drama - Canadian four characters three male; one female one act

'A dingy alley. It is the 90's. Jake, a businessman, Halley, a preacher, and Delores, an academic come upon Julius, who is sniffing glue out of a plastic bag.'

Title: Snow Birds in - Cabbagetown Plays / CCO Author: Tipe, David Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1975

Description:

roy drama - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male one act

1 exterior set.

Sid and Luke re-establish their friendship on a lonely park bench; a sense of the absurd is a key to their rapport. Title: Snow Dream, The in - Studio One / CCO Author: Gault, Connie Publisher: Coteau Books 1990

Description:

roy drama four characters one male; three female radio play

'A woman recovers from surgery.'

Title: Socles, Les (The Pedestals) in - Canadian Theatre Review No.24, Fall 1979 / PER Author: Tremblay, Michel Publisher: Miscellaneous 1979

Description:

roy drama ten characters one male; one female; four boys; four girls one act

French translation included. Description not available.

Title: Soft Voices in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Ravel, Aviva Publisher: Bastet Books 1973

Description:

roy drama - Canadian all female cast; two characters two female one act

Two women, formerly best friends, meet after many years of separation. Now in their forties, their lives are worlds apart: Toby is a devoted housewife and mother; Carol, single and childless, has chosen to devote her life to her career. They play fantasy games, and reminisce, while revealing their innermost thoughts, anxieties, and feelings. Title: Soldier Dreams, The in - I Still Love You / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy drama - relationships - AIDS eight characters four male; two female; two male or female one act

'A play about love, an examination of the effect of death on the living, and a homage to those who have left us. A young man lies dying of AIDS, as his family gathers around. He whispers a few seemingly disjointed words, and it is up to his family to decipher them, even as they come to terms with his pending death.'

Title: Soldier's Heart in - Canada and the Theatre of War: Vol. 1 / CCO Author: French, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy drama - family relationships - war all male cast; three characters three male one act

The sixth play in the Mercer family dramatic cycle. The thoroughly alienated sixteen-year-old Jacob is standing on a railway platform, leaving home. His father Esau, rushes to the station to persuade his son not to leave. Unable to speak of what had happened in the Great War since his return, Esau begins, in halting and tentative language to tell of his comrades and his brother, their training in Scotland, the agony of Gallipoli, and finally the formative events at the battle of the Somme at Beaumont Hamel. Esau's answers evolve into stories of pride, foolishness, anger,

Title: Some Are So Lucky in - Three Women / CCO Author: Garner, Hugh Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1974

Description:

roy drama - romance - relationships six characters; extras four male; two female one act

1 interior; 1 exterior.

"Accidental meeting of bachelor and the woman whom he had a youthful crush on, turns out to be disillusioning, but quite salutary for the man, after he invites her to have a drink in a bar." Title: Some Are So Lucky in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Garner, Hugh Publisher: Bastet Books 1973

Description:

roy drama - romance - relationships - Canadian six characters; extras four male; two female one act

1 interior; 1 exterior.

"Accidental meeting of bachelor and the woman whom he had a youthful crush on, turns out to be disillusioning, but quite salutary for the man, after he invites her to have a drink in a bar."

Title: Some People in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Kitcher, Bill Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary fantasy three characters; voice overs two male; two female one act

Two cats and a dog deal with the realities of the pound.

Title: Somebody Somebody's Returning in - Testifyin: Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Ward, Frederick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

Description:

roy tragicomedy four characters one male; three female thirteen scenes

2 interiors.

Tragicomedy about black Canadians. Depicts familial tension, disrupted relationships, fratricide, and love betrayed. Title: Someday in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - family relations - Native peoples four characters one male; three female one scene

"Anne Wabung's daughter was taken away by children's aid workers when the girl was only a toddler. It is Christmas-time 35 years later, and Anne's yearning to see her now-grown daughter. When the family is finally reunited, however, the dreams of neither woman are fulfilled. The setting for the play is a fictional Ojibway community, but could be any reserve in Canada, where thousands of Native children were removed from their families in what is known among Native people as the "scoop-up" of the 1950s and 1960s. 'Someday' is an entertaining, humorous, and

Title: Someplace Warm in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 26th Series / COL Author: Macklin, Peter Publisher: Samuel French 2002

Description:

roy drama five characters three male; two female one act

A rape survivor who finds she is pregnant must decide if she wants to raise the child with help from her best friends, a gay couple who long for a child of their own.

Title: Sort of Holiday, A in - Triple Play / CCO Author: Curran, Colleen Publisher: NuAge Editions 1990

Description:

roy romantic comedy two characters one male; one female one act

'An unlikely romantic comedy about two strangers who clash one afternoon in a small college library. The spirit of Stephen Leacock, which permeates this play, gently leads the two characters to a surprising reconciliation.' Title: Sound of Cracking Bones, The in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Lebeau, Suzanne translated by Julia Duchesne & John Van Burek Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy drama - war - children - Quebec - women playwrights - Canadian three characters one female; one girl; one boy one act (ten scenes)

Original title: Le bruit des os qui craquent.

A piece of reality theatre addressing an issue of international importance and compelling actuality - child soldiers. It traces the flight of two children from the tropical forest where they were being held and used by a group of rebels - Elikia, thirteen years old, and Joseph, eight years old - and their arrival, after an extremely difficult trek, to relative safety at the childrens hospital in Joseph's

Title: Souvenirs in - 1984 B.C. Young Playwrights Search / CCO Author: Riml, Michele Publisher: Association of B. C. Drama Educators 1984

Description:

roy drama - family relations two characters one male; one female teenager one act

A sixteen year old girl goes to see her dying father on their old farm, in order to convince him to come home, and live out his days there.

Title: Spain in - 5 Hot plays / CCO Author: Rubenfeld, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy drama - relationships three characters two male; one female one act

Two buddies test the limits of their platonic friendship, and discover the pitfalls of indecision. Title: Spider's Feast, The in - Grappa, The Spider's Feast and Potato Prayers / CCO Author: McFarlane, Anita Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama three characters one male; two female one act

Published in Theatrum Magazine (Feb/Mar 1994). No further description available.

Title: Spill and Spell in - Martini with a Twist / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: NeWest Press 2012

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright all female cast; five characters five female one act

A young coed with the ability to smell lies struggles to make new friends.

Title: Spin in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Parry, Evalyn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy musical - LGBTQ+ - feminism - biography eight characters five male; three female one act

The play begins with a bicycle and collates a history of feminist self-performance through music and play. Beginning amidst the first wave of feminism, SPIN moves through a trans-historical journey, telling the story of Annie Londonderry, an accidental feminist icon and a cyclist with global aspirations. Two endings are provide; the one that became its ultimate ending and then the original ending added as an appendix. Title: Spitting Slag in - Rock 'n Rail / CCO Author: Robinson, Mansel Publisher: Thistledown Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - men all male cast; two characters two male one act

Story of a disabled miner who is also an addict. Story told with poetry and music.

Title: Sports Legend in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Patterson, James G. Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary - baseball all male cast; two characters two male one act

A coach cuts an outlandish ball player from the team.

Title: Stargazing in - New Canadian Drama I / CCO Author: Cone, Tom Publisher: Borealis Press 1979

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - British Columbia four characters two male; two female one act

1 exterior set.

Two couples search the Vancouver sky for falling stars. Cross-purposed and star-crossed, conversation flows until the morning brings calm and silence. Title: Starter Home in - Three on the Boards / CCO Author: Koller, Katherine Publisher: Signature Editions 2007

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female seven scenes

"Vanessa and Wayne are in love and want to move in together. They find the perfect starter home for rent, but they're not so sure about the landlady."

Title: Still Stands the House in - Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Methuen 1973

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

'Set in rural Canada. Woman is so obsessed with keeping her childhood home intact, she knowingly sends her brother and his wife to their deaths in a blizzard.'

Title: Still Stands the House in - The Prairie Experience / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: MacMillan 1975

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

'Set in rural Canada. Woman is so obsessed with keeping her childhood home intact, she knowingly sends her brother and his wife to their deaths in a blizzard.' Title: Still Stands The House in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

1 set.

'Set in rural Canada. Woman is so obsessed with keeping her childhood home intact, she knowingly sends her brother and his wife to their deaths in a blizzard.'

Title: Stillbirth, The in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Crabb, Kara Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

Description:

roy drama - grief - relationships - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act (five scenes)

After a young couple experiences a tragedy they begin to deal with what comes next.

Title: Stitch in - Huff & Stitch / COL Author: Cardinal, Cliff Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy drama - Native playwright - solo performance many characters one female (doubling) one act (one scene)

"Kylie Grandview is a single mom struggling to make a living as a porn star while dreaming of being on the big screen. She’s painfully aware that she is among the many nameless faces on the Internet, the ones that blip across cyberspace, as her yeast infection, Itchia, reminds her at every turn. But when Kylie is offered the chance at a big break, a series of twisted events lead her down a destructive path, revealing a face no one will forget." Title: Stop! in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Lewis, Donna Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary drama four characters flexible casting one act

A meditator has trouble controlling his thoughts.

