Title: 17 Dogs
Author: Chambers, Ron Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2002
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; five characters five male two acts
After 40 years of simmering rage, a man betrayed by his former business partner has a chance to exact revenge.
Title: 1837: A History
Author: Salutin, Rick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical five characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
A lively, humorous and ultimately tragic look at Canada's ill-starred revolution for national independence.
Title: 1837: The Farmer's Revolt
Author: Salutin, Rick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical five characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
A lively, humorous and ultimately tragic look at Canada's ill-starred revolution for national independence. Title: 2000
Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 1997
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters two male; three female two acts
"The relationships of the young, the aging and the middle-aged, and between urban life and nature at the end of the millenium. . . 'I am intrigued by the notion of the wild invading the city and the city invading the wild, by the idea of things being not quite right in the nature and the reproach of the millenium.' - Joan MacLeod."
Title: 2nd Nature, A Hummer Opera As published in Theatrum Magazine (Feb/Mar 1991) Author: Taylor, Deanne Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1991
Description:
roy fantasy all female cast; large cast six female (doubling) two acts
'The action of the play takes place in a realm where mind and body, sprit and flesh, culture and nature co-exist. In this realm, generation after generation, power is shared between VOLO, the wielder of the concept of "I" who acts in the social body, and AUTO, who rules the visceral affairs of the homebody with the first ministers - GUSTA (Agriculture), CARDIA (Circulation), DOC (Health and Defense), and OVARY (Immortality). Auto's and Volo's story begins in an older generation, in a distant and perhaps mythical time when human nature was a creature of its bio-culture, and gives
Title: 400 Kilometres
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2005
Description:
roy comedy - self-awareness - Native peoples - Native playwrights five characters two male; three female two acts
Third play in Hayden-Taylor's hilarious and heart wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Janice Wirth, having discovered her roots as the Ojibway orphan Grace Wabung, and having visited her birth family on the Otter Lake Reserve, is pregnant, and must now come to grips with the question of her true 'identity'. Her adoptive parents have just retired, and are about to sell their house to embark on a quest for their own identity by 'returning' to England. Meanwhile, the Native father of her child-to-be is attempting to convince Janice/Grace that their coming child's future lies with Title: Acquiesce
Author: Yee, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - self - family - spirituality ten characters three male; one female (doubling) two acts
A moving story of tradition, family, and pain passed down through generations. Plagued by the success of his first book and haunted by his past, Sin Hwang arrives in Hong Kong with some unusual cargo and a lot of emotional baggage. Featuring a surreal cast of characters, from a foul-mouthed Paddington Bear to a wisecracking Buddhist monk, this sharply comedic and heartbreakingly poignant tale of self, familial, and spiritual discovery reflects the cycles from which we must all break free as we find our way.
Title: Acre of Time: The Play, An
Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy drama - historical fiction - Canada - family relations large cast three male; three female (doubling) two acts
A surveyor uncovers the history of an acre of land near the Ottawa River, a barren rectangle that contains the memories of all who passed through it, from the last native hunter to the first white settler. But the one person she most wants to bring back from the dead remains the most elusive - her daughter.
Title: Adam Baum and the Jew Movie
Author: Goldfarb, Alvin Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2002
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - Canadian all male cast; three characters two male; one boy two acts
Hollywood, 1946. Jewish movie mogul Sam Baum has just hired Gentile screenwriter Garfield Hampson Jr. to script a film about anti-Semitism. Through a series of intense and engaging meetings about the screenplay, both men are challenged to redefine their ideas about racism and about art. Intelligent, funny, and complex, this critically acclaimed first play won the 2000 NY Newsday Oppenheimer Award and was nominated for the Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award. Title: Adventures of Ali and Ali and the Axes of Evil, The A divertimento for warlords Author: Youssef, Marcus Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Talonbooks 2005
Description:
roy satire - Canadian all male cast; seven characters four male (doubling) one act (long)
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: Affections of May, The
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
After being deserted by her husband, a woman suddenly finds herself the centre of attention in a small town.
Title: Aforesaid Bates
Author: Tarver, Ben Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters five male; one female two acts
The views and philosophies of a pioneer rancher are aired when he takes his stand, refusing to leave his spread on a missile range in New Mexico. Title: After You
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1995
Description:
roy drama six characters (doubling) one male; four female two acts
Adele is dying and Jean is helping her. The cousins have come back to the family cottage on Lake Kawartha so that the stroke-ravaged Adele may die with peace and dignity. Jean methodically administers the required drugs but memory refuses to release its hold on either woman. The cottage and lake conjure up the ghosts of their former selves, and of the young man who was, to their minds, the "fork in the road" that determined the path of their lives.
Title: Age of Arousal
Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Coach House Press 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - suffrage movement - historical - comedy six characters one male; five female two acts
approx. running time: 2 hours and 20 minutes
"It’s a time of passion and confusion. Virtue is barely holding down its petticoats. People are bursting their corsets with unbridled desire. It’s 1885, and the typewriter and the suffrage movement are sending things topsy-turvy. In the midst of it all, five ambitious New Women and one Newish Man struggle to find their way. Miss Mary Barfoot runs a school for secretaries with
Title: Al Cornell Story, The
Author: Ballantyne, Bill Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
2 interior sets.
A second-rate pianist, trapped in fantasies of "hipness" in life and in jazz, is forced to choose between the big chance and his dread of change. Title: Aleola
Author: Charlebois, Gaetan Publisher: Talonbooks 1980
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian two characters one male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
"Aleola" is a play about people on the other end of the age spectrum - two old people who are celebrating their anniversary in the city, having given up their language and their land; have been forgotten by their children.
Title: All Other Destinations Are Cancelled
Author: Murphy, Colleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters one male; three female two acts
2 exterior sets.
In an isolated northern town, a family rages against the past and each other, in a struggle for love and forgiveness.
Title: All Restaurant Fires are Arson
Author: McManus, Bruce Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2008
Description:
roy dark comedy - murder seven characters four male; two female (doubling) two acts
"All Restaurant Fires are Arson" is a dark and comic look at our relationship with our own mortality, and with each other, as we struggle to face the inevitable. Tom, and ex-cop in his fifties, and Ron, a philandering priest, have been friends since grade school. Their friendship will never die, but their high school friends and acquaintances can and do. They’re surrounded by deaths, that might be accidents, or might be murder driven by incidents in their past. Title: All the Verdis of Venice
Author: Chaurette, Normand Publisher: Talonbooks 2000
Description:
roy drama - comedy - historical five characters one male; three female four acts
"A play about the megalomaniacal, tragic and passionate world of opera. Surrounded by the director of Milan's la Scala, a retired baritone and the young diva teresa Stoltz, with whom he is very much taken, composer Guiseppe Verdi is forced to write his opera, Don Carlos, for political reasons."
Title: Almighty Voice and His Wife
Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - drama - Native playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
A young Cree couple woo and wed, but it's 1885, the generation after the Riel Rebellion. It's hard for any Indian to live happily ever after, unless one goes into show business. A retelling of historic incidents to create a play about the place of Native people in Canada.
Title: Almost Perfect Thing, An
Author: Moeller, Nicole Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy drama - thriller - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts
Greg is a once-respected journalist searching for a high-profile story that will help revive his career. Chloe is the missing girl he wrote about six years earlier who has just returned home to a world she no longer recognizes. Instead of leading police to her captor, Chloe turns to Greg to share her story. But Chloe won't provide names or locations, and instead dictates exactly how the story should be told. Who is her kidnapper? Why is she protecting him? When Greg begins to question whether truth and fiction have collided, he takes matters into his own hands, even if that Title: Alternatives
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2000
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
"A very liberal contemporary couple - Angel, an urban Native science fiction writer: and Colleen, a Non-practising Jewish intellectual who teaches Native literature - have a dinner party. The guests at this little soiree are couples that represent what by now have become the cliched extremes of both societies-Angels former radical Native activist buddies: and Colleen's environmentally concerned vegetarian/veterinarian friends. The menu is of course shorthand for the irreconcilable cultural differences about to come to a head: moose roast and vegetarian lasagna."
Title: Amazing Gracie
Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1989
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - relationships - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
running time: 90 min.
A widow and a widower find themselves "shacked up." Adam and Eve arrive to help, except that, this time, Eve is working with the masculine to make him more compliant and Adam is working with the feminine to make her more assertive.
Title: Amigo's Blue Guitar
Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Summerhill Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - ethnic five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior sets and 1 exterior set.
Sander's life is given meaning when he chooses to sponsor a Salvadoran refugee for his sociology class. He never really thinks Elias will make it to Canada, and when he does, Sander and his family must learn what it means and feels like to be a refugee, and how to best relate to someone who has endured such intense personal grief. The warmth and humour of the Title: Angel of Death
Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
The year is 1916 and the war is dragging on. When Alice McCauley returns home she has more on her mind than mourning her dead cousin. She has to come to terms with the tyrannical father who drove her from home, and who drove her young cousin to his death. She must also deal with the housekeeper who raised her, a woman who talks to spirits and speaks of worlds other than our
Title: Anger in Ernest and Ernestine, The
Author: Morgan, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy two characters one male; one female two acts
'Ernest and Ernestine live in a perfectly ordered world until cracks appear in the veneer. Repressed anger rears its ugly head and the couple's efforts to maintain order and affection range from comic to tragic.'
Title: Anna Jameson
Author: Carey, Pauline Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian history - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female two acts
A one-woman play based on the writings of Anna Jameson during her visit to Upper Canada in 1837. Title: Another Season's Harvest
Author: Chislett, Anne Roulston, Keith Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - farming - family relations six characters three male; two female; one child two acts
sequel to "Another Season's Promise"; running time: 125 min.
When Ken Purves lost his farm in the 1980s, he vowed he would one day buy it back. Twenty years later, with the land safely returned to his family's care, Ken is enjoying a well earned Mediterranean cruise, when news of the latest crisis forces him to return and take up the battle for farmers everywhere. Ripe with drama and wit, "Another Season's Harvest" adds a spirited human
Title: Another Two-Hander or Two
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - acting - theatre - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts
"A comedy with a theatrical bent. Kelly deMare is a stage manager with a problem; namely the director. Is Kevin Russ inspired, intriguing or insane? Or is he just an actor/director? About directors, actors, stage managers and designers and what happens when the play becomes personal."
Title: Aphra
Author: Cullen, Nancy Jo Patience, Alexandria Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - historical - women - drama all female cast; three characters three female two acts
"This is a play about Aphra Behn, the first English woman to earn her living by her pen, and who challenged the popular expectations placed upon seventeenth-century women." Title: API 2967
Author: Gurik, Robert Gelinas, Marc F. Publisher: Talonbooks 1974
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian two characters one male; one female two acts
"API 2967" is Robert Gurik's science fiction play. Two characters resemble Adam and Eve, citizens of a world 1,000 years in the future, relive the turmoils of humanity. Do they actually live or do their lives resemble an "elongated death?"
The form of the play allows complete integration of film, music, tv, slides.
Title: Appetite
Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2000
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - human nature - fantasy - relationships - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
"Sam and Alice accept an invitation to dinner...but who, exactly , are their hosts? Victor and Tanya seem welcoming enough, but as the evening progresses events start to take an hilariously sinister turn...
Title: Apple
Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - relationships - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts
"Andy is in trouble. Downsized from his job, his marriage in crises, he meets a mysterious young woman who he looks to for salvation. But when his wife becomes seriously ill, Andy must make a choice: care for an estranged wife, or run away with a woman he knows little about. A haunting tale of sex, secrets and second chances." Title: Atlantis
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - relationships two characters one male; one female two acts
"A passionate encounter on the Greek island of Santorini illuminates this new play by Maureen Hunter. Ben is a Canadian in his fifties who has taken refuge on the sunny isle - thought to be the legendary Atlantis. He encounters Mircea, a mystical local woman and, in the words of Kevin Prokosh, theatre critic for the Winnipeg Free Press, their ensuing love affair provides "a badly needed hot spot for the soul."
Title: Audition, The
Author: Daniels, Dan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1965
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - theatre six characters four male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
A super-naturalistic or surrealist treatment of man's relationship to man. There is an inner contradiction between the action and the dialogue and each act is a complete unit in itself with its own value. Collectively the play brings about another value.
Title: Automatic Pilot
Author: Ritter, Erika Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters three male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
A stand-up comic discovers that unhappiness is the source of her creative and comic powers. An expose of modern relationships.
Winner, 1980 Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Title: Baby Blues, The
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 1999
Description:
roy comedy - satire - Native peoples six characters three male; three female two acts
"Drew Hayden Taylor's highly wrought farce of patrimony in a politically correct, post-colonial milieu of 'fancy dancers' of every stripe on the Pow Wow Trail."
Winner of the Alaska State University Playwrights Award.
Title: Bag Babies
Author: Stratton, Allan Publisher: Coach House Press 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - satire six characters three male; three female two acts
"The rich speak verse and the poor speak prose in this comic and wildly theatrical satire on hypocrisy and greed."
Title: Banana Boys
Author: Woo, Terry Aureus, Leon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy comedy all male cast; five characters five male five acts
Leon Aureus' adaptation of Terry Woo's novel "Banana Boys".
"Banana Boys" is a smart, contemporary and wickedly funny play about five young Asian-Canadian men wrestling with the issues of race, identity and the death of a friend. it is one story, fragmented into five and reconstructed throughout the course of their lives. Banana Boys is a "meditation for the restless" and a call to anyone who has felt out of place in this world. Title: Bannock Republic
Author: Williams, Kenneth T. Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011
Description:
roy comedy - Native peoples - Canadian - Native playwright four characters two male; two female (doubling possible) two acts
Find out what yoga, residential schools and the missing thirteenth floors have in common in this comedy by Kenneth T. WIlliams. BANNOCK REPUBLIC reunites the cousins Jacob and Isaac Thunderchild 10 years after the mayhem of THUNDERSTICK, This time a beautiful and vengeful third-part manager will wreak havoc with their lives. Jacob is working as a video journalist and barely clinging to his sobriety. Isaac is now chief of their reserve and trying to get the band out of debt. Destiny Charles, appointed to take over the band's finances, will make Jacob and Isaac
Title: Bastard (Once Removed), A
Author: MacKillop, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
"An Albertan yields his economic power to his Nova Scotia relatives after they lead him via the graveyard to doubt his own legitimacy."
Title: Bat Masterson's Last Regular Job
Author: Ballantyne, Bill Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - western five characters four male; one female two acts
An aging hero of the Old West flails against his fading reputation in turn-of-the-century Manhattan. He is offered a celebrity appearance at a second-rate boxing match and, viewing this as his salvation, he grabs at it passionately. But sports heros have replaced those of the Wild West and the once-dapper gunslinger who made Crazy Horse dance suffers the final humiliation. This is a compelling vision of the human condition. Title: Bathory
Author: King, Moynan Publisher: Broken Jaw Press 2000
Description:
roy comedy - dark - historical - LGBTQ+ all female cast; four characters four female two acts
" 'Bathory' is a darkly comic portrayal of the life and crimes of the 17th Century's infamous "Blood Countess," Erzsebet Bathory (Elizabeth Bathory) of Hungary. King's hit play blends gothic wonder with black humor while exposing contemporary obsessions with power, female sexuality, and the lure of magic. 'Bathory was both applauded and reviled for laying bare the truth of female violence. Then there's the play's romantic core - a beautifully constructed lesbian love triangle. 'Bathory', like it's
Title: Battering Ram
Author: Freeman, David E. Publisher: Talonbooks 1974
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters one male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
Irene, a "professional volunteer," provides a room in her home for the handicapped Virgil. She and her daughter Nora, both sexually frustrated, try to use Virgil to satisfy their needs. All three search for love but find something much less.
Title: Bea's Niece
Author: Gow, David Publisher: Canadian Playwrights 1997
Description:
roy drama - women four characters one male; three female (doubling) two acts
"Anne Hirsch, a famous novelist, battles to regain her sense of place, time and reality. She is surrounded by characters and happenings which challenge our understanding and perception." Title: Beautiful Lake Winnipeg
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
1 exterior set.
When a man accompanies his fiancee to her cabin, only to find her ex-husband waiting for them, the web of deceit grows thick enough to chop with an axe. Who's lying? Who's telling the truth? Is there a body?
Title: Becoming Sharp
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright all female cast; three characters three female two acts
running time: 120 min.
Recruited as the ghostwriter to the author of the world's most famous mystery series, Judy Parker thinks she's won the chance of a lifetime. But secrets and mysteries surround her. And becoming the writer she dreams of might cost her everything she is. A drama of writing and rewriting who you are.
Title: Bella Donna A dark comedy in two acts Author: Copelin, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy dark comedy - Canadian five characters two male; three female two acts
Excommunicated by her father's successor as Pope, weary of her husband's infidelities, the infamous Lucrezia Borgia finds passion with Giovanni, a young soldier she meets while both are in disguise. As war looms, the inexorable law of unintended consequences reveals a long-buried secret that tests everyone in the play. Sharp, satiric, full of hot-blooded characters, David Copelin's Bella Donna creates a dramatic world where religious faith takes surprising forms, lies fuel history, and gossip might as well be truth. Title: Berlin Blues, The
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
A German conglomerate puts up $64 million for a theme park called Ojibway World. Their dream requires stepping on certain native traditions and offers temporary gains for what would be permanent losses of dignity. The Germans display ignorance of the culture, suggesting caribou and Rocky Mountain features, neither of these being indigenous to the Ojibway's region. If one needs an innocuous night of theatre, this can be taken as a series of funny events. Those hoping for something deeper can find allegories and metaphors pointing through history.
Title: Between Yourself and Me
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - romance - Alberta playwright seven characters two male; two female (doubling) two acts
sequel to "The Red King's Dream" and prequel to "The Raven and the Writing Desk".
Determined to help her socially awkward best friend Steven find love, Amy sets him up on one disastrous date after another. But by the time Amy discovers she is actually in love with Steven, it may be too late.
Title: Bingo!
Author: Stratton, Allan Publisher: Samuel French 1987
Description:
roy farce - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
David Pearce, Associate Professor of English, is giving a tutorial to a pretty coed who aspires to the lofty heights of poetical inspiration - and to romance. David is fending her off when the department chairman's wife barges in with plans to make her husband jealous by telling him she is having a torrid affair with David. David is shocked (and worried about his tenure review). He is even more shocked when the chairman arrives, boiling, and finds his wife in one room and the love-smitten coed in another. Matters become hilariously complicated until David finally manages Title: Bingo!
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - relationships - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
Five classmates come together for their thirtieth high-school reunion. Some see it as a welcome trip home, while others see it as an obligation, and a few never even left. But as the night wears on, the one-time classmates start to reconnect and reminisce. And the more alcohol that’s consumed the closer the friends come to confronting their darkest secrets. Once again, Daniel MacIvor proves to us that just because we’re all grown up doesn’t mean we have everything figured out. His characters are sometimes naive, often crass, but always honest. As they try to
Title: Birds and the Bees, The
Author: Crawford, Mark Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - family relations - life - love four characters two male; two female two acts
Sarah’s marriage is over, and she’s just moved back home to the farm with her beekeeper mother, Gail. As the women try to adjust to the many changes in their world, their lives are complicated by the community’s last-ever Turkey Days celebration, beehive troubles, an eccentric neighbour, and a handsome young researcher. "The Birds and the Bees" is a laugh-out-loud comedy with a huge, honeyed heart.
Title: Blackpool and Parrish
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1998
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts
"A fast-paced comedy about Good, Evil, Destiny, Free Will, Family, and the End of the World. Harry Blackpool is the representative of all that is Evil on the planet Earth. Rachel Parrish represents the Good. After two thousand years of rivalry they are ready to pass their roles to their children. With the Apocalypse due tomorrow at tea time, is there any way to save the world? And doesn't humanity get any say in the matter?" Title: Blacks Don't Bowl
Author: Haynes, Vadney S. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - racism - censorship six characters four male; two female two acts
What do you do when your vision of the world and yourself is shaken to the core? When two Black Montreal artists create a show from images of pimps, thugs and dancehall queens, community leader Frank Simmons is outraged and tries to censor the demeaning images. What else is a man who is highly opinionated—especially about being Black and the Black experience—to do? What Frank does not count on is art’s ability to transform as he is forced to confront himself in a way that is both disturbing and revealing. Little will be the same afterwards for Frank, the artists, and
Title: Bland Hysteria
Author: Palmer, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972
Description:
roy Canadian - farce two characters one male; one female two acts
"A farce about Sally who meets Jeff at a bus stop. The two develop into several different characters."
Title: Blessed Art Thou Among Women
Author: Werner, Hans Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
Description not available. Title: Blind Dates
Author: Fuerstenberg, Anna Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Description:
roy comedy - drama - youth - social issues - high school six characters three male; three female two acts
"Young adults attempt to deal with fears of the future, including unemployment, lack of communication, birth control and nuclear war".
Title: Blood
Author: Walmsley, Tom Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy comedy two characters one male; one female two acts
'Noelle is desperate for cash to score some drugs. She's set up a date for kinky sex with a john who likes to watch her with someone else, but all her usual partners are busy. Then her long-lost bisexual brother walks through the door and Noelle gets to thinking... A play about moral ambiguities and the possibility of love.'
Title: Blowfish
Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - drama - monologue - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male two acts
"What do food, funerals, the Edmonton tornado, and Mila Mulroney have in common? Join the caterer Lumiere as he serves you up a whole new eating experience." Title: Blue Box
Author: Aguirre, Carmen Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy dark comedy - monologues - women - love - political - Canadian all female cast; one character one female two acts
Six years after fleeing the 1973 military coup in Chile, eleven-year-old Carmen Aguirre and her family return to join the underground resistance. At eighteen, Carmen commits herself to the movement, running a safe house on the border between Chile and Argentina. Forfeiting her first marriage to the pressures of revolutionary life, and living with the ever-present fear of capture and torture, Carmen realizes the sacrifices she who unconditionally loves the cause must make. Fifteen years later, in Los Angeles, Carmen once again gives everything of herself - for love of a
Title: Blue Dragons
Author: Armstrong, Gordon Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1993
Description:
roy drama all male cast; three characters three male two acts
Through memory and imagination, Simon searches for truth and the play explores relationships, the quality of living, and the nature of love in a world of cynicism, fear and AIDS.
Title: Blues, The
Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female ten scenes
1 interior set.
Four B-movie types play out their tenuous lives in a dingy bar. A pathetic and hilarious account of losers always hoping to win. Title: Boiler Room Suite
Author: Deverell, Rex Publisher: Talonbooks 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - drama three characters two male; one female two acts
"Deverall's play about two Skid Row winos who have climbed into the boiler room of an abandoned hotel on the Prairies to seek refuge from winter - and from the world, until it has turned more kind."
Winner, 1978 Canadian Authors' Association Award.
Title: Book Club
Author: Da Silva, Kristen Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - friendship - romance six characters three male; three female two acts
running time: 80 min.
Josh joined Book Club to get close to Annie. Small issue: Annie is oblivious to Josh's feelings for her... and she's engaged to another man. When Josh's two buddies - a womanizing trainer and a heartbroken nerd - realize book club is a novel place to meet women, the ensuing gathering makes for a fast-paced comedy about friendship, first impressions, and figuring out what we
Title: Book of Esther, The
Author: Brodie, Leanna Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy drama - coming of age - Canadian - LGBTQ+ five characters three male; two female two acts
It’s June 1981. Farmers face a debt crisis with interest rates as high as 20 percent. More than three hundred men are arrested after police sweeps of Toronto bathhouses, yet Pride Toronto launches its first gay-pride parade. Everything’s changing, including fifteen-year-old Esther, who escapes the family farm and runs away to the city. With the help of a brash young hustler and a gay activist who shelters street kids, she confronts her conservative-Christian parents—farmers on the brink of financial ruin—and begins to find her way home. Acclaimed playwright Leanna Title: Book of Jessica, The A theatrical transformation Author: Griffiths, Linda Campbell, Maria Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1989
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - women - Native peoples six characters three male; three female two acts
"Imagine one woman acting out another woman's life before that woman's eyes. Imagine that the woman improvising is white, and the woman watching is Metis. Imagine that the two women collaborate on a play; fight over the play; do not speak to each other for years, and finally reconcile, recording their tempestuous journey in a book which ends with the play."
Title: Bordertown Cafe
Author: Rebar, Kelly Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1987
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
In a small family-run "bordertown" cafe, Jimmy faces the most important decisions of his life. Caught between his Canadian mother and his American father, he must decide where he wants to live - and who he really is.
