Title: '67
Author: Wallace, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974
Description:
roy Canadian - drama eleven characters seven male; four female two acts
"A professor tries to explain his philosophy of "no commitments" to his new male student in this lively portrait of the late '60's."
Title: $38,000 for a Friendly Face
Author: Shepherd, Kristin Publisher: Samuel French
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - death seven characters one male, six female two acts
"$38,000 For A Friendly Face" takes place in our time, in a small town where Bronwyn Bain lived out the last years of her life. Her two daughters, Jane and Annie, arrive less than enthusiastically for their mother’s Celebration of Life, not having seen their mother in years. The town’s funeral home is run by Matt, who struggles to create a decent ending for Bronwyn and her daughters, and by The Last Supper Committee, a number of women responsible for the meals for funeral events. Preparations for the Celebration of Life deteriorate on every front. It becomes apparent that
Title: 1949
Author: French, David Publisher: Talonbooks 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - Confederation fourteen characters six male; six female; two boys two acts
Newfoundland is about to join Confederation. The Mercer family is reunited for the occasion-and sparks fly as some mourn the passing of an independent Newfoundland.
Nominated for the 1988 Chalmers Award. Title: 24 Exposures Portraits Author: Boucher, Serge translated by Shelley Tepperman Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy drama - family relations eight characters five male; three female four acts
On a Sunday in August 1997, the Dubé family gathers in Nicole and Richard's backyard to celebrate Richard's 40th birthday. Facing a whole afternoon and evening together, how will they make the time pass? Ordinary people talk, laugh, play and love each other; they love each other all wrong, but they love each other all the same. As the day unfolds, Richard unwraps his birthday gifts, lottery tickets are doled out, the “specials” are surveyed in the weekly circular, and family scars and skeletons come to light; what emerges is a portrait of what could be any (or every)
Title: Aberhart Summer, The
Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: NeWest Press 1999
Description:
roy comedy - historical - Alberta playwright - Canadian eleven characters eight male; three female two acts
"Based on Bruce Allen Powe's 1984 novel [of the same name], Massing's marvelous play is at once a gripping Alberta history lesson, a sweetly nostalgic comedy and a cracking-good-murder-mystery, all rolled up into one big, bright ball of theatrical energy and verve..." Calgary Herald
"At its best, Aberhart Summer is a vivid and unsentimental depiction of small-town Canadian life in
Title: Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, The
Author: Sears, Djanet Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy self awareness eleven characters; chorus seven male; four female (doubling possible) two acts
'A remarkable love, an incredible heist, an extraordinary funeral, and an impassioned search for answers to the profound mysteries of being alive. From Governor General's award winning playwright Djanet Sears, comes a beautiful and deeply moving story set in present-day Negro-Creek, a 200-year-old Black community in Western Ontario. Rainey Baldwin-Johnson, a country doctor, struggles to come to terms with the loss of her daughter, the disintegration of her marriage, and an eccentric elderly father on an astonishing crusade.' Title: Affaire Tartuffe; or, the Garrison Officers Rehearse Moliere
Author: Ackerman, Marianne Publisher: NuAge Editions 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - French - historical ten characters seven male; three female two acts
French and English speaking characters.
"A young director wants to explore an odd historical incident from 1774. When a power failure suddenly plunges the dinner party into darkness, the candles come out and the scene segues seamlessly into the historical action of the director's script itself."
Title: After Abraham
Author: Chudley, Ron Publisher: Talonbooks 1980
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical all male cast; fifteen characters; extras fifteen male two acts
"After Abraham" is a play in which Ron Chudley examines events that took place on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 - and how they continue to haunt the two rival cultures of Canada. The protagonists in that fateful battle, Wolfe and Montcalm, both died without meeting but, in this play, they hold a continuing dialogue as ghosts or dream figures. "After Abraham" is a play that depicts the struggle of two great cultures for a continent. There are no heroes in either camp, simply a group of people caught up in the tangle of events, the echoes of which are reverberating
Title: Alfred Jarry's Circus Ludicrous Presents Boss Ubu
Author: Payne, Richard Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Description:
roy Canadian - clown play seven characters five male; two female three acts
"Jarry's landmark farce, reconstituted as a contemporary political cartoon; staged as a one-ring clown circus with Jarry presiding." Title: Alice: The Tea Party
Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy comedy - fantasy - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female two acts
1 exterior set.
A journey into the style and whimsy of the mad and wonderful world of Lewis Carroll; a re-creation rather than a re-telling.
Title: All Fall Down
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - social issues - abuse seven characters two male; two female; three children two acts
"A play about witch-hunting in the late twentieth century. The rumours and whispers in the community - every suspicion of the unusual, the eccentric, the unexplained - are added to the growing body of evidence that a heinous evil is afoot in the quiet innocence of the daycare centre. No distinction between circumstantial and substantive evidence is made: the evil is too profound, the threat too great. How, in such a poisoned atmosphere, does one maintain one's sanity and reason, one's imagination, compassion and sense of fairness? How does one determine what
Title: And Up They Flew
Author: Ross, Martha Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2009
Description:
roy comedy - England seven characters three male; four female two acts
Jane Ashbury dreams of being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Her childhood friend, Nora Duckworth, has flight fantasies that are decidedly more eccentric. The weekend erupts into chaos, as seven characters become more and more entangled with each other; there is a failed sexual betrayal; an outrageous attempt to fly without wings; a mental breakdown prompted by memories of World War I; an ongoing plot to sabotage Jane’s plans to fly across the Atlantic; and finally, there is a séance in which many truths are revealed. Title: Angelique
Author: Gale, Lorena Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy drama - racism, slavery fourteen characters flexible casting two acts
'Gale has fashioned a spare but powerful tale that thrusts the indignities of slavery and the stupidity of racism out of the murky 18th century and into the here and now.'
Title: Anglophone is Coming to Dinner, An
Author: Rideout, George Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy satire - Canadian politics seven characters three male; two female; one boy (doubling) two acts
"I love Shakespeare, I love Chekhov, I love Michel Tremblay…” With a backdrop of the Lone Star and the Fleur-de-Lys flags, Jim Bob Baker introduces himself and his troupe, The Lubbock Little Theatre, who have come all the way from Texas to perform for a Canadian audience. The play, Un Anglophone Vient Souper, written by a little-known Québec playwright, has been translated into English by Jim Bob himself, except for “the swearin'” which he decided sounded better in the original French. Colliding worlds of culture and language are served up Texas style in this social
Title: Anne
Author: Ledoux, Paul Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - family relations eight characters two male; six female two acts
"This is a rich evocation of turn-of-the century life on tiny Prince Edward Island, with Anne at its center. In his hands Marilyn and Matthew, Anne's adoptive parents, and nosy neighbour Rachael Lynde, come alive as powerful archetypes who gentle story is deeply sentimental, but never saccharin in its delivery of a timely message about the importance of community." Title: Another Season's Promise
Author: Chislett, Anne Roulston, Keith Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1988
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - farming - family relations eleven characters seven male; four female two acts
prequel to "Another Season's Harvest"; interior.
After a lifetime of working the rich Canadian farmland which he inherited from his father, Ken Purves, who expanded too quickly in the good years, now finds himself caught in a web of mounting debts and shrinking income. Several other local farmers have already gone bankrupt, or have sold out to an eastern land syndicate, but Ken is determined to survive, even if it means civil
Title: Artichoke
Author: Glass, Joanna McClelland Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1979
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters five male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
Margaret, Walter and Margaret's old dad live on a Saskatchewan farm. A water-witch leaves a baby, Lily Agnes, on their porch, with a note saying the baby is Walter's. Walter has been banished to celibacy in the smokehouse when Gibson, an international authority on Alexander Pope, arrives on the scene and woos Margaret.
Title: Assorted Candies for the Theatre
Author: Tremblay, Michel Gaboriau, Linda Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy autobiographical drama seven characters two male; four female; one male or female two acts
translated by Linda Gaboriau
'Assorted Candies for the Theatre' is a stage adaptation of Michel Tremblay's fourth book of autobiographical sketches, offering a rich and colorful cast of characters in this exquisite remembrance of childhood past in Montreal's Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood. Title: At the Zenith of the Empire
Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: NeWest Press 2007
Description:
roy theatre - biography - Sarah Bernhardt - Edmonton - Alberta playwright eight characters three male; five female two acts
In 1913, legendary tragedienne Sarah Bernhardt traveled to Edmonton, Alberta, to perform the last act of Alexandre Dumas' "The Lady of the Camellias" before two packed houses at the Empire Theatre. Inspired by "Fallen Empires" - John Orrell's celebrated history of Edmonton's Early theatre scene - this play creates a swirling speculative scenario about the impact of this very special day on the lives of Edmonton's earliest theatre goers and theatre practitioners. The Divine Sarah herself narrates this sumptuous romp of reminiscence, as the characters visit such local
Title: Balconville
Author: Fennario, David Publisher: Talonbooks 1980
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian eight characters four male; four female two acts
exterior set.
Three families and the neighborhood drunk sit on their balconies in the Montreal summer. It is election time and Gaetan Bolduc drives around making promises that infuriate the families and their friends. We see the English and French Canadian working class take on the establishment.
Title: Beaver A play Author: Dey, Claudia Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 2000
Description:
roy Canadian tragicomedy - suicide - wedding - family relations eight characters two male; six female two acts
"Young Beatrice grapples with growing up in this tragicomedy. Set in rural Ontario, the Jersey family faces the chilling challenges of a sister’s suicide and her daughter’s wedding." Title: Bedtime Stories
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy comedy - romance fifteen characters nine male; six female (doubling possible) two acts
In a series connected by time, place and a most unusual radio broadcast, we follow inter-weaving characters in their comic struggle to find the meaning of love.
Title: Belle
Author: Gibson, Florence Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - history eight characters four male; four female twenty-three scenes
'The extraordinary story of two recently freed slaves, husband and wife, journeying to the north in search of a new life. When they encounter a white woman fighting for the suffrage movement, they become entwined in the social upheaval that epitomizes post Civil War America.'
Title: Belle Moral A natural history Author: MacDonald, Ann-Marie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy comedy - historical eleven characters; one dog six male; five female (doubling possible) three acts
“A rewrite of her play “The Arab’s Mouth”. Setting: Stone house called Belle Moral on the coast of Scotland a few miles outside Edinburgh - Spring/Summer 1899. Pearl MacIsaac, a budding young amateur scientist with an interest in evolution, is left alone with her Aunt Flora after her father’s recent death. They await the return of Pearl’s aimless artistic brother Victor so that their father’s will can be read and the estate settled. Victor arrives but almost immediately attempts suicide. Meanwhile, the family doctor Seamus Reid and Flora furtively discuss what to do with the creature Title: Belles Soeurs, Les
Author: Tremblay, Michel translated by J. van Burek and B. Glassco Publisher: Talonbooks 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - French all female cast; fifteen characters fifteen female two acts
Germain wins a million trading stamps and invites her friends and relatives over for a pasting party during which the frustration, bitterness and poverty of their lives is revealed.
Title: Bemused A full-length comedy Author: Fenton, Peter White, Scott Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - show biz seven characters three male; four female two acts
What do you get when you mix two washed up Broadway producers, a pair of novice songwriters, a precocious 12 year old run-away, the world's oldest tap-dancing bell hop, a maid with a mysterious gift, and a mischievous skunk and put them all together in Cole Porter's hotel suite? You get "Bemused", a screwball comedy about show biz filled with love, laughter and song.
Title: Bethune
Author: Langley, Rod Publisher: Talonbooks 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - biography twenty-nine characters nineteen male; ten female (doubling possible) three acts
A chronicle of the passionate life and times of Dr. Norman Bethune. Set in the slums of Detroit, in 1930's Montreal, in Civil War Spain and in China, the play paints a larger than life portrait of a remarkable man. Title: Birthright
Author: Skinner, Constance Lindsay Bryans, Joan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - discrimination eleven characters five male; six female (doubling possible) three acts
adapted by Joan Bryans
In the British Columbia frontier in 1905, missionary Robert Maclean has an ever-increasing foothold of power and influence. Into the swirling melee of shifting allegiances steps Precious Conroy, Maclean’s adopted daughter. She is unaware that she was sent away for schooling to avoid the shame and discrimination which would occur should the secret get out that she is part
Title: Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon, The
Author: Mitchell, W. O. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy drama - Canadian ten characters nine male; one female two acts
'A man curls a game in return for his soul.'
Title: Blood is Strong, The
Author: Sinclair, Lister Publisher: Book Society of Canada 1956
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical eleven characters seven male; four female three acts
1 interior set; 19 th century costumes.
A drama of early Scottish settlement in Cape Breton. The play, spanning several years, shows the varying degrees with which members of a family of Highland immigrants, the MacDonalds, adapt to the "new country". The effect of the generation gap is seen when the children begin to consider themselves Canadians. Title: Body and Soul
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - women - self esteem - identity all female cast; fifteen characters fifteen female two acts
Fourteen extraordinary women from across Canada share their stories about life after forty-five in this thought-provoking play compiled by award-winning Canadian playwright Judith Thompson. In the form of a letter written to their bodies, these women share their personal stories of triumphs, tragedies, and life’s funny moments, while challenging the reader to look beneath the surface of how society views beauty, aging, and women in their second act in life. Originally commissioned by Dove as a component of their campaign for real beauty, the fourteen women
Title: Bone Cage
Author: Banks, Catherine Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters four male; three female two acts
Bone Cage is about the difficulty in growing and hanging on to dreams in a world where dreams are seen as impractical of weak. It is funny. It is tragic. It is about the different kinds of escaping. It is about a soul trapped in its own rib cage, a cage of bone, a Bone Cage.
Nominated for the 2008 Governor Generals Award.
Title: Book of Tobit, The As published in Theatrum Magazine (Feb/Mar 1995) Author: Lemoine, Stewart Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1995
Description:
roy drama - loosely based on biblical stories - Alberta playwright ten characters three male; six female (doubling) two acts
Only contains 'Act One'. Description not available. Title: Booster McCrane, P.M. A comedy in two acts Author: Craig, David S. Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - politics eleven characters seven male; four female two acts
A comedy in the style of "Mr Smith Goes to Washington", Booster McCrane, P.M. is the story of an inexperienced small town lawyer who is elected Prime Minister. He comes to Ottawa with Crystal Wildrose, his childhood sweetheart, and Chief Joe White Eagle his best friend and closest advisor. He discovers that the country is controlled and infiltrated by foreign interests. The only solution is war.
Title: Bousille and the Just
Author: Gelinas, Gratien Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1961
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian ten characters six male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
When Bousille, an earnest and self-effacing innocent, becomes a key witness in the Montreal murder trial of his cousin, the family are passionately concerned that his testimony should exonerate the accused and clear their good name. The situation points up the prevailing self-deception of the modern world which while professing its belief in God and spiritual values,
Title: Branch Plant
Author: Markowitz, Harvey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972
Description:
roy drama - Canadian twelve characters eleven male; one female two acts
1 interior set.
Based on an actual incident, this play examines the closing of a Toronto-based branch plant, and its effect on the Plant Manager as he discovers what it means to be a Canadian and what he can do about it. Title: Brébeuf's Ghost A tale of horror in three acts Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Exile Editions 2000
Description:
roy dark comedy - native peoples - Canada - Canadian playwright - history sixteen characters eleven male; five female three acts
1649 brings bad news to the Ojibwa communities of Lake Nipissing. The Iroquois are on the warpath, killing traitors and Christians at the mission of Sainte Marie. Guess who's going to be next? The shaman is worried about windigos, the Black Robe about the fires of hell. Worlds collide in renowned First Nations playwright Daniel David Moses' epic dark, funny and finally healing vision of early Canada.
Title: Burning Vision
Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Talonbooks 2003
Description:
roy drama - historical - political issues - Native peoples - Native playwright seventeen characters twelve male; five female four movements
'Unmasks both the great lies of the imperialist power-elite (telling the miners they are digging for a substance to “cure cancer” while secretly using it to build the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki); and the seemingly small rationalisations and accommodations people of all cultures construct to make their personal circumstances yield the greatest benefit to themselves for the least amount of effort on their part. It is also a scathing attack on the “public apology” as yet another mask, as a manipulative device, which always seeks to conceal the
Title: Cafe Daughter
Author: Williams, Kenneth T. Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - identity - racism - Native peoples⌦twelve characters one female two acts
The story begins in 1957, as nine-year-old Yvette Wong helps out in her parents’ café in Alistair, Saskatchewan. She’s incredibly bright but has been placed in the slow learners’ class because of her skin colour. Her mother Katherine, who was forced to attend a residential school, is conflicted about her identity and has charged Yvette with a secret—to never tell anyone she’s part Cree. Yvette has dreams that her mother nourishes, but when Katherine dies and Yvette and her father move to Saskatoon, Yvette must try to pursue her dreams alone, carving a path uniquely her own. Title: Can You See Me Yet?
Author: Findley, Timothy Publisher: Talonbooks 1977
Description:
roy drama - Canadian eleven characters four male; seven female fifteen scenes
1 interior set.
In 1938, in a world about to go mad with war, an Ontario insane asylum seems to offer sanctuary to the characters, but as Cassandra Waklin, Findley's protagonist, begins to confuse her fellow inmates with members of her own ill-fated family, the question arises - can anyone find sanctuary... anywhere?
Title: Canadiens, Les
Author: Salutin, Rick Dryden, Ken Publisher: Talonbooks 1977
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian large cast flexible casting two acts
1 interior set.
Hockey as a metaphor; the history of Quebec and Canada is traced through stick and puck.
1977! Winner Chalmers Canadian Play Award.
Title: Captives of the Faceless Drummer
Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1971
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - political seven characters; chorus five male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A timeless, balanced and important statement about political kidnapping and terrorism. Title: Carpenter, The
Author: Rossi, Vittorio Publisher: Talonbooks 2009
Description:
roy drama - family relationships ten characters four male; five female (doubling) three acts
In 1956, Silvio Rosato, a decorated World War II veteran, shows up at the house of his bigamist father, Eduardo Rosato, who had abandoned him and his mother in Italy in 1920, starting a second life and family for himself in Chicago. Handsome, assured and accomplished, there is something sinister about the young Silvio, with his air of familiarity and the distant, impenetrable look in his eyes. This mystery begins Hellfire Pass, part one of Rossi’s autobiographical A Carpenter’s Trilogy: A Chronicle in Three Plays. At first glance a classic tale of North American
Title: Catlover
Author: Spence, Janis Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy Canadian - drama eight characters six male; two female two acts
'With the unexpected return of her absent husband of nineteen years, Hester, chief caregiver of her father-in-law and her husbands ancient cat, reassesses her life during her apparent widowhood and, comparing it with her husband's adventures, decides its her turn.'
Title: Cerulean Blue A comedy in two acts Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Clemens, Andrew Publisher: Talonbooks 2015
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Native peoples - politics - relationships - Native playwright⌦twenty characters ten male; ten female two acts
ideal for high school and college musical theatre departments; original musical score by Andrew Clemens is available for download from Talonbooks.com.
"A comedic play about a struggling blues band invited to participate in a benefit concert for a First Nation community in conflict with governmental authorities. Upon arriving, the band discovers the entire lineup of musical acts has cancelled and they’re left trapped behind Title: Champion, The
Author: Gurik, Robert translated by Allan Van Meer Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy drama - Canadian eleven characters nine male; two female two acts
A modern tragicomedy based on the life of Muhammed Ali. With most of the U.S. against him. Ali fights back against racism, white religion and the draft board.