Title: Store, The in - Six Plays by Mavor Moore / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Talonbooks 1989

Description:

roy comedy - murder four characters two male; two female one act

"The manager of a cosmic department store murders a complaining customer who blames the store for every catastrophe in her life."

Title: Store, The in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Moore, Mavor Publisher: Bastet Books 1973

Description:

roy comedy - murder - Canadian four characters two male; two female one act

"The manager of a cosmic department store murders a complaining customer who blames the store for every catastrophe in her life." Title: Story of a Sinking Man, The in - Singular Voices / COL Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994

Description:

roy drama - monologues - men all male cast one character one act

Nash inexplicably finds himself sinking into a bog with no way out - he is distinctly alone. He reviews his predicament and his life but he doesn't give up hope of rescue...

Title: Straight Stitching in - New Canadian Drama 5 / CCO Author: Barrie, Shirley Publisher: Borealis Press 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - women all female cast; five characters five female one act

Immigrant women working in the garment industry juggle the demands of children, husband, relatives and a new and bewildering society as they work for a better future.

Title: Stranger, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - tragedy - Alberta playwright nine characters; extras six male; three female one act

1 set; speaking chorus.

'Proud Indian woman, embittered by loss of her white lover to rich white woman, kills herself and their son in revenge.' Title: Stranger, The in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934 - 1984 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - tragedy - Alberta playwright nine characters; extras six male; three female one act

1 set; speaking chorus.

'Proud Indian woman, embittered by loss of her white lover to rich white woman, kills herself and their son in revenge.'

Title: Strawberry Fields in - The Factory Lab Anthology / CCO Author: Hollingsworth, Michael Publisher: Talonbooks 1974

Description:

roy drama - Canadian all male cast; three characters three male one act

1 exterior set.

A play about two waifs and a schizoid. "Hollingsworth is a very gentle person, the play explores uncompromisingly the acid decadence of rock scene followers. Hollingsworth is a romantic nihilist exploring the aftermath of civilization. The circus is over, yet the barren surface of the play hides infinite energy and frustration. The play is a tour de force that demands daring

Title: Street of Blood in - String Quartet / CCO Author: Burkett, Ronnie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy dark comedy - puppet play - fantasy - Canadian all male cast one male; puppets one act

When Mrs. Edna Rural pricks her finger and bleeds onto her sewing, she sees the face of Christ in a quilt square. As the media and the faithful converge on her sleepy prairie town, a has-been Hollywood vampire seeking rejuvenation and a karaoke-singing gay terrorist intent on revenge join the fray. And just as the bloodbath begins, the man in the quilt appears in the flesh to the odd trio, revealing that the bonds of blood are thicker and stranger than their individual thirsts led them to believe. Title: Street of Blood in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Burkett, Ronnie Publisher: Talonbooks 2013

Description:

roy dark comedy - puppet play - fantasy - Canadian all male cast one male; puppets one act

When Mrs. Edna Rural pricks her finger and bleeds onto her sewing, she sees the face of Christ in a quilt square. As the media and the faithful converge on her sleepy prairie town, a has-been Hollywood vampire seeking rejuvenation and a karaoke-singing gay terrorist intent on revenge join the fray. And just as the bloodbath begins, the man in the quilt appears in the flesh to the odd trio, revealing that the bonds of blood are thicker and stranger than their individual thirsts led them to believe.

Title: Strip in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Hayes, Elliott Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy monologue - men all male cast; one character one male one act

A man discusses his life and theories as a male stripper.

Title: Stroke Static in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO Author: Price, Lindsay Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy drama - mental illness ten characters two male; three female (doubling) one act

Suffering from dementia, Russ is taken from the present to the past and back again in a split second. A sobering look at the loss of control that accompanies this disease from the inside. Title: Subsidiary Vice-President in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO Author: Szablowski, Jerzy Publisher: Alive Press

Description:

roy Canadian - drama four characters three male; one female radio play

Interior representative set (office)

"A president of a Canadian division of an American corporation fires his son for going over his head. The son is reinstated in a better position, so the father quits."

Title: Suffering Fools in - Seven Short Plays from Theatre Ontario / CCO Author: Goodden, Herman Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy memory play - drama - suicide nine characters five male; four female one act

'In the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, Rodney's unfailingly loyal friend Bob has decided to exorcise some of Rodney's demons, and to enlighten some of his past and present tormentors, by turning Rodney's life into a memory play, performed by the actual figures from his life story.'

Title: Suicide Meet, The in - The Suicide Meet / CCO Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1977

Description:

roy Alberta playwright - Canadian - comedy multiple characters two female; one male one act

" "The Suicide Meet" was true Canadiana - with all our warts showing. Parts made me squirm with their truisms - parts made me reminisce briefly - a few parts were sad in their candor... After the series of skits was over, little sardonic slices of life as crude and unabashed as picking your nose in public, I realized I felt good, I was entertained." - Shirley Gordon, Radio CKXL, Calgary

No further description available. Title: Suicide Notes in - Three on the Boards / CCO Author: Williams, Kenneth T. Publisher: Signature Editions 2007

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples three characters one male; two female nine scenes

"The story of a homeless woman who writes suicide notes for random passers-by on the street, the play explores that intense need that writers possess to create; and questions the assumptions of what actually constitutes credible literature."

Title: Suicide-Site Guide to the City, A in - Social Acupuncture / REF Author: O'Donnell, Darren Publisher: Coach House Books 2008

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - monologue all male cast; one character one male one act

Theatre doesn’t have much relevance anymore. Or so acclaimed playwright Darren O’Donnell tells us. The dynamics of unplanned social interaction, he says, are far more compelling than any play he could produce. So his latest show, "A Suicide-Site Guide to the City", isn’t really a show; it’s an interactive chitchat about memory, depression, and 9/11, a dazzling whirl of talking streetcars, pizza and schizophrenia. And it’s hilarious.

Title: Sunday in Sodom in - Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom / CCO Author: Tannahill, Jordan Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2017

Description:

roy drama - historical - biblical - mythological - Canadian playwright six characters four male; two female one act

Sunday in Sodom: In the Bible, she goes unnamed, known only as Lot's Wife: the impertinent woman who was turned to a pillar of salt for looking back to behold God's destruction of her hometown. In Sunday in Sodom, Edith recounts how her husband Lot welcomed two visitors into their house and the destruction that followed. Title: SuperEd in - NextFest Anthology / CCO Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: NeWest Press 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - coming of age - Alberta playwright thirteen characters one male (performs all characters) one act

"'SuperEd' is a funny and touching coming-of-age battle between the fundamentalist television religiosity inflicted upon the protagonist and the comic book idealism he has acquired for himself. Underneath the lightening character switches, the great 'trouble light' acting, and hilarious jokes is a simple story of a young boy searching for a hero. While this journey towards manhood is one of Craddock's best crafted tales, it is also the first of many outrageous caricatures of prairie manners and mores to follow, often combining his fascination with popular culture, and

Title: Surface Tension in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Quan, Elyne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy Canadian - monologue - women - Edmonton all female cast; one character one female one act

'Elyne Quan's "Surface Tension" is, as its title implies, an ironic exploration of surface appearances and the tensions created by the undue importance attached to them. In her particular case, it is about her growing up in the predominantly white Edmonton of the 1980's. Created specifically to address issues of Asian ancestry...'

Title: Surprise, Surprise in - La Duchesse de Langeais and Other Plays / CCO Author: Tremblay, Michel Publisher: Talonbooks 1976

Description:

roy Quebec - drama - women - Canadian all female cast; three characters three female one act

"Jeannine has arranged a very surprising surprise party for Madeleine. Laurette phones the wrong Madeleine and ruins her plans." Title: Swamp Baby and other Tales in - The River Lady and Other Plays / CCO Author: Widdicombe, David Publisher: Icarus Press 2000

Description:

roy comedy - monologues all female cast; four characters four female (doubling possible) four parts

"Fate intrudes into the lives of four different women - an unwanted child who recreates herself in imaginary worlds; a street kid just trying to survive; a lost soul who discovers an unusual infant abandoned in a swamp; and an old woman who reflects upon her past while staring up at the universe."

Title: Sweet and Sour Pickles in - After Baba's Funeral / Sweet and Sour Pickles / CCO Author: Galay, Ted Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relations - women all female cast; two characters two female one act

"Olenka, fifty-seven, defies custom when she invites the man she's been seeing since her husband's death to escort her to a family wedding. Her sister-in-law finds the courage to broach the subject and in the discussion that follows they reveal early dreams of breaking with tradition, in the process reviving their childhood friendship."