Title: boxhead
Author: O'Donnell, Darren Publisher: Coach House Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters one male; one female (doubling) seventeen scenes
Darren O’Donnell’s acclaimed play [boxhead] is a dizzying journey of ideas. It begins with the premise that young geneticist Dr. Thoughtless Actions wakes up one morning to discover that he has a box on his head. Thoughtless clones himself to create Dr. Wishful Thinking while the disembodied god-like narrator manages to clone himself as well. The two actors provide all four voices. Title: BoyGroove
Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy comedy - music - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male two acts
Jersey Boy meets Altar Boyz, with this look back at the life and times of the world's biggest Boy Band. Dripping with pop culture references, full of infectious melodies, this toe tapping pop culture manifesto explores what happens when young Lance Treble is found in a gay sex scandal, and homophobic rapper Hypetastic makes a meal of it.
Title: Bravado
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1988
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy five characters four male; one female two acts
"Little guys Ray and Wes attempt to take control of their lives. The result is a bungled robbery which accidentally escalates into blackmail and hostage-taking."
Title: Brindley Town A two-hander in three acts Author: Woolaver, Lance Gerrard Publisher: Gaspereau Press 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - Nova Scotia - drama all male cast; two characters two male three acts
When Bobby Langford arrives in Digby, Nova Scotia, looking for work as a cook on a fishing boat, he finds himself renting a room from Walter Letteney, a nervous eccentric and ne'er-do-well who occupies an old warehouse on the waterfront. What follows is a comic, compelling portrait of two men attempting to reconcile the contradictions of community life. The third play in his Digby County trilogy, 'Brindley Town' continues Woolaver's investigation of our society's racial and economic barriers and of the way in which the human spirit sometimes manages to overcome Title: Brothel #9
Author: Roy, Anusree Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2012
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - self-awareness - women - prostitution four characters two male; two female two acts
Provocative and moving, Brothel #9 is about the power of the human spirit and its ability to triumph in the face of corruption and suffering. A deal has been struck between two men in India—twenty-one hundred rupees in exchange for a young village woman named Rekha. Sent to Calcutta without knowing why, Rekha finds herself in the confines of a brothel with Jamuna, a prostitute and madam, who is resigned to her trade. In these conditions, Rekha must shape her destiny and find inner liberty.
Title: Bush-Ladies: In Their Own Words
Author: Thom, Molly Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy drama - historical - Canadian all female cast; four characters four female two acts
" 'The Bush-Ladies: In Their Own Words' is adapted from the writings of Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, Anne Langton, and Anna Jameson. In the 1830's, these four well-born, highly-educated British women came to Canada - and the accounts of their lives have made them the First Ladies of Canadian literature. In this clever play, Molly Thom uses the Bush-Ladies' own words to illuminate the immigrant experience. It is a spirited and dramatic romp through a vivid era in our history."
Title: Butcher's Apron, The
Author: Tidler, Charles Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters four male; two female two acts
open stage.
August Strindberg falls in love with the young feminist theatre critic, Frida Uhl, and they attempt to forge a new kind of marriage wherein the Feminist and the Superman may co-exist as partners, lovers and equals. But through an experiment in alchemy, Strindberg has become two people and his doppelganger is out for blood. Title: Buz'Gem Blues, The
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2002
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - stereotypes - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
The third play in Taylor's ongoing zany, outrageous, often farcical examination of both native and non-native stereotypes. As absurdly claustrophobic as "Gilligan's Island", Taylor is pulling some of our most revered icons - European anthropologists, their native elder informants and their militant young warrior critics - off their pedestals. This is a play about how our ritualized and institutionalized systems of maintaining and policing clichés prevents us from recognizing our common humanity in each other.
Title: Bye Bye Baby
Author: Gasco, Elyse Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - Canadian - family relations all female cast; five characters five female twenty-eight scenes
"Inspired by Gasco's award-winning collection of short stories, Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? It's the journey of a young woman, Elle, and her mission to uncover the truth about her birth mother. Elle struggles to make sense of her own life and identity, her complicated relationships with her adoptive mother and her own growing fetus. The audience shares in the intimate realities of Elle's early pregnancy, in her rage at the uncertainty that is her legacy, and in her frustrations as she butts up against the bureaucratic red-tape that provides the only route to her origins."
Title: Call of the Whipperwill, The
Author: Dufresne, Guy Publisher: New Press 1972
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
exterior set.
Godfrey Dechenes is motivated less by his greed for the sale money from his farm, or by his anger at the modern Boston pirates' who hope to buy it, than by his love for his beautiful daughter, Gabrielle. In a play that is both quick-paced and evocative, Dufresne gives us another view of Quebec - earthy, emotional, and full of a rage that is at times articulated, at times powerfully Title: Camera, Woman
Author: Vaughn, R.M. Publisher: Coach House Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - biography - Hollywood - Canadian six characters one male; five female five acts (two parts)
In 1943, Dorothy Arzner, one of Hollywood's few women directors, walked off the set of an unfinished film. She never returned. Based on a true story, (this play) explores Arzner's complicated relationship with Golden Era studio politics, her openly lesbian lifestyle and how the two worlds collided in her art.
Title: Cant and Canto A monodrama Author: St. Maur, Gerald Publisher: Corpus Vocis Publications 2015
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - monologue - biography - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male four acts
masks required.
A monodrama tracing the dramatic events in the controversial life of Ezra Pound [a poet].
Title: Capture Me
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy drama five characters three male; two female two acts
Juxtaposing lived and imagined realities of hate and love, fear and hope, quirky humour and bitter knowledge, Capture Me takes the kind of risks that keeps theatre powerfully alive and kicking. Connecting the lives of a kindergarten teacher, the traumatized Islamic immigrant with whom she falls in love, the insanely abusive former husband who is stalking her, and the icy, mortally ill mother whom she struggles to understand, Thompson achieves an intensity that owes as much to the jagged poetry of her writing as to the stark conflicts she stages. Capture Me is Title: Cariboo Magi
Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2002
Description:
roy comedy - theatre - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
running time: 110 minutes
'A drunken Anglican minister, an avarice saloon owner, a pregnant dancing girl and a man who claims to be the last of the Mohicans form a bedraggled troupe of desperate players. They head north, from San Diego, through the wilds of the Cariboo gold rush to perform a Christmas Pageant for the Theatre Royal in Barkerville, B.C., with hilarious results.'
Title: Caribou
Author: Melski, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy drama all male cast; two characters two male eight scenes
'Set on a mountain, near an anonymous village along the Trans-Canada highway, 'Caribou' is a stark, unrelenting character study of two hunters in a savage October of the heart - Louis, a construction worker and his brother-in-law Duncan, mentally disordered since birth, and dependant on Louis and his wife Anne. One day, Louis and Duncan embark on a hunting trip. It is a last chance for both men, driven to the limit by love, each willing to kill for their right to exist. Loosely based on the myth of Isaac and Abraham, (the play) is about yearning and sacrifice, rites
Title: Carmela's Table
Author: Rossi, Vittorio Publisher: Talonbooks 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - immigrants five characters two male; three female two acts
"In Rossi's second play of his Carpenter's Trilogy, his dramatic portraits of the decorated Italian war hero Silvio's manipulative mother, Filomena, his inexplicably loyal wife Carmela, and the extended family's understanding and supportive neighbours Neva and Dave, are finely drawn variations on what have become pop-culture stereotypes of Italian immigrants. They clearly exist to allow Rossi to peel back the complex layers of Silvio's psyche to reveal all the classic symptoms of what we now know as post-traumatic stress disorder..." Title: Castrato
Author: Nelson, Greg Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters three male; one female two acts
At the center of Castrato is the tragic and sensational suicide of an abusive father and preacher. Haunted by their father's death, his surviving sons come to a less than perfect reunion after their twelve-year estrangement. Amidst the clash of liberal and fundamentalist religious views, Nelson's charged characters and tightly crafted dialogue bring to the forefront the experience of heartfelt struggle, psychological ramifications and long simmering rage.
Title: Catering Queen, The
Author: Lawrence, Alison Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Christmas six characters three male; three female two acts
Welcome to Henderson Tessier McGuire & Smythe’s annual Christmas cocktail party, held at the gracious home of managing partner George Smythe and his lovely wife Buffy. It’s The Catering Gig From Hell. Behind the scenes is Melanie, McKinley Catering’s supervisor, plating up hors d’oeuvres and juggling her career as a writer, her ex-boyfriend’s appearance on the arm of a gorgeous young lawyer and her friends’ expectations. Oh, and Cynthia’s there too, an actress not so happy to be wearing the catering bowtie, sniping at their old roommate Timothy, who’s making
Title: Cecil and Cleopaytra
Author: Libman, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada
Description:
roy drama two characters one male; one female two acts
"An aged, formerly renowned, acting coach rekindles his interest in life when his day nurse becomes his next protege." Title: Centenarian Rhyme
Author: Bernier, Alexis Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy six characters three male; three female two acts
Description not available.
Title: Chairs and Tables
Author: Wyatt, Rachel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - comedy three characters one male; two female two acts
"The story of a dangerous friendship. Alix has once again arrived to disrupt Susan's life and refresh her memories."
Title: China Doll
Author: Chan, Marjorie Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004
Description:
roy drama - Chinese - historical four characters one male; three female two acts
20th century China.
"In China Doll, Marjorie Chan's first play, Ibsen is a catalyst for a young woman who comes to see her future in terms other than those laid out for her by the patriarchal society in which she lives. As Su-Ling grows into womanhood, she makes choices that lead her toward independence, and which have consequences for everyone in her world." Title: Chinese Man Said Goodbye, The
Author: McManus, Bruce Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male one act (full length)
1 interior set.
Candid humor helps reveal the strengths and weaknesses of a bond between father and son.
Title: Choke My Heart
Author: McBride, Celia Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2010
Description:
roy drama - family relations - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male two acts
Two brothers living on an isolated farm discover two giant artichokes. The "magic freak" of these gifts uncover dark family secrets buried in the past.
Title: Chronic
Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - illness six characters three male; three female two acts
Ostensibly about CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome) and the virus that may or may not cause it, Chronic puts one woman’s disease under the theatrical microscope along with various other pathologies of modern life. At first Petra seems familiarly neurotic, a Woody Allen character refracted through George F. Walker. But as Griffiths examines the psychological, social and sexual dimensions of Petra’s experience in her desperate pursuit of a cure, as well as her medical treatments, her dreams, and the peculiarities of her post-industrial workplace, the stage becomes Title: Clever As Paint The Rossettis in love Author: Morrissey, Kim Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - drama three characters two male; one female two acts
"A comic reappraisal of the painting circle of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his wife Lizzie Siddal, and protege William Morris. Examines the boundaries between inspiration and despair, art and craft. After Siddal's suicide, Rossetti buried his love poems in her coffin. Seven years later he dug them up again, publishing them to please his new lover and model, Janey Morris (wife of William Morris). Strangely beautiful, witty and compassionate, 'Clever As Paint' offers fresh insights into the boundaries between art, craft, grief, inspiration and despair."
Title: Closer and Closer Apart A play in two acts Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Miscellaneous 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts
"Born out of a one-act two-hander Stickland wrote in 1999, the play takes place entirely in Joe’s well-furnished high-rise condo. Joe's daughter, Melody, returns home from Vancouver on a stop-over to a new job in Arizona, coming to grips with her own divorce as she confronts not only her deteriorated father, but also her never-stop real estate agent brother Michael, a pragmatist whose day-to-day dealings with their dad have taken their toll, but whose cellphone is always ringing."
Title: Clout
Author: Young, David Publisher: Coach House Press 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy five characters two male; one female (doubling) two acts
CLOUT is an expressionistic comedy; the play takes place inside the head of a dying man on a morphine drip. Lionel K. Biggar, newspaper baron and megalomaniac, and Trent, a burnt-out liberal journalist formerly in Biggar's employ, are kidnapped from a shareholder's meeting by Eve, a shape-shifting terrorist and nemesis. Chained back to back in a dungeon cell, the two men find themselves in a nebulous zone where ideological mind games are the order of the day. The stakes of these games? One man's sanity, and, perhaps, the future itself. Title: Club Chernobyl
Author: Warren, Dianne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama six characters three male; three female two acts
"Dallas MacKenzie's new nightclub has a nuclear-meltdown concept, but it's not turning out to be the hot-spot he'd hoped for. He's coping with a troubled marriage, a violent rainstorm, a flooded basement, a stranded motorist, and the dead body of tattooed woman on what just might be the night that ends the world."
Title: Clue in the Fast Lane
Author: Cooper, Beverley MacDonald, Ann-Marie Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - mystery many characters three male; three female (doubling) three acts
"Who's the girl who cracks the case with every Titian hair in place?" It's Nancy Prew, the relentlessly perky teen detective! Nancy's time-travel adventures are the mystery at the heart of Clue in the Fast Lane. Beverley Cooper and Ann Marie MacDonald's script is a witty spoof of Carolyn Keene's popular Nancy Drew mysteries, which generations of 20th-century girls grew up devouring. It's 1955, and Nancy's just completed law school, but her father thinks she's more suited to being a legal secretary than a practising lawyer. She declines a marriage proposal from
Title: Cold Comfort
Author: Garrard, Jim Publisher: Talonbooks 1982
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian three characters two male; one female two acts
Cold Comfort" is the third in a quartet of plays that Jim Garrard calls "Bondage Plays for My Country. The play is set in Saskatchewan, the geographic centre of the country. There are three characters in the play: Dolores, a fifteen year old girl who wants to know more about the world than the window and the household TV can tell her; Floyd, her father, with whom she lives in an abandoned service station, whose paternal misdeeds form the sinister backdrop for the play's action; and Stephen, the proverbial travelling salesman, who unwittingly stumbles into this Title: Colonial Tongues
Author: Robinson, Mansel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy drama five Characters three male; two female two acts
In 1967 in a small Northern Ontario town, Edna Barnett finds her family in moral jeopardy. Her youngest son returns home - to a ghost town. Moving back and forth 30 years, "Colonial Tongues" enacts the disintegration of family and the struggle to rebuild community.
Title: Colours in the Dark
Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Talonbooks 1971
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - childhood six characters; extras (children); chorus three male; three female two acts
Set in a magical toy box, a series of images, poems and memories evoke the terrors and delights of childhood.
Title: Come Good Rain
Author: Seremba, George Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Africa all male cast; thirty-one characters one male (doubling) two acts
Set in Uganda during the turbulent and murderous regimes of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, 'Come Good Rain' chronicles George Seremba's life as a young man growing up and witnessing the reckless abandon with which the "Pearl of Africa" becomes its own festering curse. While pursuing studies in literature and drama, he becomes swept up in the polarized tide of power struggles, living with a constant fear for his companions, contemporaries and most of all, his family. Combining African mythology, history, and dynamic narrative, this play emerges finally as a Title: Common Man's Guide to Loving Women, A
Author: Moodie, Andrew Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1999
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - relationships all male cast; four characters four male two acts
1 interior set.
Just as the stag party is about to begin, the bride cancels the wedding. Chris, the jilted fiance, is a walking wounded, but as his three buddies attempt consolation we discover that they, too, are relationship-challenged. Four guys sit around and talk about sex, love, women...and the meaning of life. Jocular and playful, these men can also be frank in revealing their vulnerability and
Title: Compulsory Option
Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Miscellaneous 1970
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female three acts
Alberta Playwriting Competition, 1970, 2nd Prize.
No abstract available.
Title: Corker
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1998
Description:
roy Canadian - drama six characters three male, three female two acts
"Uses the familiar but difficult and treacherous nineteenth-century device of representing the family as a microcosm of the nation state. It is Wendy Lill's great skill as a playwright that actually makes this symbolism work by unraveling it into a devastating conclusion that is seen in two completely different ways by the characters and the audience."
Governor General's Drama Award Finalist, 1999. Title: Crabdance
Author: Simons, Beverley Publisher: In Press 1969
Description:
roy tragicomedy - Canadian four characters three male; one female three acts
1 interior set.
A tragicomedy in which a lonely woman plays elaborate, ritualistic games with three men forced to play her son, her husband, and her lover.
Title: Crackwalker, The
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - disabilities five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
This remarkable play about a mentally disabled woman and her friends explores the psyche of those living outside of "normal" society.
Title: Crees in the Caribbean A heartwarming comedy about two Cree elders Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2016
Description:
roy comedy - Native peoples - Canadian playwright - Indigenous theatre three characters one male; two female two acts
A heartwarming comedy about two middle-aged First Nations elders on their very first trip out of the country. Evie and Cecil are celebrating their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary. As a gift, their grown children send them on a second honeymoon – to a fabulous resort on the Caribbean coast of Mexico. The only problem is that neither have ever been out of the country, let alone off their Cree reservation. Each reacts to their new experiences differently, and something ominous seems to be bothering Cecil. Despite the sun, sand, and sea sparkling right outside the resort window, Title: Criminals in Love
Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female 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.
Winner, 1984 Chalmers Canadian Play Award and Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 1985.
Title: D'Arcy A docu-drama Author: Dempsey, Sandra Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1981
Description:
roy Canadian - monologues - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; one character one male two acts
1 setting; background music.
"One man play about life of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish by birth, a poet, rebel and journalist who became known as Father of Confederation in Canada."
Title: Dali
Author: Millan, Jim Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - surrealism six characters four male; two female two acts
"A biographical look at the artist's life, his relationship with Gala, and his obsession with sex and death." Title: Danceland
Author: Cairns, Glen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
Set in the steamy jazz world of the 1930s, Danceland is the story of Lily, an expatriate Canadian jazz singer who is unprepared for the cathartic redemption which await her when she returns to her hometown of Little Manitou, Saskatchewan, in search of sanctuary and lost innocence.
Title: Dancing in Poppies
Author: Bowen, Gail Marken, Ron Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1992
Description:
roy drama - war three characters two male; one female two acts
Two young veterans and a nursing volunteer adjust to life after World War I. With growing confidence, they discover peace and love in a socially and politically dynamic Canada.
Title: Dancock's Dance
Author: Vanderhaeghe, Guy Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - mental illness - identity six characters five male; one female two acts
"Shell-shocked, judged unfit for society and haunted by the sins of war, Lieutenant John Carlyle Dancock finds himself committed to an insane asylum where he cannot escape the confines of righteous authority or his own conscience which visits him in the ghostly apparition of a dead soldier." Title: Dangers of VD (Valentine's Day), The
Author: McKerracher, Chris Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright - romance - relationships - Canadian six characters two male; four female three acts
Running time: 90 minutes.
Uproarious laughs mixed with social commentary against the background of Valentine's Day. Gramps and Gran yearn for the romance of yesteryear while their daughter-in-law, Paulette, and her husband deal with his lack of interest in sex. Meanwhile, Paulette's daughter is being coached to dress trampily to attract men by her Aunt Jean. A device for great comedy in The Dangers of VD
Title: Dead Together
Author: Rideout, George Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - mystery - thriller five characters two male; three female two acts
"Five ex-student radicals reunite 25 years after their occupation of a university records office. The 'Big Chill' gone wrong."
Title: Diplomacy
Author: Carlson, Tim Publisher: Talonbooks 2009
Description:
roy drama - political four characters three male; one female four parts
Sharing a title with Henry Kissinger’s infamous book, Tim Carlson’s play Diplomacy is a graphic, conflict-fuelled drama with moments of heartbreak and dark humour—a reflection on the international themes that have come to define our contemporary world. Nominally about Canada and America’s active military involvement in the Middle East’s many theatres of war, it scrutinizes the part the media plays in manufacturing our private reactions to foreign policy—how the new phenomenon of “embedded journalism” has become complicit in making everything personal, Title: Dishwashers, The
Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2005
Description:
roy dramatic comedy all male cast; four characters four male two acts
Of all our contemporary urban myths none is more absurd than the fiction of the “classless society,” and Morris Panych’s latest comedy penetrates ruthlessly to the shock and horror of the residue of hardened pesto soiling its porcelain heart. Haplessly determined to have his own miserable authority vindicated, chief dishwasher Dressler presides over the steam-choked basement of an up-scale restaurant, a place of seamless existential drudgery so utterly remote from the light of day that its wage-slaves have no contact with anyone outside. Spouting an
Title: Doc
Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts
Catherine returns home to visit her aging father, a doctor revered and honoured by his community. She confronts, through a series of flashbacks, her thwarted need for his love and her late mother's decline into alcoholism, finally realizing that it is time for a reconciliation with her father.
Winner of the Governor General's Literacy Award for Drama.
Title: Dolly Rockers, The
Author: Craig, Colleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - musical - feminism all female cast; five characters five female two acts
"The year is 1974. The Dolly Rockers, an all-female rock band, set out to meet the oil rich Calgarian who has promised to back them for a record. As the band crosses Canada via seedy hotels, small town bars and high school gyms, they encounter aggressive rival bands, sexist bar owners, drugs, romance, ruthless opportunism and violent internal squabbling." Title: Domino Heart, The
Author: Edison, Matthew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama three characters two male; one female four parts
Cara's husband is killed in a car accident. Mortimer is sleepless in his hospital room. Leo is camped out in his office at Lucas, Triggs & Berkoff. In the night sky above, a helicopter carries the organ that will connect them all.
Title: Dora A Case of Hysteria Author: Morrissey, Kim Publisher: Nick Hern Books 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - black comedy - drama three characters two male; one female two acts
"A feminist play about Freud and his most famous patient."
Title: Drawer Boy, The
Author: Healey, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
A haunting tale of love and obsession in which the varieties of both are explored.
Finalist, the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 1982 Dora Award Winner 1999 Title: Dream Without Bottom
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001
Description:
roy romantic comedy - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
'Forty years ago Rosalind Downey fell in love with an actor while performing "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Now he's back. Rosy colored memory collides with cold reality against a Shakespearean background in this touching comedy.'
Title: Dreaming and Duelling
Author: Lazarus, John Lazarus, Joa Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
Fantasies and love for the same girl lead two fencing students to "play" with the safety tips off and the points sharpened. A look at adolescent role-playing.
Title: Dreamland Saturday Nights
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1998
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - romance - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
"When a die-hard movie fan accidentally meets a film student at the Dreamland Repertory Cinema, will it be true love, or merely an illusion? Desire and film fantasy collide with hilarious and heartbreaking results. With appearances by Bogart, Bette Davis, Astaire and others." Title: Dreary and Izzy
Author: Beagan, Tara Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Alberta playwright - Native peoples four characters one male; three female two acts
1975, Lethbridge, Alberta. When the Monoghan sisters lose their parents in a car accident, Deirdre remains as the sole caregiver to her older sister, Isabelle. Adopted as an infant from the neighbouring Blood Indian Reserve, Isabelle is loving, joyous, and severely affected by fetal alcohol syndrome in a time before the disorder had a name. Just as Deirdre is poised to enter university and begin exploring her own future, she must choose how much of her life she will sacrifice for the love of Isabelle. Deirdre is barely staying afloat under the strain of this reality
Title: Drift
Author: Deverell, Rex Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
A portrait of a young woman who comes to Canada during the thirties and marries a Canadian farm boy, and the struggles of a writer of the next generation trying to recreate this portrait.
Title: Drinking Alone
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1998
Description:
roy comedy - family relations five characters two male; three female two acts
'Joe Todd hires Renee Duchene to pose as his fiancee so that he can impress his father in this romantic comedy set in the midst of a dysfunctional family reunion.' Title: Driving Force, The
Author: Tremblay, Michel translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Talonbooks 2003
Description:
roy drama - family relations all male cast; two characters two male two acts
In Act 1 Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer’s ward, tending to his needs while hopelessly trying to reach his father with a series of monologues to settle old scores and misunderstandings. In a reversal of roles, in Act 2 it is Alex who visits Claude in the same Alzheimer’s ward, and it is Alex’s turn to rant and rail at what he perceives to be his son’s contempt for his own working class life. We come to see that his father’s lifelong attempt to mock Claude’s work has been the very driving force behind Claude’s compulsion to continue to reveal
Title: Duo For Obstinate Voices
Author: Pelletier, Maryse Publisher: Guernica Editions 1990
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian three characters two male; one female six acts
This psychological drama explores the relationship between a man in his thirties and a woman some ten years younger who are unable to love without hurting each other. This difficult relationship lasts five years, during which Catherine becomes increasingly self-reliant and Philippe flounders in increasing self-contradictions. The first in a trilogy of more personal plays, Duo examines contemporary love relationships in the West. It is more experimental in structure and style than the playwright’s previous plays.