Title: Charbonneau and Le Chef
Author: McDonough, John Thomas Publisher: McClelland and Stewart 1968
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian ten characters eight male; two female three acts
Quebec's Quiet Revolution did not begin in Montreal in 1959. It began a full ten years earlier in 1949 in the quiet town of Asbestos, forty-five miles east of Montreal. Here Premier Maurice Duplessis pitted his immense political power against social justice - and lost. Siding with business in the critical strike of 1949, Le Chef bitterly opposed the demands of the workers - demands which were strongly upheld by Joseph Charbonneau, the Archbishop of Montreal. It was Duplessis who ultimately had to retreat and capitulate to the demands of the strikers. He lost, but
Title: Chautauqua
Author: Clinton, Robert Publisher: Department of Culture and Youth 1973
Description:
roy drama - Canadian fifteen characters eight male; seven female nine scenes
open stage.
'To the people in Saskatchewan in the 1920's, the word Chautauqua meant entertainment - lectures, shows, and actors travelling from town to town. This play is a chautauqua performance.' Title: Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again; or, The Taming of the Sioux
Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975
Description:
roy western - melodrama - comedy - high school - Alberta playwright twelve characters six male; six female two acts
1 interior set.
Set in the old West at the turn of the century, this is a melodrama about a Bard of the Plains whose plays bear a striking resemblance to those of you-know-who's.
Title: Chimera
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - political drama seven characters five male; two female two acts
"A fearless examination of the ethics of stem cell research. More than this, the playwright turned politician turned playwright moors her script with a piquant yet comical narrative of a parliamentarian who wants answers, a journalist who wants a story, a scientist who wants her privacy, and a Cabinet Minister who just wants to do the right thing."
Title: Christina, the Girl King
Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Talonbooks 2014
Description:
roy drama - 17th century - lesbian - philosophy - feminism - LGBTQ+⌦ten characters six male; four female three acts
Bouchard’s latest play tells the story of Queen Christina of Sweden. An enigmatic monarch, a flamboyant and unpredictable intellectual, a woman eager for knowledge, and a feminist before her time, Christina reigned over an empire she hoped to make the most sophisticated in all of Europe. In 1649, Christina summoned René Descartes to her court in Uppsala. His ideas about free will and reason appealed to her, who was struggling to reconcile tensions between her rational, thinking self and emotions she dared not name – including her love for a woman. Rather than bow to pressure to conform to the expectations of a nation, she abdicated her throne to Title: Claudius
Author: Gass, Ken Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy ten characters six male; four female two acts
"A contemporary look at the Hamlet story, focusing on the marriage of Claudius and Gertrude. A play of passion, politics, and paranoia. A murky comedy full of intrigue, humour, and spectacle."
Title: Closure
Author: Blicq, Ron Publisher: Samuel French 2009
Description:
roy drama - family relations - Canadian seven characters four male; three female two acts
Donald Barlow, who lives in Nottingham, England, decides to search for his father who, he has discovered, was a visiting Canadian serviceman during World War II. Following his mother’s death, Donald engages a search agency to find his father (Gordon Devereaux) and establish contact. But when the agency does find Devereaux, the elderly man vehemently denies his involvement with Donald’s mother and categorically refuses to meet the man who claims to be his son. Donald’s journalist daughter Claire refuses to give up and, using her married name, flies to
Title: Clouds of Glory
Author: Lambert, Betty Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy Canadian - political - drama eight characters four male; four female two acts
The contradictions between personal and social politics in contemporary Canada become evident when student riots erupt following the declaration of the War Measures Act in October 1970. Title: Cold Meat Party
Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian seven characters three male; four female two acts
"Cold Meat Party concerns a group of former friends; a gay pop star, a feminist filmmaker and a homophobic politician, and their attendant partners, who meet in a Manchester B&B for the funeral and reading of the will of their recently deceased college friend. They gather to remember past friendships and the happy days of success but also to face the uncertain and chaotic present. It will be a hilarious and heartbreaking weekend and, in the end, more painful than they ever imagined."
Title: Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - historical - Canada - biography large cast flexible casting three acts
Based on the classic novel by Wayne Johnston, 'The Colony of Unrequited Dreams' is a fictionalized portrait of Joseph R. Smallwood, the controversial political figure who ambitiously led Newfoundland into Confederation with Canada, and became its first premier. Spanning two decades, Smallwood’s story is anchored and propelled by one of Johnston’s most memorable creations: the fictitious Sheilagh Fielding, a caustic newspaper columnist whose own battles with the past and alcohol addiction find full vent and expression in her tireless dogging of
Title: Consecrated Ground
Author: Boyd, George Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - historical drama seven characters four male; three female two acts
"In 1965, Africville, tafricvhe largest and oldest Black community in Canada was bulldozed into memory. In 'Consecrated Ground', award-winning playwright George Boyd retells the struggles of Africville's residents to save their homes and their dignity. With tremendous wit and gravity, George Boyd resurrects Africville on the verge of extinction, making us a gift of people believable in their vulnerabilities, their courage, and their outrage." Title: Copper Thunderbird
Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy drama - biographical - Canadian - Norval Morrisseau - Native peoples - Native playwright eighteen characters three male; five female; one boy (doubling) two acts
This is a play based on the life of Norval Morriseau. Captured by the power-lines which Morriseau boldly defined in his art were the colours he experienced between his Ojibwa cosmology, his life on the street, and his spiritual and philosophical transformations to become the Father of Contemporary Native Art and a Grand Shaman. Appearing simultaneously in this multi-layered drama as a small boy, a young warrior and as an old man, Morriseau confronts his many selves over the Faustian destiny he encountered during his vision quest - a momentary
Title: Coronation Voyage, The
Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc Publisher: Talonbooks 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - drama fourteen characters eight male; six female two parts
"May 1953. The Empress of France sets sail from Montreal. On the pretext of attending the celebrations marking the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, an important mafioso leaves for England where he secretly plans to live in exile with his two sons. Aboard this floating palace in the middle of the ocean, the petty lord of the Montreal underworld must face the most important decision of his dubious career: will he sacrifice his youngest son for a safe-conduct?"
Title: Courageous
Author: Healey, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy comedy - relationships nine characters seven male; two female two acts
Brian and his partner Martin seek a civil ceremony, but are stopped when Tom, the city official, won’t perform a homosexual marriage. While Tom fights for what he believes, his lover finds the battle a little too much to bear. Todd and Tammy do get married, but their life together quickly begins to unravel. From a chance meeting at City Hall, three couples are forever altered. Courageous is a wicked comedy that pits character against character, and exposes the hot-button issues of gay marriage, religious freedom, and liberal immigration policy as battlegrounds for Title: Courting Johanna
Author: Munro, Alice Johnson, Marcia Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2009
Description:
roy drama - immigrants - romance - historical nine characters four male; five female two acts
based on the short story "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage" by Alice Munro.
"Courting Johanna" is set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of Huron County, Ontario in the 1950s. Johanna is a dignified Scottish immigrant housekeeper who works for the well-off Mr. McCauley. She looks after McCauley’s granddaughter, Tabitha, whose mother is dead and whose father, Ken, is a deadbeat looking for work out West. When silly, spoiled Sabitha and her friend
Title: Crackpot
Author: Wyatt, Rachel Wiseman, Adele Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - relationships fourteen characters nine male; five female (doubling possible) two acts
Based on the novel by Adele Wiseman. Follows the life and relationships of Hoda and her family, through 2 wars, from 1912 to 1945.
Title: Danish Play, The A true tale of resistance Author: Mills, Sonja Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy historical drama - women - biographical large cast flexible casting two acts
'Agnete Ottosen was tough, unsentimental and remarkable. When World War II broke out, Ottosen immediately joined the resistance, organizing the escape of many Jews, and writing for an underground newspaper. She was caught and tortured by the Gestapo but revealed nothing, managing to survive internment in the notorious Ravensbruck concentration camp. Sonja Mills, Ottesen's great-niece, has written a play that offers historical insight and critical reflection on some of the most urgent issues of our time - nationalism, justice and freedom. A moving dramatic Title: Dark Harvest
Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1945
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female three acts
1 exterior set; 1930's costume.
"A trivial tragedy of the Prairies". For Gerth Hansen, wheat farmer, God is in the land and he struggles against it, alone.
Title: Davin: The Politician
Author: Mitchell, Ken Publisher: NeWest Press 1979
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - political nine characters; extras eight male; one female three acts
various sets.
Canada's settlement is portrayed through the turbulent life of Nicolas Flood Davin: poet, politician, newspaperman and lover of Kate Simpson, one of Canada's first feminists.
Title: Dead Serious
Author: Greenall, Doug Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1989
Description:
roy Canadian - thriller seven characters four male; two female; one dead man two acts
"Terror strikes when employees at an isolated resort discover a guest brutally murdered. A teenage girl's belief in her younger brother's innocence is severely tested as the killings continue and it becomes clear that his obsession with a childhood game has become pathological." Title: Dead White Writer on the Floor
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2011
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - identity - Native peoples - Native playwright twelve characters five male; one female (doubling) two acts
This play uses two literary conventions - theatre of the absurd and mystery novels - to create one of the funniest and most thought-provoking plays ever about identity politics. In Act One, Billy Jack, Injun Joe, Kills Many Enemies, Old Lodge Skins, Pocahontas, and Tonto find themselves in a locked room with the body of a white writer, which they stash in a closet. None of them can figure out how he died or which of them might have killed him. They realize as they point fingers at each other, however, that they are all profoundly unhappy with their lives as they've been constructed
Title: Death of Dracula, The
Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1979
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright eight characters six male; two female three acts
originally performed under the name "Mors Draculae"; running time: 90 min.
Lucy and Count Dracula are together again in a gloomy castle in Suffolk. Van Helsing believes he knows what's wrong with Lucy and so does the charming but mysterious count.
Title: Death of the Donnellys, The
Author: Johns, Ted Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy drama eleven characters nine male; two female three acts
" A look at the violent Donnelly legend as a study law - the laws of the family, society and God." Title: Devil's Petition
Author: Scott, Munroe Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical thirteen characters nine male; four female; (doubling possible) two acts
Based on a true story from Upper Canada, the play tells the tale of a Methodist preacher who tries to save a man from being legally hanged without breaking the law.
Title: Diary of a Crazy Boy As published in Theatrum Magazine (June/July/Aug 1990) Author: McLeod, John Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1990
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - folklore - Native playwright nine characters seven male; one female (doubling) two acts
Description not available.
Title: Divine, The A Play for Sarah Bernhardt Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Talonbooks 2015
Description:
roy drama - Quebec - religion eleven characters; extras six male; five female two acts
Quebec City, 1905.
Two priests-to-be are ordered to deliver a letter forbidding the legendary French actress, Sarah Bernhardt, from appearing on stage during her visit to Quebec City. Michaud, the son of the province’s minister of finance, is a theatre lover. Talbot, on the other hand, comes from a family struggling with poverty and clearly has more pressing concerns. The stage is set for a battle for Title: Divinity Bash / nine lives
Author: MacDonald, Bryden Publisher: Talonbooks 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - drama nine characters five male, three female, one hermaphrodite three acts
Everything, and therefore nothing, is sacred: sterile aliens abduct the unemployed while their boyfriends leave their wives and pour out their grief and longing by singing sentimental pop music at karaoke bars. It struts and frets its absurdities on a stage of collapsing and colliding walls; between the hell that is the here and now of the late 20th century and the possibility of a heaven far off at the horizon where the sea meets the sky like the converging pages of an open book: the edge of the margin on can always see, always move toward, but never get to. 'Divinity
Title: Don Quixote
Author: Anderson, Peter Heath, Colin Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian seven characters five male; two female two acts
An old Manchegan landowner, addicted to books of chivalry, becomes a knight-errant and sets out to right the wrongs of the world. With his horse Rocinante and his squire Sancho Panza, he battles windmills that he takes for giants, slaughters sheep he mistakes for evil knights, and frees convicts he wrongly believes to be innocent, all in the name of his imaginary love Lady Dulcinea. When his exploits are immortalized in a famous novel, he and all of Spain are caught up in his delusions and celebrity, until he meets his final challenge with the Knight of the Mirrors.
Title: Down for the Weekend
Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Alberta playwright seven characters six male; one female two acts
open stage.
A young roughneck from Alberta's Tar Sands has big plans for his future - plans that implode violently on a weekend visit to Edmonton. Title: Dracula
Author: Stoker, Bram Pura, Talia Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - vampires large cast flexible casting three acts
Talia Pura's play is based on the novel by Bram Stoker; suitable for school performances (students age 14+); running time: 75 min.
This story of Count Dracula begins with Jonathan's arrival in Transylvania. It follows the count's activities after traveling to London, including Lucy's mysterious death and Mina's illness. It ends with the chase back to Transylvania and the count's death.
Title: Drama: Pilot Episode
Author: Hines, Karen Publisher: Coach House Press 2012
Description:
roy comedy thirteen characters two male; five female (doubling) two acts
Dr. Penelope Douglas is an ex-forensic psychiatrist looking for a fresh start in a styling western boomtown, but on her first day practicing in her boutique suite, a young television writer hangs himself in her subway-tiled bathroom. A dissection of contemporary television drama through the eyes of the dead writer reveals to Penelope an unsettling connection between the forty-four-minute television hour and the disintegration of the human soul. It isn’t until Penelope’s oil wife friend pronounces Penelope her unborn baby’s godmother that Dr. Douglas
Title: Dream, The
Author: Tweed, T. W. Publisher: Centennial Commission 1965
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical all male cast; fifteen characters fifteen male nine parts
1 interior set.
"An entertainment leading up to Confederation". In 1864, the Fathers of Confederation discuss the dream of a "Dominion from Sea to Sea". Other less famous historical figures constitute the prologue and the epilogue. Title: Dressing Gown, The
Author: Gilbert, Sky Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian eight characters seven male; one female two acts
various interior sets.
A magical dressing gown is passed from person to person and evokes pointed questions about violence, male sexuality and the human condition.
Title: Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Fifth House 1989
Description:
roy comedy - drama - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright eight characters seven male; one female two acts
Once again, we're on the "Rez". This time the men band together to protest the formation of an all-girl hockey team, which confounds their already tenuous sense of identity.
Title: Dry Streak
Author: Minogue, Leeann Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - rural life - Prairies seven characters four male; three female two acts
Hot. Burning hot. In the dry, hot summer of 1988, Kate, a young urban woman, moves with her boyfriend to his family's Saskatchewan farm. A world-travelled vegetarian who listens to punk rock, she is not exactly the kind of girl John Richards' parents had thought he would bring home. After months of unrelenting heat, dust, and the endless complaints of everyone around her, Kate makes a very public promise: if only the drought will break, she'll run naked through the streets of town. Now the media is running the story and things are about to get interesting in Stony Title: Duchess, The a.k.a. Wallis Simpson Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy Canadian - drama ten characters five male; five female (doubling possible) two acts
"An extravagant and inspired epic takes us into a kaleidoscopic wonderland, when Kings and Queens dance the Black Bottom, Faerie creatures demand blood and Empires are given up for love. The play tells the story of the woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated his throne. It journeys into the emotional centre of a plain, brash, sexual woman who danced through her ulcers and collapsed only when the cocktails ran out - a woman destined to become the Black Queen of her time. This multi-layered script finds a place between straight-forward narrative and magic
Title: Dunsmuirs: A Promise Kept, The
Author: Langley, Rod Publisher: Talonbooks 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - drama fifteen characters ten male; five female two acts
The second of three plays chronicling the saga of the Dunsmuirs. Robbie Dunsmuir cuts a deal with Sir John A. Macdonald to build a railway from Victoria to Nanaimo to distract B.C. voters from the fact that the promise of a transcontinental railway has been delayed. The last spike of the E & N is driven, and Robbie and Sir John descend to the lowest level of the Dunsmuir pits where they consummate their deal in a two day orgy of bonded whiskey, cold chicken. In a devastating final scene, the family secret emerges from the closet of the Dunsmuir's castle on the eve of its
Title: Dunsmuirs: Alone At The Edge, The
Author: Langley, Rod Publisher: Talonbooks 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama eleven characters; extras eight male; two female two acts
The first of three plays in this saga of one of Canada's wealthiest and most ruthless families. The play chronicles the disgrace and exile of Robbie Dunsmuir from Scotland; the settlement of his family as indentured labourers to the Hudson's Bay Company in the Nanaimo coalfields; his application of "scab" labour tactics which won him an independent prospector's licence from the company; his discovery of a vast coal deposit on Vancouver Island; and his scramble to first finance and then gain control over the Wellington Mine on this site over the literally dead bodies Title: Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The
Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1970
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples eighteen characters; extras fifteen male; three female two acts
open stage.
A lyrical documentary of a young Native girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row, a victim of white man's violent and paternalistic attitudes towards Native people.
Title: Edible Woman, The
Author: Atwood, Margaret Carley, Dave Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2002
Description:
roy comedy eight characters four male; two female (doubling) two acts
adapted by Dave Carley
Margaret Atwood's internationally-renowned first novel has been adapted for the stage. With wit, affection and dollops of irony, this play traces the journey of Marian, a young woman who has embraced the consumer society. Marian has a good job, a handsome lawyer fiance, and a conventionally bright future. But slowly Marian's consumer world starts slipping out of focus, as
Title: Einstein's Gift
Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015
Description:
roy drama - science - Canadian - biography - Alberta playwright twelve characters; extras; musicians five male; two female (doubling) two acts
Based on the life and work of Nobel laureate Dr. Fritz Haber, who risked everything for a country that never accepted him, but used his work to murder millions. A revolutionary chemist, Dr. Fritz Haber discovered too late that when his knowledge was put in the hands of the wrong people, millions would die; his efforts to serve humanity futile against political will, nationalism, and war. This updated edition of Vern Thiessen’s Governor General’s Literary Award-winning play about the collision of power and pride still resonates with verve and vigour. Title: El Crocodor
Author: Anderson, Peter El Crocodor Collective Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - cabaret eight characters four male; four female two acts
"A group of fifth-rate vaudevillians are exiled from their native El Crocodor and continue their subversive nightclub act in Canada."
Title: Elizabeth Rex
Author: Findley, Timothy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters thirteen male; six female two acts
"In this daring and original dramatic effort Timothy Findley brings together none other that William Shakespeare and the formidable Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I. What makes a man a man and a woman a woman? Late at night on the eve of her lovers execution, this is the question queen Elizabeth descends to the stable lodgings of Shakespeare's players to wrestle with...."
Title: Ends of the Earth, The
Author: Panych, Morris Publisher: Talonbooks 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian twenty characters twelve male; eight female two acts
various sets.