Winner, 1981 Drama Award, Canadian Author's Association.

Title: Sweet Land of Liberty in - Sharon Pollock: Collected Works: Volume One / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005

Description:

roy radio plays - Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright nine characters; flexible casting five male; one female; three flexible one act

"Tom, a Vietnam deserter, is living in an Alberta town as a boarder with a single mom and her young son. Tom is haunted by his war experiences and his painful rejection by his parents. He is almost totally dysfunctional: he cannot work, barely speaks and only communicates meaningfully with the little boy. Aware of Tom's need for reconciliation with his father, the little boy's mother secretly arranges a meeting. The reunion proves so devastating for Tom that he kills himself. A Native Indian, who is probably a hallucination, is an accomplice to the suicide." Canada Australian Title: Swipe in - New Canadian Drama 3 / CCO Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: Borealis Press 1984

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - tragicomedy - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female one act

"A group of salvation hungry river tramps, led by a huckster named Peck Woodstick, await the arrival of the King of Tramps, who disappeared several years before."

Title: Swipe in - Hot Thespian Action! / CCO Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: AU Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - tragicomedy - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female one act

A group of salvation hungry river tramps, led by a huckster named Peck Woodstick, await the arrival of the King of Tramps, who disappeared several years before.

Title: Switching Places in - Eureka! / CCO Author: Deverell, Rex Publisher: Coteau Books 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - satire four characters two male; two female one act

'A look at the difficulties of teenage sex, pregnancy and single parenthood - with a twist.' Title: Table Top in - High Sticking / CCO Author: Brownell, Mark Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - hockey all male cast; three characters three males one act

running time : 10 mins.

An American, a Quebecois and an English Canadian search for the Holy Grail of table-top hockey: The Hubbard Cup. A lethally comic piece about guys and hockey and the differences between Canadians and Americans and Canadians and Canadiens.

Title: Taking Liberties in - Taking Liberties and Into / CCO Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female one act

Taking liberties examines five critical moments in the life of a city, when ordinary citizens are forced to make extraordinary choices. The play moves back through five decades, showing how the morals of one era can impact on the events of another.

Title: Tale of a Mask, The in - Canadian Mosaic / CCO Author: Watada, Terry Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1995

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - family - immigration nine characters four male; five female (doubling possible) one act

"Immigration to Toronto leaves a Japanese wife cut off from society, while her husband works at a low paying job, her son defies authority at home and at school." Title: Tales From the Hospital in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Schmidt, Trevor Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy drama - Alberta - Canadian - Alberta playwright - historical all female cast; four characters four female one act

'The production of Trevor Schmidt's "Tales From the Hospital" in May 1998 served as a timely reminder for Edmonton audiences that the painful effects of the Alberta sterilization act that was enforced between 1927 and 1973 could not easily be forgotten.' The play is a tour of a such a hospital where the stories are told as monologues by two patients, a nurse and a laundry woman, all composites of many real people.

Title: Tales of a City by the Sea in - Double Exposure / CCO Author: Sabawi, Samah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016

Description:

roy drama - romance - Palestine - war twelve characters; singer five male; six female; two male or female one act (nine scenes)

Tales of a City by the Sea is the story of two people who meet and fall in love in the besieged Gaza strip, woven together from the actual experiences of people living under occupation. Jomana, a Palestinian woman living in a Gaza refugee camp, falls in love with Rami, an American-born Palestinian doctor and activist who has just arrived on one of the first Free Gaza boats in 2008. Their love is met with relentless string of challenges. Ultimately, Rami must decide between returning to his comfortable life in Texas and staying in Palestine with Jomana. Choosing to stay

Title: Tales of an Urban Indian in - Darrell Dennis: Two Plays / CCO Author: Dennis, Darrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005

Description:

roy Canadian - dark comedy - Native peoples - Native playwright large cast all male cast; one male (doubling) nineteen scenes

A one-person play that follows the trials and tribulations of Simon Douglas, a young Native man who moves from his rural reservation to the big city of Vancouver. This dark comedy examines the issues of race, identity, and assimilation that drive young, Native males to self-destruction. Title: Talk Thirty to Me in - 5 Hot plays / CCO Author: Duncan, Oonagh Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy eight characters four male; four female (doubling possible) one act

A raw and funny look at a diverse group of 29-year-olds who are united by one pending horror - they are about to hit the "big 3-0".

Title: Talking Dirty in - The Arts Club Anthology / CCO Author: Snukal, Sherman Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014

Description:

roy comedy - relationships - Canadian five characters two male; three female one act (three scenes)

1 interior.

Comedy examining modern sexual attitudes in which married man on business trip decides he should have an affair.

Title: Tango Noir in - Bete Blanche / Tango Noir / CCO Author: Scollard, Rose Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1991

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - surrealism two characters one male; one female (doubling) one act

'"One of us is dreaming and one of us is going to die." Writer Collette's mysterious and shifting dream encounter with Mata Hari underscores the danger but also the power inherent in appropriating the Shadow. Women must acknowledge the darker side of their nature if they are to have the freedom of action.' Title: Tantrums in - Return of the Big Five / CCO Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian twenty-four characters fourteen male; ten female (doubling is possible) four parts

A stark play about social and personal collapse, including a menacing countdown and a mechanistic soundtrack.

Title: Taxonomy of the European Male in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Monkman, Kent Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - Native peoples all male cast; one character one male one act

The description is found in "The noble savage was a drag queen" by Kerry Swanson and refers to a performance at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, ON: "In this performance, Share [Miss Chief Eagle Testickle] arrives on the back of a white horse, resplendent in elaborate headdress, Louis Vuitton and Hudson Bay Company accessories, and cartoonish drag-queen heels. On her way into the gallery space, she entices two young white men dressed in loincloths, who become the subjects of her "taxonomy of the European male." Bringing

Title: Te Pouaka Karaehe: The Glass Box in - Airborne / CCO Author: Renee Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

roy drama - Native peoples all female cast; five characters and extras five female radio play

"This play examines a modern Maori woman's attempt to reconcile tradition and change." Title: Tears of a Dinosaur in - Ilsa, Queen of the Nazi Love Camp and Other Plays / CCO Author: Brooker, Blake Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - family relations three characters two male; one female one act

A taut, mischievous meditation on the modern family with mom, pop, adopted son and numerous dinosaurs.

Title: Teenage Moms in - Cues and Entrances / CCO Author: Smillie, Ruth Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1993

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relations four characters one male; three female one act

"Two teenaged girls are thrust into adulthood when they both become single mothers."

Title: Ten Ways to Abuse an Old Woman in - Canadian Brash / CCO Author: Clark, Sally Publisher: Coach House Press 1990

Description:

roy comedy three characters one male; two female one act

"A black-hearted look at the relationship between a fifty-year-old woman and her mother." Title: Ten Ways to Abuse an Old Woman in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Clark, Sally Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001

Description:

roy comedy three characters one male; two female one act

"A black-hearted look at the relationship between a fifty-year-old woman and her mother."

Title: Terrible False Deception, The in - Seven Short Plays from Theatre Ontario / CCO Author: Macpherson, Rafe Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002

Description:

roy satire - farce four characters two male; two female four acts

length - 40 minutes.

'A four-act play about a three-act play which it contains within itself. A play which heaps deception upon deception. Deftly performed with simultaneous flair and control, it has the potential to be both highly entertaining and theatrically intriguing. For some groups it may be the hit of the season.'

Title: Terrible Journey of Frederick Dunglass, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 36, Fall 1982 / PER Author: Cook, Michael Publisher: Miscellaneous 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama large cast flexible casting radio play

Description not available. Title: Terror and Erebus in - Staging the North / CCO Author: MacEwen, Gwendolyn Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy drama all male cast; four characters four male one act

"Terror and Erubus deals with the Franklin expedition of 1845, its fatal conclusion and the reasons for the outcome. Rasmussen's voice frames the story, his search frames Franklin's search, his view frames the Arctic. When Franklin and his second-in-command, Crozier, speak, what they say appears through Rasmussen's consciousness, so that the listener experiences a depth of focus: the immediacy of one man's actual experience, and, simultaneously, the reflective overlay of someone else's mediation."

Title: Test, The in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 26th Series / COL Author: Caplan, Pauls J. Publisher: Samuel French 2002

Description:

roy drama - disabilities all male cast; two characters two male one scene

On death row, elder inmate Cleveland has taken young, mentally challenged Bradley under his wing and is trying to teach him to read. When word arrives that Bradley's new lawyer has arranged for him to take a mental competency test, Cleveland tries to convince Bradley that this is one test he does not want to pass.