Title: Easy Lenny Lazmon and the Great Western Ascension
Author: Piatigorsky, Anton Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
'Two exiled travellers head west on an abandoned desert road, searching for the promised land. Encountering a lonely old rancher and his strangely scarred wife, they glimpse the dreams and dangers of their quest. A mystical journey exploring the mythology of western expansion, Jewish history and ancient religious traditions.' Title: Ed and Ed Do Florida
Author: Pitcher, Jeff Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian three characters two male; one female two acts
The sequel to "Ed & Ed - Trapped!". Our Eds find themselves 'hove to' in The Tropical Inn on Highway 10, St. Pete's Beach, Florida. When young Ed plays the guitar poolside and rakes in some easy American dollars he also manages to break some hard U.S. Customs rules and laws and before you can glance through a Margaret Wente Globe and Mail column our Eds find themselves in orange coveralls on their way to a secluded beach in Cuba.
Title: Elvis and Mavis - Full Length Version
Author: Pitcher, Jeff Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - tragicomedy three characters one male; two female two acts
running time: 105 min.
An unemployed Newfoundlander sits atop the Churchill Falls Hydro Dam in Labrador threatening to blow it up unless the contract between Newfoundland and Quebec over rights to the falls is renegotiated. His wife, Mavis, sits at home trying to figure out if it was something she said – “a very human drama.”
Title: Emptygirl
Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1998
Description:
roy comedy four characters three male; one female two acts
running time: 90 minutes
'Timid entertainment agent, Fred, is convinced by his brash underling to sign on a controversial circus side show. His life really becomes a circus when he falls for their headlining act, the Emptygirl, who swallows objects and regurgitates them on command.' Title: Enigma
Author: Dempsey, Sandra Publisher: Touchwood Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - death - Alberta playwright all female cast; four characters four female two acts
Set in the chronic care ward of a hospital, the play looks at life and death with unusual compassion and understanding.
Title: Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout A "String Quartet" for four female actors Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Talonbooks 2005
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - historical - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; four characters four female two acts
"Based on a deposition signed by 14 Chiefs of the Thompson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout is a ritualized retelling of how the Native Peoples of British Columbia lost their fishing, hunting and grazing rights, their lands, and finally their language without their agreement or consent, and without any treaties ever having been signed."
Title: Escape Entertainment
Author: Bolt, Carol Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian three characters two male; one female two acts
A film producer, a critic and a movie star are marooned on the sound stage of a low budget movie in Kleinberg. Sparks and repartee fly. Title: Espresso
Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2002
Description:
roy drama - family relations - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
'Espresso is a shot of caffeine, Italian family, death and Catholic erotic mysticism. Rosa unfolds the story of her father's car accident and how it affects the lives of the three women who love him the most: his daughter, his mother and his wife. Meanwhile, Amante, the second uninvited narrator, bursts into the story when Rosa avoids the truth, skips over parts, or is unable to continue.'
Title: Ethan Claymore
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters five male; one female two acts
'With a lot of nudging from a well-meaning friend, and a visit from his recently-deceased brother, a young widower re-enters the world and finds love and laughter.'
Title: Evangeline the Second (Evangeline deusse)
Author: Maillet, Antonine translated by Luis de Cespdes Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - drama four characters three male; one female two acts
Four people long past their prime; a Breton, a rabbi, a crossing guard, and Evangeline the Acadian, meet in a park and discover they have something in common: they are all living "in exile" in Montreal. It soon becomes obvious that the language of Acadia, like the pine tree Evangeline planted in the heart of the city, refuses to be uprooted. Evangeline embodies the spirit of her people and their will to survive any sort of exile and deportation. Title: Eve
Author: Fineberg, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy drama - aging six characters four male; two female two acts
An older woman leaves her ailing husband and family to discover how she became trapped. Moving to a rooming house, she has an affair and re-examines her life.
Chalmers Award winner.
Title: Ever Loving
Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
Three war brides from England, Scotland and Italy travel to Canada in 1945. The lives of the three women and their relationships with their husbands weave together the fabric of the Canadian experience - the hopes, fantasies, disappointments and the grim reality of starting a new life in a new land.
Title: Evidence to the Contrary
Author: Pedneault, Helene translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: NuAge Editions
Description:
roy drama four characters one male; three female three parts
A riveting interrogation of a woman who has been arrested for the murder of her mother. Title: Exile
Author: Crail, Archie Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1990
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Africa - black - women three characters one male; two female two acts
Two South African women meet after a separation of twenty years. Sarah, seeking a rekindling of her activist youth, searches out Elizabeth, an exiled fiery labour leader, only to find her fallen into solitary obscurity, numbed by alcohol, and living in a shack on the outskirts of Soweto.
1989 winner of the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild Literary Competition
Title: Exit, Pursued by Bard Variations in the key of Shakespeare Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - Shakespeare multiple characters two male; two female (doubling) two acts
A comedic cornucopia of Shakespeare inspired playlets, sketches and poems (with a wee touch of drama) make for a production rich in variety and entertainment value. The twenty scenes turn upside down Shakespearean mysteries, themes and characters. Among other things audiences discover the real reason for Prospero's island exile, the unexpected aftermath of A Midsummer Night's Dream, a backstage conflict mirroring the drama of Othello, the final fate of Banquo's ghost, the sobering tale of Romeo's Apothecary, the insurmountable problems in bringing a bear
Title: Fables
Author: Torrens, Jackie Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
Fables is about four people looking for connection - a middle aged man numb from depression, a women encased in a body of multiple cosmetic surgeries, a young man fearful of his physical development, and a fifteen year old girl who is isolated by both a secret and the notion that biology is not her friend. Title: Fairies Are Thirsty, The
Author: Boucher, Denise Brown, Alan Publisher: Talonbooks 1982
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - French - serious - stereotypes - women all female cast; three characters three female one act (full length)
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: Falling in Time
Author: Gatchalian, C. E. Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; one female (doubling) two acts
One of the most controversial and uncompromising Canadian plays in recent memory, C. E. Gatchalian's "Falling in Time" is an epic exploration of armed conflict, masculinity, sexuality, love, and forgiveness. Set in Vancouver in 1994, the year of the death of North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung, the play criss-crosses two hemispheres and spans more than forty years. Through all this, four distinctly different lives intertwine. Steve is an aging, outrageous, bisexual Korean War vet who embodies the sadistic tendencies of Western imperialism that polite society has too often
Title: Falling out of Place
Author: Stearns, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003
Description:
roy drama - western three characters two male; one female two acts
running time: 110 minutes.
'A Cowboy tale of love and intrigue. Takes place in 1912, during a January winter. Guy McCauley is found dead, lying in a snow bank beside his broken sleigh. His widow, a young and lovely actress, is left alone with the hired hand. An old friend comes to visit, a cowboy musician who's spent too many years drifting in the saddle. As the play unfolds, it becomes clear that all three of Title: Famous
Author: Bolt, Carol Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - friendship - murder all female cast; two characters two female two acts
running time: 110 min.
Kit's best friend is accused of a series of shocking murders, and the TV talk shows are calling. They say she'll be "famous for friendship".
Title: Faraway Nearby, The
Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1995
Description:
roy drama - biography - relationships - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female three parts
'In John Murrell's "The Faraway Nearby", Georgia O'Keefe resigns herself to an old age spent in the auburn and tawny light of her beloved Faraway mountains without the company of others until a stranger enters her life. Juan Hamilton, a young artist and handyman, befriends the elderly O'Keefe, becoming the eyes for the almost-blind artist, and the cushion between her and the outside world. Hamilton remained O'Keefe's companion for over a decade, and it is in the complexities of this friendship that John Murrell explores the uncompromising nature of the artist
Title: fareWel
Author: Ross, Ian Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - drama - Native peoples six characters four male; two female two acts
"Life is tense on the Partridge Crop Reserve. The Chief is in Las Vegas (again), the band is in receivership, and there's a move on to unilaterally declare self-government. And now that the welfare cheques have gone missing, the people of this fictional First Nation are forced to take control of their lives."
Winner of the Governor General’s Award. Title: Farewell Heart
Author: Tidler, Charles Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy tragedy - Canadian six characters four male; two female seven scenes
Set on an imaginary island off the coast of B.C., "The Farewell Heart" marks the transition from the 1960's to the 1970's. The small community on Madras Island is about to lose its leader. A promising spring day sours into death and destruction... and rebirth for some players.
Title: Farm Show, The
Author: Thompson, Paul Theatre Passe Muraille Publisher: Coach House Press 1976
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
Written by collective creation.
Theatre Passe Muraille spent a summer in the farming region around Clinton, Ont. to gather the material for this delightful portrayal of rural living.
Title: Featherland
Author: Clarke, Denise Publisher: Red Deer College Press 2004
Description:
roy Canadian - fantasy - love-triangle five characters two male; three female two acts
Cecil and Adele Hyndman are completely devoted to each other and their collection of live birds. They open an avian menagerie in rural British Columbia, and when a magnificent golden eagle arrives, an erotic attraction between Cecil, Adele and the eagle develops into a bizarre love triangle. Title: Fighting Days, The
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1985
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - women - history - Nellie McClung four characters one male; three female two acts
"The polarities of public and private lives and issues of racism and pacifism in the suffragette movement."
Title: Filthy Rich
Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters four male; two female nine scenes
1 interior set.
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: Finger of Fate
Author: Hendry, Tom Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy historical - Canadian - comedy five characters three male;two female two acts
Meet the citizens of Williamsville, Ontario, in 1969. Farmers Marvin and Alvin are struggling with the idea of cashing in, selling out and taking off for Florida. Meanwhile, Curly wants a big white wedding, but Janine isn’t so sure she’s ready to settle down. While these characters grapple with their futures, what they don’t realize is that destiny has already stepped in to change their lives forever. Title: Fire
Author: Ledoux, Paul Young, David Publisher: Summerhill Press 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - musical six characters (doubling) five male; one female two acts
Inspired by the lives of cousins Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Lee Swaggart, "Fire" tells the story of two Razorback, Arkansas brothers who follow different branches of the same road of pride, lust and greed. Cale sells his soul to rock and roll, Herchel to TV evangelism. Both love Molly, who loves both of them.
Chalmers and Dora Mavor Moore Award winner.
Title: Fires in the Night The story of Fred and Cela Sloman and The School on Wheels Author: Craig, David S. Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1988
Description:
roy Canadian - drama nineteen characters three male; three female; children (doubling) four acts
The moving story of Fred and Cela Sloman, who for thirty-nine years taught children in northern Ontario from a converted rail car.
Title: First Strike
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set
"First Strike" is the post-bomb tale of two couples who have taken refuge in a Mississauga fall-out shelter. The wild comedy does not conceal the fact that there is something very rotten in the Borough of Mississauga, and the whole issue of man's right to survive is called into question. Title: Fishing for Frank
Author: Lillford, Daniel R. Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
Frank is dead, folks are talkin' and Millie's movin' on. An outrageous comedy about lies, gossip, infidelities and old friends ... who may not be friends at all. A cockeyed look at life, love and trout.
Title: Five @ Fifty
Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - women - comedy - friendship - aging all female cast; five characters five female two acts
Four friends decide to hold an intervention for their fifth friend. But are they really the best people to sing the virtues of abstinence? When Olivia loses control at her fiftieth birthday party, her three best friends decide to intervene once and for all, much to the irritation of Olivia and her lover, Norma. But is she the only one battling a demon? Or do each of these women face an addiction of one kind or another? "5 @ 50" is a raw and darkly comedic portrayal of turning fifty in contemporary society, and of the friendships we can’t live without.
Title: Flight of the Viscount
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts
setting: across the face of Europe in the Fall of 1891; running time: 110 min.
Noble born James Westerley's carefree European tour is derailed when Maggie, a servant from back home, delivers news of his father's death. It is James' obligation to return home and take care of his father's title. An obligation he wishes to avoid at all costs. That is the starting gun to a comic pursuit played out over the face of Europe as one determined maid's sense of personal Title: Fly Fisher's Companion, The
Author: Melski, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - friendship - old age all male cast; two characters two male two acts
The Fly Fisher's Companion tackles the complications of friendship, the hope for forgiveness, the significance of memory, and love, loss and death. Both humorous and heart-wrenching, it is an hilarious, heartfelt journey into the lives of two men on their last fishing trip together. It’s a trip through decades, into ritual memory and imagination, and into a relationship that has all the turbulent beauty and gentle grace of a highland stream.
Title: Flytrap
Author: Freeman, David E. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters two male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
Ruthie and Bobby bring Stanley into their already troubled relationship to see how far they can push each other. They end up pushing Stanley over the edge, but manage to keep their menage-a-trois together.
Title: Footprints on the Moon
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters two male; three female two acts
2 interior sets.
A woman's struggle to prevent her teenaged daughter from leaving home evolves into a struggle to understand the past. A play about loving and losing, constancy and change. Title: For Love and Chicken Soup
Author: Leiman, Brad Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy tragicomedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
various interior and exterior sets.
Description not available.
Title: For Love and Money
Author: Wyatt, Rachel Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2002
Description:
roy drama - marital relations - middle age five characters three male; two female two acts
"Howie and Jane have been married for thirty-three years. On this particular evening, Howie is going to tell Jane that he is leaving her. Jane, determined to keep him, has arranged a party for his friends. During the evening, she looks back on scenes from the marriage. She sees good times and also times when drinking and violence took over. And it is an act of violence that brings Jane to a place where she must think her way through to a future on her own."
Title: Forsooth, My Lovely A new comedy/mystery Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - mystery - murder - Alberta playwright large cast four male; two female (doubling) two acts
running time: 120 min.
Hard boiled detective BIAM Wood faces his most difficult case ever as he travels to Italy to unravel a scandal involving a rich merchant's young daughter. But he soon finds himself drawn into a whirlwind of crime, blackmail and murder with a cast of suspects including Scottish witches, star-crossed lovers, a pack of jesters and strong willed woman people call a shrew. A mystery Title: Fortune and Men's Eyes
Author: Herbert, John Publisher: Grove Press 1967
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ all male cast; five characters five male two acts
1 interior set.
'Four young men in Canadian reform school brutalized by system and other inmates.'
Title: Foursome, The
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian all male cast; four characters four male two acts
'Four college chums, home for a fifteenth class reunion, get together for a round of golf. The play, set on the 18 tees of a golf course, follows the four as they relive old times, and catch up on their problems, successes and failures.'
Title: Friedman Family Fortune, The
Author: Gow, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relationships - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
(The play) is a drama which focuses on the emotional fallout that results when a publicly adored, iconic, family business passes from the hands of one generation to the next. The play examines with finely detailed psychological realism and wry humour, the intricate relationships that family members have forged with one another; as well as how those relationships are reshaped by the succession of the family's seat of power. Title: From Here to Insanity
Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: William Rosewood Publishing 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female three acts
"A psychiatrist's ex-wife ends up playing hostess to several extraordinary patients with multiple personalities, when the nearby mental hospital burns down."
Title: Fronteras Americanas American Borders Author: Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Coach House Press 1993
Description:
roy drama - geography all male cast; two characters two male two acts
A meditation and critique of geography and cartography. A struggle to construct a home between two cultures.
Governor General's Drama Award Finalist, 1993.
Title: Fronteras Americanas (revised) American Borders Author: Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy drama - geography - Canadian all male cast; one character one male two acts
Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence and wit, "Fronteras Americanas" recreates one person’s struggle to construct a home between two cultures, while exploding the images and constructs built up around Latinos and Latin America. This one-person play works through bold juxtapositions and satiric reference points: Simón Bolívar and Speedy Gonzales; Columbus and Fodor’s travel guides; Ricky Ricardo and the Latin Lover; La Bamba and Placido Domingo; Carlos Fuentes and American drug-war movies. Verdecchia twirls stereotypes and clichés, offers Title: Gabe
Author: Bolt, Carol Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1972
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Métis - biographical - contemporary five characters three male; two female two acts
A young Métis just out of jail and his friends drink, fight and search for the spirit of Louis Riel. "Riel and Gabriel Dumont are not only rehistoriticised but also reincarnated as contemporary, urban, disenchanted Métis characters" - "Post-Colonial Drama" by Helen Gilbert and Joanne Tompkins.
Title: Galatea
Author: Aronovitch, Lawrence Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2016
Description:
roy comedy - LGBTQ+ - relationships all male cast; four characters four male two acts
running time: 95 mins.
A modern re-telling of the Pygmalion story that explores the dynamics of relationships and touches on themes such as love, loyalty, infidelity, marriage, class and art. Harry, a painter, invites a young model, Eli, to pose for him. Harry’s attraction to Eli disturbs both Harry’s longtime partner Georgie and Eli’s boyfriend Freddie. The play draws on the parallels and contrasts
Title: Games Who wants to play? Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations - death - growing up - gaming five characters three male; two female two acts
In the aftermath of a local high school boy’s mysterious death, Dan and Marion Metcalf are increasingly worried about their son, Zach. He’s apathetic and shuts himself away in the basement to play video games and spend time with Keira, his virtual girlfriend and confidante, giving his parents more to worry about than their own insecurities and lacklustre sex life. When Zach’s best friend, Micky, begins to spend more time around the house, bonding with Dan and flirting with Marion, even Keira cannot anticipate the depth of Zach’s rage and sense of alienation. Will his Title: Genesis: The Mary Shelley Play
Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1998
Description:
roy drama - horror - historical - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts
"A theatrical re-creation of the emotional events surrounding Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley-- events that inspired the literary births of our two most famous monsters Frankenstein and Dracula."
Title: Gentleman Clothier, The
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
Experienced tailor Norman Davenport has barely opened the doors to his new clothing store in downtown Halifax when Sophie, an exuberant young woman, barges in looking for work, followed by Patrick, a single father who claims to be handy. Hesitantly Norman hires them both to tie up the last few threads before the grand opening. And whether Norman realizes it or not, he needs help getting into the twenty-first century to cater to the current tastes of his customers. When the shop’s first customer, Alisha Sparrow, a friendly, attractive woman, drops in looking for a suit for
Title: Geometry
Author: Wyatt, Rachel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
A comedy of manners set in a private school in which a new teacher arrives and is made to feel welcome, not realizing that he is nothing more than a new toy that will be discarded when the novelty wears off. Title: Geometry in Venice
Author: Mackenzie, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
A young Canadian is hired by a British family in Venice as a tutor for their son. He uncovers a household trying to marry off the only daughter to a wealthy American author to revive the family fortunes. When he finally tries to break away he becomes entangled with his student's worldly and fascinating mother...
Title: Gertrude and Ophelia As published in Theatrum Magazine (April/May 1993) / PER Author: Clarke, Margaret Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1993
Description:
roy drama - theatre - Alberta playwright six characters one male; two female two acts
A rehearsal for the play, "Gertrude and Ophelia".
Title: Get Away
Author: MacArthur, Greg Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005
Description:
roy drama - thriller three characters two male; one female two acts
Everyone's an animal - but only some are predators. A remote getaway. A cabin in the woods. Peace of mind. Or so David thinks, until he invites two young drifters to stay, in this spooky tale about danger and desire by one of Canada's freshest, most compelling young playwrights. Title: Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2003
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
'As Morris Panych's latest comedy opens, we hear Iris, a precocious girl of ten saying: "These are the last few days of my childhood." The death of her goldfish, she is sure, has been announced by the air-raid sirens during the day's school drill. For Iris there remain a few more days of life in a universe that is inherently ordered, where the spirit of her departed goldfish can, of course, be re-incarnated in a lost and amnesiac drifter given to rhetorical questions of seemingly deep philisophical import.'
Title: Glace Bay Miners' Museum, The
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
"The Glace Bay Miners' Museum is the story of an ill-fated love between a wandering musician/ social idealist and a Cape Breton coal miner's daughter whose dreams are reawakened by their passion - a play of the all consuming brightness of dreams and memory, overshadowed by absentee greed, callousness, exploitation. A tragedy that is hard as nails, totally unsentimental, yet full of love and humour."
Title: Glenn
Author: Young, David Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - biography all male cast; four characters four male two acts (30 variations)
"The music, ideas, and remarkable life of the iconoclastic and celebrated pianist. Gould's early and late recordings of the Goldberg Variations serve as a structural template for the dramatic action." Title: God and the Indian
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - abuse - Native playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
setting: the assistant bishop's office, located in an old mansion that has been converted to offices; time: early 2000s.
While panhandling outside a coffee shop, Johnny, a Cree woman who lives on the streets, is shocked to recognize a face from her childhood, which was spent in a residential school. Desperate to hear the man acknowledge the terrible abuse he inflicted on her and other children
Title: Golden Thug, The
Author: Roy, Ed Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters four male; one female two acts
The Golden Thug takes place in April 1986 at Jack's Hotel, a seedy one star hotel in the heart of Paris. An ailing old man checks into one of the rooms and his arrival precipitates a revolution in the quiet establishment because unbeknownst to the concierge, her husband, and their adopted son their newest occupant is none other than the world famous literary genius and political activist, Jean Genet. As the fatally ill Genet battles with cancer and the side effects of his medication in a race against time and mortality, he also pours the last of his life force into the
Title: Good Egg, The
Author: MacLennan, Michael Lewis Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations three characters two male; one female two acts
A riveting, rollicking comedy about three people trying to conceive a baby. They’re the ultimate downtown couple—attractive, smart and successful. They have everything they could ever want. Except a child. When bad news points them to alternative methods of conception, they encounter a handsome young art model. He seems like the perfect solution to their problems. But as this unlikely trio gets more intimate, secret agendas surface and threaten to destroy not only their hasty deal, but everything they’ve so carefully built for themselves. From one of Canada’s funniest Title: Goodbye Cruel World
Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
Rather than face the disintegration of old age, an aging author decides to commit suicide. He hires a young man to write his autobiography and a lawyer to draw up his will. In the process, love at all ages is examined.
Title: Goodness
Author: Redhill, Michael Publisher: Coach House Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - genocide sixteen characters three male; three female (doubling) two acts
"A playwright, Michael, stands in front of an audience. He tells us someone else's story - the story of events surrounding a genocide and subsequent murder trial in the homeland of a character named Althea. Althea was a prison guard. Her prisoner, an old man, was thought to have orchestrated a genocide. At his trial, though, he claims to have Alzheimer's. Michael promises Althea never to repeat the terrible tale she tells him. He lies. GOODNESS dances with the idea of what "responsibility" is and what telling a powerful story does, not only to the story, but to those
Title: Grand Time in the Rapids, A
Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - farce - Alberta playwright - comedy three characters two male; one female two acts
Stewart Lemoine’s classic door-slamming, drink-throwing, towel-wearing farce, in which a well-intentioned etiquette expert’s earnest attempts to spread the gospel of gracious living create utter chaos for unsuspecting Michigan citizens. Title: Grandkid, The
Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy drama - family relations - Jewish two characters one male; one female two acts
Julius Rothstein and his granddaughter Abby have loved each other from opposite ends of Canada since Abby was born. But now Abby is moving in with him to be close to school and to keep her newly widowed grandfather company. The two must negotiate a new relationship as housemates and friends, which means dealing with issues of youth and age, work and play, activism and apathy, homework and heart attacks, and those three tricky topics: sex, politics, and religion.
Title: Gravel Run
Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts
A wildly dysfunctional family plans a small-town wedding for a prodigal daughter who returns home after a five-year absence.
Title: Gull, The
Author: Marlatt, Daphne with a Japanese translation by Toyoshi Yoshiha Publisher: Talonbooks 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Japanese Noh - history five characters three male; two female; chorus (four to six singers) two acts
preface by Richard Emmert.
Winner of the prestigious 2008 Uchimura Naoya Prize, The Gull is the first Canadian play staged in the ancient, ritualized tradition of Japanese Noh. Produced by Vancouver’s Pangaea Arts, and written by award-winning poet and novelist Daphne Marlatt, the play is set in 1950: wartime restrictions on interned Japanese Canadians have finally been lifted, allowing them to return to the Title: Gwendoline
Author: Nichol, James W. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters four male; two female two acts
Life in a small Ontario town is disrupted when a travelling shoe salesman arrives to pay court to a wealthy and eccentric young woman.
Title: Gyroscope
Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
Spinning images; a model for the loose threads, empty caves, war memorials...dreams, confrontations that living with other people involve.
Title: Habitat
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female two acts
'Janet and her mother both live on Mapleview Lanes - the perfect neighbourhood with the perfect neighbours, until Lewis Chance buys a house on their street to open up a group home for troubled adolescents. Raine, unable to respond emotionally when her mother dies, finds herself at this group home, in a community that has little tolerance for its newest residents. The ensuing battle - over whether the group homes stays or not - allows Raine to re-awaken her emotions through rage, and a political will she didn't know existed in her.' Title: Hand That Cradles the Rock, The
Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Samuel French 1972
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
Alexandra is in demand as an interior designer so her husband, Ross, agrees to stay home and raise the baby. An erratic washing machine, baby formula and an increasingly-attractive local nurse bring on housewife syndrome and make him fear for his masculinity.