Frank, having dedicated his life to the unremarkable, and Walker, paranoid since age three, attempt to flee from each other and end up following each other instead. They find themselves in a run-down hotel operated by the deaf and misdirected Willy and the blind Alice - who has a murderous dislike for visitors. Morris Panych's brilliant tale reminds us all that fear can become a Title: Envelope, The
Author: Rossi, Vittorio Publisher: Talonbooks 2016
Description:
roy comedy - film industry - Canada - Canadian Playwright seven characters five male; two female two acts
We follow the character Michael Moretti, a veteran playwright, as he struggles to get his new play, Romeo’s Rise, turned into a movie. Michael must decide between a multi-million dollar offer from his Canadian-friend-turned-movie-producer Jake Henry, or a low-budget offer from an independent producer in Los Angeles. Jake’s deal promises him generous financial support if he survives the editing process with a senior script writer from the Canadian Film Fund. The American deal isn’t
Title: Esker Mike and His Wife, Agiluk Scenes from life in the Mackenzie River Delta Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Talonbooks 1973
Description:
roy satire - Canadian - social issues - Native peoples - Alberta playwright fifteen characters nine male; six female twelve scenes
A social satire about Inuit life in the Mackenzie River Delta and how it is affected by white settlers, priests, and government officials.
Title: Eternal Hydra
Author: Piatigorsky, Anton Publisher: Coach House Press 2009
Description:
roy comedy eleven characters two male; two female (doubling) two acts
When a young scholar finds Eternal Hydra, a long-lost, legendary and encyclopedic novel by an obscure Irish writer, she brings the manuscript to an esteemed publisher, hoping to secure an international audience for the book. But Vivian's obsession with the dead author, who has materialized in her life, is challenged by the work of a contemporary historical novelist, and she is forced to face confounding questions about authorship, racism and ethical behavior. Weaving between modern-day New York, 1930s Paris and New Orleans in the years following the Civil War, Title: Execution, The
Author: Blais, Marie-Claire Lobdell, David Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - murder twenty characters seventeen male; three female two acts
Set in a boarding school, it is the story of two schoolboys who plot the murder of one of their classmates and enact the crime. As a play, it is a study of innocence, evil, and complicity.
Title: Fair Liberty's Call
Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Coach House Press 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - historical - Alberta playwright eight characters five male; three female two acts
"1785. A Loyalist family that has fled from Boston to New Brunswick is joined by two other veterans, and a stranger whom they assume is a former Loyalist soldier. The stranger reveals himself to be a Rebel and a gunpoint demands justice for the death of his younger brother at the battle of Waxhaws. He gives them until dawn to choose one person for execution. As the Loyalists debate who among them is least worthy to live, each is forced to confront his own actions and conscience."
Title: False Messiah, The
Author: Salutin, Rick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy Canadian - drama twelve characters ten male; two female two acts
The Kabbalah and the last great Messianic movement. Set in Constantinople. Title: Far as the Eye Can See
Author: Wiebe, Rudy Publisher: NeWest Press 1977
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seventeen characters thirteen male; four female three acts
various interior and exterior sets.
A contemporary (1977) look at Alberta inspired by the struggle of the Dodds-Round Hill farming community with Calgary Power over an enormous thermal power-plant development just outside of Edmonton.
Title: Fashion, Power, Guilt and the Charity of Families
Author: Shields, Carol Shields, Catherine Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1995
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - Canadian - family relations seven characters four male; three female (doubling) two acts
"Explores the social and private worlds of the modern family in this funny, poignant, and gently challenging play. When a department of government bureaucrats begins to receive widespread complaints of loneliness, it attempts to legislate a remedy by creating a "family unit" which appears, on the surface at least, to be a stereotypical suburban family. But it is not until the "family unit" looks inward and addresses its problems - including the unspoken secret which has haunted the parents for years - that they become a real family. A uniquely contemporary
Title: Fifteen Miles of Broken Glass
Author: Hendry, Tom Publisher: Talonbooks 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian ten characters; extras seven male; three female two acts
It's 1945 and young Alec has a passionate desire to become a fighter pilot. So strong is his yearning that he is blind to the fact the war is ending. Only the Hiroshima tragedy can force him to turn his mind to a civilian future.
Winner, Ontario Lieutenant-Governor's Medal in 1970. Title: First Falls on Monday, The
Author: Murphy, Arthur L. Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1972
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - political twelve characters eight male; four female three acts
various interior sets.
"The First Falls on Monday" deals with a factual mystery: the solution to a political impasse one week before the new state of Canada was to come into existence, which threatened to ruin the whole design. The stalemate concerned English language representation from Quebec in the government cabinet. No one knows how it was settled, what deals were made, or who conceived
Title: Flight Into Danger
Author: Hailey, Arthur Sergel, Christopher Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1959
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters; extras nine male; ten female three acts
adapted by Christopher Sergel; representative set
When the pilot and the co-pilot of a charter plane become incapacitated by severe food poisoning, a passenger has to take over the controls of the plane and land it.
Title: Flying to Glory Prairie boys take flight in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II Author: Dempsey, Sandra Publisher: Touchwood Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian history - World War II - pilots - Alberta playwright large cast flexible casting two acts
In December of 1939, when the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was formed, four thousand people were enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Six years later that number had risen to 250,000. This play is a dramatic portrayal of how that astonishing transformation occurred. Young men, many of them teenagers, left their homes om the farms and in the small towns and cities of the prairies to learn how to fly - and how to fore weapons, shoot down aircraft and bomb military targets. Lives were changed forever, and far too many were ended. The Title: For Home and Country
Author: Brodie, Leanna Publisher: Talonbooks 2004
Description:
roy feminism - women - historical - comedy thirty characters; chorus eleven male; seventeen female; two girls (doubling possible) two acts
Dramatizes the generational conflict created by the rise of an urban and radicalized feminist agenda in the latter part of the 20th century and its head-on collision with its much more conservative, rural roots in the Women's Institute.
Title: Forest, The
Author: Milner, Arthur Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2001
Description:
roy drama nine characters five male; four female two acts
running time: 120 minutes.
'A modern fable about a remorseful captain of industry who pulls together an odd assortment of characters, including his three estranged daughters and two lost actors. Their mission? To establish a utopian society.'
Title: Forests
Author: Mouawad, Wajdi translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - life - self-awareness seventeen characters; extras ten male; seven female seven parts
sequel to 'Tideline' and 'Scorched' and prequel to 'Heavens'.
Forests is the third part of Wajdi Mouawad's critically acclaimed dramatic quartet set in the painful wake of the past century. As she tries to unravel the mysteries of her origins, Loup opens a door onto the abyss where the memory of her bloodline lies entangles in a sequence of impossible love affairs. But Loup is courageous: she wants to end the bitter legacy of fate and break the chain of Title: Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists
Author: Chaurette, Normand Publisher: Talonbooks 1986
Description:
roy drama - mystery seven characters six male; one female two acts
"An engineer dies during an expedition to purify a river in Cambodia. His team of four geologists face a commissioned inquiry with minutely detailed accounts which fail to elucidate the mysterious tragedy. Rational thought and scientific jargon cloud the way to real understanding. Only the Asian engineer called in at the last minute perceives the essential."
Title: Frankenstein
Author: Shelley, Mary Nowlan, Alden Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1976
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - adaptation sixteen characters eleven male; two female (doubling) three acts
adaptation by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning; also known as "Frankenstein: The Man Who Became God".
"Canadian adaptation of Mary Shelley's novel. The play comes to grips with the philosophical issues raised by Shelley - man's evil, his guilt, and his attachment to his Maker, and his persistent attempts, by trying to rectify his wrongs, to ease that guilt and placate the Maker. The play
Title: Free at Last
Author: Nicol, Eric Publisher: New Play Centre 1983
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian seven characters one male; six female two acts
1 interior set. production version.
Description not available. Title: Frenchtown Drama about Shanghai, P.R.C., A Author: Jeffery, Lawrence Publisher: Exile Editions 2012
Description:
roy drama - China - family relations - history seven characters four male; two female; one boy (doubling possible) two acts
"A reflection on family and the power of a nation, this elegant and cerebral drama explores the disquietude of Shanghai and its residents in the wake of Tiananmen Square and the return of Hong Kong to mainland China. 'Frenchtown' follows the story of Tess, an American archivist and longtime Shanghai resident; DJ, a Canadian writer looking for his ancestral home in the old French Concession; James, a boozy, gruff war hero searching for his estranged son; and Sam, a Xinhua journalist who clings to his unshakeable faith in China’s ultimate and glorious destiny.
Title: Friends of a Feather
Author: Stratton, Allan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - French Canadian ten characters seven male; three female three acts
two interior and one exterior set; adapted from "Celimare" by Labiche and Delacour
Newlywed Celimare dodges former flames, jealous husbands and suspicious in-laws in this hilarious adaptation of the classic French farce.
Title: Garage Sale, The A Suburban Comedy Author: King, David Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy eight characters four male; four female two acts
"The point of a garage sale is to get rid of unwanted things. But when members of the Grady family hold a garage sale, they wind up with more than they started out with, including a lovey-dovey hippie couple, a grumpy old neighbour lady, and a mentally unstable young man. They also get a lot of laughs." Title: Gayden Chronicles, The
Author: Cook, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy Canadian - drama thirteen characters nine male; three female three acts
"William Gayden is a British sailor who loves the poor, the oppressed, women and the sea. Awaiting execution for mutiny and murder, he recreates his life and the events which led to his sentence."
Title: Generous
Author: Healey, Michael Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2007
Description:
roy comedy thirteen characters nine male; four female (flexible casting; doubling) two acts
A minority government is about to fall when a Member of Parliament appears in the Prime Minister's Office, soaked with blood. An epic battle is waged over a bucket of fried chicken. A loquacious law clerk engages in an excruciating post-coital chat with a judge, and a cut-throat oil executive decides to speak to a magazine reporter. These situations kick off GENEROUS, a hilarious and thought-provoking exploration of the altruistic impulse. Each of the play's four intertwined plotlines contains a generous deed.
Title: Genuine Fakes
Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy drama - Canadian eight characters four male; four female two acts
Sharon bears an uncanny resemblance to a rock celebrity. She joins Genuine Fakes, a look alike agency, only to find that she prefers her alter-ego to her own... with near-disastrous results. Title: Gideon's Blues
Author: Boyd, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2004
Description:
roy drama - racism seven characters four male; three female two acts
The apple of Momma Lou’s eye, Gideon embodies his parents’ hope for a brighter future for their family. College educated with the tireless support and sacrifice of his parents, he was to be the one to break free of the ghetto, to enjoy an integrated family life with his newfound peers in a middle management, middle-class suburban community of comfortably conspicuous consumption. Yet because of racism and prejudice, he has yet to find a job better than a janitor to support his wife and two children. An endless string of interviews for more suitable employment,
Title: Ginkgo Tree, The
Author: MacDougall, Lee Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - farce eight characters four female; four male two acts
It's a typical sunny June morning at Anything Grows: a quirky plant store in the small town of Greenville. Florence the clerk has locked herself out - again; the owner's daughter Marcie can't wait to get back to school; her brother Eb arrives late and is blamed for everything; their father Hayward would rather be putting things through his new chipper; two elderly customers, Ehrhart and Pearl are awaiting the delivery of a ginkgo tree and a bag of ladybugs; and Rose Deterra, the Italian matriarch and owner is trying desperately to make it appear that everything is running like
Title: Glengarry School Days Based on the novels of Ralph Connor Author: Chislett, Anne Amos, Janet Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy eighteen characters six male; one female; two teenage boys; one teenage girl; eight children two acts
running time: 120 min.
A comic, romantic, and passionate tale of the unruly heroes of a little log school house in Glengarry County. The triumphs, disappointments and dreams of youth unfold against the stern expectations of Highland Presbyterian parents, and the riotous Free Trade Election of 1878. Title: Glorious 12th, The
Author: Storey, Raymond Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright fifteen characters eight male; seven female two acts
1927 was a difficult year for the Orange Lodge. The House of Commons was now officially bilingual. French appeared on our postage stamp, refugees from continental Europe fled to Canada to share in our prosperity. The story of this play is fiction but its historical background is not. Opportunistic Klansmen crossed our borders to prey on the fears of our citizens. The cross burning at Kingston occurred. The debate and hate-mongering is documented.
Title: Glory Days A play and history of the '46 Stelco strike Author: Freeman, Bill Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical fourteen characters nine male; five female two acts
It’s 1946 and lives are ripped apart and drawn back together again as Stelco hits the headlines with major turmoil and the formation of local 1005. This is a story of the muscle, bone and heart that goes into making steel. Glory Days describes Stelco in the 1930s and early ’40s as a workplace rank with discrimination and favouritism. The workers lived under a form of tyranny where the boss was king and their needs and wishes were simply disregarded. …the common belief of management of the day was that workers needed to be disciplined and tough foremen
Title: Glu Club The Power of Persuasion Author: Andre, Marion Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - farce - tragedy twelve characters eight male; four female (doubling) three acts
"Set on the planet Archaica, a top banker and his cronies endorse a "medical" treatment that purifies human skin and so entrenching at the same time the rule of the racist persuasion." Title: Goblin Gold
Author: MacKay, Isabel Ecclestone Publisher: Samuel French 1933
Description:
roy comedy - drama - Canadian nine characters four male; four female three acts
2 interior sets.
When Uncle Simon comes to stay with the Beamer family he does not appear to be the rich relative they expected but they grow fond of him nonetheless.
Title: God in Need of Help, A A play in two acts (or five, if you think about it) Author: Dixon, Sean Publisher: Coach House Books 2014
Description:
roy drama - religion - historical - war - faith all male cast; seven characters; extras seven male two acts
It’s 1606 and Europe is at war over God. At the behest of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II, Venice’s four strongest men are charged with transporting a holy painting — Albrecht Dürer's 'The Brotherhood of the Rosary' — across the Alps to Prague. In the small Alpine village of Pusterwald, they are set upon by Protestant zealots; their escape is attributed to a miracle. The strongmen and their captain are summoned to an inquiry, led by the magistrate of Venice and the cardinal archbishop of Milan, to determine whether something divine did indeed occur. Each
Title: Good Mother
Author: Atkins, Damian Publisher: Prism International 2001
Description:
roy drama - memory loss, motherhood nine characters variable casting two acts
'What would you do if suddenly your mom wasn't your mom any more? The Driver family struggles to cope with an accident that robs them of a mother and leaves them to care for her as she fights to regain her memory.' Title: Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Author: MacDonald, Ann-Marie Publisher: Vintage Canada 1990
Description:
roy comedy - tragicomedy fifteen characters; chorus nine male; six female three acts
"Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)... its central character is Constance Ledbelly, a lecturer in Renaissance drama at Queen's University, enamoured of the oily male professor whose academic papers she ghost-writes. She's also trying to decipher a coded manuscript which she believes is a lost source for Othello and Romeo and Juliet. Not only does she decode the manuscript, but she literally falls into the two worlds of the plays and causes each of them to turn from tragedy to comedy."
Title: Goodnight Disgrace
Author: Mercer, Michael Publisher: Talonbooks 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - drama seven characters four male; three female two acts
From his wheelchair in a nursing home, the aging Conrad Aiken recalls his long, stormy friendship with Malcolm Lowry. When Aiken is 40, Lowry's father pays him to tutor the young Malcolm. But the protege becomes Aiken's friend, and, gradually, a real literary contender. Mercer's powerful play reveals the shifts in the two men's relationship as they struggle with alcoholism, women, creative energy, and each other; and as the student metamorphoses into a rival. " I will be the one they remember," Lowry declares in their final scene together.
Title: Gordon Winter
Author: Williams, Kenneth T. Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2012
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - political - Canadian - racism large cast flexible casting (doubling) two acts
Gordon Winter is an RCMP hero, a life-long champion of First Nations rights, and a bigot. He's challenging the next generation of chiefs to stand up to the federal government when he spews a Nazi-inspired racist and homophobic rant. Suddenly, the one of the most revered First Nations leaders is now one of the most reviled human beings in Canada. While most want to consign Winter to the dustbin of history, some are quick to defend a man who did so much good in his life. Questions get asked: how should society respond to such outrageous comments from a Title: Great Hunger, The
Author: Peterson, Leonard Publisher: Book Society of Canada 1967
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Inuit - Native peoples twelve characters; extras seven male; five female three acts
interior and exterior sets; use of some Inuit vocabulary.
A tragedy in traditional form, with a traditional theme. Retribution is demanded for a past murder, and inevitably the unknowing and innocent are caught up in the unfinished pattern, and the entire community is afraid.
Title: Great Wave Of Civilization, The
Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Alberta playwright seventeen characters thirteen male; four female ten scenes
The Great Wave of Civilization is Herschel Hardin's play about the destruction of the people of the Blackfoot Confederacy by the liquor trade in Montana and Alberta in the 19th Century. Little Dog of the Northern Blackfoot tribe vs. Snookum Jim, free trader, I.G. Baker, merchant-prince of Fort Benton and the rest of the "great wave of civilization".
Title: Guid Sisters, The A translation of Les - Belles Soeurs into modern Scots Author: Tremblay, Michel Bowman, Martin Publisher: Exile Editions 1988
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian all female cast; fifteen characters fifteen female two acts
"A translation of Les Belles-Soeurs into modern Scots. French Canadian woman in poor neighbourhood wins one million trading-stamps and invites female relatives, friends and neighbors to pasting-in party." Title: Guide to Mourning, A
Author: Stickland, Eugene Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1998
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - funeral - family - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female two acts
"Wally Pringle is dead. His wife Deirdre mourns. The family gathers. The story of the Pringle family's quest to give Wally a decent funeral."
Title: Gwendolyn Poems, The
Author: Dey, Claudia Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy biography - drama ten characters seven male; three female (doubling) two acts
A lush re-imaging of the life of legendary Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwen. From her meteoric rise to her final unraveling in the grips of alcoholism, we meet a Gwendolyn with a contagious wit, a brave heart, and an endless capacity for self re-invention.
Title: Half Life
Author: Mighton, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy drama - canadian - love - aging eight characters three male; five female fourteen scenes
"Two nursing home residents, both in their 80s, meet and fall in love, rekindling what might have been a wartime romance. Had they previously met somewhere else under different circumstances? Why is their love so troubling for their children? Indeed, the light at dusk is sometimes warmer and more enveloping than that of the midday sun. Characters navigate between being and appearance, between cowardice and dissoluteness..." Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award. Title: Half of It, The Almost a comedy Author: Krizanc, John Publisher: Anansi Press 1990
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy thirteen characters three male; four female (doubling) two acts
When her wealthy father dies, the idealistic Jill Ashe must decide with her socialite mother and real-estate agent sister what to do with the property left them, in particular a woods that Jill has loved since childhood. Both her mother and sister want to sell to developers for a huge sum, but Jill hesitates. Enter a greedy speculator with a plan to save the woods and turn a profit for the family. Jill's quandary over whether to sell out signals the play's underlying theme: how to make choices in an immoral world.
Title: Halo
Author: MacDonald, Josh Publisher: Talonbooks 2002
Description:
roy comedy seven characters four male; three female two acts
"When an image of Jesus appears on the side of a Tim Horton's restaurant in Nately, Nova Scotia, life is forever changed. The town's inhabitants are challenged to ask difficult questions about faith, life and love with sometimes moving, sometimes hilarious results. Complicating the matter, of course, are the more mundane questions of whether this appearance is a miracle, an accident, or a quite possibly even a hoax."
Title: Hamlet, Prince of Quebec
Author: Gurik, Robert Gelinas, Marc F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian sixteen characters flexible casting two acts
translated by Marc F. Gelinas.
A political adaptation. The ghost is DeGaulle, Hamlet is Quebec and Horatio is Rene Levesque. Title: Hand to Hand
Author: Bruno, Walter Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian thirteen characters; extras nine male; four female four acts
No description available.
Title: Handcuffs The Donnellys: Part III Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Press Porcepic 1977
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - tragedy fourteen characters; extras nine male; five female three acts
The Donnellys: Part III.