Title: Texas Boy in - Escape Acts / CCO Author: Rideout, George Publisher: NuAge Editions 1990

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Ontario two characters one male; one female one act

'Drama about adolescence set in 1964 Ontario. Canadian girl and teenager from Texas share confidences.' Title: That's Extraordinary! in - Airborne / CCO Author: Raznovich, Diana Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

roy comedy three characters two male; one female radio play

The end becomes a brand new start in this fiercely comic play when a woman trying to kill herself on a mountaintop discovers she is popular entertainment and turns the tables on her tormentors.

Title: Theatre of Neptune in New France in - Spectacle of Empire / CCO Author: Lescarbot, Marc translated by Eugene Benson and Renate Benso Publisher: Talonbooks 2006

Description:

nonroy Canadian - historical drama - Quebec - Native peoples thirteen characters; extras flexible casting one act

1982 translation.

"Arguably the first American play "The Theatre of Neptune in New France" by lawyer, poet and historian Marc Lescarbot was a masque of welcome performed on the Bay of Fundy by members of the tiny French colony of Port Royal on November 14, 1606. It celebrated the return of the ship bearing the Sieur de Poutrincourt and navigator-explorer Samuel de Champlain from their travels

Title: Theatre of Neptune in New France in - Spectacle of Empire / CCO Author: Lescarbot, Marc translated by Harriette Taber Richardson Publisher: Talonbooks 2006

Description:

nonroy Canadian - historical drama - Quebec - Native peoples thirteen characters; extras flexible casting one act

1927 translation.

"Arguably the first American play "The Theatre of Neptune in New France" by lawyer, poet and historian Marc Lescarbot was a masque of welcome performed on the Bay of Fundy by members of the tiny French colony of Port Royal on November 14, 1606. It celebrated the return of the ship bearing the Sieur de Poutrincourt and navigator-explorer Samuel de Champlain from their travels Title: Theatre of Neptune in New France, The in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 4 / CCO Author: Lescarbot, Marc Publisher: CTR Publications 1982

Description:

nonroy Canadian - historical drama - Quebec - Native peoples thirteen characters; extras flexible casting one act

"Arguably the first American play "The Theatre of Neptune in New France" by lawyer, poet and historian Marc Lescarbot was a masque of welcome performed on the Bay of Fundy by members of the tiny French colony of Port Royal on November 14, 1606. It celebrated the return of the ship bearing the Sieur de Poutrincourt and navigator-explorer Samuel de Champlain from their travels along the coastline as far south as Cape Cod in search of a more temperate site for the colony. It is a paean to empire, a thanksgiving for survival and an extraordinary theatrical spectacle in a

Title: Theatre of the Film Noir in - Shared Anxiety / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1994

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female one act (twelve scenes)

Film Noir intrigue in Paris, 1945. A murder that occurred during the liberation of Paris is under investigation.

Title: Theatre Omaha's Production of 'The Sound of Music' in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy comedy - spoof six characters three male; three female one act

The director of Theatre Omaha tries to rehearse 'The Sound of Music'. Title: Therese's Creed in - Tiln & Other Plays / CCO Author: Cook, Michael Publisher: Talonbooks 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - monologues - women - Newfoundland all female cast; one character one female one act

"A middle-aged Newfoundland widow reminisces about her past as she observes the changing world of her children."

Title: Thinking of Yu in - Small Room at the Top of the Stairs; and, Thinking of Yu / CCO Author: Frechette, Carole translated by John Murrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2012

Description:

roy drama - Canadian three characters one male; two female one act

"A beautifully written, thoughtful and emotional play about a woman who discovers an overwhelming, and ultimately freeing sense of possibility, when she becomes increasingly curious about three Chinese students who threw paint on a portrait of Mao in Tiananmen Square. What led to their act of creative rebellion? Where are they now? How do their actions help create a new momentum in her own life?" - EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts

Title: Third "Shepherds' Play", The in - Words on Waves: Selected Radio Plays of Earle Birney / CCO Author: Birney, Earle Publisher: Quarry Press 1985

Description:

roy collection - Christmas seven characters six male; one male or female radio play

"A modern version for Christmas radio presentation of the second play for shepherds in the fifteenth-century Towneley Manuscript of the Wakefield (Yorkshire) cycle of mystery plays." Title: Third Person in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Wicke, Brandon Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - friendship - adventure - mystery all male cast; two characters two male one act

"The mysterious writings scrolling inexplicably across the scenery make sinister hints at some all-knowing thing at the centre of human self-motivation, but this doesn't sit well with George and Byron, two inquisitive travellers who just happened to be passing by. The self-proclaimed voice of fate goads our two protagonists on, preying on their fears and anxieties, tempting them towards a profound understanding – or so it claims..." - springworksfestival.ca

Title: This is a Play in - Never Swim Alone & This is a Play / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Miscellaneous 1993

Description:

roy drama - Canadian three characters one male; two female one act

'A play, about a play, about a play.'

Title: This is for Aborelia Dominguez in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Mojica, Monique Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - verse - monologue - Native peoples all female cast; one character one female one act

'On January 12, 1994, a photograph of a Mayan woman appeared on the front page of "The Toronto Star". Her name is Aborelia Dominguez. She comes from the same territory as my husband, I had been there, I had loved ones there who were afraid of the federal army. We are 'Indios', after all. As as Indigenous woman, my memory of genocide is long. It is a grief I cannot yet put down. The annihilation is happening now.' Title: This is for You, Anna in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Anna Project, The Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996

Description:

roy drama all female cast; four characters four female one act

"A spectacle of revenge."

Title: This is for You, Anna in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 43, Summer 1985 / PER Author: Anna Project, The Publisher: Miscellaneous 1985

Description:

roy drama all female cast; four characters four female one act

"A spectacle of revenge."

Title: Three Dogs Barking in - Three on the Boards / CCO Author: Barry, Frank Publisher: Signature Editions 2007

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - thriller all male cast; three characters three male one act

"A cop, a crook, and a shrink, walk into an interrogation room… So opens the file of 3 Dogs Barking; a 70-minute thriller that pivots on a false confession and the complex relationship between a cop and a criminal. The drama plays out as psychologist Dr. John St. John tries to unravel the hideous circumstances of Jim Larkin’s past arrests and the link between him and his rival Constable “Big Ted” Coveyduck." Title: Three Dogs Barking in - The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Plays v. 2 / CCO Author: Barry, Frank Publisher: Breakwater Books 2014

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - thriller all male cast; three characters three male one act

"A cop, a crook, and a shrink, walk into an interrogation room… So opens the file of 3 Dogs Barking; a 70-minute thriller that pivots on a false confession and the complex relationship between a cop and a criminal. The drama plays out as psychologist Dr. John St. John tries to unravel the hideous circumstances of Jim Larkin’s past arrests and the link between him and his rival Constable “Big Ted” Coveyduck."

Title: Three Fingered Jack and the Legend of Joaquin Murieta in - Fronteras Vivientes / CCO Author: Nùnez, Marilo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

Description:

roy drama - legend - Canadian - Latina/o playwrights six characters four male; two female three acts

The story / legend of Joaquin Murieta written as a vehicle to articulate a history of women and a Canadian theatrical aesthetic that acknowledges the complications of transnational Latina/o formations.

Title: Three Tables in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 26th Series / COL Author: Remmes, Dan Publisher: Samuel French 2002

Description:

roy dramatic comedy - relationships six characters; extra three male; three female one act

Three couples at various stages of their relationships are dining at a restaurant. By the end of the evening, all three relationships have altered. Title: Thy Creature Blues in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Bunyan, Hector Jay Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy dramatic monologue all female cast; one character one female one act

'Dr. Jansen, a psychiatrist, is relating to a client the important role her son had played in her life and in the world he inhabited prior to his death.'

Title: Tickets, Please! in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 26th Series / COL Author: Sportiello, Anthony Publisher: Samuel French 2002

Description:

roy drama two characters one male; one female one scene

An angel of death is accidentally sent to collect the wrong soul. When he realizes his mistake, he tries to convince his "almost" victim to take full advantage of her second chance.

Title: Ticks in - Crossing and Other Plays / CCO Author: Gatchalian, C. E. Publisher: Lethe Press

Description:

roy drama - monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act

Ticks is the frantic, metronome-accompanied monologue of a self-appointed, disease-stricken messiah, eager to bring a plague upon the city. Title: Tiln in - Encounter: Canadian Drama in Four Media / CCO Author: Cook, Michael Publisher: Methuen 1973

Description:

roy Canadian - men all male cast; two characters two male radio play

"Tiln talks his companion lighthouse keeper through the winter and death."

Title: Tiln in - Tiln & Other Plays / CCO Author: Cook, Michael Publisher: Talonbooks 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - men all male cast; two characters two male radio play

"Tiln talks his companion lighthouse keeper through the winter and death."