Title: Happily Ever After
Author: Hayes, Elliott Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - relationships five characters two male; three female two acts
"Moments before his wedding, Tom experiences all the paranoia of a confirmed bachelor. Down the hall, his wife-to-be wonders if she's making the right decision."
Title: Harbour House
Author: King, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy six characters two male; four female two acts
"Four guests weekending in a Vancouver Island 'bed and breakfast' run amok in an hilarious attempt to "get away from it all". Title: Harlem Duet
Author: Sears, Djanet Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - ethnic - relationships five characters two male; three female two acts
"A rhapsodic blues tragedy...It is the prelude to Shakespeare's Othello, and his first wife Billie (yes, before Desdemona). Set in contemporary Harlem at the corner of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X boulevards, the play explores the space where race and sex intersect. Harlem Duet is Billie's story."
The Canada Council for the Arts Governor General's Literary Award Winner. Also winner of the
Title: Have a Heart
Author: Sherman, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - family relations four characters two male; two female two acts
Gerry is a hyperactive Jewish button importer living in a suburb of Montreal. His father Solly has been 'dumped' in an old people's home, something he refuses to let his son forget. Gerry's daughter Sarah is an adherent to Buddhism. Though he feels fine, the medical establishment tells him there's something wrong with his heart and are talking bypass. In between bouncing from waiting room to waiting room, Gerry decides he needs to finish the extravagant porch he's building which, if worse comes to worse, will be his legacy. Or a place to retire to once doctors
Title: Having Hope at Home
Author: Craig, David S. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy comedy - family relations six characters three male; three female two acts
A sidesplitting look at a family learning to love again. On a winter night in a drafty farmhouse a baby is about to arrive. But modern medicine meets midwifery head on in a torrent of family feuding. As tensions rise between three dysfunctional generations, so does the laughter. It takes a baby to heal the rift in this funny, heartwarming story of forgiveness and hope. Title: Heart as it Lived, The
Author: Robinson, Mansel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
"Annie is a cranky, puritanical spinster who has never questioned the status quo - until the night her solitude is invaded by a charming young hustler named Zak who breaks into her house. When Annie discovers that Zak is the grandson of her estranged sister, she is forced to confront the events surrounding the Regina Riot of 1935 and face the consequences of decisions she made more than sixty years ago."
Title: Heat Wave
Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1996
Description:
roy comedy - domestic relationships five characters three male; two female two acts
"Michel Marc Bouchard's 'Heat Wave' tells the story of a family learning how to live again after a three year vigil at the bedside of controlling patriarch Fred Cloutier. Cloutier is still controlling his wife and children from beyond the grave, as the characters deal with guilt complexes created by years of manipulation. But this situation comedy is mainly about love, about May / September relationships, and about appearances and the lies that people tell in order to disguise their true selves and deny their true emotions."
Title: Heaven
Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Talonbooks 2000
Description:
roy black comedy six characters four male; two female ten scenes
'Five instantly recognizable multi-cultural characters play out their coincidental relationships in a very contemporary paradise—a park on the outskirts of a city. All of them are, in one form or another, engaged in the "fundamental right" of the pursuit of their own happiness, whether that means acquiring life skills, improving their career prospects, working on their family relationships, increasing social justice in the world, balancing the concerns of crime and punishment, or integrating more closely with what they identify as their own communities. Of Title: Here on the Flight Path
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: PUC Play Service 1997
Description:
roy comedy four characters one male; three female (doubling) two acts
'John Cummings is a lonely and divorced back-porch philosopher. Over three and a half years, three very different women occupy the apartment next door. As John reflects on his relationships with neighbours Fay, Angel & Gwen, he shares his unique views on everything from poets to sex.'
Title: Herr Beckmann's People
Author: Stubbs, Sally Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011
Description:
roy drama - family relations - Nazis - World War II five characters two male; three female two acts
Art, war, and the politics of culture collide in Sally Stubbs' moving account of a family's legacy of beauty and brutality. Anna, an established painter living in Canada, returns to munich - the city she ran from decades earlier. As this poetic and powerful drama unfolds, Anna forces her family to answer tough questions about their past and the events of World War II. While her mother plays a private concert, history unravels, and Anna is confronted with a moral dilemma of her own. Inspired by actual events, "Herr Beckmann's People" explores the question: How do we live
Title: Hilda's Yard
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - family relations six characters three male; three female two acts
running time: 120 min.
Set in 1956, it follows the Fluck family through one extraordinary day during which their son loses his job and moves back home, their daughter leaves her husband and moves back home and Sam Fluck, thinking that he and his wife Hilda are empty nesters now and can start to live their OWN lives, buys their first television set. It is a poignant and funny look at how family Title: Hippopotamus Tea (Hippopotamie) Author: Bombardier, Louise translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1992
Description:
roy comedy - women - seniors all female cast; three female (one male non-speaking role) three female (one female plays the hippopotamus' voice) eleven parts
Two older women disappear with a hippopotamus.
Title: His Greatness
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007
Description:
roy drama - playwrights all male cast; three characters; two voices three male two acts
Three men, a great American playwright, his trusted and loyal assistant, and a young Canadian street hustler, find themselves together for two days in a hotel room in Vancouver. This is the story about the nature of life in a created world. Winner of the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Script
Title: Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad
Author: Melski, Michael Publisher: Breton Books 2001
Description:
roy romance two characters one male; one female two acts
1 interior.
Divorced dad courts divorced mom as they watch their sons play hockey. Title: Holy Mo and Spew Boy
Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1977
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright all female cast; three characters three female two acts
'A reverently irreverent post-modern romp through the Old Testament from creation to King Solomon, not for the religiously faint of heart. Three fools endeavor to shake the dust off of ancient tales and a bring a cast of thousands to life. Follie tries to keep the stories going, what she can remember of them, while Guff throws dinosaurs into Genesis and Bufoona demands to play a princess instead of King David. good for all ages and people of all faiths. Wildly acclaimed, sold out Vancouver hit, produced four times in five years.'
Title: Home
Author: Wagner, Colleen Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2014
Description:
roy drama - language - culture five characters two male; three female two acts
""Home" is the story of an aging man, Tooman, exiled from his homeland, who through repatriation efforts, can now return and reclaim his home and property. However, fifty-five years have passed and the home has been inhabited by three woman, who, caught in the shifting tides of a new world of globalization, find themselves threatened with expulsion when Toomas and his son, Wendall, return to reclaim the land and house. The women who have lived in this adopted country and in this house for so long, feel suddenly rootless. "Home" explores our deep
Title: Homecoming
Author: Minogue, Leeann Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2010
Description:
roy comedy - farming - family relations five characters two male; three female two acts
When Jerry Wilson's broken leg spurs him and his wife Marlene to retire sooner than expected, their son Greg comes home from the city to take over the family farm. However, Jerry has difficulty letting his son make the decisions. Tension builds between father and son until Greg finally hits the breaking point, packs his bags, and leaves. Stubborn and proud, Jerry is unable to admit to Marlene or anyone else that Greg is gone. But one lie leads to another, and soon Jerry is caught in an elaborate charade. Title: Homeward Bound
Author: Hayes, Elliott Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters four male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A comedy of modern manners, Bonnie Beachum's daughter is pregnant, her son-in-law may have kidnapped the children, her son's lover arrives to set matters straight and her husband is calmly contemplating suicide.
Title: Hooking for Paradise
Author: Stearns, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters one male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
Set in a brothel in Moose Jaw in 1912, the play explores the power struggle between men and women, looking at one woman's attempt to create a matriarchy in a traditionally male-dominated society.
Title: Hosanna
Author: Tremblay, Michel Publisher: Talonbooks 1974
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian - LGBTQ+ all male cast; two characters two male two acts
1 interior set; translated by John Van Burek and Bill Glassco.
Homosexual transvestite, humiliated by practical joke, assesses his life and relationship with lover. Title: How Black Mothers Say I Love You
Author: Anthony, Trey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relations - Canadian playwright all female cast; four characters four female two acts
From the author of the blockbuster da Kink in my hair comes an emotional and raw look into family dynamics, trust, resolution and change.
Claudette still can’t forgive her mother for leaving. For six years of her childhood, Claudette and her sister Valerie were left with their grandmother while their mother, Daphne, moved from Jamaica to the United States to start a new chapter for their family. But in that time, Daphne
Title: How Do I Love Thee?
Author: MacDonald, Florence Gibson Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy drama - Victorian - addiction - nineteenth century plays four characters two male; two female two acts
Victorian poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning are as renowned for their passionate relationship as they are their poetry. "How Do I Love Thee?" revisits the life of the 19th-century poets from their courtship, carried out entirely through letters, to their sudden elopement and tumultuous marriage marred by drug addiction and financial strife.
Title: How it Works
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006
Description:
roy drama - marital relations - divorce four characters one male; three female two acts
"In How It Works, Daniel MacIvor enters the world of an awesomely articulate teenage girl whose world has fallen apart after her parents divorce. What breaks a family apart and what can bring them back together? How It Works is a tremendously witty and moving play that looks at parenting and how we can re-create the idea of family in the modern world." Title: Hunter of Peace
Author: Stearns, Sharon Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1993
Description:
roy drama - biography five characters two male; three female twenty scenes
Mary Schaffer, one of the first women to explore the Rocky Mountain wilderness on horseback, journeys through the Banff and Jasper area in 1907. She was explorer, botanist and naturalist.
Title: I Had A Job I Liked, Once.
Author: Vanderhaeghe, Guy Publisher: Fifth House 1992
Description:
roy drama - crime - Canadian five characters four male; one female two acts
1 setting
'I Had a Job I Liked, Once' explores the ideas of justice and the law, innocence and experience, and social hierarchies. Set in a police station, the action centres on the interrogation of a young man accused of a crime involving a beautiful and wealthy teenage girl. The events leading up to the incident unfold in flashbacks as the boy tells his story to the interrogating officer, a
Title: I Have AIDS!
Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - black comedy - LGBTQ+ - AIDS all male cast; seven characters five male (doubling) two acts
Sky Gilbert's controversial black comedy about AIDS and the gay community. "Prodon is an out-of-the-closet gay stand-up comic whose career has seen better days. His lover Vidor is an interior designer. One day Prodon tells Vidor that he has AIDS. An unflinching examination of modern AIDS politics and of the way AIDS operates not only as a disease but as a cultural force in the socio-political scene today, I HAVE AIDS! will force audiences to not only question their ideas about gay men and AIDS but will start people talking about the current state of gay romance, love Title: If We Are Women
Author: Glass, Joanna McClelland Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - relationships - family relations - women all female cast; four characters four female two acts
"Two grandmothers, a daughter, and a granddaughter gather on the deck of a beach house. The three older women discuss their pasts, their present, and they are confounded with the granddaughter's decision to disregard all that she's heard."
Title: Illegal Entry
Author: Martini, Clem Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; three characters three male three acts
Three teens escape from a group home for young offenders, intending to head out to the west-coast and freedom. To raise funds for this enabling enterprise, they attempt to burglarize a house. Things take an unexpected turn when they suddenly find themselves trapped in the garage. One of them happens upon an electric sander and they decide to sand their way to freedom.
Title: Impromptu of Outremont, The
Author: Tremblay, Michel Translated by John Van Burek. Publisher: Talonbooks 1981
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian all female cast; four characters four female two acts
interior set.
The four Beaugrand sisters meet once a year. Three of them live in their native Outremont, trapped by time, the choices they have not dared to make, and by the position that society has foisted upon them. Title: In a Blue Moon
Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Talonbooks 2016
Description:
roy drama - grief - family relationships - Canadian playwright three characters one male; two female two acts
When Frankie’s dad dies, her mom, Ava, can’t afford to live in the city anymore. The only asset they’re left with is a farmhouse situated on twenty acres of land far outside of town. Ava decides to move there and start an Ayurveda clinic on the property, giving her precocious and grieving daughter a new start. One problem presents itself, though: a squatter who won’t leave. Will, professional photographer, long-estranged brother-in-law to Ava, and uncle to Frankie, lives rent-free on the farm and isn’t eager to give up his space. While mother and daughter face the
Title: In a World Created by a Drunken God
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - dramatic comedy - family relations - Native peoples all male cast; two characters two male two acts
Jason, a 31-year-old Canadian half-Native man is paid an unexpected visit by a 34-year old American man, Harry, who introduces himself as Jason's half brother. Harry wants Jason to be compatibility tested for a possible kidney donation to their dying non-native father, a man who abandoned Jason's mother when he was two months old. Embroiled in the absurdity of their dilemma, Harry is forced to acknowledge that the father he has loved all his life has concealed his capacity for an absent, heartless cruelty. Jason, on the other hand, must wrestle with the
Title: In Absentia
Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy drama - mystery - love - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
Four seasons after her husband Tom's disappearance, Colette remains emotionally paralyzed, isolated in a country cottage. She waits in anguish, not knowing whether she is dead or alive, but clinging to hope. A young stranger in a jean jacket waves to her from the frozen lake - a sign? She emerges to give him her husband's parka - strangely, the boy has a likeness to Tom. Part mystery, part moving story of loss and vanished love, (the play) explores the notion of disappearance, articulated in very personal terms. Through the tough, time-shifting action of the play, Colette Title: In Confidence
Author: Hollingsworth, Margaret Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1994
Description:
roy drama - monologues all female cast; two characters two female two acts
"In Confidence features two monologues by two different women in two different kitchens in two different cities three thousand miles apart - this simple conceit is all Hollingsworth needs to create a complex portrait of a friendship hampered by dark secrets in each woman's marriage."
Title: In Gabriel's Kitchen
Author: Antonio, Salvatore Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - family relations five characters four male; one female two acts
The Montesano family attempts to navigate through the storm of grief and denial, following the suicide of its youngest member; the vibrant Gabriel. The surviving son, Marco, dutifully returns to the childhood home to spend Christmas with his mother and father. This year’s visit is almost over, but something snaps Marco’s restraint. He confronts his mother, unleashing a torrent of unexpected emotions. Years of rage, neglect, and fierce blame come to surface as mother and son try to piece together a new existence, without Gabriel.
Title: In the Cards
Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: William Rosewood Publishing 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts
"A reluctant psychic's powers cause her no end of trouble with her fated romance." Title: In The Lobster Capital Of The World
Author: Hannah, Don Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
Emma is a recent widow and hard pressed to make sense of her family: Michael, her almost manically reclusive son who stayed with her in New Brunswick; Ed, the older son, a cynical gay man from Toronto, never able to deal with relationships and now wrestling with a lover 15 years his junior, and Pat, Michael's ex-wife who finally admits, after a litany of her own failed relationships, that it is Ed she loves. They've all gathered to celebrate Emma's birthday but also to try to surmount the effects of their disastrous choices - to reconcile.
Title: In Their Nightgowns, Dancing A play Author: Armstrong, Michael Publisher: UNBC Press 2005
Description:
roy Canadian - drama two characters; chorus one male; one female two acts
" "In Their Nightgowns, Dancing" explores the diversity of the Canadian immigrant story through the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia." - University of Victoria, Alumni
Title: Indian Arm
Author: Kanagawa, Hiro Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - disabilities six characters two male; three female (doubling) two acts
"In this modern adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf, award-winning author Hiro Kanagawa explores the uneasy intersection of privilege and birthright. Rita and Alfred Allmers live in an isolated family cabin on native leasehold land overlooking Indian Arm, a still untamed glacial fjord just north of Vancouver, BC. With Alfred—a formerly promising novelist—now struggling with his latest work, Rita has been tasked with caring for their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive First Nations teen who has been designated as “special needs for much of his life. Rita’s resentments Title: Indian Heart
Author: Schroeter, Edward Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - biographical eight characters three male; one female (doubling) two acts
"Archie Belaney masqueraded as an Indian naturalist. After making his reputation as an international lecturer, best-selling author, and pioneer wildlife-conservationist during the 1930s, he was unmasked as an impostor."
Title: Inexpressible Island
Author: Young, David Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1998
Description:
roy drama - exploration, Antarctica all male cast; six characters six male three acts
'In 1912 a Royal Navy scientific expedition was stranded in the Antarctic without supplies or shelter. The winter was approaching with months of total darkness, hurricane force winds and bottomless cold. Their situation seemed entirely hopeless. Being Royal Navy, the group did not capitulate. They killed seals for food, dug a cave in the snow and crawled inside. Three officers and three men, a miniature society, trapped in total degradation at the end of the world, at the end of an heroic age. "Inexpressible Island" explores the survival mechanisms that carries this group
Title: Infinity
Author: Moscovitch, Hannah Kie, Njo Kong Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - music - relationships - time three characters one male; two female two acts
Sarah Jean is a mathematics prodigy who finds safety in numbers, in the reliability of their defined nature. Her affinity for unhealthy relationships, however, remains a complete mystery. Her flings turn into year-long relationships against her better judgment and her confusing emotional patterns are only now coming to light. It’s time for Sarah Jean to make sense of her past in terms she understands and to discover there is more to time than just its inevitable passing. Elliot is a theoretical physicist who spends most of his time thinking about time and how to unify all Title: Inside the Sand Castle A romantic comedy with improv Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - improv - romance four characters three male; one female two acts
running time: 110 min.
When two brothers recruit a woman to join their failing improv comedy act. It brings not only success, but also romantic entanglements that put everything at risk. The scripted plot is advanced by sets of improvisational performance in this unique, hilarious and touching fusion of two theatrical forms.
Title: Intimate Admiration
Author: Epp, Richard Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - historical two characters one male; one female four acts
"Based on the correspondence between Anton Chekov and Olga Knipper, star of the Moscow Art Theatre, the play traces their relationship from an affectionate admiration of each other's work, to a passionate and often stormy marriage."
Title: Invention of Romance, The
Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy comedy - romance ten characters one male; two female (doubling) two acts
"Kate, a curator at a museum, takes on the investigation of romance as a personal and professional challenge. Her love life hilariously spirals into crisis just as her elderly mother rekindles a romance with a man she dated sixty years earlier." Title: Invisibility of Eileen, The
Author: Brennan, Kit Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005
Description:
roy drama five characters two male; three female two acts
Eileen feels she's become invisible, to her son, her ex-husband, and even her colleagues at work. When a strange older woman shows up one morning, sleeping in her flowerbed, Eileen welcomes in more than a seemingly confused bag lady. She welcomes in a new life.
Title: Jake and the Kid
Author: Mitchell, W. O. Massing, Conni Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2009
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters four males; two females two acts
Adapted by Conni Massing from W.O. Mitchell's famous short story collection.
The play is set in 1943, in and around the town of Crocus, where there’s a serious drought in progress. Jake’s boast that he can make rain, challenged by his old neighbour Gate and innocently promoted by the Kid, culminates in a high stakes public display that endangers Jake’s reputation as well as the Kid’s faith in his beloved mentor.
Title: Jennie's Story
Author: Lambert, Betty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters two male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
Jennie consults a doctor about her inability to become pregnant. She discovers that years before during an abortion, she was also sterilized. Consent was given by her mother and by the priest who impregnated her. Jennie chooses never to be victimized again. Title: Jenny's House of Joy
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; five characters five female two acts
Jenny runs the best little house of ill repute in her corner of the old "Wild West". But when a tireless young runaway comes begging for a job, the girls at Jenny's house might just have to leave their lingerie behind. A delightful new comedy about the oldest profession.
Title: Joggers
Author: Stratton, Allan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy tragicomedy four characters two male; two female two acts
"A young man, stranded in a blizzard, is chased into the home of Vanessa, a murderous Venus Flytrap."
Title: Jupiter in July
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2002
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - marriage - romance six characters three male; two female (doubling) two acts
running time: 110 min.
Donald Springer is fifty-one years old and married, yet he finds himself on a passionate collision course with a woman half his age. Title: Karla and Grif
Author: Laxdal, Vivienne Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1991
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ three characters one male; two female two acts
'Haunted by the explosive love of her obsessive father and the memories of a friendship crossing emotional and physical boundaries, Karla holds Grif hostage one suspenseful night in an attempt to alleviate her pain and confusion.'
Winner! Full length Category - Canadian National Playwriting Competition.
Title: Killing Snow, A
Author: Ciufo, Paul Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011
Description:
roy drama - horror - murder five characters two male; three female two acts
Four travelers take refuge from a Huron County blizzard in the secluded farmhouse of Gerald Goldie, retired Latin teacher. All four of the strangers have some things in common - a working knowledge of Latin, a serious distaste for their host, and a growing animosity for each other. As ominous Latin phrases begin to appear on the walls, it becomes clear that someone has murder in mind. And as the body count rises, our stranded guests are forced to choose between certain death in the blizzard - or tempting the Fates by remaining in a house of terror.
Title: Kilt
Author: Wilson, Jonathan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
"The 'kilt' in question belongs to Mac, a young Scots soldier fighting in Africa during the second world war, and is later worn by his grandson Tom for his act as a table dancer in a Toronto gay club. This break with tradition upsets Tom's Scottish dancing teaching mother, and the rift in their relationship comes to a touching and hilarious head when they travel to Scotland for Mac's funeral." Title: Kiss the Moon, Kiss the Sun
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - friendship five characters three male; two female two acts
A thirty-five year old man with the mental capacity of a seven-year old, meets a pregnant young woman in crisis, and the two form a lasting friendship. A story about people finding the nerve to take responsibility, and about persevering against the odds.
Title: Kitchen Witches, The
Author: Smith, Caroline Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
Isobel Lomax and Dolly Biddle are two "mature" cable-access cooking show hostesses who have hated each other for 30 years, ever since Stephen Biddle dated one and married the other. When circumstances put them together on a TV show called The Kitchen Witches, the insults are flung harder than the food! Dolly's long-suffering TV-producer son Stephen tries to keep them on track, but as long as Dolly's dressing room is one inch closer to the set than Isobel's, it's a losing battle, and the show becomes a rating smash as Dolly and Isobel top both Martha Stewart and
Title: Knickers! A brief comedy Author: Quick, Sarah Publisher: Miscellaneous 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy all female cast; four characters four female two acts
When the residents of a small Canadian town decide that the economy is not just depressed it's virtually suicidal they resort to drastic means to earn a living. Can knickers be the foundation on which their town survives!? Title: Knock, Knock
Author: Wyatt, Rachel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - psychological - relationships five characters three male; two female two acts
"When Harold Fryer knocks at the door of the Lacoste house, he only wants to explain his policies and leave a few leaflets with the occupants. Inside, however, he is welcomed as a friend of the family. The two women who greet him are mourning their sister who has just died. Little by little they take away his identity. They speak to him of a past which begins to seem very much like his own. He joins the family in an unusual ritual and when he leaves the house a few hours later, he knows he will never be quite the same."
Title: Known Soldier, The
Author: Pitcher, Jeff Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1982
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - life - Newfoundland all male cast; three characters three male two acts
running time: 100 min.
Follows the life of Sgt. Thomas Ricketts from Middle Arm, Newfoundland, from a boy in the small outport to his winning the prestigious Victoria Cross in WWI (the youngest ever to do so) to his final days as a reclusive war hero in St. John's.
Title: Ladies Foursome, The
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015
Description:
roy drama - grief - friendship - women all female cast; four characters four female two acts
The day after their friend Catherine’s funeral, Margot, Tate, and Connie gather for a round of golf in honour of their recently departed fourth. At the gold course they are joined by another woman, an old friend of Catherine’s they’d never met. Over the course of eighteen holes, secrets and confessions unravel as the women discuss love, sex, children, and everything in between.
inspired by Norm Foster's play "The Foursome". Title: Lady Smith, The
Author: Moodie, Andrew Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 2000
Description:
roy drama - relationships four characters; five voices one male; three female two acts
What happens when the "other woman' becomes your roommate? What happens when she starts to confide in you about her affair? A claustrophobic drama, set in the Black community of Toronto's Bloor and Bathurst neighbourhood, which challenges the distance between deception and redemption.
Title: Last Bus, The
Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
The death of a childhood friend brings Robert back to his home town where he forms an uneasy relationship with his dead friend's outcast girlfriend. Together they try to come to terms with past, present and future.