"Like slowly closing handcuffs people (priests, bishops, constables, farmers, tavern keepers, traitors, threshers, among others) openly and secretly, legally and illegally fasten the disturbing Donnelly family still so that it can murder them...Tuesday, 3 February, 1880. Although no one was ever legally punished for this crime, there are stories still told of how almost a year later the
Title: Hanged Man, The
Author: Gurik, Robert translated by Philip London and L. Berard Publisher: New Press 1972
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian all male cast; twelve characters twelve male two acts
"The Hanged Man" is a strong condemnation of man's inability to transcend his selfish needs and act for the common good. When one man attempts to show his fellow workers that they are capable of changing their desperate situation, he is destroyed. Set in a small Quebec mining town; universal in its examination of false idealism and greed. Title: Happy Place
Author: Sinha, Pamela Mala Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - mental illness - mental health - women - friendship all female cast; eight characters seven female (doubling) two acts
Seven women living in an inpatient-care facility try to find a way to fit into a world that can’t respond to their pain. But these broken women are the ones who can teach one another how to live. "Happy Place" is a glimpse into lives filled with courage, compassion and startling surprise, lives which — in many ways — are not so different from our own.
Title: Harps of God, The
Author: Stetson, Kent Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1999
Description:
roy drama all male cast; thirteen characters; extras thirteen male three acts
"In 1914, from March 31 to April 2, death travelled the North Atlantic with many companions-madness, fear, deceit and despair. Survival means constant measured movement, and the constant kindling and rekindling of hope. Arising from official transcripts of survivor's testimony before two commissions of enquiry into the Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster, The Harps of God develops themes of human survival in the face of profound personal devastation."
Title: Haunted House Hamlet, The
Author: Weiss, Peter Eliot Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1986
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - historical - fantasy - ghosts sixteen characters six male; five female (doubling) two acts
"When a street kid breaks into an abandoned building, he discovers a group of ghost actors doomed to perform Hamlet until the end of time." Title: Head, Guts and Soundbone Dance, The
Author: Cook, Michael Publisher: Breakwater Books 1973
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters six male; one female; children as extras two acts
"A tyrannical old Skipper fights to keep his vision of the past alive in the face of inevitable change and what he sees as moral decay."
Title: Hearing, The
Author: Stein, David Lewis Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy drama - Canadian sixteen characters ten male; six female two acts
Description not available.
Title: Hellfire Pass A carpenter's trilogy Author: Rossi, Vittorio Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy drama - autobiographical - historical - family relations seven characters four male; three female two acts
1956. Silvio Rosato, a decorated WWII veteran, shows up at the house of his father, Eduardo Rosato, who had abandoned him and his mother in Italy in 1920 to start a new life and family for himself in Chicago. Silvio's Italian-American half-siblings are fascinated by this stranger who has suddenly appeared. Handsome, assured and accomplished, there is something not quite right, something sinister about this visitor, with his air of familiarity and the distant, impenetrable look in his eyes. This mystery begins Hellfire Pass, part one of Rossi's autobiographical 'A Carpenter's Title: Her2
Author: Ardal, Maja Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015
Description:
roy drama - cancer - science - women all female cast; eleven characters ten female two acts
In this poignant meditation on the uneasy relationship between science and the human spirit, a group of women aged nineteen to sixty-three with HER2-related breast cancer are recruited for a clinical drug trial. For some of them the trial is renewed hope; others feel it’s a weary last resort. For Dr. Danielle Pearce, the research scientist in charge of the program, the trial is the most critical moment of her career. Her mission is global, and measured outcomes are her chief concern. But in the chemo room, medical statistics are just background noise as the women
Title: Hide and Seek
Author: Havard, Lezley Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1980
Description:
roy thriller nine characters four male; four female; one young girl three acts
1 interior set.
'Couple moves to old farmhouse where a little girl died five years earlier. Her ghost still haunts farmhouse.'
Title: History of Breathing, A
Author: Macdonald, Daniel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy drama eight characters five male; one female; one boy (doubling) two acts
Two boats float aimlessly on an ocean that conceals the remains of civilization and history. One boat carries a father and daughter, the last survivors of an unspeakable catastrophe; the other carries the only hope for a new beginning. Daniel Macdonald crafts a stunning tale of myth and reality at the end of the world and at its creation. Title: Home and Native Land
Author: Ebbs, Dan Publisher: Cardinal House of Publishing 2004
Description:
roy drama - Ukrainian internment - Canada - World War I many characters seven male; three female (doubling) two acts
A Ukrainian internment camp in Canada during the First World War.
Title: Home is My Road
Author: Gibson, Florence Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - adoption - historical thirteen characters; extras four male; five female; or four male or female (doubling) two acts
In this compelling and emotionally-charged drama, the award-winning author of Belle examines the role of international adoption in the cultural genocide of the Roma (gypsies) of Europe. Two Canadian women trace parallel routes in Romania in 1991. Grace is desperately trying to adopt a baby while Esme is searching for her birth mother. Their lives intersect with a Roma family struggling for survival in the aftermath of the post-communist revolution.
Title: Homechild
Author: MacLeod, Joan Publisher: Talonbooks 2008
Description:
roy drama - history eight characters three male; five female two acts
Homechild is an evocative and tender tale of family bonds, lineage and the endurance of love. It centres on Alistair MacEachern, a crotchety, funny and fearless farmer. For 70 years he has silently longed for the sister he left behind in Scotland. This story unearths the secret and the shame of the 100,000 Home Children sent to Canada from Britain between 1860 and 1930. Title: House of Many Tongues
Author: Garfinkle, Jonathan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
Description:
roy dramatic comedy ten characters four male; four female; one boy; one girl two acts
Long ago, Israeli General Shimon found an abandoned house and made it his home. Forty years later, the general, along with his imaginative and distant son Alex, live in peaceful solitude. When a Palestinian writer shows up with is daughter and lays claim to the house he left decades ago, an internal house war ensues. The bathroom is seized, a fig tree is destroyed, and the basement becomes a shrine in the resulting chaos. Relenting, both men strike a deal to share the house. Somehow these two families are going to have to live together—if they don’t kill each other first.
Title: How Are Things With The Walking Wounded?
Author: Hendry, Tom Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy eight characters four male; four female three scenes
In the summer of Expo '67 a businessman and his young "ward" celebrate their second anniversary together. During the party, relationships and emotional attachments are challenged and changed.
Title: How Could You Mrs. Dick?
Author: Rodger, Douglas Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian eight characters five male; three female two acts
A 'whodunit' with a difference - a fascinating theatrical exploration of the notorious Torso Murder case of the 1940's. Evelyn MacLean, beautiful, pleasure-bent, flush with dark family secrets and mysterious money, seduces 40 year old Mennonite bachelor John Dick. Their brief marriage resulted in a gruesome murder, a spell-binding court case, and even more ghastly revelations which have resonated in the Canadian psyche to this day. Title: Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
Author: Foon, Dennis Hugo, Victor Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1981
Description:
roy drama ten characters seven male; three female two acts
Based on 'Notre Dame de Paris' by Victor Hugo. "Hugo's classic tale from the point of view of Quasimodo the hunchback. All of the characters pursue inaccessible lovers with tragic results."
Title: If Truth Be Told
Author: Cooper, Beverley Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2016
Description:
roy drama - censorship eight characters two male; six female two acts
"It's 1977, and successful writer Peg Dunlop has returned to her small Ontario hometown to look after her ailing mother. When an eager young English teacher decides to teach one of Dunlop's books to the town's Grade 13 class, a group of parents and the local pastor start a movement to have the book banned. Based on real-life events, Cooper's balanced look at the issues on both sides raises important questions: Who decides what we can and cannot read? How do we tell stories? How do we fight for what we believe in? And how do we coexist when we have opposing
Title: In Piazza San Domenico
Author: Galluccio, Steve Publisher: Talonbooks 2011
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy of errors - romance eight characters four male; four female two acts
A light-hearted and thoroughly entertaining comedy about love, lust and misunderstandings, inspired by Feydeau, Goldini and Sophia Loren. It's a burning hot August in Naples, 1952 - "earthquake weather" and the citizens of Piazza San Domenico are all stirred up when Carmelina Benevento suddenly faints upon hearing some bad news about her fiancé, Guido. A series of conspicuous sightings between people provoke gossip. Misinterpretations ensue as The Players contrive their own schemes and desperately try to keep face. But love and earth tremors have a Title: In the Blood
Author: Watts, Reg Publisher: Watts, R.J., & Associates 1974
Description:
roy Canadian - historical drama - settlers - Native peoples thirteen characters; extras nine male; four female two acts
'In the Blood' was commissioned by the North Vancouver Arts Council for the British Columbia Centennial in 1971. The play captures the cultural heritage of Canada's Native peoples and the strength and spirit of the early pioneers. Set in a west coast fishing village in the 1870s, the play portrays the daily life of the Johannsen family, Larus, Beth and Tim. A teacher arrives to open the first school but Tim and his Indian friends, Michael and Sonia, would rather fish than go to school. The story reaches a climax when Larus and Tim are shipwrecked on Totem Island and a
Title: In the Eyes of God
Author: Inglis, Raul Sanchez Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy comedy - Hollywood seven characters four male; three female two acts
“There’s no business like show business,” and if you ever had any doubt about that, In the Eyes of God will bring you back to your senses. A vicious, vulgar, unsparing and grotesque look at the talent agencies that remake the Hollywood stars and tabloid personalities out of the willing clay of their own flesh, the greed, avarice and banality laid bare in this play would be horrifying if it weren’t so funny, and laughter is our only defense when somewhere deep down in what’s left of our souls we know this portrait of rank, speculative, self-interested capitalism to be true.
Title: In the Freedom of Dreams The story of Nelson Mandela Author: Miller, Michael A. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy biography - political - South Africa - Nelson Mandela twenty-two characters; chorus, extras sixteen male; six female (doubling possible) two acts
Explores the vivid world of Rolihlahla Nelson Madiba Mandela's childhood in the village of Qunu. It takes us to the rough and tumble world of Johannesburg in the years before World War II, the harshness of the Robben Island prison and finally to the corridors of power. The play not only illuminates Mandela's public role as a freedom fighter for his people, it speaks about his love affair with justice and to the cause, and how this affair of the heart affected the dreams of the people around him. We see him as a fighter and humanitarian, but also as a father, son, Title: Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca, The
Author: Nowlan, Alden Learning, Walter Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1981
Description:
roy Canadian - mystery thirteen characters; extras flexible casting two acts
Sherlock Holmes is called upon to solve the murder of a young priest, once again meeting his enemy Professor Moriarity.
Title: Indulgences
Author: Craddock, Chris Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters seven male; one female two acts
A rumpled Salesman of metaphysical wares stumbles upon two Shakespearian Princes plotting to murder the King, in order to live free as a gay couple. Meanwhile the Prince changes places with an ordinary man, and no one seems to notice. A farcical murder plot unravels as the Salesman disobeys God and goes his own way. This is a wild comedy of intellect in the tradition of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead".
Title: Innocence Lost A play about Steven Truscott Author: Cooper, Beverley Publisher: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - crime ten characters four male; six female two acts
"Based on the true story of 14 year old Steven Truscott's conviction and subsequent acquittal in the murder of his classmate Lynne Harper. Commissioned by the Blyth Festival for the 2008 season. "Playwright, Beverley Cooper, tackles this delicate subject with great sensitivity to the past, present and future, as she explores the far reaching effects of crime and punishment. A sold out hit for the Blyth Festival." Title: Innocent Eye Test, The
Author: Healey, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy farce seven characters five male; two female two acts
A grand Tuscan hotel. A gathering-place for people from across the globe. Two transactions. In one, art is for sale; in the other, weapons-grade plutonium. When the money gets mixed up, it's up to Canadian art dealer and world-class innocent Samuel Kneck to sort it out. An old fashioned farce about contemporary anxieties.
Title: Isabel
Author: Gourlay, Elizabeth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy Canadian - political drama ten characters five male; five female three acts
Mackenzie King receives dream visitations from his mother and a former fiancee in this disturbing study of kinship and political power.
Title: It's All True
Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - historical - American eight characters; extras four male; four female one act (full length)
"New York 1937. Art and politics collide when the government padlocks the doors of the theatre on the opening of the Marc Blitzstein's "The Cradle Will Rock". The director, Orson Welles, marches the actors and most of the audience down Seventh Avenue and finds another theatre, and in one brilliant stroke makes theatre history. As much a play for our times as it is about and historical event." Title: Jacob's Wake
Author: Cook, Michael Publisher: Talonbooks 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters five male; two female two acts
A storm of elemental proportions mirrors the forces unleashed by painful memories at a family gathering in a Newfoundland outport.
Title: Jehanne of the Witches As published in Theatrum Magazine (April/May 1990) Author: Clark, Sally Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1990
Description:
roy drama eight characters four male; four female (doubling) two acts
Christianity vs. Paganism provides the backdrop for this play-within-a-play centering on the relationship between Joan of Arc and the reputed mass murderer, Gilles de Rais (Bluebeard).
Title: Jerome The historical spectacle Author: McKay, Ami Publisher: Gaspereau Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - biographical - sideshow people - Canadian large cast flexible casting two acts
In the mid-nineteenth century a man who became known as Jerome was found on the shores of Sandy Cove, Nova Scotia, mute and missing both legs. Many attempts were made to locate his relatives, with hopefuls rumoured to have travelled from as far away as Alabama and Milan, but when he died in 1912 the mystery of his background was still unsolved. The story of 'Jerome, The Mystery Man of Baie Sainte-Marie,' has turned up in various collections of folk history over the years. This play re-imagines Jerome's past, and tells his tale through the voices of a Victorian Title: Jitters
Author: French, David Publisher: Talonbooks 1986
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - theatre nine characters six male; three female three acts
1 interior set.
David French's sophisticated backstage comedy, opens on the night of a preview of a new play, "The Care and Treatment of Roses". Within minutes, the audience is plunged into the world of the theatre, a world of instant loves and hates, easily bruised egos, contradictory interpretations of role and script-all complicated by crises involving faulty props, lost lines, and bad reviews, and
Title: John and the Missus
Author: Pinsent, Gordon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977
Description:
roy drama - Canadian fifteen characters eleven male; four female two acts
The copper mine is played out and the town is dying. John is a miner like his father before him and will not abandon the town, but his wife has tired of the struggle. A truthful, moving story of a family and a Newfoundland town in transition.
Title: Kite, The
Author: Mitchell, W. O. Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2003
Description:
roy drama - Canadian nine characters eight male; one female two acts
'By early May kites hang in the foothills wind, but none hangs higher of performs with more acrobatic skill than the kite of Daddy Sherry, the oldest man in the world. Daddy has flown the kite of his life for almost one-hundred and seventeen years. Between the personal deeds of his birth and his death, he has known that the string is thin, that it can be dropped, snapped. Daddy has lived always with the awareness of his own mortality and has refused to settle for less. Time and death and Daddy Sherry insist: never settle for less.' Title: Last Adam, The
Author: Rossi, Vittorio Publisher: NuAge Editions 1995
Description:
roy drama - family relations seven characters three male; four female two acts
"Set in the present, the story is of the Leones, who are not unlike the Corleones when they lecture each other on the priority of the family and the need to protect it from the entanglement of 'business.' Here, however, the criminality is not overt; it lurks on the peripheries and in the past of a normal middle-class existence... "
Title: Last Bird, The
Author: Johnstone, Keith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972
Description:
roy drama - Alberta playwright seventeen characters thirteen male; four female (doubling possible) two acts
Headstone has the wounds of Christ. Death fights Jesus for control of the world. An angel is captured and interrogated. It's a colonial war...
Title: Last Journey of Captain Harte
Author: Warren, Dianne Publisher: NuAge Editions 1999
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters four male; three female two acts
When Marguerite Waker receives a faraway phone call from the nomadic Captain Harte, an old friend of her husband, her imagination is awakened. As Captain Harte makes his circuitous way home, Marguerite follows his journey and prepares for a different life. Title: Last Real Summer, The
Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Alberta playwright eight characters three male; five female two acts
open stage.
In this memory play, the older Lizzie reflects on her youth and the choices which led her to her current unrest.
Title: Last Romantics
Author: MacLennan, Michael Lewis Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama eight characters five male; three female two acts
running time: 130 minutes.
'Ranging from the drawing rooms of fin-de-siecle London with Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, to Canada on the eve of the Great Depression. The play chronicles the staggering triumphs and losses of the now-forgotten brilliant artistic duo Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, to create a vivid portrait of a world left behind by the dawning of the modern age.'
Title: Law of the Land
Author: Anderson, Peter Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - musical fifteen characters; extras seven male; three female; five male or female two acts
"On the eve of the grand opening of the Black Creek Power Plant, the head of the Power Authority arrives in the village expecting a relaxed hunting trip and a smooth opening, only to run afoul of both local inhabitants and wildlife." Title: Leaving Home
Author: French, David Publisher: General Publishing 1972
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters four male; three female two acts
A realistic drama of the late fifties, in which a Newfoundland family attempts to make a new life in Toronto. On the eve of their youngest son's wedding, they see their family break up.
Runner-up, 1972 Chalmers Canadian Play Award.
Title: Lenin's Embalmers
Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy dark comedy - historical - Canadian - Russia - Alberta playwright eight characters; extras seven male; one female two acts
Russia. 1924. Two scientists are assigned an impossible task: make Vladimir Lenin live forever, or face death. Based on a true story, Governor General’s Literary Award-winning playwright Vern Thiessen brings us a dark comedy that brings to light the resilience of the human spirit, ever-changing war games, and the importance of always having vodka on hand.
Title: Lies My Father Told Me
Author: Allan, Ted Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian eight characters six male; two female two acts
A boy in 1920's Montreal begins to see the lies most adults live by behind the visions and dreams related to him by his grandfather. Title: Life Without Instruction
Author: Clark, Sally Publisher: Talonbooks 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama eleven characters (doubling possible) eight male; three female two acts
Based on a true story and a real trial. Artemisia's father, the late-Renaissance painter Orazio Gentileschi, has his daughter trained in the art of painting under the instruction of his friend, Agostino Tassi. Tassi rapes Artemisia, and is taken tor trial by both Artemisia and Orazio. As usual, the person really on trial is the woman, who is publicly humiliated and forced to endure the torture of thumb screws. Yet through this ordeal Artemisia not only emerges as a strong and independent women: she comes into her own as talented painter.
Title: Like Death Warmed Over
Author: Tremblay, Michel translated by Allan Van Meer Publisher: Playwrights Co-op 1973
Description:
roy drama - Canadian; family relationships twenty-one characters; extras five male; sixteen female seven scenes
3 interior; 1 exterior; singing; music.
"Once-beautiful woman supporting freeloading husband becomes hash-house waitress in Montreal's East End slum, drinking into debt and despair after losing better job. Retarded brother escaped from sanatorium, and is only optimistic person left in tenement."