Title: Tinka's New Dress in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 95, Summer 1998 / PER Author: Burkett, Ronnie Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998

Description:

roy comedy - puppet play many characters one male; puppets one act

Description not available. Title: Tinka's New Dress in - Alone, on Stage / CCO Author: Burkett, Ronnie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy comedy - puppet play - monologues - men - Canadian⌦many characters one male; puppets one act

Description not available.

Title: Tinka's New Dress in - String Quartet / CCO Author: Burkett, Ronnie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

Description:

roy comedy - puppet play - politics - Canadian many characters one male; puppets one act

Two childhood friends become puppeteers, each performing with the same beloved folk characters, Franz and Schnitzel. Fipsi, ambitious and naive, aligns herself with the ruling government, the Common Good. Carl, headstrong and outspoken, is forced underground as his satirical shows parody the censorship and oppression of the common good. Based upon the illegal puppet shows based in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, (this play) examines propaganda versus truth, compliance versus censorship, and the collective society versus the individual.

Title: To Forgive, Divine in - Breakout / CCO Author: Aragon, Joseph Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004

Description:

roy relationships, drama three characters one male; two female one act

'"To Forgive, Divine" challenges the Christian principal of redemption as it affects a mother and daughter trying to find their way back to each other.' Title: Tokyo Two in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 74, Spring 1993 / PER Author: Baxter, Virginia Gallasch, Keith Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1993

Description:

roy comedy - Japanese culture - radio talk show five characters two male; three female one act

'An Australian hit: Open City's brilliant "tourist thriller" about interculturalism , national identity and love affairs.' Takes the form of a radio talk show.

Title: Tommy Prince Story, The in - 3 Plays / CCO Author: King, Alanis Publisher: Fifth House 2015

Description:

roy drama - biography - native peoples - native playwright - Canadian large cast flexible casting one act (nine scenes)

The Tommy Prince Story is an emotionally charged drama that brings to light the incredible life and times of the great Saulteaux warrior.

Title: Tooth or Dare in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Scollard, Rose Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary - monologues two characters one male; one female one act

A pair of entwined monologues from two older adults who find romance at the Golden Age center. Title: Tornado in - The Other Side of the Dark / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Coach House Press 1989

Description:

roy drama - Canadian eighteen characters nine male; nine female (doubling possible) radio play

No abstract available.

Nelly award winner 1988 - Best Radio Drama

Title: Total Body Washout in - Johnnyville: An Official Secrets Act; and, Total Body Washout / CCO Author: Carnwath, Drew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998

Description:

roy dark comedy all male cast, one character one male one act

'A play which charts one man's journey to the edge of modern madness - and back again - complete with post cards, x-rays, dreams and large antlered animals.'

Title: Touch: A Play for Two in - Making, Out / CCO Author: Demchuk, David Publisher: Coach House Press 1992

Description:

roy drama - relationships - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act

Two male lovers discuss pornography in bed. Title: Tough! in - The East End Plays: Part 2 / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - drama three characters one male; two female one act

'Young, single pregnant woman and her girlfriend confront father of child.'

Title: Tough! in - Shared Anxiety / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1994

Description:

roy Canadian - drama three characters one male; two female one act

'Young, single pregnant woman and her girlfriend confront father of child.'

Title: Tragedy of Tanoo, The in - Plays of the Pacific Coast / CCO Author: Fairbairn, A. M. D. Publisher: Samuel French 1935

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - tragedy - Native peoples five characters three male; two female one act

"A play about the tragedy which almost wiped out the Haida Indian tribe in 1863. Tian, a young Haida girl, is in love with Kungaas, a chief's son, but is also attracted to Skelu. Small-pox which has broken out amongst the Indians. Kungaas is going on a fishing expedition. Tian, afraid, wants to go with him. Kungaas promises to go away with her upon his return. He leaves. Skelu then makes love to Tian. She repulses him. He attempts to assault her. Six weeks later Kungaas returns to find the village a city of the dead. Tian is lying ill... Title: Trail of the Otter in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Miguel, Muriel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

Description:

roy Canadian - Native peoples - drama - Native playwright all female cast; one character one female one act

multi-disciplinary piece incorporating storytelling, song and dance with set design and video projections.

"'Trail of the Otter' is a multi-dimensional, multi-layered story that creates contemporary Two-Spirited cultural heroes rooted in traditional cosmologies and teaching stories. This is important because the history of the Two-Spirited people has been largely ignored, omitted

Title: Trapped! in - Queer Play / CCO Author: Thompson, Hope Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017

Description:

roy comedy - women - LGBTQ+ - Canadian - relationships all female cast; three characters three female one act (five scenes)

A play that inhibits the film noir genre to tell the story of a beleaguered and bedridden newlywed. A critique of gay marriage that stages a camp representation of the regulatory structures it imposes. Progressive mainstream concepts of freedom result here in a state of mutual entrapment. Trapped! is a tale of menace and murder in a queer comedic frame.

Title: Traps in - Canadian Theatre Review - Vol 117 / PER Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Miscellaneous 2004

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples eleven characters nine male; two female one act

“ "Traps" is a tough and dynamic play that provides insight into the fears and hopes of the people who were in dispute over the Marshall Decision on Aboriginal fisheries. It has the potential to build bridges of respect and understanding among our communities, that we have not seen for generations, if not centuries." Title: Traps in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 117, Winter 2004 / PER Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Miscellaneous 2004

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples eleven characters two male; one female (doubling) one act

“ "Traps" is a tough and dynamic play that provides insight into the fears and hopes of the people who were in dispute over the Marshall Decision on Aboriginal fisheries. It has the potential to build bridges of respect and understanding among our communities, that we have not seen for generations, if not centuries."

Title: Travesty and the Fruit Fly, The in - Cabbagetown Plays / CCO Author: Tipe, David Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1975

Description:

roy drama - Canadian two characters one male; one female one act

1 interior set.

An ugly hag and a charming prince change costumes and argue jealously before putting brown bags over their heads and admitting how much they love each other.

Title: Trial of a Ladies' Man in - Rhubarb-o-rama! / CCO Author: Clark, Sally Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1998

Description:

roy drama - relationships four characters one male; four female one act

Four women discuss and explore their relationships with the same man. Title: Trick of Fate, A in - Talking Bodies / CCO Author: Tremblay, Larry Publisher: Talonbooks 2001

Description:

roy monologues - men all male cast; one character one male one act

A man loses a tooth eating a chocolate eclair, then all his teeth, his tongue, a finger, and finally his head, as his body increasingly abandons its "ordinary" place in the world.

Title: Trickster Visits the Old Folks Home in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Shorty, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy drama all female cast; four characters four female one act

"Anna, the protagonist, is an aging Tlingit woman who has to make the transition from her traditional way of life in the bush to a senior citizens home, a non-native institution, in Whitehorse."

Title: Trip for Mrs Taylor, A in - Three Women / CCO Author: Garner, Hugh Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1974

Description:

roy realism - seniors, Canadian eight characters four male; three female; one boy one act

3 interior sets.

"Old lonely woman pensioner living in rooming house makes life a bit bearable by planning and executing a very short trip." Title: Trojan Women, The in - The Trojan Women and Helen and Orestes / CCO Author: Euripides MacEwen, Gwendolyn Publisher: Exile Editions 1981

Description:

roy drama - Canadian eight characters; chorus of nine female three male; three female; one boy; one girl one act

Description not available.

Title: Troth in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Harrar, William Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama two characters one male; one female one act

A husband and wife, on discovering their spouses are having an affair with each other, decide to blow the whistle.

Title: Trouble's Just A Bubble in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Oberman, Sheldon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary three characters; two voices two male; one female one act

A elderly woman's journey on a train. Title: Troubleshooter, The in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Payne, Alicia Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996

Description:

roy drama - Canadian four characters flexible casting one act

'Old school discipline meets New-Age understanding and a student with capital 'A' attitude. With the help of a guidance counsellor, a principal tries to resolve a conflict between a teacher and a student.'

Title: Trumpet for Nap in - Three Plays: Tankred Dorst / CCO Author: Dorst, Tankred Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - puppet play twenty-eight marionettes; one narrator eleven scenes

"Napoleon is a dishwasher who conquers New York with the sound of his trumpet. Eventually he is deprived of it through envy and intrigue. A translation."

Title: Tuesdays and Sundays in - NextFest Anthology / CCO Author: Arnold, Daniel Hahn, Medina Publisher: NeWest Press 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - historical - romance two characters one male; one female one act

"Based on an actual love story that took place on Prince Edward Island in 1887. As poetically recreated by Daniel Arnold and Medina Hahn, the play effectively creates two worlds, the limbo in which young William and Mary awaken at opening, and the rural community of Margate where they met and fell in love in 1887. The two worlds are not wholly separate, however. Through language and memory, the pair recreate their courtship in an economical blend of poignancy and humour while still in dream or limbo state which could be one day, or one hundred years, after the story Title: Twisted Loaf, The in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Ravel, Aviva Publisher: Bastet Books 1973

Description:

roy drama - Canadian ten characters three male; seven female one act

This is the story of Bessie, an immigrant to Canada, who is now in hospital waiting to undergo an operation. As her three daughters and husband visit, she relives her past as Young Bessie. She recalls her life as a young woman, her dreams and aspirations, her children's ambitions, her husband's devotion, and her day-to-day struggles. Her life has been full and productive, and she is ready to face whatever lies ahead.