Title: Last Call A Post-Nuclear Cabaret Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Harbour Publishing 1983
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian all male cast, two characters two male two acts
A provocative, witty, spell-binding black comedy set in the post-nuclear ruins of a large North American city. Title: Last Liberal, The
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006
Description:
roy drama - politics - Canadian six characters four male; two female two acts
In "The Last Liberal", Ron Bloom is the Education Minister and ostensibly in favour of the public system. However, two clouds arrive on the horizon that shake up his ideals: his son develops disciplinary problems that the public system cannot seem to address, and there is an election looming. If Bloom can find a way to loosen the purse strings to support the private system, his party stands to win a handful of extra swing seats.
Title: Last Wife, The
Author: Hennig, Kate Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - patriarchy - women - politics - Canadian⌦six characters two male; two female; one boy; one girl two acts
Kate Parr is smart, confident, and passionate: a rising star in a world of intense competition. But her obligatory marriage to Henry is rife with the threat of violence and the lure of deceit; her secret liaisons with Thom, her husband’s former brother-in-law, could send her to an early grave; and her devotion to the education and equal rights of Henry’s daughters is putting an even bigger strain on her marriage. Does Kate risk her life to gain authority in both her relationship and her political career? Which love will she be led to if she follows her heart? And what kind of future is there for her children if she makes a crucial mistake? A contemporary retelling of the
Title: Late Blumer (full length), The
Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters; extras three male; two female two acts
"Vancouver 1967. Blumer takes the ultimate acid trip and sleeps for seventeen years, waking up to find himself in 1984. Can he adjust? Can Vancouver?" Title: Lavender Railroad, The
Author: Aronovitch, Lawrence Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ four characters two male; two female two acts
"Imagine a world in which homosexuality is illegal and punishable by death. “The Lavender Railroad” is a play in two parts that mirror each other (science and faith; male and female) as they address common themes of hope and redemption in the face of impossible moral choices. In Part 1 (“Safe House”), a gay fugitive, Sebastian, has been rescued by a mysterious older man who calls himself Mother Courage. Sebastian is a brilliant young mathematician whose research into “fractal logic” holds the key to bringing down a totalitarian government intent on
Title: Lawrence and Holloman
Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 1998
Description:
roy comedy - black play all male cast; two characters two male two acts
"This is a universe in which Camus meets Dali, where Goya meets Disney, where gunshots and bathtub drownings, disillusion and dismemberment become the Seventh Seal of the Grey Flannel set."
First produced in 1998 at Tarragon Theatre, Toronto.
Title: League of Nathans, The
Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; four characters four male two acts
" Ten years after their last meeting, three Jewish friends reunite in a Spanish synagogue, where they finally face a past they wish both to embrace and escape."
Winner of the 1997 CAA Literary Award for Drama and the Chalmers Play Award. Title: Leave of Absence
Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy dark comedy - sexuality - community - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts
The booming bedroom community outside a large Canadian city is blown apart when fifteen-year-old Blake challenges long-held views of spirituality and sexuality. A student at the local Catholic high school, Blake confides in her best friend Tracy that she feels sexually attracted to her. At first encouraged and then rebuffed, Blake is eventually betrayed. Increasingly at risk among her peers, Blake finds the watchful and strict eyes of her Catholic school are no protection. Vulnerable to collectivized hatred, she remains unprotected by the adults who guard her freedom
Title: Leisure Society, The
Author: Archambault, Francois Translated by Bobby Theodore Publisher: Talonbooks 2003
Description:
roy dark comedy - contemporary four characters two male; two female sixteen scenes
"Peter and Mary work long hours; invest money for a retirement they will probably never enjoy; buy things that are supposed to make them happy but that they never use. They obsess about the nightmare engines of Western economic growth: make, earn and have more. Bringing a child into this frightening world; wanting time and space for themselves and their friends; all seem like colossal tasks. Even worse, they seem like acts of resistance or betrayal — against a system that requires everyone to be active, productive and consuming."
Title: Letters in Wartime
Author: Brown, Kenneth Scriver, Stephen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - war - romance - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
"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: Liar
Author: Drader, Brian Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2004
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female two acts
'Liar' examines the power and influence of human interaction and the perils of assumption. Mark is a young man who is anything you want him to be - a chameleon. Jeremy meets Mark in a gay bar, and, shortly after, the two men end up on the roof of an office building where Jeremy mysteriously falls to his death. After the "accident", Jeremy's estranged sister befriends Mark. Effortlessly gaining her confidence, he insinuates himself into her life and her home. Her husband is soon brought under the spell of the mysterious drifter. After knowing the brother only a matter
Title: Life On The Line
Author: Bush, Steven Booth, Allen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - political - satire all male cast; one character (and two musicians) one male two parts
A satirical look at employment, unemployment, nuclear madness and everyday political predicaments.
Title: Life Skills
Author: King, David Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy two characters one male; one female two acts
"An enterprising young woman describes to an interviewer her plans for a "Life Skills" workshop. The "Life Skills" to be addressed are illustrated in a series of humorous vignettes." Title: Lilly, Alta.
Author: Dyba, Kenneth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright three characters; extras one male; two female two acts
"When two lovers attempt to free themselves from the obsessive matriarch who rules Lilly, Alberta, they unleash a chain of events which forever alters this small prairie town. The play is set in 1952, underscored with song and music, and punctuated with the comic antics and dramatic entanglements of the town's forty-six colourful human, animal and bird characters."
Title: Line in the Sand, A
Author: Verdecchia, Guillermo Youssef, Marcus Publisher: Talonbooks 1997
Description:
roy drama - war - Canadian all male cast; three characters three male three acts
In the autumn of 1990, during Operation Desert Storm, two young men, one a troubled Canadian soldier, the other a teenage Palestinian black-marketeer, meet in the scorched Qatari desert. Breaching the divide of a profound cultural misunderstanding and against a backdrop of massive global conflict, these two become unlikely and secret friends. This tenuous friendship is severed by the torture and murder of the 16-year-old Palestinian inside the Canadian base—an act to which the Canadian soldier was at least a witness and perhaps a willing participant. Weaving
Title: Lion in the Streets
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Coach House Press 1992
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
A young girl, Isobel, delves into the secret lives of her neighbors as she searches for her killer. Title: Little Years, The
Author: Mighton, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters one male; four female two acts
"From the playwright who brought cybersex, virtual reality, dog suicide and necrophilia to the stage, comes a new play about the passing of time, our own immortality, and the way in which our lives are extended in the bodies and minds of others. A recipient of the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, a philosopher and a mathematician, John Mighton leads is on another intriguing journey which explores the passionate connection between science, philosophy, and human nature and emotions."
Title: Live With It
Author: Moore, Elise Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; two characters two male two acts
"Hurt, anger and rage permeate this chronicle of Joe Orton's rise to fame as a daring London playwright and the jealous frustration of his lover and murderer, Ken Halliwell."
Title: Lokkinen
Author: Sapergia, Barbara Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
A man's obsession with his Finnish ancestry and his fantasies about a northern farm almost destroy the four women with whom he lives. "Lokkinen" is also about the separate visions of these women, who range in age from adolescence to old age. Title: Lonely Diner, The Al Capone in Euphemia Township Author: Cooper, Beverley Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
The year is 1928 and someone is stealing Al Capone’s whiskey. Prohibition has just been lifted in Ontario but still holds firm in Chicago. For those who want a drink, the morality is shaky. In a quiet little diner close to the U.S. border, Lucy yearns for excitement and glamour. When a couple of well-dressed American gangsters make an after hours visit, Lucy changes her tune as the stakes get higher…
Title: Long Weekend, The
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
"The truth and lies of a friendship come to the surface during a weekend visit between two couples. There are plenty of surprises along the way in this comedy of manners."
Title: Looking
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy comedy - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
Val is an OR nurse, Andy is in the storage business, Nina is a police officer and Matt is the host of a morning radio show. They're middle-aged, single and looking. Val agrees to meet Andy after answering his personal ad in the newspaper and Nina and Matt are coaxed into joining their friends for support. What follows is hilarious, touching and so very true to life. Title: Love List, The
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Samuel French 2006
Description:
roy comedy - friendship - love - Canadian three characters two male: one female two acts
In this side-splitting and thought-provoking new comedy, Leon and Bill concoct a list of attributes of the ideal woman - the top ten best qualities in a mate. When this allegedly "Ideal Woman" actually arrives on the scene the men quickly learn that their list could use a few revisions. Be careful what you wish for - especially in choosing a mate.
Title: Lucky Strike
Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters two male; one female seven scenes
1 interior set.
On the run and holed up in a North African warehouse, a trio of B-movie renegades is trapped in a twilight zone of film noir. A desperate young gunman gasps out his last hours, blood oozing from his wound onto the grimy warehouse floor. Half-mad with pain, he recalls the events leading to this deadend retreat; he, his unfaithful moll, and his sinister partner-in-crime go through the
Title: Lucy
Author: Atkins, Damian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations - autism five characters two male; three female two acts
"Lucy is 13 years old; Lucy is autistic. She sees her mother for the first time in years when her father decides to re-marry and start a new life. Lucy is a play about newfound love between a mother and daughter and the revelations it triggers, including a provocative new theory of evolution." Title: Lutz
Author: Griffith, Ryan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relationships five characters; two bears three male; two female two acts
After a tremendous upset at the Olympics, figure skater Christian Miller decides it’s time to go back home. Casting aside his figure-skating training, he heads to his family house in the backwoods of New Brunswick and hopes to reconnect with his brother, Pike. Thinking to find peace from his troubles, Christian realizes his brother still resents him for leaving with their mother years ago, and he struggles to fight those haunting memories. But the past has ways of coming back, and soon Christian finds himself struggling to separate memory from reality. As two
Title: MacGregor's Hard Ice Cream and Gas
Author: MacDonald, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - families four characters two male; two female two acts
The MacGregor family patriarch has passed away, but the ground in their desolate prairie town is frozen solid, making it impossible to bury him. In a sudden desperate attempt to make things right, son Jack hijacks the body—coffin and all—up to his attic bedroom and holds his dead father hostage, keeping him cool with containers of their unique homemade ice cream. His mother, Marlene, has taken to pacing in circles in the basement, while his older brother is obsessed with fixing a sign for gas that they never sell. Into all of this walks Missy – gone for sixteen years, and
Title: Mackerel
Author: Horovitz, Israel Publisher: Talonbooks 1979
Description:
roy satirical comedy five characters; cat; voices two male; three female two acts
singing.
250,000 pound mackerel crashes into home of squabbling family on Massachusetts coast. Father's profit schemes lead to a worldwide disaster when he markets rotting fish. Title: Madame Chairman
Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female two acts
running time: 90 min.
No further description available.
Title: Maggie and Pierre
Author: Griffiths, Linda Thompson, Paul Publisher: Talonbooks 1980
Description:
roy drama - political - relationships three characters two male; one female two acts
A fantasy of love, politics and the media. The play is "a tantalizing refresher course on the libido of Canada's most enigmatic politician".
Winner! Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, 1980.
Title: Maggie's Getting Married
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - romance six characters three male; three female two acts
"A touching romantic comedy that follows the pitfalls the Duncan family encounters on the eve of their daughter's wedding." Title: Maggie's Last Dance A play Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - life - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
"A high school reunion brings together old friends and nemeses to relive the past. Old crushes are revisited along with regrets and hopes. The play jumps between the present-day reunion when people are wiser and more experienced, and the high school hey days when youthful exuberance and naivete ruled."
Title: Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr, The
Author: Marchessault, Jovette translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Talonbooks 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - drama six characters two male; four female ten tableaux
Emily Carr lived in magical place that she had christened 'The House of All Sorts'. In this House which is open to all that is vital on Earth, Emily Carr, with all her greatness and her imperfections, receives visitors from her planet: Lizzie, her sister, is greeted with war whoops and rebuffs, for Lizzie is the adversary, as is all Victorian society; Sophie, her Amerindian friend, who brings messages, reminders and lessons from life; Lawren Harris, her young painter friend from the Group of Seven, who wants to free painting from dogma and revolutionize art in Canada; the Soul
Title: Majority of Two, A
Author: Hibbert, Alun Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian two characters one male; one female two acts
John and Sophie have very different ideas about life after retirement. They lock horns in a battle of wits and wills. As the harsh winds of a Quebec in turmoil blow through their tidy Montreal rose garden, they are forced to reassess their dreams. Title: Maltese Bodkin, The
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - murder - mystery - historical - Alberta playwright six characters two male; four female two acts
"Times were tough for hard boiled detective Birnam Wood. He never asked to be in London. Especially in 1605. When Wood's Partner is killed, he has to find the killer amongst a cast of suspects that includes Richard III, Falstaff, Iago, Mercutio and a merchant from Venice. The worlds of film noir and Shakespeare collide in this 'who hath done it'."
Title: Marginal Man, A
Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - violence - Indigenous theatre - Native peoples four characters two male; two female two acts
running time: 90 min.
Adam works for the city. When his co-worker, Claire becomes a victim of domestic violence, Adam starts a white-ribbon campaign at work, only to find himself a target of violence.
Title: Marion Bridge
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Talonbooks 1999
Description:
roy drama - family five characters one male; four female two acts
"In 'Marion Bridge', three women in their thirties come 'home' to Cape Breton to be with their dying mother. Each in her own way tries to deal with the painful loneliness of the lives they have chosen for themselves - each is trying to reconcile what they have become with what they thought they wanted out of life and with what they thought their parents wanted for them. Nothing, of course, has turned out exactly the way anyone imagined it would." Title: Mark
Author: Wylie, Betty Jane Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
2 interior sets.
A doctor and his family must learn to face the fact of his terminal illness. Tackles the subject of death with uncompromising honesty.
Title: Martin Yesterday
Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1998
Description:
roy drama - LGBTQ+ - relationships - Canadian five characters four male; one female two acts
"At thirty-something, Matt suddenly finds himself looking for more than reckless flings with younger partners. He wants maturity and commitment - someone to know through and through. Martin Yesterday, a middle-aged city councillor appears to be the end of Matt's pursuit. Martin, however, is not always forthcoming about his private affairs, and holds some very dark secrets."
Title: Mary Shelley Play, The
Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy drama - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts
2 interior sets; 1 exterior set.
Shelley, Byron and Polidori talk about ghosts. Mary Shelley is entranced by the tales and in her own imagination devises mystery and terror that affects them all. Title: McClure
Author: Scott, Munroe Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1988
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - biography all male cast; one character one male two acts
Set in China, "McClure" is the story of Doctor Robert Baird McClure's twenty-five adventurous, dangerous years there as 'dai fu', a doctor. McClure arrives in China in 1926 as a young bachelor. War is ever-present: the Nationalists fight the Communists, both parties fight the Japanese, and then Mao and the Communists take over the country. The story ends with the doctor's prayer to God for peace in this troubled land. This is a one-man play, with the actor playing not only McClure but also other characters, from a Scottish university registrar to a Chinese warlord.
Title: McGillicuddy's Lost Weekend
Author: Roulston, Keith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy five characters two male; three female two acts
"McGillicuddy, the only policeman in town, finds his fishing weekend cancelled due to a kidnapping. His search is hindered more than helped by the kind interference of the town's inhabitants."
Title: Me?
Author: Kinch, Martin Publisher: The Coach House Press 1973
Description:
roy drama - Toronto⌦five characters three male; two female two acts
How do you find the middle road between hurting and being hurt, between pure domination and pure submission? For Terry, there's no such road. Title: Medici Slot Machine
Author: Brownell, Mark Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama - biography - Joseph Cornell five characters three male; two female two acts
Medici Slot Machine is a highly theatrical and surrealistic look at the life of American artist Joseph Cornell. Cornell, who is famous for his collage boxes of dime-store objects, excelled at turning the ordinary into the sacred. In real life, Joseph Cornell was a recluse who used his art to escape his family, his sterile suburban life, and his own psychological demons. Bringing precise order to his art was a way of triumphing over the chaos of his private life. This play chronicles that triumph while exploring the meaning of.
Title: Medium for Murder
Author: McRae, Murray Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1989
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - mystery four characters two male; two female two acts
"A husband and his mistress hire an actor to play a medium who will bring back the spirit of the rich wife's dead brother to convince her to commit suicide so that they can get the estate."
Title: Melville Boys, The
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
Owen and Lee Melville arrive at their uncle's lakeside cabin for a weekend of beer and fishing, but their plans are thrown out of whack by the arrival of two sisters. Title: Memoir A play about Sarah Bernhardt's last summer Author: Murrell, John Publisher: Avon Books 1978
Description:
roy Canadian drama - women - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
Sarah Bernhardt's seventy-seventh and last summer.
Title: Memories of You
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Summerhill Press 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters one male; four female two acts
various interior sets.
Based on the romantic and literary entanglements of the late great Elizabeth Smart, the play explores one woman's passions as she struggles to be a lover, a mother and a writer.
Title: Mending Fences
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy comedy eight characters two male; three female (doubling) two acts
An hilarious, but thoughtful, comedy about love, loss and making the most of a second chance. Harry is a Saskatchewan farmer that sticks to his guns no matter what the consequences. The loss of his family many years ago is just one of many life-altering changes his stubbornness has caused. Gin, an equally headstrong woman, from the neighbouring farm has helped ease his pain, but the past haunts her as well. When Harry's son Drew suddenly shows up after a thirteen-year estrangement, Harry must decide whether he will learn from his mistakes or make them all over Title: Messenger
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 2017
Description:
roy drama - politics - climate change four characters three male; one female two acts
simple set.
"It is a memory play, set both in the present day and in 1990, when the Progressive Conservative government of the day, contrary to the public record, in fact set lofty goals of joining – if not leading – the world in tackling climate change. The mechanism by which that goal was lost is played out primarily between two brothers. One brother, Peter, is the Prime Minister’s chief of
Title: Michel and Ti-Jean A play Author: Rideout, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; two characters two male two acts
"Michel and Ti-Jean" invites you into an imagined conversation between Jack Kerouac and Michel Tremblay set in 1969, a time when Tremblay has just achieved amazing success with "Les Belles-Soeurs", the first play to be performed in Québécois French, and Kerouac is deep in the bottle following the success of "On the Road", but at odds with critics over his newer work. Playwright George Rideout imagines a meeting where two inaccessible giants - Kerouac, a creator of the most dazzling sound movies and a voice of America, and Tremblay, the maker of the most
Title: Mick Unplugged
Author: Nelson, Greg Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005
Description:
roy comedy - romance five characters three male; two female two acts
Mitch wants to re-start his life - but will his old pals "clash" with his plans or will they play along? Sparks fly as old friends reunite in this unabashedly romantic and boldly contemporary comedy about the perils of nostalgia, the joy of 80's punk, and how hard it is to tell your best friend that you're in love with them. Title: Midlife
Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Broadview Drama 2002
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - aging - domestic relations - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts
"The landscape of middle-aged bravado and angst that Eugene Stickland populates here with Calgary oilmen and their romantic difficulties ."
Title: Mighty Carlins, The
Author: Doyle, Collin Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2002
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright - family relations all male cast; three characters three male two acts
On the anniversary of his wife's death, Leo Carlin and his two adult sons come together for their traditional night of drinking until they can't stand, reminiscing until they can't remember, and accusing each other until they are bonded together as a family once again. Featuring a get-rich-quick-internet-porn business and a daring plan to steal a gold statue of Jesus.
Title: Miser of Middlegate, The
Author: Gray, Carolyn Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2014
Description:
roy comedy - farce five characters three male; two female two acts
"Set in modern day Winnipeg, Gray's inspired version of Moliere's classic satire is part sex farce and part screwball comedy. Exploring family, love and money, THE MISER OF MIDDLEGATE sharply critiques our culture obsessed with acquisition and never loses its sense of humour. A cheeky and irreverent romp into the lives of one entrepreneurial Winnipeg family." Title: Miss Autobody Translation of : Mademoiselle Autobody. Author: Gaboriau, Linda Publisher: gynergy books 1993
Description:
roy comedy - women all female cast; six characters six female two acts
"Led by a savvy group of feminist mechanics, the women of Pompomville thwart a scheme to show porn videos at a local bar. This is the premise of Miss Autobody, the celebrated and hilarious play by the acclaimed Quebec theatre troupe, les Folles Alliees. Miss Autobody accurately depicts the insidious effects of pornography and misogyny, and splits your sides in the process".
Title: Molly's Veil
Author: Bajer, Sharon Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2005
Description:
roy comic drama - Canadian history - romance five characters one male; four female two acts
"Set in Ottawa in 1952, it explores the relationship between Canada's first female mayor Charlotte Whitton and her lover of thirty years Margaret Grier."
Title: Mom, Dad, I'm Living With a White Girl
Author: Chan, Marty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
"A Chinese son must tell his parents he has moved in with his white girlfriend. In a counter-narrative, the play explodes Asian stereotypes in a B-movie spoof called Wrath of the Yellow Claw."
Winner of the 1998/99 Elizabeth Sterling Hayes Award for Best New Work. Title: Mom's the Word
Author: Carson, Linda Daum, Jill Publisher: Talonbooks 2000
Description:
roy drama - comedy - Canadian - family - motherhood all female cast; six characters six female two acts
"Getting together to share their experiences, six woman performers struck upon the idea to write about what they were going through as mothers trying to maintain their careers, their individual identities, and their relationships with their partners. The result is an evening of hilarious stories, bittersweet monologues, poetic reflections and revelatory anecdotes. Touching tales of giving birth to a premature baby are balanced against comic, ribald, rants on diaper soup; whispered, hesitant conversations about sex after children; and the desperate confessionals of
Title: Moonlight Sonata of Beethoven Blatz, The
Author: Wiebe, Armin Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
"A preacher should know that in the Bible a man would wear a dress." A comic 'folk play' with a classical music base, THE MOONLIGHT SONOTA OF BEETHOVEN BLATZ follows a farm wife, a carpenter, a midwife, and a musician as they struggle to find fulfillment of their seemingly impossible wantings, drawing on the means at hand on a homestead removed from the stifling customs of the village.
Title: Motherlode
Author: Dore, Deirdre Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - comedy - Canadian - relationships - women - family relations six characters three male; three female two acts
"An exotic dancer gives up her baby to her straight-laced sister and biker hubby to raise, then three months later has second thoughts. From playground to strip bar to church to trailer, a traumatic comedy of errors ensues as the sisters battle each other as well as thier own demons to determine who is best suited to be the mother." Title: Mounting Sex in the Afternoon Zone
Author: Russell-King, Caroline Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1995
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - relationships - Alberta playwright six characters flexible casting two acts
This play is a farce within a sitcom. Both genres being comedy, the bulimia and adultery issues should in no way be attempted to be played dramatically. . .'
Title: Mrs. Dexter and Her Daily
Author: Glass, Joanna McClelland Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2012
Description:
roy drama - women - aging all female cast; two characters two female two acts
A play about the very different lives of two women, each distinctly shaped by betrayal, money, love, and friendship. For the past ten years Edith Dexter has employed Peggy Randall as her housekeeper, but the time has come for them to part ways: Mrs. Dexter is moving after a difficult divorce. Before they can say goodbye, the women must prepare the house for potential buyers. As they go about their domestic tasks, both reflect on the hardships they have faced and on their fears of growing old alone. Though very different in class and culture, their lives have become
Title: Murder Game
Author: Ross, W. E. Dan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy mystery - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
When Beth moves into an old Ontario farmhouse, she is disturbed to find that the former tenant was murdered. After several mysterious visits and revelations, she begins to suspect that she, too, is marked for murder. Title: Murder in the Empress
Author: Wagner, Phillip C. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy mystery - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
Description not available.
Title: My Chernobyl
Author: Bushkowsky, Aaron Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy comedy - romance five characters three male; two female two acts
A naive Canadian man travels to Belarus to give an inheritance to his father's last remaining relative. While there, he meets his long-lost cousin, a beautiful, young Russian woman, who sets her sights on her wealthy relative as a ticket out of the radiation-blasted country, where cultures and ideals clash with touching and hilarious results.
2008 Victoria Critics' Spotlight Award for Best Professional Production and Best New Play.
Title: My Darling Judith
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1987
Description:
roy comedy - marital relations four characters two male; two female two acts
David Stafford, a men's clothing tycoon, coerces one of his employees into having an affair with his wife Judith, so he can sue her for divorce and marry another. However, when David discovers that his wife might actually have feelings for the underling, he begins to have second thoughts, in this modern comedy of manners. Title: My Sister's Keeper
Author: Allan, Ted Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1969
Description:
roy drama - mental illness two characters one male: one female two acts
"The play is set in London, England, flat of Robert, a university lecturer from Canada. His sister Sarah comes from Canada to visit. We learn she has a history of mental illness. We learn they have been deeply emotionally involved and that he feels guilty for her illness. We also learn to ask a question: which one of them is the mentally ill one?"