Title: Lilies
Author: Bouchard, Michel Marc Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy drama - romance - LGBTQ+ all male cast; nine characters nine male seven episodes
'The revival of a romantic drama. Simon Doucet re-enacts for Jean Bilodeau, now a Catholic bishop, their past as lovers while rehearsing The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian.' Title: Listen to the Wind
Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Talonbooks 1972
Description:
roy drama - Canadian ten characters; extras five male; five female three acts
In a Perth County farmhouse sometime during the thirties, a boy named Owen decides to spend the summer putting on plays with the help of his cousins, his grownup relatives and the neighbourhood children. One of the plays they put on is their adaptation of a Victorian novel, "The Saga of Caresfoot Court". In James Reaney's "Listen to the Wind", we watch a double story unfold: we see Owen fighting illness and trying to get his parents back together again; we see Angela Caresfoot threading her way through a world of evil manor-houses and sinister Lady
Title: Little Something to Ease the Pain, A
Author: Aloma, Rene Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy drama - Canadian eight characters six male; two female two acts
interior and exterior sets.
After a self-imposed exile of seventeen years, Paye returns to Cuba to confront his past and determine his future.
Title: Lost and Found
Author: Daniels, Dan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 199?
Description:
roy Canadian - drama seven characters five male; two female two acts
"A city magically found is lost. The ridiculous is confronted in a nightmare unleashed and threatening all - and the city that ought to be." Title: Lost Boys, The Letters form the sons in two acts: 1914-1923 Author: Thomson, R. H. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy drama - history - World War I - monologues thirteen characters ten male; three female (doubling possible) two acts
The main character/narrator in 'The Lost Boys' undertakes a dream journey to bring to light the men hidden in a collection of 700 family letters - letters from five brothers who fought in the First World War. Not only does the actor step into the characters of these forgotten soldiers, but also into his own life as a child. The journey breathes life into these men of the battlefields, as well as gives voice to the women of the world; mother, cousin, French stranger. Based on the author's own life, and that of his five great uncles, the play becomes a search for the immensity of story
Title: Lost Souls and Missing Persons
Author: Clark, Sally Publisher: Talonbooks 1998
Description:
roy dramatic comedy twenty characters eleven male; nine female (doubling possible) two acts
'A comic, surreal investigation of the question of self and identity in the North American middle-class. Hannah, wife and mother of two teenagers, vacationing with her husband Lyle in New York, wakes up in the middle of the night and looks at the man sleeping in the bed next to her and screams. She does not remember who she is, who Lyle is, how she got there, and finally, how to speak. Revealed to the audience in a series of flashbacks and through Lyle’s search for her, she ends up wandering among strangers and street people like herself, and is picked up by
Title: Lulu Street A play Author: Henry, Ann Publisher: Talonbooks 1975
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - political - television play twelve characters nine male; three female three acts
a television version of the play.
A play about the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Title: Mad Boy Chronicle
Author: O'Brien, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - historical - fiction twelve characters; extras eight male; four female two acts
"From the smoky halls and icy fens of Viking Denmark comes a timeless tale of murder and revenge. Set in the final days of the first millenium, Mad Boy Chronicle hauls the Hamlet story howling back to its origins. Join the Mad Bot as he sets out in fierce pursuit of his destiny - in a world where wolves, elves, spirits, and Jesus Christ all compete for the future of humanity, and Hate might be mightier that Love after all."
Title: Magnificent Slowpoke, The
Author: Lager, Martin Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian eight characters five male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
The bungling Ubby Ellison is haunted by his mother's ghost.
Title: Maid for a Musket A comedy with music Author: Frangione, Lucia Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Alberta playwright fourteen characters eight male; six female two acts
"Set in Prescott, ON, during the war of 1812, this play very loosely echoes "Love's Labour's Lost" [Shakespeare]. Fred, Brown and Mac are three soldiers stuck in the wilds of Upper Canada: the only corner of the world that seemingly isn't at war. They decide to swear off whiskey, women and other distractions, and to focus on higher learning. Then the Americans show up: A few of them in skirts." - Publisher Title: Mail Order Bride, The
Author: Clinton, Robert Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988
Description:
roy Canadian - drama seven characters four male; three female two acts
Rich with humour and the bittersweet realities of a time gone by, 'The Mail Order Bride' is a vivid, moving, and often surprising evocation of the true nature of family and love.
Title: Maison Suspendue, La
Author: Tremblay, Michel translated by John Van Burek Publisher: Talonbooks 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - french ten characters five male; three female one act (full length)
A rich, emotional, sweeping drama of anger and sorrow spanning three generations. The family house in the country is the setting for the story of Victoire and her descendants through her husband and through her true love - who also happens to be her brother. It is Victoire's anger at being forced away from the family home and her sorrow at being separated from her dreamy, impractical, fiddle playing brother that fuel the machinery of 80 years of family relationships.
Title: Mambo Italiano
Author: Galluccio, Steve Publisher: Talonbooks 2004
Description:
roy comedy - family relations eight characters three male; five female two acts
'While the press has often called the film version of Mambo Italiano "a gay My Big Fat Greek Wedding", there is more at work in this play than the zealous mining of Italian immigrant family and gay culture stereotypes. Translated by its biggest fan, Michael Tremblay, into a wildly successful Francophone theatrical phenomenon, Mambo Italino is far more about the dynamics of a family, about the vast spaces between the old world and the new, about grasping the resonant codes embedded in what is said and what is meant in ordinary speech, than it is "about" gay Title: Marriage a la Chaucer
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey Walsh, Patrick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy ten characters six male; four female two acts
1 setting.
Translated and adapted by Patrick Walsh. "A modern-verse dramatic adaption of three of Chaucer's classic marriage-tales. Bawdy and bold, full of ironic comment on relationships. "
Title: Maybe We Could Get Some Bach
Author: del Grande, Louis Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1971
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian seventeen characters twelve male; five female nine scenes
1 interior set.
A comedy about two young people who decide to share an apartment in New York in the late 50's. John thinks he is "a little bit fruity" but Robin is determined to start "a meaningful relationship".
Title: Medicine Line, The
Author: Mitchell, Ken Publisher: Department of Culture and Youth
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical twenty-three characters; extras twenty-one male; two female thirteen scenes
Drama for a Saskatchewan Heritage. Sponsored by the Department of Culture and Youth. Description not available. Title: Medium Saignant
Author: Loranger, Francoise Publisher: Lemeac 1970
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian twenty-one characters flexible casting two acts
The play is written in French. Description not available.
Title: Metastasis Chain of ruin Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: International Readers' Theatre 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright twenty-four characters; cellist sixteen male; eight female (doubling possible) forty-five scenes
Named for the pathological spread of live rot through a system METASTASIS sets 25 characters in motion, rippling out from a random drive by shooting, to conjure a world of missed connections and crossed wires which tells the audience to look to malignancy and the way it grows fruitful and multiplies to see how we are bound together.
Title: Midnight Madness
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Summerhill Press 1989
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian seventeen characters twelve male; five female nine scenes
1 interior set.
A comedy about two young people who decide to share an apartment in New York in the late 50's. John thinks he is "a little bit fruity" but Robin is determined to start "a meaningful relationship". Title: Minor Keys, The A romantic comedy Author: Belke, David Publisher: NeWest Press 2000
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright ten characters four male; three female (doubling) two acts
"In a half-forgotten jazz club, the lives and dreams of its inhabitants intersect, intertwine and collide. A wistful jazz-inspired comedy about minor key people in a minor key world, and how even the smallest of lives can find their hearts' desire."
Title: Miss Caledonia
Author: Johnson, Melody A. Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2013
Description:
roy comedy eighteen characters six male; eleven female; one fiddler two acts
How does a farm girl in 1950s Ontario escape the stall-cleaning, cow-milking, hay-bailing drudgery of life on Rural Route 2? She becomes a movie star, of course! The quickest route to Hollywood for a plucky gal in the mid-twentieth century was to enter as many beauty pageants as possible and to sing, twirl and pivot her way into the hearts of judges. And so Peggy Ann Douglas did just that, as did so many other young women of that generation, hoping to follow in the footsteps of starlets like Debbie Reynolds. This rour-de-force memory play looks back at one
Title: Missing
Author: MacDonald, Florence Gibson Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy drama - mystery seven characters three male; four female two acts
Evelyn was a mother of three and a reliable wife to her husband, Trevor. But one day, out of the blue, she simply vanished. When big-city investigator Carol is brought in to investigate, the rural southern Ontario town is turned upside-down to uncover the truth behind Evelyn’s disappearance. When Carol’s own marriage is dragged into the spotlight, it seems that everyone is harbouring their own toxic secrets; things are certainly not as they seem. Inspired by a true story, Florence Gibson MacDonald digs at the secrets that hide behind family bonds and Title: Mistaken Identity A Comedy in two acts Author: Penman, Steve Publisher: Steve Penman 2006
Description:
roy comedy - mystery - Alberta playwright thirteen characters six male; seven female two acts
Two detectives arrive at an old castle in a snow storm to help a Countess discover who has been threatening her life. An avalanche cuts them off, someone ends up dead and the detectives must discover the murderer before other members of the household die. It sounds a bit like Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie, but the lead detective is Sherlock Jones, it is 2006, the castle is in Southern Alberta, the Countess isn't really a Countess and most of her household aren't who they seem to be. Of course, there is an avalanche, someone does die and the detectives do investigate,
Title: Montreal
Author: Fineberg, Larry Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian seven characters five male; two female two acts
various sets.
A dark comedy that charts the activities of Theophilus Plender and friends in developing the city of Montreal from 1935 to 1972.
Title: Moo
Author: Clark, Sally Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian sixteen characters three male; five female (doubling) two acts
When the feisty and rebellious Moragh (Moo) meets the intriguing Harry, she decides nothing will ever separate them... and Harry has been running ever since. An unconventional comedy of love and obsession.
Winner! 1990 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award. Title: Mors Draculae
Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy drama - Alberta playwright eight characters six male; two female two acts
2 interior sets; also known as "The Death of Dracula".
Lucy and Count Dracula are together again in a gloomy castle in Suffolk. Van Helsing believes he knows what's wrong with Lucy; so does the charming but mysterious count.
Title: Mother of Him
Author: Placey, Evan Publisher: Samuel French 2013
Description:
roy drama - family relations - crime seven characters three male; three female; one boy two acts
It could be a morning like any other as Brenda cooks breakfast for her two sons...but eight year-old Jason’s refusing to go to school and teenager Matthew is under house arrest upstairs. And Brenda’s face is splashed across the cover of every newspaper. For Matthew has committed a horrible crime, and as Brenda fights for him to be sentenced as a child, she learns it’s the laws inside the house that matter most: boys can become men, and a mother can at once become victim and monster. How far does a mother’s love go, and at what cost to herself?
Title: Mumberley Inheritance, The
Author: Graves, Warren Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1971
Description:
roy melodrama - Alberta playwright eight characters five male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A good-time melodrama, subtitled "His Substance Frittered". Pale Daphne is nursing her father and trying to get Rodney Stoutheart to the altar, meanwhile awaiting the return of her brother Jack from "the Canada's ". Enter Marmaduke Mayhem, archvillain. Title: Mystery Man of Nova Scotia
Author: Kastner, Elizabeth Publisher: Miscellaneous 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian twelve characters eight male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
Original story based on real-life characters in early Nova Scotia.
Title: Mystery of Maddy Heisler, The
Author: Lillford, Daniel R. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - Canadian eight characters five male; two female (doubling) two acts
Contemplating his next mystery novel, Nova Scotian author Jacob Meisner is forced to revisit his past when an estranged friend appears and pricks Jacob’s conscience. As a young man in the midst of World War II, Jacob fell in love with an older woman and began a rapturous affair, until she seemingly vanished. Ghostly figures start to flit into sight and long-buried memories surface, until a familiar young woman appears at Jacob’s house with a mysterious notebook. Revealing secrets and lies, lovers and spies, Jacob will never be the same again.
Title: Myth of Summer, The
Author: Massing, Conni Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2005
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - Alberta playwright eight characters three male; five female two acts
In the mood for the ultimate summer vacation? Warm sun, beautiful landscapes, carefree days and balmy nights? In this touching comedy people look for love and fulfillment in the promise of summer only to find that the journey is turbulent. But paradise is closer than they think. Title: Nanking Winter, A
Author: Chan, Marjorie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - China - war ten characters four male; six female (doubling possible) two acts
Irene Wu has dedicated years of her life to researching the invasion of Nanking, China. Through the winter of 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army led a horrific campaign through the streets of China’s capital, an event that has been left unknown and untold to the world. Irene is on the brink of releasing her research when her publisher voices doubts about the book. Marjorie Chan’s gripping narrative intertwines the past and the present, transporting the reader between Irene and a small group of unlikely heroes caught in the invasion. Scrambling to create a refuge
Title: No Deadly Medicine
Author: Hailey, Arthur Sergel, Sherman L. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1960
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters; extras seven male; twelve female three acts
adapted by Sherman L. Sergel; 2 interior sets
A senior pathologist's persistence in doing things his way with out-dated knowledge, equipment, and technique jeopardizes the lives of the patients in the hospital for which he works.
Title: No Great Mischief
Author: Young, David MacLeod, Alistair Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2006
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical seven characters (doubling) six male; one female two acts
"The long history of the Clan MacDonald begins in 1779 as Calum Ruadh leaves Scotland to begin a new life on Cape Breton Island. Haunted by the stories and songs of the ancestry, two brothers seek to reconcile their past with their present. From the writer of Glenn and Inexpressible Island comes this adaptation from the award-winning novel by Alistair MacLeod." Title: No Man's Land
Author: Major, Kevin Publisher: Pennywell Books 2005
Description:
roy drama - war - Canada - Newfoundland / Labrador sixteen characters; extras; chorus eleven male; four female two acts
July 1st, 1916 is remembered as the day the brightest and best of a generation were virtually wiped out on a field of battle along the river Somme in France. From every bay and cove and city street, from fishing stage to merchant's home, men had marched off to the Great War - proud members of their very own Newfoundland Regiment, never without the spirit and humour they brought from their homeland, and never suspecting what one terrible morning of treachery would bring. In the midst of of the turmoil of war were real people, much like the sons and fathers of any
Title: Noran Bang The yellow room Author: Kang, M. J. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - ethnic - family relations fourteen characters six male; eight female two acts
"The death of a beloved grandmother, Halmonee, ignites a wave of explosive emotions within a Korean family in Canada."
Title: Norbals, The
Author: Drader, Brian Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1998
Description:
roy comedy - family relations nine characters four male; five female two acts
'A heart-warming new comedy about a loving but dysfunctional family in the throes of a Christmas crisis. The Norbals will make you feel a whole lot better about those strange people you call relatives. Danny and Penny are broke, Randall is narcoleptic, Bee wants a sex change, Mom decides to celebrate Winter Solstice instead of Christmas - but Sean's surprise outdoes them all!'
Winner of the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition Title: Nothing Sacred
Author: Walker, George F. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian eleven characters nine male; two female nine scenes
Bazarov is a haughty "nihilist" rebel whose mission is to wreak havoc on all established order. An irreverent and broad adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's "Father's and Sons".
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama and Chalmers Canadian Play Award, 1988.
Title: Nurse Jane Goes to Hawaii
Author: Stratton, Allan Publisher: Samuel French 1981
Description:
roy comedy - farce seven characters three male; four female two acts
When Vivien Bliss, author of Harlequin Romance novels, sets out to spend a romantic weekend with respectable married school teacher Edgar Chisholm, she starts a train of events which involves all the classic elements of farce-confused identities, disguise, long-lost relatives, ambushes, chases and glorious mayhem. How Vivien gets her new novel finished in the face of, behind the back of, in spite of and with the help of an advice columnist, a nosy reporter, a doctor in pantyhose, an orphan with a cake and 'Helga the evil Russian physicist', makes this a very
Title: Odyssey, The A play adapted from Homer Author: Chafe, Rick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2000
Description:
roy drama - mythology large cast four male; five female (doubling) twenty-six parts
Odysseus is twenty years gone from Ithaca. Penelope has bluffed and delayed a growing band of murderous suitors, but as threats to her son and kingdom grow, her resolve weakens. Now a beggar arrives at the palace and asks the queen to hold off a new marriage until she's heard his story - fantastic tales of her husband's travels among monsters, witches and gods. Penelope finds herself battling her husband's very legend over fidelity, her kingdom and her vengeance. Title: Of Human Bondage
Author: Thiessen, Vern Maugham, W. Somerset Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy Canadian - Alberta playwright - drama- adaptation - love multiple characters flexible casting four acts
based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham; ensemble piece; originally performed with 11 actors; can be performed with as many or as few actors as the director sees fit; act one and two together should run approx. 70 min. and act three and four together should run approx. 60 min.
When Philip meets Mildred, a disarming tea-shop waitress, he finds his yearning for art and experience consumed by his intense attraction to her. Mildred, for all her teasing, isn’t all that
Title: Oil and Water
Author: Chafe, Robert Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy drama - history - Canada ten characters six male; four female two acts
In 1942 the USS Truxton, a ship carrying over a hundred soldiers, ran aground off the Burin Peninsula, killing most of its men. OIL AND WATER is the incredible true story of the sole African-American sailor of the wreck, Lanier Phillips, the first black man to be seen by the residents of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland. There, Lanier is rescued and cared for by the locals, where he is treated as a human being, and not judged by the colour of his skin. A tale of two cultures, Oil and Water is hopeful and haunting, an honest legend that still resonates with power
Title: On the Job
Author: Fennario, David Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian all male cast; nine characters nine male one act (full length)
1 interior set.
Christmas Eve 1970. The workers of a Montreal dress factory, frustrated by lack of job opportunities and emboldened by smuggled liquor, go on strike. The gesture proves futile and they wind up at home, jobless, with nothing to show but their Christmas bonuses. Title: One Crack Out
Author: French, David Publisher: New Press 1976
Description:
roy drama - Canadian ten characters eight male; two female three acts
A powerful and realistic drama in a pool hall setting. The characters are small-time whores, hustlers, pimps, and con-men who act out their fantasies and tragicomic dilemmas. Charlie Evans, a pool shark down on his luck in the bedroom as well as the , has two days to pay off a $3000 debt, or have his legs broken by Bulldog, a psychotic "bill collector" who takes pride in his work. In his desperation to recover the money and his self-esteem, Charlie moves through a series of hustlers, while the tension builds to a breathtaking climax.
Title: Opening Night
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1988
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - theatre eight characters five male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
During the opening night of a new play, there's more action in the audience than there is on stage. The madcap antics start as Jack and Ruth Tisdale celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with an evening at the theatre. It's a dream come true for Ruth and an imposition for Jack who would rather be at home watching the World Series. However, after the events both on and off the
Title: Opening Night
Author: Foster, Norm Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy comedy - relationships - theatre eight characters five male; three female two acts
"The madcap antics start as Jack and Ruth Tisdale celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with an evening at the theatre. It's a dream come true for Ruth and an imposition for Jack who would rather be at home watching the World Series. However, after the events both on and off the stage that fateful night, their lives and those of all of those involved are irreparably altered." Title: Otherwise Bob
Author: Gault, Connie Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1996
Description:
roy comedy - drama - Canadian - marital relations nine characters five male; four female two acts
"This play delves into the mind of Jennifer, a woman yearning to escape the banality of her married, middle-class existence. When the other worldly Bob appears on the scene, the door to fantastic change blows wide open. Connie Gault has conjured a pshychologically rich and enchantlingly funny play with an original spin on the path we all travel but travel alone."