Title: Two of Us, The in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Melnyk, Doug Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy Canadian two characters one male; one female one act

Two people discuss life and their relationship with the audience, ignoring each other.

Title: Un-Settling in - Canadian Theatre Review (Winter 2016) / PER Author: Ahuja, Nisha Publisher: Miscellaneous 2016

Description:

roy drama - colonialism - culture - racism all female cast; one character one female one act

"Do you hear that? In the distance, but like its right underneath us? She’s running from that rumbling. In White Face. The colonized becomes the colonizer. The settled-on becomes the settler. Dis-ease settles into the body, heart, mind, and spirit. Until the rumbling erupts, forcing an unsettling. Who is on top? Who is at the centre? And is that really where we want to be?" - nishahuja.com Title: Unforgetting, The in - Summerworks / CCO Author: Dilworth, Alan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

Description:

roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female one act

Depression-era drama about a BC heiress and the secrets she discovers in her past.

Received the SummerWorks Jury Prize.

Title: Unmarried Wife, The in - Her Voice, Her Century / CCO Author: Cheoros, David Simonson, Karen Publisher: Brindle & Glass 2012

Description:

roy drama - historical biographies - photography - romance - Alberta four characters one male; one female (doubling) thirteen scenes; one act

The passion and photography of Gladys Reeves and Ernest Brown, early photographers in Edmonton.

Title: Up on the Roof in - A Three Martini Lunch / CCO Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Red Deer College Press 2000

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - relationships - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female one act

"An unwitting Robert is placed on a rooftop with a dueling couple who must come to terms with their disintegrating lives and an uncertain future." Title: Vajayjay Monologues, The in - Dough: The Politics of Martha Stewart & The Vajayjay Monologues / CCO Author: Burns, Lindsay Publisher: B house 2008

Description:

roy comedy - women - monologues - Canadian all female cast; one character one female one act

A satire of Ensler's famous work that questions the role played by The Vagina Monologues in how and where women see themselves today.

Title: Valedictorian, The in - The Art of Communication / CCO Author: Smiley, George Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - high school three characters two male; one female one act

"A high school valedictorian finds herself trapped in the men's washroom in a bus station."

Title: Valentine in - The Courier and Other Plays / CCO Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - family relations - Alberta playwright one character all male cast; one male one act

setting: night, June 1963, Saskatchewan, a farmer's field, the edge of the wood; running time: approx. 12-15 min.

"After a hard working but rich life with his wife, Victor finds himself unprepared for the domestic duty of raising his teenage son alone ..." Title: Vengeance in - Escape Acts / CCO Author: Ravel, Aviva Publisher: NuAge Editions 1987

Description:

roy Canadian - drama all female cast; two characters two female one act

'Holocaust survivor, posing as nurse to old woman, seeks to avenge parents' betrayal.'

Title: Venus Sucked In in - Airborne / CCO Author: Chislett, Anne Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

Description:

roy comedy - women all female cast; four characters four female radio play

This play features a teenager whose school project on "Women in the 1990's" bears surprising results when she studies the choices of her mother, aunt and grandmother.

Title: Vice President, The in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Schull, Joseph Publisher: Bastet Books 1973

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Quebec twelve characters; extras nine male; three female one act

"(The play) deals with a problem which could be seen shaping in Quebec long before the October Crisis of 1970, and is not changed yet in its real dimensions. It is neither a political analysis of French-English relations, nor a plea for either side. It is an attempt to paint in human terms the problem of the uprooted man, returned to abandoned loyalties and forced to search for himself. Title: Video in - Blade / Job's Wife / Video / CCO Author: Nolan, Madeena Publisher: ArtBiz Communications 1995

Description:

roy drama - weddings all female cast; one character and a male voice one female one act

A powerful commentary on the emphasis placed on a wedding ceremony.

Title: Vile Governess, The in - The Vile Governess and Other Psychodramas / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1986

Description:

roy comedy - Alberta playwright six characters two male; four female one act

"An Ibsenesque romp set in Vienna where a bourgeois family's world is turned upside down by the arrival of a terrifying governess and a loveable dog."

Title: Violinist and the Flower Girl, The in - Mousetown / The Violinist and the Flower Girl / CCO Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974

Description:

roy Canadian - melodrama - relationships five characters; extras three male; two female one act; twenty-five scenes

"1920's silent movie with music. Heiress loses fortune, hits the skids, poor violinist saves her from lecherous attacker. They fall in love, get married. But when the violinist falls for a rich enchantress, tragedy ensues." Title: Visit, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy relationships three characters two male; one female one act

'A young lawyer's overbearing parents surprise him at work.'

Title: Voice of the People, The in - Four Favourite Plays / CCO Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1949

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy four characters two male; two female one act

interior representative set.

"'Intended to amuse but has its roots in truth.' Shorty Morton never does much thinking or writing, but he decides to write a rebuttal to a letter in the editor's column of the local weekly. The result shakes Shorty's uninformed and inflated ego."

Title: Wail, Winds, Wail in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female one act

1 set.

'Parents at dinner party lament children's involvement in peace marches and other types of rebellion.' Title: Waiting for Gaudreault in - A Collection of Canadian Plays: Volume 5 / CCO Author: Simard, Andre Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1978

Description:

roy Canadian - Quebec - farce - men - French all male cast; four characters four male one act

'Deals with a group of house painters who are renovating the facade of a Canada Manpower office. A discussion ensues among them about the weariness of their lives and working conditions.'

Title: Wake in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Widdicombe, David Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

Description:

roy drama - Canadian all female cast; two characters two female one act

Two women have a conversation after a funeral, during which, one of them is healed through humour.

Title: Wall, The in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

Description:

roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters one male; two female; two boys radio play

1 set.

'Well-to-do mother forbids her boy to play with neighbour's son, when she sees he is black.' Title: War Cantata in - War Cantata and Child Object / CCO Author: Tremblay, Larry translated by Keith Turnbull Publisher: Talonbooks 2014

Description:

roy Canadian - drama - war - power - family relations two characters; extras two male; extras one act (sixteen scenes)

How far will humanity go in its quest for power? Why do we desire to eliminate each other through war? "War Cantata" looks at ways the impulse for violence is transmitted from one generation to the next; for example, when a father teaches his son hatred to transform him into a soldier impervious to pity. Without focusing on a particular battle or soldier, this harsh, intense, choral text builds the rhythmic power of words to expose war's spiral toward hatred.

Title: War Drums of Skedans, The in - Plays of the Pacific Coast / CCO Author: Fairbairn, A. M. D. Publisher: Samuel French 1935

Description:

roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - men all male cast; four characters four male one act

"At nightfall four men, a Spaniard, an old Haida Indian, his middle-aged son, and his young grandson, are gathered around a fire of drift-logs on a beach fronting a deserted and ruined Indian village on an island off the coast of British Columbia. The old Indian instinctively hates the Spaniard who is the descendant of a Spanish Captain who, one hundred and fifty years previously, had with his crew, despoiled the women of the village during the absence of the men of the tribe."

Title: Was Spring in - Try: Communion, Was Spring, Small Things / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016

Description:

roy drama - aging - women - Canadian all female cast; three characters three female one act

Three women clash over a tragic event in their past. Somewhere in the pain there is love, but when you've been betrayed by your own dreams and a lifetime's worth of guilt, can you still find it? Title: Waterfront: The Blessing in - Out on a Limb / CCO Author: Esau, Leah Jane Publisher: Signature Editions 2011

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roy drama - Canadian - family relations - grief three characters two male; one female one act

A small town north of Toronto. Ed and Jeremy pack their father’s belongings on the eve of his funeral. Ed, a pathological liar and former drug addict, was always dad’s favourite. Ed is on the cusp of changing is life: he’s recovered from his addiction, he has a girlfriend, and he has a business plan for an outdoors store: all he needs is his inheritance. Jeremy, however, knows the contents of their father’s will: and it doesn’t look good for Ed. "Waterfront: The Blessing" is about sibling rivalry, betrayal, memory, identity, truth and fiction, and seeks to explore the

Title: Waterhead, The in - The Waterhead and Other Plays / CCO Author: Bushkowsky, Aaron Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

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roy drama - Canadian - monologue - men all male cast; one character one male one act

A monologue by a man reviewing his mother and father's relationship; in particular, a moment when his mother is in hospital after a kidney transplant and he discovers his father in a relationship with another woman.