Title: Ned and Jack
Author: Rosen, Sheldon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all male cast; three characters three male two acts
1 interior set.
After his brilliant Broadway opening as Hamlet, actor John Barrymore climbs the fire escape for a late-night visit with playwright Edward Sheldon. The play captures both men at a moment when their personal and professional lives are faced with abrupt change.
Title: Ned Durango Comes To Big Oak
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
"An aging television cowboy star comes to the aid of an economically troubled small town in this funny, sometimes moving play." Title: New World Order, The
Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Talent Group 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright six characters five male; one female two acts
A dinner conversation between Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae (a Canadian doctor who wrote In Flanders Fields), Salvador Allende (former president of Chile), Jan Masaryk (former foreign minister of Czechoslovakia), Mohammed Mossadegh (former president of Iran), and Jacobo Arbenz (former president of Guatemala). The dialogue works at two levels - for theatregoers out to enjoy themselves and for gameplayers and students of history. The characters, very sophisticated in life and with the advantage of being dead, are extraordinarily knowledgeable and don't bother
Title: Next Move, The
Author: Szanto, George Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy satire five characters three male; two female two acts
"Set in an Army Induction Center, where an overweight, over-age, and overwrought draftee has reluctantly reported for his physical. Confronted by an Amazon-like female sergeant, he tries every evasion he can think of to disqualify himself, but is ultimately shattered by the realization that nothing will stave off the inevitable. His final monologue, a harrowing exposure of bitterness and confusion, reveals the dilemma of a man to whom the meaning and purpose of his country have become unclear".
Title: Next Year's Man of Steel
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Samuel French 2012
Description:
roy drama - collaboration - heroes - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female two acts
August 1940, New York. Struggling and opportunistic writer Everett Gardner is given the chance to make a mark in the still infant comic book industry. All he has to do is create a hero. But creating a real hero turns out to be much more difficult than he expects. And while badgered by a desperate publisher and partnered with an uncooperative artist, the task might prove to be impossible. Especially with distraction of the artist's intriguing young wife. But heroes can arise in the most unexpected places... A full length play about creativity, collaboration and every day Title: Noam Chomsky Lectures, The
Author: Brooks, Daniel Verdecchia, Guillermo Publisher: Talonbooks 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - lecture all male cast; two characters two male two parts; lecture format
"Ordinarily, theatre relies on illusion in order to reveal truths; this play relies on truths in order to reveal illusion. Following the impetus of Chomsky himself, Brooks and Verdeccchia have recognized the mass media, mass spectacle, have trivialized and severed consciousness and conscience, separating both from a communal base. We collectively know little about what is done in our name by our elected governments and the business interests they serve. The play assumes not only that we do want to know, that our "knowing together" may change things, but it is also
Title: North of America
Author: Brown, Kenneth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female two acts
"The time is the near future. Canada as a nation has ceased to exist, and the fundamentalist right is running the new America. A play about love, the faces of facism, and the importance of remembering who we are."
Title: Notorious Right Robert and His Robber Bride, The A play Author: Dixon, Sean Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - adventure six characters four male; two female two acts
suitable for school performances: students age 10+; running time: 100 min.
A Bonnie and Clyde tale set in 1930's wildwoods Canada. In the fictional one-horse town of Chickabiddy, Right Robert, a wanna-be bad guy, sets out with his practical-minded brother Blue Jay to rob his way to fame and fortune. He happens upon Jenny Lundy, a poor farm girl with big dreams of her own. Their chance meeting sets them on a bittersweet journey of crime and familial Title: Numbers Game, The
Author: Spurway, John Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy four characters one male; one female (doubling) two acts
running time: 110 min.
She was the most popular girl in high school; he was on the math team. They couldn't be any more different. Thirty-seven years later, Phil is an actuary looking for a place to stay. Bernadette needs a roommate, preferably a female. The only thing they have in common is that they've both just been dumped. Does misery really love company?
Title: Odd Fish
Author: Boyd, Pamela Publisher: Red Deer College Press 1994
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female two acts
'Czech woman living comfortably in Canada with her husband and two children forced to confront past when old lover pays unexpected visit.'
Winner of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Premiere Production Award.
Title: Odd Jobs
Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1986
Description:
roy drama - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts
1 set.
Tim has been laid off from his factory job and finds contentment in the employ of a retired professor. When Tim's wife is offered a job in another city, the hopes and needs of the three come into conflict. Title: Of the Fields, Lately
Author: French, David Publisher: New Press 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations four characters three male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
Ben Mercer comes home to Toronto in 1961 for his aunt's funeral, only to learn of his father's recent heart-attack. The complexities of family loves, loyalties and hurts are revealed as Ben learns that "you can't go home again".
Title: Office Hours
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
"Six separate stories unfold in six separate offices on one Friday afternoon. The stories are all related, though, in this biting look at how people get by in the modern world."
Title: Old Love
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy comedy - aging - romance ten characters two male; two female (or) one male; one female (doubling) two acts
The story spans three decades and half a dozen meetings between Bud, a salesman, and Molly, his boss's wife. One of them is smitten from the very first meeting—the other, let's just say—less so. The story is straightforward, easy to follow and funny, often very funny. Canada's pre-eminent comic playwright Norm Foster has written a clever and witty dialogue celebrating the pursuit of love, the kind of love that “makes you breathe just a little bit faster.” Charmingly written, with just a few curse words for effect, Foster's use of one-liner’s serve the script well and has the audience Title: Omniscience
Author: Carlson, Tim Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy modern murder mystery five characters; voices three male; two female two acts
'Omniscience' is much more than a murder-mystery set in a quasi-familiar contemporary landscape of high-tech urban warfare. The plot is redolent with untrustworthy “embedded” journalists manufacturing positivist pseudo-documentaries about the ongoing victories of our military forces over any and all stripes of vaguely defined terrorists, hell-bent on destroying the “wellness” of our contemporary “free society.” We recognize immediately the storyline’s seamless meld with everyone’s favourite post-9/11 reality TV show, the Evening News.
Title: On a First Name Basis
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - relationships - life two characters one male; one female two acts
David, a successful novelist with writer’s block, has received some devastating news he’s kept to himself. Lucy, his housekeeper of twenty-eight years, has her own secret that she’s afraid to admit. As Lucy is getting ready to end her shift, David invites her to stay and have a drink, curious about the woman who’s been tending to his house all these years. But as the night sets in and the drinks start to flow, secrets reveal themselves, for better or worse.
Title: One Crowded Hour
Author: Fielden, Charlotte Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1976
Description:
roy women - Canadian - drama all female cast; one character one female three acts
"Involves an "evocative journey into Arizona's scrubland and Mabel's personal inward journey toward her self-hood." Title: One Day in May A play in two parts Author: Light, Greg Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations five characters three male; two female two parts
open stage.
An exploration of family relationships, observing the emotional isolation of five characters, their limitations and the disintegration of the very language which they use to communicate.
Title: One Night Stand
Author: Bolt, Carol Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977
Description:
roy comedy - thriller - Canadian three characters one male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
Daisy picks up a charming stranger who punctuates his lies with country and western songs. Carol Bolt's comedy thriller, is the story of the chilling encounter that results from this curious and compelling romance.
Title: Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 1998
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - family relations - Native playwright five characters three male; two female two acts
"The emotional story of a woman's struggle to acknowledge her birth family. Grace, a Native girl adopted by a white family, is asked by her birth sister to return to the Reserve for their mother's funeral. Afraid of opening old wounds, Grace must find a place where the culture of her past can feed the truth of her present."
Winner! 1996 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Small Theatre Division. Title: Orchidelirium
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
A university professor fights to maintain her orchid conservatory, against an institution hell-bent on selling out to a pharmaceutical multinational.
Title: Orphan Muses, The
Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1995
Description:
roy comedy - French - Canadian - family relations four characters one male; three female three acts
"Four siblings gather with the idea of "settling" family matters - some of which turn out to be not what they expected. They prepare for their mother to return who abandond them twenty years ago. She is coming on Easter Sunday, which lends a powerful dynamic to this odd assembly in Lac-Saint-Jean. There is a rich replaying of family tradition and rural Quebec religious celebration, modulated by the contributions of four eccentric individuals. The play is set in 1965, in Quiet Revolution of Quebec, offers yet another reminiscence another note of re-play."
Title: Our Own Particular Jane
Author: Hurley, Joan Mason Publisher: A Room of One's Own Press 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - biography six characters flexible casting two acts
Based on the life, letters and literature of Jane Austen. Title: Outlaw
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy drama - western all male cast; four characters four male two acts
A young Canadian homesteader travelling far from home, finds himself accused of murder in the state of Kansas in 1871. With only his wits to defend himself, he turns the law of the land – and the men hell-bent on enforcing it – upside down. This authentic western is a unique take on the days when guns were the law.
Title: Pageant
Author: MacDonald, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female two acts
Cars, pageants and plastic surgery. The isolation of the East Kootenay mountains leads to strange and beautiful acts. A darkly comic tale of beauty, loyalty and redemption. Trudy, Deer Ridge's own beauty queen, comes face-to-face with the broken realities of her dream-life and must turn to a most unlikely source for solace and truth.
Title: Paper Wheat
Author: Twenty-Fifth Street House Theatre Publisher: Western Producer Prairie Books 1982
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical five characters three male; two female two acts
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: Papers
Author: Stratton, Allan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985
Description:
roy romantic comedy - Canadian three characters one male; two female two acts
two interior sets.
Two lonely and articulate academics struggle with their mutual inability to communicate. "Papers" is a witty and intelligent look at love; a compassionate comedy.
Title: Paradise Garden
Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Talonbooks 2001
Description:
roy drama - Alberta playwright six characters two male; four female three acts
In the gold-rush era of the 1850's, the McKinnons settled on an island off the west coast of Canada, where the first thing they did was to turn this 'wilderness' into an English country garden complete with vegetables, flowers, fruit trees, and an elegant gazebo. After six generations, times and circumstances have changed, the family estate has been subdivided, the flowers have gone wild, the pear tree has rotted and the heritage house has been carved up into a duplex, the property now divided in two by an ugly hedge. The McKinnons now live in one side of the
Title: Passion of Narcisse Mondoux, The
Author: Gelinas, Gratien translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Anansi Press 1992
Description:
roy drama - relationships - romance - Canadian two characters one male; one female two acts
In this play, Narcisse Mondoux sets out to woo the recently widowed Laurencienne Robichaud. When at last he thinks he has learned the secret to her heart, he discovers that Laurencienne is a liberated woman who intends to fulfil her secret ambition by herself. In a touching role reversal, Narcisse wins her love by agreeing to support her in her bid to become mayor of the village. Title: Patience
Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - biblical six characters three male; three female two acts
"Reuben has it all. Then with almost biblical abruptness - think of the story of Job - Reuben's universe tumbles, and almost everything he has come to count on turns to dust."
Opening night edition and collector's edition.
Title: Pearl Gidley
Author: Kirkham, Gary Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - drama four characters two male; two female two acts
Pearl and her sister Edith are living quietly in the old family home in Blyth, Ontario in April, 1971, when their neighbour George asks them to take in a boarder, a young Vietnam veteran named Charles. The young stranger unwittingly disturbs the veneer that has long covered Pearl's secret tragedy.
Title: Perfect Pie
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy drama - women all female cast; four characters four female two acts
"In the course of an afternoon's reunion between two long-estranged women, a buried memory, and two teenager's wild secret, slams into the present. A potent drama." Title: Phoenix Lottery, The
Author: Stratton, Allan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - family relations six characters four male; two female two acts
Edgar Beamish dies, leaving his corporate empire to his estranged son, Junior, who launches a charitable foundation with company assets. Disaster ensues; bankruptcy appears certain. But Junior has a fundraising inspiration, The Phoenix Lottery. It offers its winner instant fame and fortune: the chance to torch a prized van Gogh at a live event, and to sell the story to TV, tabloids and Hollywood. But powerful enemies include the slippery Vatican envoy Cardinal Wichita, the ghost of Junior's father - and the spirit of van Gogh himself. An exploration of art, commerce, and
Title: Photographic Moment, The
Author: Baldridge, Mary Humphrey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975
Description:
not available for production drama - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
A deceptively simple play that focuses on family, people and the human comedy. "It is convincing in its psychology and in its narrative structure, and its concerns are important and valid... The play is a valuable addition to Prairie dramatic literature."
Title: Picking Up Chekhov
Author: Robinson, Mansel Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2007
Description:
roy black comedy - dark comedy - Canadian five characters; extras two male; one female; two girls two acts
"Picking Up Chekhov" is a picaresque black comedy about a two-bit repo-man, his angry ex-wife and their smart-alec teenaged daughter whose lives collide with an enigmatic hitchhiker named Chekhov and a kid with a serious grudge. Title: Plainsman, The
Author: Mitchell, Ken Publisher: Coteau Books 1992
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Metis four characters three male; one female two acts
"The Plainsman focuses on the Metis people, their struggles during the North West Resistance of 1885, and the pivotal role played by Gabriel Dumont."
Title: Plan B
Author: Healey, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy comedy - political four characters three male; one female two acts
'High-level meetings to negotiate the departure of Quebec from Canada are charged by personal impulses toward seduction and betrayal, union and division, intimacy and distance.'
2002-Dora Award Winner
Title: Play Murder As published in Theatrum Magazine (Summer 1994) Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - mystery six characters three male; three female two acts
Description not available. Title: Playing Bare
Author: Champagne, Dominic translated by Shelley Tepperman Publisher: Talonbooks 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - satire six characters three male; three female eight scenes
Witty, prickly and fresh, "Playing Bare" is a mordant satire on the relation between theatre and life. An accomplished actress is on the verge of a nervous breakdown as she directs Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot". In her deranged effort to expose the emptiness of playing fictional characters, she casts the lead roles with a pair of non-actors whose lives mirror those of the characters they play. Her search for the ultimate theatrical experience - life becoming art - takes the action in hilarious and insightful directions.
Title: Ploughmen of the Glacier
Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1977
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all male cast; three characters three male two acts
Conversations between an aged prospector and a retired newspaperman bring about an examination of the myth of men who made the West.
Title: Plum Tree, The
Author: Miyagawa, Mitch Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy historical - Canadian - Japanese internment three characters two male; one female two acts
The roof of Frieda's house leaks. Ever since her husband died, she’s struggled to keep her u-pick berry farm running. One morning, she finds a stranger under the old plum tree, and the roof of her world begins to collapse. For George, three years as an activist in the Japanese Canadian Redress movement have finally paid off. But what has the struggle cost him? Driven by the puckish spirit of his Uncle Mas, he’s come to the berry farm in search of a connection to his past. The Plum Tree is an exploration of ownership and justice. Most of all, it’s a story of how the perennial Title: Poor Super Man
Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 1995
Description:
roy drama - relationships - Canadian five characters two male; three female two acts
"Frustrated by the lack of love and affection in his life, celebrated gay painter David McMillan returns to his humble beginnings as a waiter where he hopes to find his lost creativity. He finds that and more in the arms of his married male employer, Matt. Matt inspires David to paint the best pictures of his life. However, the affair forces David to face new realities about himself and his world when he re-examines his long-time friendship with a straight female gossip columnist, and when he watches his transsexual roommate live with being HIV positive."
Title: Poor Uncle Ernie in his Covered Cage
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations four characters two male; two female two acts
A man who has given up all his dreams for the sake of his family is forced by the return of his long-lost sister to re-evaluate his life and, in the process, to learn that selfish choices are often the most difficult to make.
Title: Possible Worlds
Author: Mighton, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988
Description:
roy Canadian - black comedy six characters four male; two female two acts
"George believes he lives in an infinite number of worlds at the same time. As detectives race to solve a series of murders in which the victims' brains are removed, George falls in love with different incarnations of the same woman." Title: Post Mistress, The A one-woman musical Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - musical comedy - rural life - Native peoples⌦all female cast; one character; pianist; saxophonist one female two acts
alternate title: The (Post) Mistress. Born and raised in Lovely, Ontario, a small French-Canadian farming village near Lake Huron, Marie-Louise Painchaud has never had occasion to venture much farther than the nearest community – Complexity, a copper-mining town and a somewhat larger dot on the map of the Georgia Bay area. For thirty years, Marie-Louise has worked at the local post office, and, through the many letters she sorts when they arrive and the ones that she stamps before they go out, she
Title: Powers and Gloria
Author: Roulston, Keith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female two acts
When Edward Connell Powers suffers a stroke, he must turn over the running of his furniture factory, the town’s largest employer, to his son James. When he comes home from hospital, James hires the only caregiver he can find, Gloria Delaney, a single-mom, high school drop-out whose hair is bigger than her sense of worth. It seems a doomed relationship but little by little over Edward’s long convalescence, she wins his respect for her humour, spirit and intelligence while she sees beyond his intimidating, crusty exterior. Gloria helps him as he seeks to rebuild his
Title: Prisoner of Zenda, The
Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy romantic comedy - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
2 interior sets.
A long-lost cousin, the physical double to the rightful heir to the throne of Ruritania, stands in for the drugged Prince to prevent the conniving step-brother from seizing power. A swashbuckling adventure of mistaken identity and high romance. Title: Prok
Author: Drader, Brian Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2003
Description:
roy drama large cast two male; one female (doubling) two acts
'Into a world of seemingly complacent conformity, Professor Alfred Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" exploded on to the scene and sparked off the sexual revolution. And Professor K, or "Prok", as he was known, had as many secrets as the subjects he interviewed for his groundbreaking studies... In this fascinating memory play, Kinsey's wife Clara recalls scenes from their lives: their first meeting, their wedding night, lovers, conflicts, and children. Kinsey emerges as a complex individual - a renowned scientist and outwardly conventional family man who
Title: Promised Land, The
Author: Strong, Mark Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - adolescents - family relations - pregnancy five characters three male; two female two acts
"Two teenagers decide to deal with a pregnancy by moving in together, but the girl's mother is determined to prevent this."
Title: Public Lies
Author: Fothergill, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - political - drama twenty characters four male; two female (doubling) two acts
"Examines propaganda, political art and the complex career of NFB founder John Grierson". Title: Queen Milli of Galt
Author: Kirkham, Gary Publisher: Samuel French 2005
Description:
roy comedy - romance - Little Theatre six characters three male; three female two acts
"Based on a true story. A lovely romantic comedy with a handy supply of humour, this play is a genuinely witty exploration of unexpected love. In 1972, the Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII) dies while living in exile at the age of 78. Two weeks later in Canada, an 80 year old woman from a small town named Galt has her tombstone engraved, claiming to be his wife. A young journalist appears at her door, eager for answers."
Title: Queens, The
Author: Chaurette, Normand translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Talonbooks 1998
Description:
roy drama - historical - Shakespeare all female cast; six characters six female eleven parts
While a heavy snowfall blankets London, King Edward lies on his deathbed, and his younger brother, the monstrous Richard, is plotting to assassinate all who stand between him and the throne. As the balance of power shifts, the palace women—“Queens” of the royal families of York, Lancaster, and Plantagenet—fight tooth, nail and tongue to gain the prospective monarch’s favour: the anguished Queen Elizabeth; the elderly Duchess of York, mother of Edward and Richard; the dethroned queen, Margaret of Anjou; the ambitious and grasping Warwick sisters,
Title: Rap Canterbury Tales, The
Author: Brinkman, Baba Publisher: Talonbooks 25.00
Description:
roy one man show - Chaucer - rap all male cast; one character one male four parts
Rapper and MC Baba Brinkman brings his popular performance piece to the printed page, resurrecting Chaucer's brilliant stories from their vellum mausoleum into visible and audible contemporary forms that will once again delight and edify both live audiences and readers - a rebirth of what poetry should be in its essence, and once was. Since Chaucer has become an unassailable icon of print culture, and hip hop is an unassailable icon of contemporary digital cool, Brinkman saw this radical new fusion of content and style as the perfect medium to deliver Title: Raven and the Writing Desk, The A quizzical romantic comedy Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - romance - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
A stand alone play that continues the tale of Steven Tudor begun in "The Red King's Dream" and "Between Yourself and Me"; running time: 120 min.
Steven and Amy are in love. And so they've decided to move in together. But can true love survive the crucible of co-habitation? Especially when an intrusive ex-boyfriend enters the picture followed closely by Steven's domineering mother. It's a romantic comedy of accommodation and
Title: Re:Union
Author: Devine, Sean Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2013
Description:
roy drama - political - American three characters two male; one female two acts
November 2, 1965. Norman Morrison drives to the Pentagon with his infant daughter, a jug of kerosene and a box of matches. With Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara looking on, the young Quaker carries out a final act of witness against the horrors of the Vietnam War. Thirty-six years later, in the wake of 9/11, his daughter returns to confront the aging McNamara, the memory of her father, and the costly legacy of sacrifice.
Title: Real Estate
Author: Harkin, Allana Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy four characters two male; two female two acts
"Joel, a mystery novelist experiencing writer's block, retreats to the small-town family home that his father built; but the house needs to be sold, and fast! Enter Emma-an incredibly determined realtor -who decides that Joel is as much of a fixer-upper as the house he lives in. With the addition of Joel's soon-to-be-ex looking to get divorce papers signed and her man purse - toting beauty entrepreneur boyfriend in tow, Emma focuses all her considerable energy into developing the curb appeal of the house-as well as its inhabitant. The comedy is sure , the characters are well Title: Red King's Dream, The
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - bachelorhood - relationships - Alberta playwright four characters one male; three female two acts
prequel to "Between Yourself and Me" and "The Raven and the Writing Desk".
"Stephen Tudor's world is solitary, logical and precise. And that's good. Until a new neighbor moves down the hall. Now Stephen is feeling things he's never felt before. What happens when a man who thinks too much falls in love? A little story of love and logic through the looking glass."
Title: Red Priest, The (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye) Author: Ouchi, Mieko Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy Canadian - love story - monologues - Alberta playwright two characters one male; one female two parts
'This bittersweet love story features enchanting music, a mysterious countess, Antonio Vivaldi, and a violin. "The Red Priest" is a poignant variation on the themes of love and freedom by one of Alberta's most exceptional young artists.'
Title: Refugees
Author: Rintoul, Harry Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988
Description:
roy Canadian drama - relationships - abuse - poverty three characters two male; one female two acts
The action of the play takes place in the present, during the winter, over a duration of a week in a one bedroom apartment in an old house that has been converted into apartments. Title: Respectable A play Author: Chambers, Ron Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters four male; one female two acts
"Hork and Saul finally have a job that puts some coin in their pockets, some beer on the table, and might even make them respectable. It's like taking candy from a baby until they discover their boss is the brains behind a sinister plot that might just explode in their faces."
Title: Resurrection of John Frum, The
Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1990
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - religion - Alberta playwright two characters flexible casting two acts
"For Issac, the key to hope lies in the teachings of Christ. Syd worships an obscure Melanesian cargo cult. What happens when they try to convert each other? An off-center look at the nature of faith, hope and salvation."
Title: Retreat, The
Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters three male; one female two acts
"A film producer is attracted to a young writer's screenplay - about a false Messiah - as as opportunity to recharge his own idealism. The young writer herself ponders big revisions not just to her screenplay but also to her integrity. This is a bracing comedy about deal making and soul searching." Title: Rexy
Author: Stratton, Allan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - political - biography five characters four male; one female two acts
1 exterior set.
An astute and witty look at PM Mackenzie King, spiritualist and politician.
Co-winner, 1981 Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Winner, 1981 Dora Mavor Moore and Canadian Author's Association awards for best new play.
Title: Righteousness
Author: Deverell, Rex Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - historical - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
"The last days of St. Augustine's life were spent in solitude and penance. The ghosts of his past helped him to find a distinction between morality and moralism. Set in exotic fifth century North Africa, amid the crumbling remains of the Roman Empire."
Title: Rinse Cycle
Author: Crossland, Jackie Lavalle, Rudy Publisher: Talonbooks 1972
Description:
roy drama - adolescent - nostalgia - 1950's six characters four male; two female twelve scenes
Rinse Cycle is a late 50's nostalgia play, like all the old rock movies. Ideally, it needs a naturalistic approach from costumes to slang and personal mannerisms to re-create the aura of the time. Title: Riot
Author: Moodie, Andrew Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1997
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters four male; two female three acts
"Andrew Moodie's Riot is a dramatic and often humorous look at six black Canadians of diverse backgrounds who share a Toronto house. Their lives unfold against a backdrop of civil unrest which erupted when the Los Angeles police officers on trial for the beating of Rodney King were acquitted. The fracas outside keeps intruding as characters clash, collide and swap jokes about everything from racism to the status of Quebec as a distinct society, from Malcolm X to 'The Road to Avonlea'."