Title: Paradise by the River
Author: Rossi, Vittorio Publisher: Talonbooks 1998
Description:
roy drama - Canada - history - war ten characters eight male; two female three acts
Canada. 1940. In a time and country fraught with the uncertainties of war, Prime Minister MacKenzie King calls for the destruction of any “subversive elements” on the nation’s soil. The Act is supported by the majority of Canadians: anxious, patriotic and “intolerant” of fascism. After Canada officially declares war with Italy, Romano, a recent immigrant, is arrested without charge in his own home. Torn from the arms of his terrified and pregnant wife Maria, Romano is held against his will with hundreds of men of Italian descent at a prisoner-of-war camp in Petawawa,
Title: Particular Class of Women, A
Author: Feindel, Janet Publisher: Lazara Publications 1988
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all female cast; one to eight characters one to eight female two acts
open stage.
Portrays attitudes of women sex trade workers in monologue format. The characters are dynamic and would provide good audition material. Title: Penelopiad, The
Author: Atwood, Margaret Publisher: Faber and Faber
Description:
roy drama - mythology twenty seven characters five male; twenty-two female (doubling possible) two acts
As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan war. As she fends off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors, travelling minstrels regale her with news of Odysseus' epic adventures around the Mediterranean - slaying monsters and grappling with amorous goddesses. When Odysseus finally comes home, he kills her suitors and then, in an act that served as little as more than a footnote in
Title: Perils of Persephone, The
Author: Needles, Dan Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy seven characters five male; two female two acts
Reeve Currie sounds the alarm the night a nuclear waste truck crashes into his swamp, only to discover that the truck isn't nuclear at all. A desperate cover-up ensues.
Title: Pieces Detachees, En
Author: Tremblay, Michel translated by Allan Van Meer Publisher: Talonbooks 1975
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - French eight characters; extras two male; six female six scenes
The play concerns Helene, a waitress who used to work in a bar called the Coconut Inn, but who now works slinging smoked meat in a joint on Papineau Street. She is married to Henri, who sits around all day watching Captain Cartoons on TV. They live in a tenement in the East End with their daughter, Francine, and Helene's mother, Robertine. During the course of the play, Helene's mentally disturbed brother, Claude, who has been "sent away" and who wears "sunglasses and speaks English" as his passport to the world, runs away from the brothers at the sanitarium and Title: Piper, The
Author: Murphy, Colleen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy tragicomedy thirty-two characters flexible casting three acts
running time: 150 minutes
'A boisterous comic tragedy loosely based on the Pied Piper legend but set in the modern corporate democracy of Hamelin, a town haunted by the lingering ghosts of dead children and vestiges from the Dark Ages.'
Title: Platonov
Author: Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Coyne, Susan Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2001
Description:
roy Canadian adaptation - farce - tragedy - Russian thirteen characters eight male; five female two acts
adapted from Chekhov's play by Susan Coyne and Laszlo Marton.
Platonov is disillusioned. He is approaching middle age, a country schoolmaster with a failing marriage and a circle of friends who drink to mourn the passing of their idealism. In a world rife with extramarital affairs, attempted suicides, fights, and comic desperation, Platonov is the plausible hero. This bold new adaptation of Chekhov’s first full-length play brings a startlingly
Title: Play Memory
Author: Glass, Joanna McClelland Publisher: Samuel French 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations nine characters six male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
The decline and fall of an alcoholic's family. Cam, a dynamic and successful salesman on the prairie, loses his lucrative job, threatens the very survival of his wife and daughter and, finally, evicts them from the house in order to assure their survival. Title: Playing The Fool
Author: Hibbert, Alun Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - political farce seven characters six male; one female two acts
A political farce that spans the generation gap, from the idealism of the Spanish Civil War to the fanaticism of the Italian Red Guard.
Title: Prague
Author: Krizanc, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - theatre eight characters five male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
Prague, 1983. The members of a small theatre company grapple with personal and political oppression. Will they be allowed to perform a play that is a critical allegory of the invasion of '68? Where official versions prevail, truth can be made to disappear.
Title: Prairie Nurse
Author: Badian, Marie Beath Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy comedy - immigrants seven characters three male; four female two acts
1 interior set.
"A comedy about two Filipino nurses who come to work at a small-town Saskatchewan hospital in the late 1960s. Cultural clashes, personality differences, homesickness, and the amorous but dim-witted goalie from the local hockey team complicate the women’s lives. Based on the true story of her mother’s immigration to Canada, Badian’s play is part romantic comedy, part farce, Title: Prairie Report
Author: Moher, Frank Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1988
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters five male; three female two acts
"A shrewd, funny attack on the contemporary western Canadian press and a wistful valentine to an old-time, grassroots style of journalism"
Title: Primrose School District 109
Author: Galay, Ted Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - depression era eleven characters five male; six female two acts
An idealistic young woman comes to teach at a one-room country school in Manitoba during the depression days. Her attempts to inspire her students lead to consequences for everyone involved.
Title: Prometheus Rebound A dramatic poem Author: Botting, Gary Publisher: Harden House 1972
Description:
roy poetic drama - Alberta playwright nine characters eight male; one female; (off-stage voice) two acts
1 exterior set.
Prometheus whispers to man the secrets of atomic energy and is again bound to a rock as punishment. Title: Queen of Queen Street, The
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: NuAge Editions 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - biography - social issues ten characters; voices three male; seven female two acts
"Bertha Rand, Winnipeg's Cat Lady, was a familiar figure in the news; many knew her as the mad woman who lived in squalour with over fifty felines. In her tiny house on Queen Street, Bertha took in sick and abandoned cats, battling her neighbours and city hall to save them, taking her cause to the media. In 'The Queen of Queen Street', Maureen Hunter has delved into Bertha Rand's past, a tragic life of poverty and deprivation, a life always lived on the margins. Hunter brings us a richly layered play that tells of one woman's will to survive."
Title: Question Time
Author: Davies, Robertson Publisher: MacMillan 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - political twenty-seven characters flexible casting two acts
Robertson Davies here is once again concerned with the process of self-discovery. In this case the self-explorer is the Prime Minister of Canada, Peter Macadam, a man living a role that inevitably turns a private person into public property. As the play unfolds, Davies raises important questions about politics, the media, and a host of other subjects. But above all, his witty, urbane, and thought-provoking play is, as he says in his preface "about the relationship of the Canadian people to their soil, and about the relationship of man to his soul. We neglect both
Title: Quiet in the Land
Author: Chislett, Anne Publisher: Coach House Press 1983
Description:
roy drama - Canadian twelve to fourteen characters six male; four female; two to four children two acts
Yock brings about a crisis in his Amish community by enlisting in the First World War.
Winner of the 1982 Chalmers Canadian Play Award and the 1983 Governor General's Award. Title: Real McCoy, The
Author: Moodie, Andrew Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - biography - Elijah McCoy thirty-nine characters five male; two female (doubling) two acts
Biography of the inventor Elijah McCoy (1843-1929), whose name became a byword for quality, as in "the real McCoy'. The play explains why we've never heard of McCoy and reclaims a fascinating man's life from undeserved obscurity. McCoy, born in Canada to runaway American slaves, showed so much promise in school that he won a scholarship to study mechanical engineering at Edinburgh University. He moved to the US, where no one believed a black man could be an engineer so he was set to stoking boilers. Nevertheless, McCoy devised a solution to one of the
Title: Red Emma Queen of the anarchists Author: Bolt, Carol Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973
Description:
roy drama - Canadian nine characters seven male; two female two acts
The early years of the anarchist feminist Emma Goldman and the events that led to her assassination attempt on Henry Clay Frick.
Title: Red Lips
Author: Gault, Connie Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2002
Description:
roy drama - desire - Canadian sixteen characters two male; five female; one girl (doubling) two acts
In this play, (the playwright) weaves together strands of myth, magic, and fairytale. After a vacation abroad with friends, a middle-aged woman is tempted by ancient gold beads, crones, a mysterious child, and a ruby ring. When a charming scoundrel offers to take her on a mysterious journey, she has to decide what she is willing to risk to live her life. Gault's rich language explores the nature of desire - from its first shimmer to the dark of disillusionment - and raises questions about the true meaning of longing, and loss. Title: Refugee Hotel, The
Author: Aguirre, Carmen Publisher: Talonbooks 2010
Description:
roy dark comedy - refugees thirteen characters six male; five female; one boy; one girl two acts
A dark comedy about a group of Chilean refugees who arrived in Vancouver in 194 and were put up in a modest hotel. An uncompromising look at exile torture, guilt and betrayal. The Refugee Hotel is ultimately about love and its power to heal.
Title: Reluctant Resurrection of Sherlock Holmes, The
Author: Belke, David Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - murder - mystery - Alberta playwright seven characters five male; two female (doubling) two acts
"Two years after he killed off Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle is summoned to investigate the haunting of an old actor's country manor. Doyle is determined to prove the ghost a reality, but is he himself haunted by the super rational Sherlock Holmes who refuses to give up his literary life. When the maid is found dead, these two personalities must uncover the truth."
Title: Remnants (a Fable)
Author: Sherman, Jason Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - biblical - family relations all male cast; twenty-three characters; extras twenty-three male (doubling possible) two acts
A bold retelling of the biblical story of Joseph and his brothers, set in the years before and during the Second World War. Sent to the new world against his will, Joseph Taylor rises to become an important advisor to Prime Minister King. When a boatload of European Jews lands on Canadian shores, Joseph is sent to turn them back - only to discover his brothers among the refugees. Title: Reverend Jonah
Author: Ciufo, Paul Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2008
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - Canadian - morality - LGBTQ+⌦seven characters; chorus two male; five female two acts
To a conservative church in a south-western Ontario town comes Jonah Arias - a troubled, left-leaning, pill popping United Church minister. Jonah is also young and idealistic, with courage enough to challenge the power-brokers in his small community. When Reverend Jonah starts an affair with a young woman in the congregation, and then decides to repatriate a former member of the church expelled for being in a lesbian relationship, the ensuing battle threatens to derail Jonah's career and fracture the church.
Title: Rez Sisters, The
Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Fifth House 1988
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright eight characters one male; seven female two acts
1 exterior set.
This award-winning play by Native playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful and moving portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the odds by winning at bingo. And not just any bingo. It is the biggest bingo in the world and a chance to win a way out of a tortured life. The REZ sisters is hilarious, shocking, mystical and powerful, and clearly establishes the
Title: Rick The Rick Hansen story Author: Foon, Dennis Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
Description:
roy drama - biography - Canadian - Rick Hansen seven characters; extras four male; three female two acts
Fifteen-year-old Rick Hansen is confident, outgoing, and the star of his high school basketball team. He has hi whole life planned out, until a tragic accident severs his spinal cord, leaving him in a wheelchair. Rick's accident forces him to adapt his positivity to deal with his new life, while helping to strengthen the relationship with his guilt-stricken best friend. Refusing to be put at a disadvantage, Rich conquers the challenges presented to him with a smile and changes the definition of what it means to be disabled. Based on the true story of the man who inspired Title: Riel
Author: Coulter, John Publisher: Cromlech Press 1962
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical thirty-eight characters; extras thirty-five male; three female; doubling possible two parts
19 century costumes; music
The action centres on the Riel Rebellion, and is divided according to history into two periods: 1869-70 and 1885-86, including Riel's execution. The issue, as in history, is whether Riel is a hero attempting to lead an oppressed people to freedom, or a religious maniac.
Title: Rootless But Green are the Boulevard Trees
Author: Parameswaran, Uma Publisher: Tsar Publications 2007
Description:
roy drama - family relations fifteen characters ten male; five female three acts
In Winnipeg in the late seventies, an Indian immigrant family (the Bharves), are on the brink of coming apart due to a clash of values and ambitions. Sharad (the father), a former scientist, works as a real-estate broker; Savitri (the mother) is a teacher; Veejala (the aunt) is a frustrated scientist at the university. Jyoti (the daughter) has a white boyfriend and will probably move out. A crisis occurs as Veejala announces that she is going back to India and Jayant (the son) is packing to go off to Montreal. A phone call comes during this tense situation.
Title: Roundhouse
Author: LeMay, Bonnie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A spirited comedy set in the 1920's with two couples becoming involved in the sabotage of a transcontinental silk train. Title: Roundup
Author: Sapergia, Barbara Publisher: Coteau Books 1992
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations seven characters three male; four female two acts
"'Roundup' gives us a look at the crisis in prairie agriculture along with a lively tale of love and marriage in three generations of an extended family. Full of passion, conflict, and humour, 'Roundup' encapsulates the love people feel for a way of life and their connection with the land - a connection that may be breaking."
Title: Rubber Dolly
Author: Hannah, Don Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1986
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - poverty seven characters three male; three female; one boy twenty-two scenes
"Two sisters from Newfoundland battle poverty in Toronto's East End. Marie maintains a level of stability while Fern plunges into a world of crime and tragedy."
Title: Rune Arlidge
Author: Healy, Michael Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy family relations eight characters four male; four female (doubling possible) three acts
'A family of women - the eldest incapable of keeping stories to herself, her two daughters on the verge of making life altering decisions, a granddaughter wise beyond her years. The. . . author takes us on a 25-year long trip to the family cottage.' Title: Running of the Deer, The
Author: Ursell, Geoffrey Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian fifteen characters twelve male; three female two acts
A turmoil of politics, love and murder in 1768 St. John's, as the British governor tries to deal with the unruly French, the local merchants, indentured Irish and native Beothuks.
Title: Saga of Tom Three Persons, The
Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1996
Description:
roy drama - biography - Native peoples - Canadian - Alberta playwright twenty-four characters nineteen male; five female two acts
The true story of the Blackfoot Indian, who against all odds, political, social and personal, won the saddle-bronc championship at the inaugural Calgary Stampede in 1912 by riding the unbeatable Cyclone to a standstill. The play centres on the newspaper reporter who at his own peril sets out to investigate the illusive and enigmatic cowboy with tumultuous results.
Title: Saint Frances of Hollywood
Author: Clark, Sally Publisher: Talonbooks 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - biography - drama seven characters; numerous extras four male; three female two acts
"Her star rising as a Hollywood diva, Frances Farmer chooses to join the socialist Group Theatre in New York. This idealistic, raucous and non-conforming movie star pursued by the Government for her alleged communist connections, was finally incarcerated with the help of her mother at Steilacoom, a Seattle psychiatric hospital, where she was lobotomised and released as "cured" in 1949." Title: Sainte-Carmen of the Main
Author: Tremblay, Michel translated by John Van Burek Publisher: Talonbooks 1981
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian seven characters; chorus three male; four female two acts
Carmen returns to the Rodeo after studying yodeling in Nashville. She begins to write her own songs but is brutally murdered. The show goes on, with her rival playing the lead; cultural identity becomes an aberration in time.
Title: Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons
Author: Nichol, James W. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - Native peoples all male cast; eleven characters eleven characters two acts
A play about the conscience of a priest during the disastrous mission the Jesuits made to the Huron Indians in the 17th century.
Title: Sand Castle, The
Author: Joudry, Patricia Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters five male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
A professor who specializes in the delusion of romantic love discovers that he too can fall victim. Title: Saskatoon Pie!
Author: Ursell, Geoffrey Publisher: Coteau Books 1993
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - musical ten characters four male; five female; one piano player two acts
"Set in Regina in 1906, the two-act musical comedy deals with political corruption, scandal, the CPR, and women's suffrage."
Title: Satin Thigh
Author: Carter, Liberty Jane Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters four male; three female two acts
The innocent Satin enters the Yonge St. world of pimps and pushers. A black call girl teaches Satin where to find love amid the lust and longing.
Title: Schoolhouse
Author: Brodie, Leanna Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - historical large cast flexible casting two acts
The time: 1938. The place: S.S. #1 Jericho School, a one-room schoolhouse in a farming area just outside the fictional village of Baker’s Creek. There, a delightful but unmanageable group of children finally meets its match—Melita Linton, an 18-year-old teacher fresh out of Normal School. But Miss Linton soon faces her own challenge, in the form of Ewart, a menacing and mysterious juvenile delinquent sent to “straighten out” on a farm after doing time in Battenville Training School. The play chronicles Miss Linton’s struggle to connect with a boy who has cut Title: Scorched
Author: Mouawad, Wajdi translated by Linda Gaboriau Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - self awareness seven characters five male; two female thirty-eight scenes
sequel to 'Tideline'; prequel to 'Forests' and 'Heavens'; running time: 3 hrs.
Continuing his quest for sense and beauty, Wajdi Mouawad has plunged into the turbulent depths of writing to discover, washed up midst the sand dunes, fiery tales lost in the mists of time. Making their way through the dunes are Nawal's twin children, Janine and Simon, who want to solve the mystery of their origins. In retracing the bitter history of their mother (enveloped in
Title: Season of the Witch A play Author: Callaghan, Morley Publisher: Exile Editions 1976
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - witches nine characters six male; three female three acts
There is no description available for this play.
Title: Seeds A documentary play Author: Soutar, Annabel Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - farming - documentary thirty-six characters three male; four female (doubling) two acts
Part courtroom drama and part social satire, "Seeds" presents an intelligent portrait of farming and scientific communities in conflict and at the same time penetrates the complex science of genetically modified crops. The play documents the 2004 Supreme Court of Canada showdown between Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser and biotech multinational Monsanto Inc., a David-and-Goliath struggle that cast Schmeiser as the small-farmer underdog fighting the unscrupulous major corporation. Monsanto accused him of growing their genetically patented Title: Selkirk
Author: Mathews, Robin Publisher: Steel Rail Educational Publishing 1977
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - history - 19th century eighteen characters twelve male; two female (doubling) two acts
suggested for High School.
The story of Lord Selkirk and the settlers who attempt to establish a colony in the face of the bitter opposition of the powerful North West Company. The company wants the North West to remain a hinterland for the exploitation of furs. The immigrants from Scotland, led by Lord Selkirk, want a refuge from poverty and a new self-sustaining and permanent home.
Title: Selkirk Avenue
Author: McManus, Bruce Publisher: NuAge Editions 1998
Description:
roy drama - American - minorities eleven characters three male; eight female two acts
"McManus has crafted a story whose broad reach is matched by its sure grasp. The history of Selkirk Avenue as a haven-cum-springboard for successive minorities is told in a complex but comprehensible and emotionally irresistible tale that winds back and forth through the 30's, 50's and the present."
Title: Seven Caesars' Ransoms
Author: MacLennan, Munro Publisher: Exposition Press 1952
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical eighteen characters; extras fifteen male; three female three acts
The Christian princess, betrothed to a Prefect, falls in love with a Centurion while the Visigoths, led by Alaric, besiege Rome. Title: Seven Streams of the River Ota, The
Author: Lepage, Robert Publisher: Methuen 1997
Description:
roy drama - relationships ten characters five male; five female (doubling possible) seven acts
Early one August morning in 1945, several kilos of uranium was dropped over Japan and changed the course if human history. Fifty years later, Hiroshima's vitality is striking: the city where survival itself seemed unimaginable, today incarnates the notion of renaissance. In "The Seven Streams", Hiroshima is a mirror in which seeming opposites - East and West, tragedy and comedy, male and female, life and death - are revealed as reflections of the same reality.
Title: Shadow of Suspicion
Author: Hailey, Arthur Miles, William A. Jr. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company
Description:
roy drama - murder nineteen characters six male; six female; four boys; three girls three acts
adapted by William A. Miles Jr.
'.. a moving story of a young boy caught in the web of suspicion... it dramatically focuses on the problems faced by one family when society suddenly turns against them.'