Title: We Three, You and I in - The Factory Lab Anthology / CCO Author: Greenland, Bill Publisher: Talonbooks 1974

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roy Canadian - drama four characters two male; two female one act

Non representative set.

"The play deals with the concept of charity and explores the motives of the charity worker." Title: Weather Breeder, The in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 3 / CCO Author: Denison, Merrill Publisher: CTR Publications 1980

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roy Canadian - comedy five characters four male; one female one act

interior rep set.

"John Hawley is sure that beautiful weather breeds storms and rejoices when one occurs because it proves him right, even though it appears his crop has been ruined. However, the storm is brief, the harvest is not ruined, and John becomes sour again. Love between daughter Lize and the farmhand Jim is a secondary plot."

Title: Wedding in White in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Fruet, William Publisher: Penguin Books 1984

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roy drama - Canadian eleven characters; extras six male; five female one act

"A young girl is raped by a soldier on leave, finds that she is pregnant, and is forced by her family to marry an old friend of her father."

Title: Wedding in White in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Fruet, William Publisher: Bastet Books 1973

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roy drama - Canadian eleven characters; extras six male; five female one act

"A young girl is raped by a soldier on leave, finds that she is pregnant, and is forced by her family to marry an old friend of her father." Title: Wedding Pool, The in - Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays / CCO Author: Gladstone, Amiel Publisher: Coach House Press 2007

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roy Canadian - comedy - relationships - friendship four characters two male; two female one act

"3 dissatisfied single friends start a betting pool to see who will get married first. When one of them starts a relationship, things get interesting."

Title: Western in - Return of the Big Five / CCO Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974

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roy comedy three characters two male; one female one act

"A story of love, violence and survival, the dialogue is composed of names of Western movies and stars."

Title: Western in - Western & Mathematics / CCO Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973

Description:

roy comedy three characters two male; one female one act

"A story of love, violence and survival, the dialogue is composed of names of Western movies and stars." Title: Western Wolf in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993

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roy drama seven characters two male; four female; one boy one act

'The play is based on a wedding in 1918 in a house on the Kinmount Road in Haliburton County. Young men who claimed and worked sections of land needed a woman to keep house (and help in the fields!), so they came east looking for brides. They were called Western Wolves.'

Title: Whale Riding Weather in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 71, Summer 1992 / PER Author: MacDonald, Bryden Publisher: Miscellaneous 1992

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roy drama - LGBTQ+ all male cast; three characters three male one act

"One day while sitting in a basement bar I noticed a man sitting alone - an elegant old queen with snowy hair perfectly sculpted around his translucent face. His eyes were empty. He remained very still, holding a brandy snifter while a steady stream of tears flowed down his cheeks. I found myself inventing his history, wondering what it must have been like for him growing up gay - maybe in a small village on the east coast. Had he been ridiculed by his peers? Disowned by his parents? This beautiful, unapproachable man at the bar had literally conjured Lyle, and that day

Title: Whale Watch in - Instant Applause / CCO Author: Curran, Colleen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994

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roy Canadian two characters one male; one female one act

A photographer and a environmental activist come to terms whilst inside a whale. Title: What Do You Save From a Burning House in - Dialogue & Dialectic: A Canadian Anthology of Short Plays / CCO Author: Farmiloe, Dorothy Publisher: Alive Press

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roy Canadian - farce three characters two male; one female one act

interior representative set.

"A conservative student and his radical wife argue over a demonstration. An analogy for English and French Canada."

Title: Wheel of Justice in - Eureka! / CCO Author: SUNTep Theatre Publisher: Coteau Books 1994

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roy Canadian - satire twelve characters flexible casting one act

'Satire in the form of television game show. Christopher Columbus tried by Canadian Indians for discovering North America.'

Title: Wheelchair in - Women Write For Theatre Volume One / CCO Author: Penman, Margaret Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976

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roy Canadian - burlesque three characters two male; one female one act

'An old woman, confined to a wheelchair, is visited by two young men who act out their memories, briefly restoring her youth and helping her to come to terms with her life.' Title: When Books Come Tumbling Down in - Anthology of Québec Women's Plays in English Translation - Volume III / CCO Author: Gagnon, Marie-Eve translated by Louise H. Forsyth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010

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roy drama - love - family relations - self awareness - Quebec - women playwrights three characters one male; two female one act (twelve scenes)

Original title: La bibliothéque de Constance.

(This play) is the dramatic representation of a normal middle-class family at a moment of crisis. The three family members - parents and daughter- seem to possess everything that prevailing socio-cultural values tell us are needed to be happy and prosper; a stable relationship, good jobs, a nice home, a delightful child. Yet, love has difficulty showing itself and speaking inside

Title: Whispering Time, The in - Perfect Plastic and The Whispering Time / CCO Author: Snukal, Sherman Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980

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roy drama - marital relations two characters one male; one female one act

"A young married couple, each obsessed with their own personal problems, wonder whether their marriage has come to an end."

Title: White Kingdom, The in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993

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roy autobiographical drama three characters two male; one female one act

'It is an autobiographical play - it is a journey - that summer I satisfied my longing and went to Europe.' Title: White Mice in - Inoculations / CCO Author: O'Donnell, Darren Publisher: Coach House Press 2001

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roy Canadian - drama - racism all male cast; two characters two male one act

"White Mice" examines how racism is nearly inescapable because it has become part of our society’s structure and functioning. You may be thinking: “Oh great, another lesson on diversity and understanding.” But you would be wrong. This play is by no means an after-school special. The premise is simple enough: two brother mice living together discuss issues concerning white mice and mousekind. - The Medium

Title: White Sand in - Airborne / CCO Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

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roy drama - racism, love five characters; extras two male; three female radio play

'This play is a searing exploration of racism and love, set in a frightening, near - future Toronto.'

Title: Who Look in Stove in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Jeffery, Lawrence Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act

"In 1928, the bodies of three men are discovered by prospectors. They had starved to death after misjudging the migratory patterns of caribou." Title: Who Look in Stove in - Who Look in Stove and The Edgar Christian Diary / CCO Author: Jeffery, Lawrence Publisher: Exile Editions 1993

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roy drama all male cast; three characters three male one act

"In 1928, the bodies of three men are discovered by prospectors. They had starved to death after misjudging the migratory patterns of caribou."

Title: Who Shot Jacques Lacan? in - Inoculations / CCO Author: O'Donnell, Darren Publisher: Coach House Press 2001

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roy Canadian - drama seven characters six male; one female one act

An exploration of Jacques Lacan's work.

Title: Who's Looking After the Atlantic? in - Who's Looking After the Atlantic? & The Proper Perspective / CCO Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982

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roy comedy - Alberta playwright two characters two male or female one act

"A comic encounter between a psychiatrist and a mildly insane millionaire." Title: Wide Awake Hearts in - Minor Complications / CCO Author: Gall, Brendan Publisher: Coach House Press 2010

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roy comedy - relationships - Canadian four characters two male; two female one act

Four nameless friends - a writer, an actress, an actor and an editor - stumble through the nightmarish landscape of love and infidelity while trying to make a movie about those very things. Reality and fiction blur as all four try to tear everything apart, hoping to wake up to something better.

Title: Widger's Way in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982

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roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eleven characters nine male; two female five scenes

2 sets.

'A stingy father is given a bag of gold for safekeeping by a mysterious stranger. Complications arising from his greed make him a different man.'

Title: Widows' Scarlet in - One-Act Plays From Canadian History / CCO Author: Hooke, Hilda Mary Publisher: Longmans Canada 1962

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roy Canadian - drama - historical three characters two male; one female one act

A widow has some fun with an older man who believes she is a witch. Title: Wild Abandon in - See Bob Run and Wild Abandon / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988

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roy Canadian - comedy - solo performance all male cast; one character one male one act

A young man's blackly humorous and static observations about life, the universe and his real mother.

Title: Wild Abandon in - See Bob Run and Wild Abandon / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988

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roy Canadian - comedy all male cast; one character one male one act

A young man's blackly humorous and static observations about life, the universe and his real mother.

Title: Wild Abandon in - See Bob Run and Wild Abandon / CCO Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013

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roy Canadian - comedy - monologue - male all male cast; one character one male one act

A young man's blackly humorous and static observations about life, the universe and his real mother. Title: Wild Guys, The in - Four by Four by Four / CCO Author: Wreggitt, Andrew Shaw, Rebecca Publisher: Red Deer Press 2008

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roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male one act

one act version.

"When four men set off to find an isolated cabin in the forest on a "weekend, a la Robert Bly, everything that can go wrong, does!".