Title: Romeo Initiative, The
Author: Davies, Trina Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2012
Description:
roy romantic comedy - thriller - historical - Canadian - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts
Half romantic comedy and half spy-thriller, The Romeo Initiative is a journey into the heart that leaves audiences gasping. Single men are hard to come by in 1970s West Germany. So when Karin Maynard, a government secretary, meets the handsome Markus Richter, a single man who pursues her, she can hardly believe her luck. But with Markus continually away on business, thoughts of infidelity begin to consume Karin. Is her insecurity unwarranted, or is she onto something? Based on a real program in East Germany in which men were trained and sent to develop long-term
Title: Room with Five Walls, The The trials of Victor Hoffman Author: Barclay, Byrna Publisher: NeWest Press 2004
Description:
roy drama - historical - biographical - schizophrenia six characters; extras; chorus five male; one female (doubling possible) two acts
Barclay thrusts an audience inside the disordered mind of Victor Hoffman several decades after the Peterson murders (Canada's first mass murder). Hoffman, now an inmate in a maximum security institute for the criminally insane, is confined to a dark and dingy room reminiscent of an underground prison vault. The play's "fifth wall" is a surreal wormhole accommodating projections, entrances and exits. By reliving his crime's prelude and the subsequent trial, Older Victor engages a resisting young Victor in a daily search for "the right question" that was never Title: Rope Enough
Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy psychological murder mystery five characters four male; one female two acts
Ichabod and Dylan are two young effeminate gay party boys whose sybaritic existence is abruptly interrupted when they are charged with the murder of Ichabod’s parents. In prison, they are interviewed by right wing-journalist Cecilia Wainscott, who quickly discovers that Ichabod is a complex character—both a theoretical mathematician and an exuberantly dark misanthrope. In the end, Cecilia learns a little bit about herself, gay men, theoretical mathematics and the nature of the universe. Are Dylan and Ichabod evil cold-blooded killers turned on by a perverse cocktail of
Title: Rough Magic
Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2006
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female two acts
Description not available.
Title: Running Dog, Paper Tiger
Author: Johnston, Simon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - drama six characters four male; two female two acts
"Set in Hong Kong in 1967, when Communist Chinese riots rocked the stability of the British Colony. A mixed-race family is forced to choose between loyalty to their British roots and to their race." Title: Sacred Hearts
Author: Curran, Colleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1989
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
In the midst of a crisis over having given her daughter up for adoption, Bridget experiences a miracle - a sign from the Virgin Mary. Is it a miracle as the townsfolk believe, a psychic occurrence or Bridget's way of dealing with her guilt? Sacred Hearts is a warm, funny, thought-provoking investigation of Faith today.
Title: Sadie Flynn Comes to Big Oak
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three characters two acts
'Convicted husband killer Sadie Flynn is released from prison and decides to get off the bus and make her new home in the small town of Big Oak. Soon after her arrival, strange things begin to happen.'
Title: Sagouine, La
Author: Maillet, Antonine translated by Luis de Cespdes Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1985
Description:
roy biography - monologues - women all female cast; one character one female sixteen parts
'This is a true story. The story of La Sagouine, a scrubwoman, a woman of the sea, who was born with the century, with her feet in the water. Water was her fortune: the daughter of a cod fisherman, a sailor's girl, and later the wife of a fisherman who took oysters and smelts. A cleaning woman also, who ends up on all fours, with her bucket in front and her hands in the water.' Title: Saints and Apostles, The
Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts
The Saints and Apostles is a contemporary love story, complicated by the age of HIV infection. This is as warm and moving tale about the ultimate fear of intimacy which re-examines modern relationships, and the power and the limitations of love.
Title: Sand
Author: Wagner, Colleen Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1989
Description:
roy Canadian - drama six characters three male; three female two acts
running time: 110 min.
Takes place on once prosperous farm country, now turned to a vast and blowing desert. It could be the dustbowl of the thirties or the not so distant future. However, one thing is certain, the arrival of Carlye to her family home after a long and mysterious absence wreaks havoc. Is she rainmaker as she claims, or out for revenge.
Title: Saucy Jack
Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright four characters three male; one female two acts
"Pollock, implicates the most upper echelons of British society in the brutal murders of London's prostitutes. In a stately Victorian drawing room, two old friends, James Kenneth Stephen, a scholar, and his former pupil, Prince Albert Victor, dance around the truth of the identity of London's most notorious killer, and while a tale of psychological intrigue is played out, an unraveling of tested friendship, betrayal, duplicity, and motive is revealed. With the single female character of Kate, an actress hired by James to re-enact the death throes of the prostitutes, Pollock Title: Scary Stories
Author: Armstrong, Gordon Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1996
Description:
roy drama - horror five characters three male; two female two acts
'Jules Chaykin is an expert in the field of blood and gore stories, like the ones found in the classic 'Tomb of Doom' comics, and the survival of his art is in the hands of his publisher, Wally Hoverton. With the 1954 senate committee's investigations into the effect of horror comics on juveniles and the newly imposed Comics Code Authority as a backdrop, Gordon Armstrong's Scary Stories matches pleasure and pain with exquisitely ghoulish twists and a subtle commentary on the state of censorship and freedom of the artist.'
Title: School Show, The
Author: Johns, Ted Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian one character; monologue flexible casting two acts
A witty tour de force for one performer that deals with the problems that challenge Canadian school systems.
Title: Science and Madness
Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy melodrama - Canadian six characters four male; two female twelve scenes
A melodrama set in a mansion on the Scottish Isle of Mull. Title: Scientific Americans
Author: Mighton, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female twenty-two scenes
1 interior set.
The marriage of two scientists working for the Strategic Defence Initiative crumbles as the mundane and humorous aspects of their lives are contrasted with the monstrous strangeness and importance of their ideas.
Title: Second Chance
Author: Ravel, Aviva Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
A middle-aged woman leaves her husband to look for love, but discovers that her happiness lies in starting a school.
Title: Secret Annex, The
Author: Sobler, Alix Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2015
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Anne Frank five characters two male; three female two acts
setting: New York and Toronto, 1955 and 1962.
Anne Frank has survived the war, and at age 25, she’s ready to start a new chapter in New York City. Eager to publish a memoir of her time in hiding, Anne is sure it will launch her career as a writer. But when the only interested publisher suggests drastic rewrites, Anne is unsure of what to do. Everyone around her seems to be able to move on and recover from the war, but her inability Title: Secret Life of Haddon Mackenzie, The
Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
It is 1960. A closeted gay figure skating teacher, Haddon, is friends with a middle class woman and her gay son. Being closeted he is emotionally abusive to his student, the boy. Later we find out that he is in love with a straight figure skater (male) whom he stalks.
Title: Secret Mask, The
Author: Chafe, Rick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations three characters two male; one female two acts
George was a toddler when Ernie walked out on his family. Thirty-eight years later, George is contacted out of the blue to come help his father. Ernie’s stroke has left him with aphasia–a speech disorder–resulting in memory loss and garbled words. To make sense of their past, the two must work through mutual distrust, fractured memories and a broken looking glass of language.
Title: Self-Help
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy comedy - farce six characters three male; three female two acts
A married couple of second-rate theatre actors cast themselves as nationally renowned self-help gurus. Their lives unravel in a farce as they try to conceal a body and hold on to their falsely won fame. Title: Separate Beds
Author: Cruise, Maryjane Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy comedy - marital relationships four characters one male; one female (doubling) two acts
Two couples navigate through their relationship on a Caribbean cruise. One seems "perfect" the other seems "stormy". The truth and lies of each marriage comes to the surface as they celebrate their anniversaries at sea. Ernie and Twink attempt to put the sizzle back into their marriage while Beth and Blake attempt to save theirs. This heartfelt comedy will ring true with any couple who has ever contemplated sleeping in SEPARATE BEDS.
Title: Serpent in the Night Sky
Author: Warren, Dianne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
Joy, a runaway from Montana, travels with Duff to his northern Saskatchewan home. There she finds a family filled with anger, a mentor who believes in the power of good walking shoes and a dreamer who believes he can catch the serpent if he can just keep his eye on the night sky.
Title: Serpent Kills
Author: Millan, Jim Brooker, Blake Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
In the late 1970's, twenty tourists become murder victims to a gang of petty swindlers. A young Canadian woman falls in love with the leader, and becomes an accomplice in an international crime spree. Title: Seven Hours to Sundown
Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1977
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters four male; two female (doubling is possible) three acts
A play about the nature of power in small communities - designed to be adapted for specific audiences.
Title: Shadows on Oak Island
Author: Hirst, Garnet Preeper, Deborah Publisher: Samuel French 2007
Description:
roy drama - thriller three characters two male; one female two acts
Shadows on Oak Island is a gripping, psychological thriller exploring the themes of guilt, betrayal and obsession. Haunted by the loss of their son, an affluent Toronto couple, Rene and Jackson, retreat to the island to save their crumbling marriage. Wally, a chatty local and guardian of the island helps them adjust to their new home. Rene is desperate to solve the mystery of the island as Jackson numbs his grief with alcohol. She is convinced the treasure (The Holy Grail) will reunite them with their son. Wally, a self-professed expert on Oak Island agrees to help Rene in
Title: Shakespeare's Will
Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Shakespeare - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female series of vignettes
"Shakespeare's Will explores the extraordinary life of Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, from a very passionate and human point of view. In a mystically imaginative narrative, Anne reflects on a lifetime spent with, and without, her husband. From the moment they meet at the Faire, to the disapproving tone of her father when they marry, to the birth of their children, to their shared tragedy, this haunting story reveals a world of love, loss and longing. Title: Shatter
Author: Davies, Trina Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy Canadian history - drama - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
1917. The largest man-made explosion prior to Hiroshima. Two thousand dead, hundreds injured and blinded, and many more homeless. Shatter explores the little-known details of the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion of 1917. Anna MacLean is a teenager, thrilled with her new diary, ripe with the promise of youth, and flush with excitement at all of the handsome soldiers in the streets of Halifax. Though Anna’s mother and her best friend, Elsie Schultz, talk of the war, Anna can only think about whether the young man at the door enforcing the blackout order
Title: Shellgame
Author: Bankson, Douglas Publisher: Miscellaneous 1968
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
1 exterior set.
Description not available.
Title: Shelter
Author: Bolt, Carol Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975
Description:
roy comedy all female cast; five characters five female three acts
"A comedy about life and politics in Saskatchewan and the role of women in public life. A widow runs for office to retain her late husband's seat and thereby makes a new life for herself". Title: Shooting Stage, The
Author: MacLennan, Michael Lewis Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy drama - relationships all male cast; five characters five male two acts
Twenty years ago, Len took a photograph. Now that the nude portrait has resurfaced in an obscenity trial, Len's childhood friend Malcolm re-enters his life to confront him. At the same time, teenage Elliot pursues his secret "sissy boy" ambitions while bullied by Derek, a troubled schoolmate who himself is mired in a web of lies. Eliot's friend Ivan may be able to stop the inevitable disaster - but only if he can find the courage to transform himself. A thrilling puzzle weaving two generations, this play explores how boys become men, and how the fortunate
Title: Shoplifters, The
Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 2015
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - social issues four characters two male; two female two acts
In this riotously funny new comedy from Morris Panych, we meet Alma, a seasoned career shoplifter who prefers the five-finger discount over some lousy seniors’ day deal. But it’s not just an empty wallet that leads Alma to a life of petty crime – it’s also her strong convictions about social justice and economic inequality. Along for the ride is Phyllis, Alma’s frazzled accomplice who lacks her mentor’s cool demeanour and snappy comebacks. It’s Alma who does the talking when the pair is apprehended at the grocery store by Dom, an overzealous rookie security guard.
Title: Silver Dagger
Author: French, David Publisher: Talonbooks 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
Steve Marsh is a mystery writer. Soon after his third novel is published, Marsh's wife receives a series of phone calls that threaten to destroy their marriage. Adultery, blackmail, murder, a figure lurking in the rain - all these classic elements of Marsh's fiction soon become part of his life. French delivers a thriller guaranteed to have audiences perched on the edge of their seats. Title: Singing the Bones
Author: Hicks, Caitlin Publisher: PUC Play Service 1997
Description:
roy drama - feminism - musical all female cast; three characters three female two acts
" 'Singing the Bones' is the journey of the birth of twins, and the story of three women: Meg, the passionate midwife who believes in women's ultimate power in birth; Nicole, the strong and vulnerable mother searching for a birth experience uninterrupted by modern medicine; and Sara, the compassionate obstetrician whose "secrets are leaking from every pocket." As Nicole's pregnancy is considered to be high risk, Meg must answer the question: Is one woman's choice worth the chance that her babies may die at birth?"
Title: Sinners
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A furniture store owner is found in the arms of a local minister's wife. The situation becomes complicated when he is mistaken for the minister and attempts to flee the scene.
Title: Sister Jude
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters two male; three female two acts
"Wesley, an introverted young man, sets out on the rocky road to maturity, with help from his sister, a bit of divine guidance, and any number of run-ins with the powers-that-be in his conservative hometown." Title: Sisters
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples six characters two male; four female two acts
Sisters is a tough uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. While the play chronicles in graphic detail the by now well-documented agenda of cultural genocide which motivated the establishment of Native residential schools in Canada, the daring triumph of this play is that it reveals the far less well documented cultural infrastructure and values of the society which created those schools - the church and the state of white, colonial, paternalist Canada.
Title: Sisters
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples six characters two male; four female two acts
Sisters is a tough uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. While the play chronicles in graphic detail the by now well-documented agenda of cultural genocide which motivated the establishment of Native residential schools in Canada, the daring triumph of this play is that it reveals the far less well documented cultural infrastructure and values of the society which created those schools - the church and the state of white, colonial, paternalist Canada.
Title: Skin Flick
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - relationships five characters three male; two female two acts
running time: 120 min.
A middle-aged couple try and produce an adult film to earn extra money and soon find themselves very much out of their element. Title: Sky
Author: Gault, Connie Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters one male; three female two acts
2 interior sets.
A 16-year-old girl becomes pregnant by her father and is then married off. She tells her naive young husband that she's carrying God's child, and he believes her.
Title: Sliding for Home
Author: Moher, Frank Reid, Gerald Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three or four male; two or one female two acts
one exterior set; music by Gerald Reid and William Shookoff.
His mother wants him to return to Buffalo, the land of his birth and the local authorities view him as a foreign zealot - a threat to Canada's finest sport - curling. But in this boisterous "comedy with music in nine innings," Charlie Dempsey is a man with a dream. He must bring professional baseball to "Edmonton", Alberta.
Title: Small Time
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy black comedy five characters three male; one female (doubling) two acts
Lounge singer Scott Sherman has a gambling problem and it is about to cost him his nightclub unless he and his keyboard player, Marty Birch, break somebody's legs. Holds audiences spellbound as the story involving sex, violence and romance unfolds. Title: Smoke Damage
Author: Banuta, Rubess Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all female cast; five characters five female two acts
A vacation in Europe becomes a quest as five women visit the landmarks where nine million women perished as witches between the 15th and 17th centuries. Wicked humour is blended with fact, fairy tale and quotes from the Church's handbook for witch hunters.
Title: So Many Doors
Author: McBride, Celia Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - grief - relationships four characters two male; two female two acts
Two couples are brought together under heartbreaking circumstances. Torn apart years ago by betrayal, they are reunited after their two toddlers are suddenly killed in the same accident. In a support group for bereaved parents, Shayla, Lyle, Linee, and Jed each fight their personal demons in the search for life after the death of one’s child. Set in the vast and remote landscape of Whitehorse, Yukon, playwright Celia McBride plunges into these characters’ painful struggle to find a voice for their grief.
Title: Social Studies
Author: Cooper, Trish Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2016
Description:
roy comedy - immigrants - family relations four characters one male; three female two acts
"When Jackie comes back to her childhood home after separating from her husband, she thinks her biggest problem will be readjusting to life on a smaller bed. She’s surprised to learn, however, that her mother has given that bed away to a Sudanese refugee! Cultural differences, language barriers, and the self-conscious earnestness of good intentions combine to deliver a scathingly comic look at Canadian values." Title: Some Assembly Required
Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Coteau Books 1995
Description:
roy dark comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters three male; two female two acts
Mom and Dad aren't going to have Christmas this year - or so they think. 'Home for the Holidays - chestnuts roasting on an open fire - jingle bells - I'm dreaming of a white. . . wait a minute! This isn't the Christmas Eugene Stickland had in mind for us and for the wacky, beleaguered members of his 'all-Canadian' dysfunctional family - losers, big time - as they gather around the family tree at gunpoint, under mistletoe strung on barbed wire, and sip eggnog made without milk (try it, its not bad).'
Title: Someday
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Fifth House 2016
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - Canadian - family relations - Native peoples four characters one male; three female two acts
"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: Something Red
Author: Walmsley, Tom Publisher: Virgo Press 1978
Description:
roy drama four characters two male; two female two acts
'Bobby and Christine live downstairs from their friends Alex and Elizabeth. Bobby is a poet with a bitter past and is currently being hunted by a variety of vicious people. His girlfriend is in a dead-end job and, too, has a past. Alex, however, who wandered with Bobby before, now wants to settle down, works and is even working on a novel. The catalyst for catastrophe, however is Elizabeth; she is a student, from money, with a taste for Bobby's dark side. The foursome get together for an evening which turns violent. Revelations explode in everyone's face and the Title: Soul Mate
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2006
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright four characters two male; two female two acts
For Centuries demons have played the game of offering mortals their fondest wish in exchange for their souls. When Moira Bedham get drawn into the sport, the unexpected choice of her victim may most her more than anyone (or any demon) expected. A high-spirited comedy of demons desire and discovering humanity.
Title: Splits, The
Author: Ritter, Erika Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian four characters three male; one female two acts
An harassed writer tries to sort out her life and men in this witty, perceptive urban comedy.
Title: St. Anne's Reel
Author: Garratt, Gil Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2015
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - family relations three characters two male; one female two acts
Daniel has been trying to make it as a fiddle player for years down in Nashville, to the chagrin of his father Walter, who was once a fiddler of local renown in Wingham, Ontario. When Daniel returns to the family farm for his mother's funeral, the two men must confront some old wounds. As they come to terms with what divides them, they begin to discover what they share. This drama about a prodigal son and his cantankerous father is by turns darkly humorous and deeply moving. Title: St. Sam and the Nukes
Author: Johns, Ted Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
A nuclear power development has caused controversy in a small Ontario town. The local eccentrics collide with the high-powered engineers, housewives entertain the Atomic Energy Commission and Ontario Hydro works to soften the hearts of the people.
Title: Steel Kiss
Author: Fulford, Robin Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - LGBTQ+ all male cast; four characters four male thirty-seven scenes
Based on an actual "gay-bashing" murder by a group of teenagers, this disturbingly realistic look at society's conditioning of the modern male, and the homophobia it tolerates and condones, will leave readers everywhere questioning age-old values of machismo.
Title: Stephen and Mr. Wilde
Author: Bartley, Jim Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - comedy six characters four male; two female two acts
"In 1882 Oscar Wilde arrived in Toronto with his personal valet, Stephen Davenport, a black American and ex-slave. History and fiction, wit and judgement, art and life clash as past events are revealed and two very different men grope toward mutual understanding." Title: Steps
Author: Wylie, Betty Jane Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - love story twelve characters one male; one female (doubling) two acts
"A woman's husband dies suddenly. She goes through the steps of recovery into a new life - with all the men in her life (undertaker, minister, insurance agent, young lover, gay friend, serious suitor) played by one man."
Title: Still the Night
Author: Tova, Theresa Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1998
Description:
roy drama - historical all female cast; five characters two female (doubling) two acts
'(This play) is a celebration of survival - the story of two young women who were separated from their parents during the Second World War, and wander through Poland, pretending not to be Jewish. Theresa Tova has fashioned from true stories a moving, heart-rending and uplifting drama of survival against all odds, and punctuated it with songs from the Holocaust era.'
Winner Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1997
Title: Stories for a Winter Solstice
Author: Hicks, Caitlin Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1994
Description:
roy drama - monologues large cast one male or one female (doubling) eight stories
"A diverse collection of lively characters telling comedic and dramatic winter stories in the first person. Includes seasonal stories from the Pacific Northwest: Rachel is Born!, My First Christmas with Rachel, A Knock on the Door, Read Island Santa Clause, When I Think of Hanukkah, The Christmas Monster of Ripple Rock and Cornucopia, Land of Winter." Title: Storm Warning
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female two acts
The setting is cottage country. . . the time is 1953 and Jack Forrester, a damaged World War II vet, has retreated from life. Then one weekend he meets Emma Currie, an amphetamine-popping chart writer for a big band. Both lives change forever as these two opposites collide.
Title: Stragglers
Author: Martin, Eric Roland Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - Alberta playwright all male cast; five characters five male two acts
1 interior set.
The victorious of war are no less its victim than the defeated. Five Canadian veterans of WWII and Korea have experienced horror in the cause of Freedom, but their final reward is neglect and obscurity.
Title: Strawberries in January
Author: de la Cheneliere, Evelyne translated by Morwyn Brebner Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003
Description:
roy comedy four characters two male; two female seventeen scenes
'If only life could be like the movies! This fizzy concoction takes the classic ingredients of romantic comedy, love, humour, coincidence and fantasy, and serves them up with a suprisingly touching twist in this tender and witty comedy by an extraordinary new voice from Quebec.' Title: Stupid Life of the Montagues, The
Author: Bolt, David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - relationships five characters two male; three female two acts
"In this 'renovation' comedy, the chic pretensions of modern urban life are exposed when a young couple yields to the temptations of unexpected wealth."
Title: Summer of My Amazing Luck The play Author: Craddock, Chris Toews, Miriam Publisher: Signature Editions 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - life - Alberta playwright three characters one male; two female two acts
Based on the novel by Miriam Toews. "Very unlucky things have happened to Lucy. She lost her mom and to fill the void she got pregnant. Now she's in the Have-A-Life (better known as Half-a-Life) welfare housing for single mothers - but she thinks her luck's about to turn. Leaving their rat-fink neighbours behind, Lucy and her friend Lish load the kids into a beat-up van for a hair-brained, hilarious and heartwarming journey. It's a play about love, generosity and wishful thinking. It's also a cutting and comical look at 'having a life' below the poverty line.
Title: Sunday Father
Author: Pettle, Adam Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2003
Description:
roy family relations three characters two male; one female two acts
'Alan and Jed are struggling with what it means to be sons and fathers. After their parents divorced, their father became a "Sunday Father" a role Jed finds himself slipping reluctantly into as his own marriage disintegrates. Meanwhile, Alan, ensconced in the family firm, is having trouble living up to his father's expectations. As the brothers work their way through situations filled with pain and anger, Jed and Alan discover strengths they never knew they had, and a deepening bond that leads them toward hope.' Title: Swearing Jar, The
Author: Hewlett, Kate Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2013
Description:
roy comedy - music - marital relations four characters two male; two female two acts
Meet Carey and Simon, an otherwise-perfect married couple with a bit of a swearing problem. They're determined to kick the habit by the time their baby is born. Too bad that's not their only problem. Simon has a secret. And Carey has a new friend -- a musician named Owen that she met at a bookstore. With quirky characters, music and gentle humour, this lovely and intricately-constructed story is about meeting challenges head-one and finding hope.
Title: Swollen Tongues
Author: Oliver, Kathleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - poetic - comedy four characters one male; three female two acts
"Thomas and his sister Catherine are both receiving instruction on the powers of poetry by their tutor Dr. Wise. While Thomas is more prolific than skilled in his praise of his beloved, Sonja, Catherine is strangely mute. The problem? Catherine is secretly in love with Sonja too, and has taken the liberty of improving her brother's verses and giving them to Sonja under the assumed name - Overripe. The characters discover that no one is without secrets, and that poetry can unlock the door to love in unexpected ways."
Title: Talking Dirty
Author: Snukal, Sherman Publisher: Harbour Publishing 1983
Description:
roy comedy five characters two male; three female three scenes
1 interior set.
A comedy of manners in Vancouver's trendy Kitsilano area. Basic human emotions and traditional needs are examined.
Winner, 1983 Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Title: Tanned
Author: Wade, Bryan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - comedy - relationships six characters three male; three female three acts
"Three women at a summer cottage attempt to deal with themselves and the men in their troubled lives."
Title: Team on the Hill, The
Author: Needles, Dan Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - farming five characters three male; two female two acts
suitable for school performances: students age 16+; running time: 105 min.