Title: Shadow Walkers, The
Author: Tremblay, Brian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - mystery seven characters two male; five female two acts
"While Clair researches her film in the tranquility of an Edwardian house, she discovers letters written by the original inhabitants. Past and present intertwine as she uncovers their unsettling story." Title: Shakespeare's Dog
Author: Rooke, Leon Chafe, Rick Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian comedy - historical - England sixteen characters five male; three female (doubling) two acts
Rick Chafe's adaptation of Leon Rooke's Governor General Literary Award-winning novel "Shakespeare's Dog".
"With his sights on London and his family in Stratford, a young William Shakespeare is torn between the two loves of his life: the theatre and his wife. Living in a wild world full of unpredictable creatures—beasts, beggars, witch hunters, and actors—William’s family must find a
Title: Shylock's Treasure
Author: Scott, Munroe Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian nine characters seven male; two female three acts
1 interior set.
Twenty years after The Merchant of Venice, the major characters get together, Shylock's trial is restaged, Antonio convicted and reconciliation achieved.
Title: Sila The Arctic cycle Author: Bilodeau, Chantal Publisher: Talonbooks 2015
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - environment nine characters; extras four male; three female (doubling) two acts
1st play in "The Arctic Cycle" series; setting: Baffin Island in the territory of Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic.
"In Inuit mythology, “sila” means air, climate, or breath. Bilodeau’s play of the same name examines the competing interests shaping the future of the Canadian Arctic and local Inuit population. Equal parts Inuit myth and contemporary Arctic policy, the play "Sila" features Title: Sled
Author: Thompson, Judith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997
Description:
roy Canadian - drama seven characters four male; three female three acts
"A gripping look at the effects of a totally senseless string of violent murders, on the inhabitants of a quiet neighbourhood that could be anywhere in urban North America."
Title: Snake in Fridge
Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: NeWest Press 2001
Description:
roy drama - Canadian nine characters five male; four female two acts
'Drama set in large rooming house about group of twenty-somethings on the edge of porn industry.'
Title: Snob, The
Author: Andre, Marion Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama eight characters four male; four female three acts
"Set in pre-WWI Germany, a man sacrifices family and friends in his struggle to rise from bourgeois origins but is redeemed by love." Title: So What if She Did? A comedy from Rex the WonderFringe Author: Johnston, Russell Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy comedy - melodrama seven characters four male; three female two acts
'This is the story of the valiant Corporal Duffry Dogood, and his love: the honest, kind Polly Pureheart. An inspiration to women everywhere, her purity and chastity have made her a shining example for all her sisters. . .except for that one time, in summer camp. . .'
Title: Socrates
Author: Sinclair, Lister Publisher: Book Society of Canada 1957
Description:
roy drama - Canadian twenty-eight characters; extras twenty-three male; five female three acts
1 interior and exterior set; Greek costumes.
When the oracle names Socrates "the wisest man in the world" the "Athenians listen to him with increased attention and respect. Government officials conspire to "silence" him by falsely convicting him of sedition. Though he makes the accusers appear foolish, Socrates is convicted and sentenced to death.
Title: Soft Eclipse, The
Author: Gault, Connie Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1990
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters one male; six female two acts
1 exterior set.
A poignant evocation of a small Saskatchewan town in the 60's, it follows six women, aged 16 to 76, through a day both strangely unique and satisfyingly "everyday", as they anticipate the coming eclipse of the sun. Title: Sometime, Never
Author: Harding, Norah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy relationships - dramatic comedy eight characters three male; five female two acts
sequel to "This Year, Next Year".
Sometime, Never, picks up from where Norah Harding's previous play This Year, Next Year leaves off. Norah marries her Canadian solder and goes to live in Canada. But life in Canada, and living with in-laws is not rosy and she returns to England, at Christmas time a few years later. Ben misses her and eventually follows her to England, where we also catch-up with events in her
Title: Song of This Place
Author: Coghill, Joy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - biography - puppets - Emily Carr seven characters; chorus; puppets three male; four female two acts
The story of an actress who wants to play Emily Carr, only to find that the eccentric, cantankerous Carr will not let her. The play creates both a portrait of the artist Emily Carr and an investigation into the process of liberation required for the creation of art. The confrontation between Carr and Freida, the actress who wishes to portray her, provides debate and eventual illumination for the characters. Inspired by Emily Carr - with her animals, oddities and burning artist's soul, the play combines actors and puppets in a powerful play about the magic of theatrical experience and the
Title: Souvenirs
Author: Rosen, Sheldon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters five male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
An eclectic group of tourists arrive on a tropical island, in hot pursuit of tans, drugs and sex. Political turmoil on the island forces the vacationers to decide where and with whom they stand. Title: Spirit Wrestler
Author: Nelson, Greg Publisher: Coteau Books 1998
Description:
roy Canadian - historical - drama fourteen characters twelve male; two female two acts
"Nikolai is a Russian Doukhobor who rises as a champion of his people in the face of their persecution, and takes part in the negotiation of their 1898 immigration to freedom in the new land - Canada. But something unexpected happens, both to the Doukhobors in their new home, and to Nikolai, as he finds himself forced to choose between the vision of his religious leader and the personal goals of achieving self-hood."
Title: Spratt
Author: Wiesenfeld, Joe Publisher: Talonbooks 1978
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters four male; three female two acts
A play about a man trapped within a macho world.
Title: Sqrieux de Dieu
Author: Lambert, Betty Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy farce - Canadian eight characters three male; five female two acts
A racy farce about suburban mores. A harried housewife with four kids is set free from her responsibilities when her husband's mistress conveniently trades places with her. Title: Sticks and Stones The Donnellys: Part I Author: Reaney, James Publisher: Press Porcepic 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian eleven characters; extras eight male; three female (doubling is possible) three acts
"Based on the story of an actual family who came out from Ireland in 1844 to Biddulph Township, Ontario, and were nearly annihilated by a secret society formed among their neighbours 36 years later. The complete story of the Donnellys is too large for one evening. This play gets you started and takes you as far as when 'persons unknown' burnt down James Donnelly's barn in 1867. Donnelly defied this invitation to get out of the neighbourhood and he swore that he would stay in Biddulph Township forever. He is still there. It was at this time that the Donnellys decided to be
Title: Stillborn Lover, The
Author: Findley, Timothy Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama seven characters four male; three female two acts
The abrupt recall of a highly regarded Canadian ambassador from his post, the mysterious death of a Russian youth found brutally murdered in a Moscow hotel room, and the ambitions of an Ottawa diplomat - the play explores the darker side of loyalty and commitment, when the stakes are high and diplomatic careers hang by the thread. Kept isolated in a "safe-house" and subjected to interrogations by two special police agents, Harry Raymond, his ailing wife and adult daughter are forced to unravel the past, and with the past comes revelations that set off loyalty struggles
Title: Stillborn Lover, The
Author: Findley, Timothy Publisher: Harper Collins Canada 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters four male; three female two acts
A Russian youth is found brutally murdered in a Moscow hotel room. The repercussions of this crime will unravel the past of respected career diplomat Harry Raymond. Abruptly recalled from his post by Michael Riordan, his long-time friend and an ambitious politician, Raymond and his family are isolated in a safe-house, subjected to police interrogation, and face revelations that will force them to question their loyalties and much of what they know about each other, their friends and their country. Title: Stone Angel, The
Author: Laurence, Margaret Nichol, James W. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1991
Description:
roy drama - self awareness - adaptation twenty seven characters five males; four females (doubling) two acts
Ninety-year old Hagar Shipley is in hospital. There were four men in her life - her father, her husband, and her two sons - and she fought with them all. In the course of the play, Hagar gets out of her bed and relives being a headstrong little girl, a high-spirited young woman, a disillusioned wife, an anxious demanding mother, a sardonic old woman, and in doing so, particularly in reliving the stark reality around her younger son's death, she finally and truly sees herself.
Title: Story of Canada, The From the Commission of Jacques Cartier to the Federation of the Nine Provinces Author: Baker, Ida Emma Publisher: Musson Book Company 1927
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical all male cast; nineteen characters; extras nineteen male twenty-four scenes
16-19 century costumes; dance and music.
This pageant presents incidents from Canadian history from the time of Cartier to Confederation.
Title: Strangers Among Us
Author: Bushkowsky, Aaron Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alzheimer's disease - older adults ten characters; extras four male; six female two acts
Gabrielle and Michael meet by accident, fall in love, part, meet again and fall in love all over again. The problem is, every time they meet, they forget each other's names. They can't help it, they suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Complicating things are family members who have difficulty with the changes and challenges Gabrielle and Michael experience, as they become more and more entangled in the debris of memory and language. Eventually, Gabrielle and Michael end up at a long term care facility where they meet other people suffering from the same malady, Title: Stretching Hide
Author: Lakevold, Dale Racine, Jean Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2007
Description:
roy drama - Metis - community - Native peoples⌦seven characters (five characters are Metis) four male; three female two acts
The Willows, Saskatchewan: Frank, a young Métis lawyer, introduces his fiancé to the idyllic life of his community one July long weekend. That weekend his law practice and his personal life are threatened when the provincial game wardens accuse him of poaching a deer.
Winner of the Canadian National Playwriting Competition.
Title: Striker Schneiderman
Author: Gray, Jack Publisher: University of Toronto Press 1973
Description:
roy drama - Canadian sixteen characters; extras thirteen male; three female two acts
It's Winnipeg, 1919. Moishe Schneiderman must decide which side he's on during the General Strike. Almost by chance, he joins the Strikers, and becomes their leader.
Title: Struggle, The
Author: Mracevich, Milovan Publisher: Anonim Design Studio 1998
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - immigrants - historical nine characters seven male; two female two acts
Set in Vancouver's immigrant quarter in 1931, "The Struggle" is about a group of young Yugoslav Reds who spend their days studying Lenin, demonstrating, and agitating for the revolution. Their harmony is disrupted when they give refuge to Danilo, a homeless countryman with a dark incident in his past. When Danilo's secret comes into the open, his fate is decided in a climax resembling a Stalinist trial. Title: Studies in Motion
Author: Kerr, Kevin Publisher: Talonbooks 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - biographical large cast flexible casting two acts
Photographer Eadweard Muybridge's life was filled with the events of Victorian melodrama: adultery, jealousy, betrayal, murder and an abandoned child. Tried for the murder of his wife's lover, he was acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide. However, these events, which predate his subsequent obsession with stopping time and freezing motion, become the ghosts that haunt Muybridge in the fictional world of this play.
Title: Sun Runner, The
Author: Dyba, Kenneth Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - death - Alberta playwright seven characters three male; four female (doubling) two acts
"A mother dying of cancer comes to terms with her family, her memories and, ultimately, her impending death. She learns to reconcile the intimacy of dying with the public expression."
Title: Sunrise on Sarah
Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1973
Description:
roy drama - Canadian thirteen characters; extras six male; seven female two acts
"Sunrise on Sarah" presents us with a woman the exact opposite of the title character Ryga created in "The Ecstasy of Rita Joe". In place of the ideological conflict that is characteristic of his other plays, Ryga has set up a psychological dialectic between the central character and her opposite, known only as the Man. In "Sunrise on Sarah", Ryga displays complete mastery of his own particular brand of "liquid dramaturgy" and brings to the play the compassion and poetry that are hallmarks of his work. Title: Take Me Where the Water's Warm
Author: DeFelice, James Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy comedy - Alberta playwright eight characters five male; three female three acts
1 exterior set.
A distinguished author seeks out an old flame on Vancouver Island in order to get his love letters back. Complications arise when he meets a young sculptor who is about to make the same mistake in love as he did, and with the same letters.
Title: Taking Steam
Author: Klonsky, Kenneth Shein, Brian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - aging - Jewish all male cast; seven characters seven male two acts
Six cronies and a mothering locker room attendant grow old together in a decaying health club for Jewish men.
Title: Tales From a Prairie Drifter
Author: Langley, Rod Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974
Description:
roy drama - Canadian eight characters seven male; one female two acts
An epic panorama of the Canadian West, complete with homesteading, building the CNR and the Metis Rebellion. An expose of greed, deceit and self- interest. Title: Talking Back The birth of the CCF Author: Kerr, Don Publisher: Coteau Books 1992
Description:
roy drama - historical - Canadian - political eight characters five male; three female three acts
"Talking Back: The Birth of the CCF, with is engaging mix of historical drama, humour, and song, both entertains and enlightens. This play masterfully portrays the men and women of the Depression who decided to "talk back" to Liberal and Conservative governments and ended up forming a new party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. By mixing real-life figures from CCF history - J. S. Woodsworth, Agnes Macphail, Frank Underhill, and Louise Lucas - with a farm couple of his own invention, Kerr captures the various forces which created a new political party."
Title: Tamara
Author: Krizanc, John Publisher: Stoddart Publishing 1989
Description:
roy drama - Canadian ten characters five male; five female two acts
A haunting portrait of fascist Italy and of Gabriele d'Annuzio, the poet and patriot who could have stopped Mussolini's rise to power.
Title: Tantrums
Author: Alianak, Hrant Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian twenty-four characters fourteen male; ten female (doubling possible) four parts
A stark play about social and personal collapse, including a menacing countdown and a mechanistic soundtrack. Title: Teach Me How to Cry
Author: Joudry, Patricia Publisher: Dramatists Play Service 1955
Description:
roy drama - Canadian ten characters; extras three male; seven female three acts
unit set.
Despite the will of their parents, a self-conscious , proud girl and a boy who is "more than the writer type" fall in love and mature.
Title: Tear the Curtain!
Author: Young, Jonathon Kerr, Kevin Publisher: Talonbooks 2014
Description:
roy drama - psychological thriller - Vancouver twenty characters; extras eight male; two female (doubling)⌦two acts
In this psychological thriller set in a fictionalized 1930s Vancouver, Alex Braithewaite, a troubled but passionate theatre critic, believes he has found the legendary Stanley Lee, director of the infamous avant-garde theatre The Empty Space. Alex becomes convinced that this man’s radically subversive ideas are what the city’s arts community needs to shatter audience complacency. In his pursuit of the truth behind Stanley Lee’s mysterious disappearance and his artistic ideas, Alex becomes caught between the warring factions of two prominent mob families – one controlling the city’s playhouses, the other its cinemas, but both ensnared by the Empty
Title: That Elusive Spark
Author: Munsil, Janet Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2014
Description:
roy comedy - romance fourteen characters five male; three female (doubling) two acts
A colourful romantic comedy that brings together the stories of Phineas Gage, a man who survived having an iron rod enter his brain in 1848, and Helen Harlow, a young neuropsychologist in the present day.
Finalist! 2014 Governor General Literary Award for Drama. Title: That Summer
Author: French, David Publisher: Talonbooks 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama seven characters two male; five female two acts
"It's Memorial Day, 1990, and Margaret Ryan has returned from Vermont to the Ontario cottage where, thirty-two years before, she was forced to vacation with her family at a lakeside resort. For her and her sister Daisy, it was a time of awakening, a time of discovery. As the narrator Margaret watches Maggie, her younger self, relive the innocence and beauty of that summer, the play moves inexorably back to the heartbreak of a headlong surrender to experience, both won and lost in a single day."
Title: They're All Afraid
Author: Peterson, Leonard Publisher: Book Society of Canada 1981
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters four male; three female; doubling is possible three acts
Frustrated, disillusioned, disappointed and isolated, Arnie concludes that he is so lonely because everyone around him is so afraid.
Title: Three Sisters
Author: McManus, Bruce Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - tragic comedy - Saskatchewan prairie eleven characters six male; five female two acts
Bruce McManus' adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play by the same name.
110 years after its Moscow premiere, Bruce McManus weaves a prairie story from the threads of the original—faithful to the tragic comedy of Chekhov’s characters in an environment often hostile to dreams. He gives us a play about the Canadian prairie experience at a time when the nation and our place in the world were on the brink of great change. Title: Tideline
Author: Mouawad, Wajdi translated by Shelley Tepperman Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - life eight characters six male; two female two parts
prequel to 'Scorched', 'Forests' and 'Heavens'.
(Translated from French) I don't even know who I am anymore so how can I know what's hurting me? When you're little, it's easy, all kids are scared of the same thing. Of the big bad wolf or monsters from outer space. But now? Why do I hurt? I really don't have a clue. I hurt and that's it. And everyone's hurting and nobody gives a damn! A newly revised translation of the first play in
Title: Tiger's Heart
Author: Brennan, Kit Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1996
Description:
roy drama - historical - women thirteen characters; chorus seven male; six female two acts
"England, 1815. A young woman disguises herself as a man so that she may be allowed to study medicine. Ten years later "Dr. James Barry," a military doctor and physician to the British Governor of South Africa, faces the contradictions of living behind her mask. Tiger's Heart explores questions of sexual and racial identities and exploitation within the complex and stratified world of colonial South Africa where, ultimately, Dr. Barry must face her "tiger's heart."
Title: Timothy Findley's The Wars
Author: Garnhum, Dennis Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama - war - coming of age twenty-two characters fourteen male; eight female two acts
This highly theatrical adaptation of Timothy Findley's classic novel traces the brutal coming of age of Robert Ross - a sensitive idealist who goes off to the Great War in 1915. Ross, who has a fondness for animals and shares a strong bond with his sister, trades his comfortable surroundings in Canada for the nightmare world of trench warfare. We watch Ross's slow unraveling as he moves from home to train to barracks and finally, to the mud, smoke, and chlorine gas of the front line in France. With death and dying everywhere around him, Ross makes Title: Tit Coq
Author: Gelinas, Gratien translated by Kenneth Johnstone Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1967
Description:
roy drama - Canadian ten characters five male; five female two acts
1 set.
Desperately aware of his illegitimacy, Tit-Coq discovers in love the remedy for his loneliness, and envisages in marriage the opportunity to give his child all the love and respectability which has been denied him.
Title: Tom Form and the Speed of Love
Author: Pengilly, Gordon Bateman, Victor Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2006
Description:
roy drama - music - mystery - Canadian - Alberta playwright twelve characters; musicians; voices eight male; four female (doubling possible) two acts
music by Victor Bateman.
A cynical private detective takes on the job of helping a strange, sultry woman recover her memory. When the trail leads him into his own dark past he struggles to accept love into his life while finding a way to solve the mystery. Part film noir and part jazz opera the play looks hard at the sex slave trade and asks us to consider the existence of angels.
Title: Tomorrow Box, The
Author: Chislett, Anne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1980
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian eleven characters six male; four female; one child two acts
A farmer retires and decides to move to Florida. His wife is determined to remain on the farm she helped build. Title: Too Many Cooks
Author: Kash, Marcia Hughes, Douglas E. Publisher: Samuel French 2012
Description:
roy comedy eight characters six male; two female two acts
It’s 1932 in Niagara Falls, Canada, where the rum-running business is at its peak. In the aftermath of the Crash, Irving Bubbalowe and his daughter, Honey, have risked everything they have to open a new gourmet restaurant. When their star - the renowned singing chef François LaPlouffe - fails to appear, tonight’s grand opening is suddenly placed in jeopardy.