Title: Wilderness in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 3 / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: CTR Publications 1980

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roy Canadian - drama - tragedy five characters three male; two female one act

"Mary, a young school teacher, begins her work in a lonely village on the north shore of Lake Superior. She boards at the house of Mrs. Martin. She roams over the hills with Blake Martin, and from him catches a glimpse of the fierce vigor and autocratic grandeur of the country. Blake goes away to a lumber camp for the winter. On his return he is lost in a blizzard and dies. The play deals with Mary's realization of his fate and her loss and with her spiritual transformation through her recollections of Blake's visions. The glory of the North transcends the smaller human figures,

Title: Wilderness in - A Vision of Canada / CCO Author: Voaden, Herman Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1993

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roy Canadian - drama - tragedy five characters three male; two female one act

"Mary, a young school teacher, begins her work in a lonely village on the north shore of Lake Superior. She boards at the house of Mrs. Martin. She roams over the hills with Blake Martin, and from him catches a glimpse of the fierce vigor and autocratic grandeur of the country. Blake goes away to a lumber camp for the winter. On his return he is lost in a blizzard and dies. The play deals with Mary's realization of his fate and her loss and with her spiritual transformation through her recollections of Blake's visions. The glory of the North transcends the smaller human figures, Title: Willie and the Watchers in - Willie and the Watchers & Revolutions / CCO Author: Theissen, Cherie Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1978

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roy drama - identity seven characters; extras six male; one female one act

'Willie is mistaken by the watchers for the new Messiah when he survives a leap from a popular suicide spot. When he finally managers to kill himself, the watchers look for yet another Messiah.'

Title: Wines of Tuscany, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 97, Winter 1998 / PER Author: Alexandrowicz, Conrad Publisher: Miscellaneous 1998

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roy relationships - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male one act

'A one-act dance-theatre duet for male performers.'

Title: Winnetou's Snake Oil Show from Wigwam City in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 68, Fall 1991 / PER Author: Spiderwoman Theatre Publisher: Miscellaneous 1991

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roy parody - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; twenty-one characters four female (doubling) one act

'Spiderwoman Theatre from New York parodies the appropriation of Native spirituality by contemporary Plastic Shamans.' Title: Witch-House of Baldoon, The in - One-Act Plays From Canadian History / CCO Author: Hooke, Hilda Mary Publisher: Longmans Canada 1962

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roy Canadian - drama - historical seven characters four male; three female one act

"In the year 1804, Lord Selkirk brought a hundred colonists from Tobermory, Scotland, to Upper Canada, and formed the settlement Belledoon or Baldoon, on the site of the present town of Wallaceburg, Ontario. The settlement did not flourish and many of the families died or moved away. Stories of witchcraft and black magic grew up around these early settlements, many of them centering about a physician named Troyler who was renowned throughout the countryside for his dealings with witches. These stories have been handed down under the title of 'The Baldoon

Title: Witness to a Conga in - Witness to a Conga and other plays / CCO Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press

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roy dramatic comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters two male; four female one act

A young gentleman’s attempts to draw connections among his circle of acquaintances produces results charged with gravity and uproariousness in equal measure. It’s a thoughtfully combustible look at living up to the music which invades your life.

Title: Wolfboy in - The Wolf Plays / CCO Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1993

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roy drama - mental illness - relationships - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female one act

'Relationship between two troubled young men in psychiatric hospital ends in violence.' Title: Woman in a Monkey Cage in - Voices from the Landwash / CCO Author: Stapleton, Berni Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997

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roy drama all female cast; one character one female one act

'A disturbing story of entrapment and imprisonment. Moving from dancing to music and counting to ten, the play charts this prisoner's efforts to understand her predicament and her unseen watcher/s.'

Title: Woodcutter, The in - The Cave Painter / The Woodcutter / CCO Author: Hannah, Don Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press

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roy drama - monologues - men - Canadian⌦all male cast; one character one male one act

In The Woodcutter, a man walks through the woods alone with only a few sentimental objects in his pocket. Once at a clearing he unloads his thoughts to the surrounding wilderness, slowly unravelling a troubled past and coming to terms with the impossible truth of what he’s done.

Title: Work of Art, The in - Ontario Playwrights / CCO Author: Dawe, Victoria Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008

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roy comedy - friendship - art two characters one male; one female one act

Neighbours Frank and Annie assemble a found object sculpture in Frank’s backyard and in the meantime discuss life, love and everything in between. At the end of the day, could it be that what they’re looking for has been next door all along? Title: Work Play, The in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

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roy drama - Canadian - contemporary - Alberta playwright all male cast; two characters two male one act

A young man has a questionable job interview.

Title: Workshop Script, The (A Cautionary Tale) in - Instant Applause: Volume Two / CCO Author: Shave, George Bernard Shiverstick, Bill Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996

Description:

roy contemporary - comedy four characters flexible casting one act

A dramaturge, playwright and two actors attempt to get through a reading of the play at hand.

Title: Would You Like a Cup of Tea? in - Four New Comedies / CCO Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987

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roy Canadian - comedy - relationships - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female one act

"A fallen English gentleman and his long-time batman have co-existed in the same flat for years. Their routine lifestyle is interrupted when they awaken to their need for female companionship." Title: Yagayah:two.womyn.black.griots in - Testifyin: Vol. 2 / CCO Author: Young, Debbie Belvett, Naila Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003

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roy friendship all female cast; two characters two female sixteen scenes

Traces friendship of two Jamaican women from 1984 to 1998.

Title: Yes Yoko Solo in - Love + Relasianships vol. 2 / CCO Author: Yoon, Jean Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009

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roy drama - monologue - women - biography - Canadian all female cast; one character one female one act

A multimedia presentation about Yoko Ono and her life.

Title: Yodellers - a one act comedy in eighteen scenes in - The Road to Hell / CCO Author: Healey, Michael Lynch, Kate Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999

Description:

roy comedy - Canadian - relationships two characters one male; one female one act

"'Yodellers' is a one-act comedy in which a male golf reporter falls in love with a lesbian professional golfer. Will they build a relationship, or will things just turn 'caddy'? " Title: You Fancy Yourself in - Canadian Theatre Review (12/1/08) Author: Ardal, Maja Publisher: Miscellaneous 2008

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roy drama - friendship all female cast; eleven characters (doubling) one female one act

An imaginative girl tries to fit into her new country but discovers how hard it is to stay loyal to her friend in the process.

Title: You'll Get Over It in - The Earth is a Witch, The Witch is a Saint, The Saint is Applause / CCO Author: Waits, Death Publisher: Exile Editions 1994

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roy Canadian - drama seven characters four male; three female radio play

"A skewed re-telling of the Pied Piper myth in which a futuristic city is cleansed of an unbearable infestation and then pays a horrible price for its ingratitude. A dysfunctional love story set against a backdrop of bloodshed and miscommunication."

Title: You're Him in - John Lazarus Shorts / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada

Description:

roy comedy three characters two male; one female one act

Also a street scene about the sexual misunderstandings between strangers. Title: Yukon Quintette in - Take Five / CCO Author: Burns, Mary Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991

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roy Canadian drama eighteen characters eleven male; seven female (doubling possible) radio play

'Mary Burns has adapted her own tough and controversial stories on northern life.'

Title: Yuppie Ciao in - John Lazarus Shorts / CCO Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada

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roy comedy - romance four characters two male; two female one act

A prequel to Puppets, a take-out dinner leads to a breakdown in the young couple's romance. As with Puppets, the audience gets to watch both their inner and outer behaviour.

Title: Zac and Speth in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Chafe, Rick Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000

Description:

roy relationships - drama two characters one male; one female one act

A couple relives their past relationship as runaways living in Vancouver. Title: Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline in - Shared Anxiety / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Coach House Press 1994

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roy melodrama - Canadian six characters four male; two female ten scenes

A revenge melodrama inspired by Shelley's novel in which Zastrozzi, the Satan of Europe, engages in a never-ending quest of retribution against his double, the saintly, deluded Verezzi.

Title: Zastrozzi: The Master of Discipline in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (rev. ed.) / CCO Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1986

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roy melodrama - Canadian six characters four male; two female ten scenes

A revenge melodrama inspired by Shelley's novel in which Zastrozzi, the Satan of Europe, engages in a never-ending quest of retribution against his double, the saintly, deluded Verezzi.

Title: Zero Hour in - The CTR Anthology / CCO Author: Milner, Arthur Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1996

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roy drama - prisoner all male cast; three characters three male one act

Three men discuss their own dubious situation, drugs and the politcal state of things at a jail cell in San Jose, Costa Rica. Title: Zero Hour in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 53, Winter 1987 / PER Author: Milner, Arthur Publisher: Miscellaneous 1987

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roy drama - prisoner all male cast; three characters three male one act

Three men discuss their own dubious situation, drugs and the politcal state of things at a jail cell in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Title: Zini and Zaba: Together Again in - Studio One / CCO Author: Caruso, Donna Publisher: Coteau Books 1990

Description:

roy drama six characters three male; three female radio play

A palm reader finds a friend.