Three generations of the Ransier family decide the future of the farm on a spring weekend in 1978.
Title: Ten Times Two
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1999
Description:
roy drama - romance - Alberta playwright three characters two male; one female (doubling) two acts
"When an evil-doer cursed with immortality falls for a barmaid in 1399, it is the start of romantic pursuit spanning the Middle Ages to Modern Times. But in order to believe in this reincarnating, the villain must learn to become a lover."
First produced in 1999 at the Edmonton Fringe, Alberta. Title: Ten Unknowns
Author: Baitz, Jon Robin Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2004
Description:
roy drama four characters three male; one female two acts
An explosive drama about what happens when art, fame, and integrity collide. Malcolm Raphelson is a painter who was at the top of the art world - until the critical vogue turned from realism to abstract expressionist work. He has been in self-imposed exile in Mexico for decades. But then Dealer Trevor Fabricant decides it's time for a retrospective. Trevor sends Judd, a talented and tormented young painter, to serve as Malcolm's assistant and unofficial minder. When they are joined by a beautiful young student, their tense equilibrium is upset.
Title: Test Drive
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy multiple characters two male; one female (doubling) two acts
running time: 120 min.
Earl Hughes loves his wife, children and cars - and not always in that order. He also considers his life to be resoundingly ordinary, except that every ten years or so he sets out on a test drive that rocks his world. Earl's trip begins in 1954 - a hurricane is brewing but he still thinks he can sell a Nash Metropolitan to a would-be starlet. From there he drives through the Cold War,
Title: That Darn Plot!
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Samuel French 2002
Description:
roy comedy - theatre - relationships - Alberta playwright six characters four male; two female two acts
'Mark W. Transom, one of Canada's greatest playwrights, is at the end of his rope. In order to fulfil his contract to artistic director and old friend Jo Harber, he has to create a play in one night or lose everything. Half asleep and half drunk, Transom starts putting theatrical personalities he knows into a simple comedy about putting on a play. As the characters come to life before his eyes, the play seems to be progressing well until, unbidden and without warning, Transom's son appears as a character and the play takes on a life of its own. As the playwright struggles to Title: Theatre of the Film Noir
Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female twelve scenes
Film noir intrigue in Paris, 1945. A murder that occurred during the liberation of Paris is under investigation.
Title: There Are No Dragons
Author: Siminovitch, Elinore Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - aging all female cast; four characters four female two acts
Two younger women, one an attendant and one a visitor in a nursing home, consider old people to be ungrateful and burdensome until they find themselves sharing a room and discover that human frailty is not unique to the old.
Title: Third Ascent, The
Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1990
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - men - Alberta playwright all male cast; six characters six male two acts
This is a drama of Henry Stimson, Triuman's Secretary of War, his decision to drop the atomic bomb, and his spiritual quest for the Thunderbird... Title: Thirteen Hands A play in two acts Author: Shields, Carol Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993
Description:
Roy Canadian - women - drama All female cast; four characters Four female Two acts
This play creates a voice for a whole generation of women often overlooked. The women in Thirteen Hands welcome a once-a-week gathering at a bridge club as a time to momentarily suspend feelings of loneliness, isolation and fear, and begin to indulge, reveal and celebrate in the wonderful intimacy they form. An intimacy that gets passed on, like an exquisite heirloom, to a next generation of bridge players.
Title: This Year, Next Year
Author: Harding, Norah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - war - women - British six characters one male; five female two acts
prequel to "Sometime, Never".
"Step back in time to Bournemouth, England, 1944 and meet three high-spirited sisters, Ivy, Norah, and Sheilah, and their Mum as they struggle to survive together while bombs whistle overhead. In a richly-textured and truly moving script, Morah Harding recreates the hardships and profound effects of war on their lives and their loves, and the great courage, compassion,
Title: Thrill, The
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - disabilities four characters two male; two female two acts
Elora Dixon is a vibrant, middle-aged lawyer and disability-rights activist who has never walked a step in her life. A neuromuscular disease left her with a curved spine and a reliance on around-the-clock care. Nonetheless, she is an inexorable force when chance pits her against the notorious Julian Summer, who is in town promoting his internationally bestselling book. Julian is a fervent supporter of euthanasia, and Elora is the counter-argument—a living rebuke to parents who want the option of euthanizing a disabled newborn. So it comes as a shock, especially to Title: Through the Eyes
Author: Druick, Don Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1995
Description:
roy drama - historical - monologue all male cast; one character one male two acts
'Set in Paris and Versailles in 1665, a climate of intrigue and violence. The story of Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini's visit to the court of Louis XIV. The resultant clash between these great egos is awesome. The story is told by an anonymous courtier, a witness to the passion and conflict about him. This story is his, for it is he whose life is unalterably changed.'
Title: Thunderstick
Author: Williams, Kenneth T. Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - dramatic comedy - family relationships - Native peoples all male cast; two characters two male two acts
Jacob is an an alcoholic reporter, his estranged cousin Isaac is a worldly photojournalist just recently returned to Canada - and their editor pairs them up to cover a story on Parliament Hill. The problems start when Jacob vomits onto the Prime minister, an act which is mistaken for an assassination attempt. While in jail, the cousins get information which sends them on a madcap romp to try and track down what might be the story of their lives, involving a government cover-up, an international fugitive and a lesbian love nest in the Northern Ontario woods. When
Title: To Ride in Triumph
Author: Abel, Douglas Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; one character one male two acts
"Elizabethan playwright, poet, and spy, Christopher Marlowe tells a tale of triumph and tragedy as he anticipates his assassination." Title: Toronto the Good
Author: Moodie, Andrew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - crime - politics - racism twenty-one characters three male; three female (doubling) two acts
"After a young white cop charges a black man with illegal firearm possession, accusations of racial profiling are levelled against the Toronto officer. When top Crown attorney Thomas Mathews, a victim of racial profiling himself, is assigned to prosecute the accused against a Left-leaning white attorney, tensions mount and personal politics bubble to the surface. Cutting deep into the lawyers’ private lives, their families and foibles are richly portrayed as an integral part of Toronto’s shifting mosaic. From an ostensibly routine traffic stop, each character must
Title: Tower
Author: Jeffery, Lawrence Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian six characters four male; two female two acts
Explores the personal consequences of power brokerage among three business partners on Bay Street and its effect on the losing partner's family.
Title: Transit of Venus
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1992
Description:
roy drama - relationships five characters two male; three female three acts
"France, 1760. Astronomer Guillaume de Gentil sets sail for India. He leaves behind three women: his mother, his housekeeper and his young fiance. Hoping to chart the transit of Venus, le Gentil travels half the world - only to finally take the measure of his own heart." Title: Trouble with Mr. Adams, The
Author: Rand, Gord Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - sexual abuse - marriage - love four characters one male; three female three acts
On the night volleyball coach Gary Adams leaves his wife, allegations of sexual misconduct surface regarding his sixteen-year old student. Gary defends his innocence – to his wife, to his lawyer, and finally, to the victim herself. Grappling with such themes as abuse of power, intergenerational love, and the stagnation of marriage, "The Trouble with Mr. Adams" exposes the crippling disaster of the male mid-life crisis.
Title: Trout Stanley
Author: Dey, Claudia Publisher: Coach House Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters one male; two female two acts
"What do fraternal twins, a man named after a fish, and a missing stripper who happens to be a Scrabble champion all have in common? According to playwright Claudia Dey, these seemingly haphazard items are intrinsically linked. Her play, Trout Stanley, is about two sisters and a mysterious stranger who threatens to split them apart."
Title: Trudeau Stories
Author: Johnson, Brooke Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2014
Description:
roy drama - biography - friendship - solo performance all female cast; one character one female one act (eleven scenes)
"In 1985, while she was a student at the National Theatre School in Montreal, Brooke Johnson became friends with Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Through reminiscences, journal entries and correspondence, Brooke gives us a personal insight into the man and the times that is “not to be missed”. At once vital and charming; poignant and very funny, "Trudeau Stories" is about friendship and loss… and about who the heck we think we are." Title: True Love Lies
Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - dark comedy - family relations five characters three male; two female two acts
"An audacious and outrageous comedy of bad manners. With the crackle of lightning fast one-liners, acidic exchanges and wickedly witty characters, Brad’s hilarious new play shatters our illusions about the “perfect” Canadian family."
Title: Trying
Author: Glass, Joanna McClelland Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy comedy - relationships two characters one male; one female two acts
At 81, Francis Biddle (a "Philadelphia Biddle," and former Attorney General of the United States under Franklin Roosevelt) hires Sarah, a direct, plain-spoken newlywed from the Canadian prairie, to be his personal secretary. Ill and irascible, Biddle functions, as he says, "somewhere between lucidity and senility," and announces he only has one year left to live. Sarah is sensitive and vulnerable, but determined to last out that year. Together they "try" to communicate across significant barriers of age and class.
Title: Trying
Author: McClelland Glass, Joanna Publisher: Samuel French 2008
Description:
roy drama - Canadian Playwright - politics - autobiographical two characters one male; one female two acts
Trying is a two-character play based on the author's experience during 1967-1968 when she worked for Francis Biddle at his home in Washington, D.C. Judge Biddle had been Attorney General of the United States under Franklin Roosevelt. After the war, President Truman named him Chief Judge of the American Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. The play is about a young Canadian girl and an old, Philadelphia aristocrat, "trying" to understand each other in what Biddle knows is the final year of his life. Title: Two for the Show
Author: Tremblay, Brian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian six characters three male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A romantic comedy in which a married couple, he a talented actor and she a promising artist, move from Vancouver to Toronto and take up residence in a house with a couple of very quirky inhabitants.
Title: Two in the Morning As published in Theatrum Magazine (Summer 1993) Author: Bloom, David Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1993
Description:
roy relationships three characters one male; two female two acts
Description not available.
Title: Two Ships Passing
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1999
Description:
roy comedy three characters two male; one female two acts
In the decade since their encounter in MIDNIGHT MADNESS, Anna and Wesley's lives have changed considerably; Anna has recently been appointed to the bench and Wesley has become a minister. Anna's son, Jason, 13 when we last saw him, is now a university graduate - in business administration. The trio's political views have diverged over the years, and the once sexually repressed Wesley has even managed to develop a few sexual peccadilloes. Title: Under Wraps A spoke opera Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - LGBTQ+ - love all male cast; two characters two male two acts
"The moment Mark meets David his world is thrown off balance. Who could have predicted finding love in a furniture store, or finding it with an unemployed lifeguard? But despite their immediate connection, Mark isn’t sure if David is gay. Mark isn’t even sure if Mark is gay. As he falls deeper in love, Mark works desperately to make David nothing more than a friend and to make that enough. Filled with hopeful exhilaration and devastating missed opportunities, Under Wraps nimbly tracks one man’s tumultuous quest to finally love himself and let it all out."
Title: Under Wraps A spoke opera Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - LGBTQ+ - love all male cast; two characters two male two acts
"The moment Mark meets David his world is thrown off balance. Who could have predicted finding love in a furniture store, or finding it with an unemployed lifeguard? But despite their immediate connection, Mark isn’t sure if David is gay. Mark isn’t even sure if Mark is gay. As he falls deeper in love, Mark works desperately to make David nothing more than a friend and to make that enough. Filled with hopeful exhilaration and devastating missed opportunities, Under Wraps nimbly tracks one man’s tumultuous quest to finally love himself and let it all out."
Title: Underground
Author: Wade, Bryan Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1975
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Lone Ranger three characters two male; one female three scenes (full length)
1 interior.
"A triangle of two men and one woman takes us through many levels of eroticism and ends in a ritualistic suicide." Title: Underwater, Overseas
Author: Sher, Emil Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
Description:
roy drama - relationships all female cast; five characters five female two acts
Once a month, five single mothers gather to travel abroad without leaving the ground. A powerful story about wingless flight and everyday collisions.
Title: Valley, The
Author: MacLoed, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 2014
Description:
roy drama - mental illness - law four characters two male; two female two acts
Eighteen-year-old Connor, an aspiring author whose fantastical stories foretell his growing struggle with depression, can’t wait to be free of his adverb-wielding, solve-it-all mother, Sharon. Dan Mulano is an infatuated new dad and well-meaning police officer whose selfishness is veiled by the lofty aspirations he holds for his family. When Connor’s erratic behaviour at an underground train station requires police intervention, Dan responds to the call and makes the arrest, but the teen’s jaw is broken during the incident. Is it police brutality or self-harm? Inspired
Title: Very Desirable Residence, A
Author: Doucet, Clive Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - relationships five characters two male; three female two acts
"A constant round of vicissitudes threatens to overwhelm a young Ottawa couple in this close-up of modern urban life." Title: Vigil
Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - drama two characters one male; one female two acts
"Morris Panych's brilliant new black comedy Vigil, is structured around what happens when an extremely self-centered and shallow person finds himself, through his own errors and inattentiveness, in a life and death situation with profound and far reaching consequences. A play of twisted circumstance, mistaken identity and surprising turns, it is deliciously absurd, incredibly funny and poignantly tender."
Title: Vinci
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2002
Description:
roy drama six characters four male; two female two acts
"Set in an Italian village in the fifteenth century, Vinci revolves around the struggle for custody of a gifted child, a "golden boy" - Leonardo da Vinci. In his efforts to mediate the dispute between the da Vinci family and Leonardo's defiant unwed mother, Padre Barolomeo comes to a new understanding of the nature of forgiveness and love."
Title: Visit to Cal's Mother, A
Author: Procunier, Edwin R. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations four characters two male; two female two acts
"When Ted visits his lover's mother, many personal and family relationships are finally explored." Title: Visitor From Charleston, A
Author: Ritter, Erika Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters four male; one female two acts
After forty-nine viewings of Gone With the Wind, Eva's fantasy world is almost perfect. She manages to destroy a salesman's illusions about himself in a battle of wits before retreating into the character of Scarlett O'Hara.
Title: Waiting Room
Author: Flacks, Diane Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy drama - medical ethics - relationships - Canadian six characters two male; four female two acts
Chrissie and Jeremy have spent a great deal of time in shock, waiting—for news of their baby daughter’s post-operation recovery, for weekly scans to show that her tumor is gone, for robotic forty-five second updates from Dr. Andre Malloy, their brilliant but arrogant neuro-oncologist. The hospital waiting room has become a second home where they struggle separately as parents and as a couple, where they laugh inappropriately, lose tempers, and find resilience as they confront a roller coaster of hope and despair and a crisis of decision-making. And just beyond
Title: Wanted
Author: Clark, Sally Publisher: Talonbooks 2004
Description:
roy drama - historical six characters four male; two female two acts
Set during the Klondike gold rush, Wanted is a celebration of one woman’s determination to triumph over all who seek to possess her in a harsh social climate of chaos, opportunism, raw desire, greed and lust. Wanted is far more than a period-piece history play. Resonant with echoes of the contemporary global village in which every one and every thing, including body parts and functions, have their cynically and openly advertised price, it is a portrait of raw desire, greed and lust for acquisition stripped of every veneer of civilization and reduced to a confrontation of the Title: Warriors
Author: Garneau, Michel translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Talonbooks 1990
Description:
roy Canadian - drama all male cast; two characters two male nine parts
Warriors enters the world of advertising where, even if the product is war, the product can be sold. Two ad men lock themselves in a room to work on a new slogan for The Canadian Armed Forces - the tension of creation is brilliantly and dangerously portrayed as they consider the morality of the war machine.
Title: Wawatay
Author: Gummerson, Penny Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - family relations - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
According to Cree legend, when the Northern Lights (Wawatay) dance, they have come to take the souls of the newly-departed to the Spirit World. When Lois is unexpectedly hospitalised, her husband and four children are forced to come together and confront family demons. They seem to have their dysfunctional lives under control until estranged younger sister Jaz shows up from Vancouver. The black sheep of the family, Jaz disrupts the family balance by challenging it. She has embraced her Native heritage and as her mother lies in a coma and the Northern Lights dance,
Title: Waxworks
Author: Davies, Trina Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2007
Description:
roy drama - biographical - Canadian - Alberta playwright five characters two male; three female two acts
1789. The edge of the French Revolution, and a young Madame Tussaud is recalled from her post at the Palace of Versailles back to Dr. Curtius' Wax Salon in the heart of Paris. There she is introduced to the most influential persons in Paris, including Maximilien Robespierre, who takes a particular interest in her art. As the revolution descends into shadow, Marie is forced to confront the remains of those she has befriended - whose waxen images must be set with signs that identify them as 'patriots' or 'enemies'. Title: Way of Lacross, The
Author: Barbeau, Jean translated by Laurence R. Berard and Philip W. L Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian three characters one male; two female one act (full length)
Description not available.
Title: Wedding Script
Author: Hannah, Don Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1986
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters three male; two female three acts
Winner of the Chalmers Award. "An English rock singer needs to marry in order to avoid deportation, but his girlfriend isn't interested. His housemate decides to help him out while his transsexual landlady oversees the ensuing complications."
Title: Welcome to the NHL
Author: Williams, Alan Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian all male cast; six characters six male two acts
A warmly comic look at the facts, faults, foibles and fallacies of Canada's character and its national sport. Title: West Edmonton Mall
Author: Flather, Patti Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003
Description:
roy monologue - comedy - women all female cast; one characters one female two acts
running time: 90 minutes
'It's four tanks of gas. Its 23 hours if you drive straight. Christine has to get to the mall for her 30th birthday. Nothing, not a boss, a sick boyfriend, a dead truck or a minus forty-degree February will stand in her way.'
Title: Westray The long way home Author: O'Neill, Chris Schwartz, Ken Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1994
Description:
roy Canadian history five characters three male; two female twenty-one scenes
'When the Westray Mine exploded the human tragedy and suffering which resulted were chilling proof of the age-old price paid for coal in human blood. After the dead were laid to rest the bureaucratic backstabbing and corporate refusal of responsibility were all too familiar to followers of the history of mining and labour. In "Westray: The Long Way Home", Chris O'Neill and Ken Schwartz give a human face to the lives and families of the community that has suffered North America's worst mine disaster of the era.'
Title: When Girls Collide
Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada
Description:
roy comedy - WWII - Alberta playwright all female cast; three characters three female two acts
"It's 1943. There's a war on and Bunsen Bay is a town without men. Three citizens find themselves bound together by a tangled web of family secrets, psychotherapy and ping pong." Title: When It Rains
Author: Black, Anthony Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2014
Description:
roy satire - relationships four characters two male; two female three acts
"When it Rains" is the story of four people, two marriages, and one increasingly improbable series of events. As misfortune mounts, communication fractures, relationships crumble, behaviour becomes absurd. People sing, get naked, give up, lose control, have sex with strangers. Some kind of God intervenes. Or observes. Or something. Or nothing. "When it Rains" is by turns blackly funny social satire, heartbreaking drama, existentialist graphic novel, and post-modern Job story.
Title: When the Reaper Calls
Author: Colley, Peter Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1999
Description:
roy comedy - mystery five characters three male; two female two acts
" Two young rival academics spend a weekend at a cottage with their wives. One of them plays a trick on the other to prove a point, but the trick goes murderously wrong..."
Title: White Biting Dog
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama five characters three male; two female two acts
A suicidal young man is rescued by a white dog who gives him a mission: to save his father from death. His mission flounders until the dog's owner helps him by bringing his reluctant mother back into the family.
Winner, Governor-General's Literary Award for Drama, 1984 Title: Wilberforce Hotel, The
Author: Dixon, Sean Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2015
Description:
roy drama - black history - autobiographical - Ontario - historical eleven characters four male; one female two acts
It’s the 1830s. Two travelling minstrels are passing north from London, Ontario, with their song and dance show on the local circuit. Having fallen afoul of the law and desperate for a night’s lodging, they stumble into the Wilberforce hotel, owned and operated by Austin Steward, the president of this stalwart black settlement.Through turns highly comic, and deeply moving, the two musicians who have spent their showbiz careers painting their faces come to learn something life-changing about the actual black experience of early settlers in Middlesex County
Title: Wild Guys, The
Author: Shaw, Rebecca Wreggitt, Andrew Publisher: Blizzard Publishing
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright all male cast; four characters four male two acts
"When four men set off to find an isolated cabin in the forest on a "wildman" weekend, a la Robert Bly, everything that can go wrong does!".
Title: Will the Real J. T. LeRoy Please Stand Up?
Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2007
Description:
roy drama - Canadian three characters two female; one male or female two acts
A woman novelist has written a memoir/novel about a transsexual (m to f) under a pseudonym. It's a secret. Suddenly the transsexual heroine of the woman's novels appears at her door, claiming her transsexual life was appropriated for the woman's art. Title: Willow Quartet
Author: Burrows, Joan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy drama - marriage - self awareness four characters two male; two female two acts
In the aftermath of a tragedy that ends Kim and Ben’s marriage, Kim finds herself back in her childhood home, a quiet farm away from the city. Here, she invites Jim, a visiting musician, to stay with her in a bed-and-breakfast arrangement. It’s not long before Kim becomes infatuated with Jim’s sophistication and charm, and with his ability to make her forget her grief temporarily—until it inevitably boils to the surface. With Jim at her side, Kim struggles to navigate through her unresolved grief and begins to explore her buried feelings.
Title: Windfall
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy five characters three male; two female two acts
running time: 120 min.
Lottery winners Louise and Walter have withdrawn from society, creating their own safe, comfortable environment. A family crisis forces them out of their retreat and into the real world.
Title: Winter 1671
Author: Ritter, Erika Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian four characters three male; one female two acts
A 1671 Quebec law demands that all bachelors select brides from among the filles du roi sent to New France by King Louis. Difficulties arise when the young men and their intendeds confront one another. Title: Wintersong
Author: Libman, Carol Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian four characters two male; two female two acts
2 interior sets.
Old dreams battle new realities in a Montreal ghetto in the early 1970's. A woman dreams of her old life in pre-World War II Europe while her daughter struggles to build a life in Canada. The conflict escalates when two men enter the daughter's life.
Title: World's Biggest
Author: Brennan, Kit Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters two male; three female two acts
"In a wild attempt to attract tourist dollars, the small but enterprising town of Gurkin decides to erect a gigantic pickle to raise community pride and save the town's economy. Unfortunately, there is something rotten about the whole deal."
Title: Wreckage
Author: Stubbs, Sally Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2006
Description:
roy drama - mystery five characters three male; two female two acts
It’s 1924. Rose disappears from a train wreck without a trace. Twenty-five years later her suitcase arrives anonymously and mysteriously, triggering her daughter Violet’s search for the truth and unlocking a bizarre chain of events. A haunted railway detective, gourmet gangster-chefs, a Puccini-singing ghost, and a host of Dickensian characters populate Vancouver’s underbelly. Wreckage is a stylish ‘gangster’ play with a dark and wicked sense of humour and the theatrical punch of a speeding train. Title: Writer's Block
Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: B house 2008
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
The play follows a playwright, who after experiencing writer's block, submits a claim to his theatre's insurance company for long-term disability (for writer's block!). His claim gets accepted, and at the same time his muse is released and he writes the best play he's written in years.
Title: Writing with Our Feet
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1992
Description:
roy comedy - drama - Canadian two characters one male; one female eleven scenes
one interior set.
A young agoraphobic hides in his garage, writing poetic pearls with his feet. Slowly he gathers the courage to venture outside, aided by the wisdom of Raymond Loew, Adlai Stevenson, Jean Lesage and an oddball cast of relatives and neighbors.
Title: Wrong For Each Other
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1992
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian two characters one male; one female two acts
'A chance meeting in a restaurant after four years apart, sends a divorced couple flashing back through the highs and lows of their relationship.' Title: Yellow House at Arles: Gauguin / van Gogh, The
Author: Hayes, Dennis Payne, Richard Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all male cast; two characters two male two acts
1 interior set.
Paul Gaugin and Vincent van Gogh, two of the founders of Modern Art, spent two months living and working together in isolation in the South of France; their intent was to create a school of new painting which would bring commercial success for themselves and their fellow artists. The play deals with the impact of poverty, the art market, and technology on the artist, both as craftsman
Title: You're Gonna Be Alright Jamie Boy
Author: Freeman, David E. Publisher: Talonbooks 1974
Description:
roy drama - Canadian five characters three male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
After suffering a nervous breakdown at college, Jamie returns home. His attempts to recover are threatened by his family's insensitivity. The play offers a biting look at people living what they watch on TV.
Title: Zastrozzi The master of discipline Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
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: Ziggy Effect, The
Author: Diamond, Marc Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian five characters three male; two female one act
A funny look at the generation gap between the sixties and the eighties; fanatic lifestyles as survival strategies.