Title: Trial of Jean Baptiste M., The
Author: Gurik, Robert translated by Allan Van Meer Publisher: Talonbooks 1974
Description:
roy drama - Canadian twelve characters ten male; two female two acts
The headline reads: 'Fired Employee Shoots Bosses'. A man murders his corporate bosses. They come back to judge him. The chorus chants: "The Dutron Corporation, the greatest chemical empire in the world, thousands of employees, dozens of factories, millions of capital shares. The Dutron Corporation, injured party, innocent victim vs. Jean-Baptiste M." In "The Trial of Jean-Baptiste M., Robert Gurik explores the story behind the headline, dramatizes the case history of a man caught in the vice of our multi-national corporate society.
Title: Trial of Judith K., The
Author: Clark, Sally Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1985
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian seven characters three male; four female (doubling) two acts
Roughly based on Kafka's "The Trial". Judith K. finds herself accused of an unknown crime. The harder she delves into the bureaucratic nightmare, the more firmly she is bound by it, and the more obscure the reasons for conviction become.
Governor General's Drama Award Finalist, 1991. Title: Trials of Eddy Haymour, The A play Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - religion - immigrants seven characters four male; three female two acts
The amazing true story of a Lebanese immigrant who tried to build an Arabian theme park in the B.C. Bible Belt - and lost his fortune, his family, his freedom, his good name, and almost his sanity, in a struggle which culminated in a Beirut hostage-taking.
Title: Trouble on Dibble Street A comedy Author: Lazarus, John Shakespeare, William Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Shakespeare adaptation nineteen characters; extras eleven male; eight female two acts
based on Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor".
Sir John Falstaff, formerly of the Prescott Troop of Cavalry, Dragoons, returns to the riverside town of Prescott, to retire, make trouble, and enjoy plenty of the town's legendary Wiser's Whiskey. He plans to seduce housewives Meg Page and Alice Ford, but they get wind of his scheme and decide to teach him a lesson. Complications and subplots abound, in Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of
Title: Two Words for Snow
Author: Sanger, Richard Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 1999
Description:
roy drama - historical seven characters six male; one female two acts
'Two men meet in the Eskimo Room at the American Museum of Natural History in 1935. Robert Peary Jr. is young, white and brash. He is there to protect the good name of his father, Robert Edwin Peary, who in 1909 laid claim to the title of the first man to reach the North Pole. Matthew Henson, who accompanied Peary on that journey, is old, black and full of regret… A smart, powerful and deeply moving examination of colonialism at home and abroad.' Title: Under Coyote's Eye A play about Ishi Author: Beissel, Henry Publisher: Quadrant 1980
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples fourteen characters; extras nine male; two female; three flexible full length (one act)
"A poetic rendering of two days in the life of Ishi, the last survivor of the doomed Yahi tribe, whose people were slaughtered by white settlers and gold-seekers."
Title: Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love
Author: Fraser, Brad Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1990
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright seven characters four male; three female two acts
various sets.
Set in Edmonton, Alberta. A serial killer is loose in an urban labyrinth of friends grasping for some kind of love and direction in their lives.
Title: Unity (1918)
Author: Kerr, Kevin Publisher: Talonbooks 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian history thirteen characters three male; ten female (doubling) two acts
A story about the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 in Canada which killed more people than the First World War. "As fear of the dreaded flu begins to fill the town of 'Unity' with paranoia, drastic measures are taken. The town is quarantined in an attempt to keep the illness out. Trains are forbidden to stop, no one can enter, and the borders are sealed. Mail from overseas, feared to be carrying the deadly virus, is gathered and burned. But when the disease descends upon the town despite the these precautions, the citizens begin to turn on each other as they attempt to find a Title: Unnatural and Accidental Women, The
Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Talonbooks 2005
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - British Columbia - Native playwright twenty characters; voice overs nine male; eleven female two acts
'This is a play based on a true murder case in Vancouver which resulted in the deaths of at least ten women and many more "mystery deaths" of women in the Hastings Street area, unofficially referred to as "Skid Row". All of the women were found dead with a blood alcohol reading far beyond normal human consumption, and all of them were last seen with a Gilbert Paul Jordan, a local barber who frequented the local bars preying primarily on middle-aged Native women.'
Title: Unveiling, The
Author: Angel, Leonard Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy drama - Canadian eight characters four male; three female; one girl one act (full length)
1 exterior set.
On an autumn afternoon a family gathers around a grave for the traditional unveiling ceremony, and is itself gradually unveiled.
Title: Vicky
Author: Woods, Grahame Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing
Description:
roy drama - Canadian nine characters; extras three male; six female two acts
"What motivates a human being to do something? Humankind's desire to understand itself has persisted through the ages. Yet human nature is still very much an enigma. In (this play), a young woman detained in a mental institution for the murder of her two children struggles to understand her past actions." Title: View From the Roof, A
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian drama eleven characters five male; six female (doubling possible) four short plays
"Four short plays, dramatizations of stories from Helen Weinzweig, from her Governor-General's Award -nominated collection. A View From The Roof spans sixty years, an immensely satisfying jigsaw history, piecing together the story of a young woman who flees Germany in 1938 with her lover. A moving, often humorous, complex look at memory and loss, and love amid terror."
Title: Village of Idiots
Author: Lazarus, John Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1992
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Jewish play twelve characters eight male; four female (doubling possible) two acts
A year in the life of Chelm, the village of fools legendary in Jewish folklore. Outsider Yosef falls in love with another "stranger" and watches in fear as the "Chelmniks" prepare for a Cossack attack.
Title: Vimy
Author: Thiessen, Vern Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007
Description:
roy drama - war - Canadian history - Alberta playwright eight characters seven male; one female (doubling possible) two acts
France. 1917. Aided by a nurse from Nova Scotia, four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge. Governor General’s Literary Award winner Vern Thiessen explores how a nation’s defining moment is reflected in the lives of everyday people, their hopes and their dreams. Title: Virgin Trial, The
Author: Hennig, Kate Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - historical seven characters three male; four female two acts
"In this gripping follow-up to The Last Wife, Kate Hennig continues her Tudor Queens Trilogy by cleverly exploring victim shaming, sexual consent, and the extraordinary ability of girls becoming women as she reimagines the scandalous and little-known story of Elizabeth the First before she was Queen."
Finalist! 2017 Governor General's Literary Award.
Title: Walking on Water
Author: Carley, Dave Publisher: Signature Editions 2000
Description:
roy mystery - murder thirteen characters nine male; four female two acts
'Ashburnham is a green and pleasant city, a Canadian "Our Town". But one morning in 1949 Lee Kwan, chauffeur for the town's newspaper publisher, is found dead under his employer's Packard. It is quickly apparent that Lee did not die of natural causes - but who murdered him, and why? Each of the wonderfully complex characters has secrets to hide and a story to tell, and over the course of two acts and fifty years a fascinating portrait of a Canadian city in transition begins to emerge. But it is only when the thirteen citizens of Dave Carley's magical city are finally gathered
Title: Walking Upright Through Fire
Author: Wilson, Allan Publisher: Allan Wilson 2005
Description:
roy drama - death - cancer nine characters five male; two female; two flexible two acts
A play that realistically portrays the last months of a sixteen year old boy's life as he faces terminal cancer. Based on a daily journal of the same name by his father (Allan Wilson). Title: Walls
Author: Bruyere, Christian Publisher: Talonbooks 1978
Description:
roy Canadian - drama fourteen characters; extras twelve male; two female two acts
1 setting
"Documentary drama of hostage-taking incident at British Columbia Penitentiary in 1975, which resulted in death of Mary Steinhauser, a classification officer."
Title: Walnut Tree, The
Author: Blum, Martha Ursell, Geoffrey Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2012
Description:
roy drama - World War II - music twenty characters; ensemble four male; four female; one musician (doubling) two acts
"The Walnut Tree" tells the story of the intense journey of Süssel, a young, privileged Jewish woman who grows up in Chernowitz, studies in Prague and Paris, endures the horrors of World War II in Eastern Europe, and ultimately escapes to the peace and promise of a new life in Saskatoon. The character of the older Süssel looks back at her life, accompanied by her alter ego, a Musician, who performs on a grand piano. This powerful, disturbing, and transcendent drama sets the devastating power of historical events against the personal forces of
Title: Walsh
Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Talonbooks 1973
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - Native peoples fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts
An historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana Massacre at Little Big Horn. Title: Wasps A drawing room comedy for distempered times Author: Clark, Sally Publisher: Talonbooks 1998
Description:
roy comedy thirteen characters three male; eight female; two children two acts
Wasps is a play about the elements of our constructed tribal identities: incest, fashion, fetishism, populist art, amateur psychobabble and a fearful, murderous fascination with the other, hovering behind the cupboards, over the sink, in the basements of suburbia, and in the filing cabinets of your local travel agent.
Title: Watershed, The A documentary play Author: Soutar, Annabel Publisher: Talonbooks 2016
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - documentary - environment multiple characters eight actors, flexible casting (doubling) two acts
"The Watershed" is about a family who encounters firsthand the politics of science during the Stephen Harper decade and asks: What kind of Canada will our children inherit, and to we still have a say in the matter?
Constructed from original interviews by Annabel Soutar, the play unfolds as a theatrical documentary of conflicting visions for our country's natural resources. Encounters include the
Title: Welfarewell
Author: Delaney, Cat Publisher: Samuel French 2010
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - aging twenty-two characters one male; seven female (doubling, voices) two acts
Esmerelda Quipp is 80, still of sound mind, but her body is beginning to "come unglued", as she puts it. Having spent her working life as an actress, age pushing her gradually out of the business, she now faces the fact that her meagre government pension is insufficient to support her, even with her minimal needs. When she is arrested for attempting to bury her dead cat in her landlord's yard, she finds that there is some sense of community, not to mention free room and board, within the prison system. She devises a plan to get herself sent back to jail; she robs a Title: Westroy Hotel
Author: Hallgren, Chris Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy farce - French Canadian seven characters five male; two female two acts
1 interior set.
An affectionate farce about separatism and Quebec, set in the decaying Westroy Hotel in Montreal.
Title: What Happens at the No Nancy Summit
Author: Ouzounian, Richard translated by Richard Ouzounian Publisher: Ms Fit Press 1987
Description:
roy satire - Canadian - political thirteen characters nine male; four female five acts
1 interior set.
Translated by Richard Ouzounian from Moliere's Tartuffe. This translation transforms "Tartuffe" into the rarest of Canadian commodities: a truly funny political satire.
Title: Where is Kabuki? As published in Theatrum Magazine (Sept/Oct 1990) Author: Druick, Don Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1990
Description:
roy drama - Canadian all male cast; seven characters seven male two acts
1 interior set.
A sultry summer day in Tokyo, 1888. Backstage at the great Kabuki-za Theatre, beneath the exquisitely ritualistic behaviour, a vicious power struggle is underway. The Master Playwright is fighting for his life, buffeted by the crass ambitions of the Onnagata. Title: While We're Young
Author: Hannah, Don Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy drama - war - relationships nineteen characters; extras; choir; musicians (doubling possible) ten male; nine female two acts
A young soldier goes to Afghanistan, another to Passchendaele. A family splits in two when a Protestant falls in love with a Catholic; one hundred and twenty years later, it could happen all over again for a whole new set of reasons. In this poignant play, six generations of young men and women move into adulthoods filled with emotional and dramatic surprises.
Title: White Geese, The
Author: Dube, Marcel translated by Jean Remple Publisher: New Press 1972
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian eight characters three male; five female two acts
The play begins in the late afternoon on a Friday in October in what seems an ordinary Quebec bourgeois household. All the secrets of the past and all the family skeletons are safely tucked away behind the Victorian furniture. Everything is in place except for the two blood-stained white geese still hidden inside a very common-place travelling bag in the hall; this inoffensive looking object is the complicating factor in the drama, the Pandora's Box which, once opened, releases all the house's old mysteries and provokes the final catastrophe.
Title: Who Has Seen the Wind
Author: MacDougall, Lee Publisher: Playwrights Union of Canada 2000
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - depression era - childhood seven characters four male; three female; children two acts
"This is a story of Brian, an inquisitive boy growing up on the Saskatchewan prairie in the 1930's. Featuring the trials of life and death, and W.O. Mitchell's hilarious characters this play is a moving tale of a Canadian childhood." Title: Whylah Falls: The Play
Author: Clarke, George Elliot Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1997
Description:
roy drama - love - African-Canadian - music nine characters; chorus five male; four female two acts
score included.
'A passionate play about poets and the lies they tell in the pursuit of love. Set in Nova Scotia's pastoral Annapolis Valley in the 1930's, the story unfolds exclusively in a rural, African-American-founded community, full of cultural lovers and rowdy truth tellers.'
Title: Widger's Way
Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1976
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - melodrama - Alberta playwright eleven characters nine male; two female five acts
A melodramatic farce about a stingy father, an innocent love-struck daughter, a murderer on the loose and a bag of gold.
Title: Wild Mouth
Author: Hunter, Maureen Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2008
Description:
roy drama - relationships seven characters four male; three female two acts
A passionate encounter between a grieving mother and a troubled soldier just back from France illuminates WILD MOUTH. Anna is a British-born immigrant who returns to her brother's prairie farm in 1917 to help with the harvest and to try to heal. There she meets Bohdan, a young man of Ukrainian descent who changed his name to Smith in order to get to the Front. Anna's desperation to understand her son's death propels both of them to the edge of an abyss. This seven character play explores the enduring connections between love and war, beauty and horror, creation and Title: Witches and Bitches
Author: Shakespeare and Friends compiled and adapted by Patrick Young Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2011
Description:
roy comedy eight characters one male; seven female two acts
Shaitan is the demon leader of a coven of witches that includes some of the great female villains and criminals of Tudor-Stuart drama: from Tamora and Lady Macbeth to Beatrice-Joanna, Livia, Mother Sawyer, Vittoria Corombona, and Moll Cutpurse. As they support each other in playing out their stories, his aim is to enlist, seduce and then betray each one of them. But as the play progresses, the others become increasingly restive in this relationship and eventually rally around Firestone/Moll and Hellwain/Vittoria to rebel.
Title: Women in the Attic
Author: Peterson, Len Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1979
Description:
roy drama twenty-five characters four male; three female (doubling) three acts
''A newspaperman pieces together the story of an old derelict woman's life, to find beneath her tale of lost love, abortion and alcoholism, the legend of Lillith, Adam's first wife, who was abandoned to make way for the subservient Eve.'
Title: Women's Work
Author: Hurley, Joan Mason Publisher: A Room of One's Own Press 1979
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian all female cast; sixteen characters; extras sixteen female two acts
1 interior set.
A play that illustrates the varied and complex situations that occur in the maternity wing of a hospital. Title: Wooden Hill, The
Author: Hannah, Don Montgomery, Lucy Maud Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1994
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - biography nineteen characters nine male; eight female; two boys two acts
Based on the journals of Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942).
Winner of an AT&T OnStage Award
Title: World Without Shadows Celebrating Nova Scotia's most beloved Folk Artist - Maud Lewis Author: Woolaver, Lance Gerrard Publisher: Stage Hand Publishers 1996
Description:
roy biography eight characters six male; two female seventeen parts
'World without shadows dramatizes the life of folk artist Maud Lewis and her husband Everett Lewis. The story is set against the backdrop of rural Nova Scotia in the Annapolis Valley where Maud and Everett lived together in a small home. Rural Life, its joys and simplicity, became the subject matter for many of Maud's paintings. The play examines the source of Maud's inspiration, juxtaposing the world she painted to the life she lived.'
Title: Wu-Feng
Author: Scott, Munroe Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1975
Description:
roy drama - Canadian fifteen characters; extras ten male; five female two acts
open stage.
A Confucian scholar in 1769 Taiwan, appointed to govern a head-hunting tribe, is faced with a cultural uprising in which the threat of violence is used for political blackmail. Inspired by the October Crisis. Title: Yankee Notions
Author: Chislett, Anne Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - drama eleven characters seven male; four female two acts
1 unit set.
It's the tumultuous year following the Mackenzie rebellion, and the future of Canada is at stake. So are the lives of Maria Wait's husband and Sarah Chandler's father, two "rebels" and pawns in a dangerous political game. With nothing in common but a quirk of fate, the young women are at daggers as Sarah chooses to save her family while Maria battles for her country. Yankee Notions
Title: Yellow Fever
Author: Shiomi, R. A. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1984
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - mystery eight characters six male; two female two acts
1 exterior set.
Sam Shikaze is a Japanese-Canadian private eye of the Sam Spade school. His life is complicated by the disappearance of the local Cherry Blossom Queen, and when he sets out to find her he falls into a maelstrom of intrigue.
Title: Yesterday the Children Were Dancing
Author: Gelinas, Gratien translated by Mavor Moore Publisher: Clarke, Irwin and Company 1967
Description:
roy drama - French Canadian eight characters five male; three female two acts
1 interior set.
A play set in the explosive Montreal of 1967 presenting the emotional and ideological views of Quebec and the French Canadian. Title: Yesteryear
Author: Glass, Joanna McClelland Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - relationships - depression era ten characters seven male; three female two acts
"Brimming with the romantic optimism of the post-war era, this sunny comedy brings the hopeful message that love can be lovelier the second time around. Be part of the fun when an Irish Sweepstakes ticket exalts the meek above the mighty in a close knit prarie town. Yesteryear is the perfect entertanment for the open-hearted, open minded, joy loving people."
Title: You Are Here
Author: MacIvor, Daniel Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2002
Description:
roy drama twelve characters five male; three female (doubling) two acts
'You are about to meet Alison, who searches her life for meaning in this remarkable and powerful play. In a series of luminous moments and encounters, we're drawn into Alison's world: love that fades, hopes that die, and enduring friendship that offers the promise of redemption. You Are Here, MacIvor shows us, and our emotional reality is in this moment, now.'
Title: Young Doctors, The
Author: Hailey, Arthur Sergel, Sherman L. Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1960
Description:
roy drama nineteen characters; extras seven male; twelve female three acts
unit set; adapted by Sherman L. Sergel
The arrival of a new young pathologist to the Pathology Department of a hospital is resented by the Senior Pathologist who does not realize the extent of the damage he is causing through his own dated techniques. Title: Z A meditation on oppression, desire and freedom Author: Szumigalski, Anne Publisher: Coteau Books 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - holocaust - Jewish eleven characters; chorus three male; five female (doubling) two acts
"Z: A Meditation on Oppression, Desire and Freedom" is an astonishing first stage play by the internationally-acclaimed and award winning poet Anne Szumigalski. When the concentration camps were opened at the end of World War Two, Anne Szumigalski worked with the survivors as a translator for the British Red Cross. In "Z" Szumaigalski translates that profound and disturbing experience into an amazing theatrical event -- a blend of drama, poetry, music and dance.
Title: Zadie's Shoes
Author: Pettle, Adam Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2001
Description:
roy comedy eight characters four male; four female two acts
'The stakes don't get any higher than this! Benjamin is a compulsive gambler who's just lost the money for his girlfriend's trip to an alternative cancer clinic in Mexico. He has 72 hours to find the cash, and his options are running out. In desperation Benjamin finds himself in a synagogue, where he meets a prophet named Eli who gives him rabbinical advice - and a hot tip on a horserace. The thrill of the race is only the beginning of this hilarious and touching journey that contemplates the nature of luck, and the power of faith.'
Title: Zone
Author: Dube, Marcel Ravel, Aviva Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
Description:
roy drama - Canadian seven characters six male; one female three acts
adapted by Aviva Ravel.
Five young people in Montreal are selling black market American cigarettes. When the gang leader, Tarzan, kills a border guard, everything falls apart except the love between him and his female follower.