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Queen Goneril

By (author) Erin Shields
Categories: Plays, playscripts

Set seven years before King Lear, Queen Goneril centres the struggles of Lear’s daughters as they negotiate patriarchal systems built to keep them relegated to the sidelines. In Goneril, we find a natural-born ...

Women of the Fur Trade

By (author) Frances Koncan
Categories: Plays, playscripts

In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort ...

When Words Sing

Edited by Julie Salverson
Categories: Plays, playscripts

Meet the creators behind the words of Canadian opera in this exciting new collection of contemporary libretti. Featuring work by Robert Chafe, Anna Chatterton, George Elliott Clarke, Marie Clements, Ann-Marie ...

Beautiful Man & Other Short Plays

By (author) Erin Shields
Foreword by Andrea Donaldson
Categories: Plays, playscripts

Award-winning playwright Erin Shields has crafted three thought-provoking plays that centre on the inner lives of women, offering space for those who dare to listen.

Selfie

By (author) Christine Quintana
Categories: Plays, playscripts

When a budding romance at a high school party ends after a sexual assault, three teens must grapple with what happened and what comes next.

BANG BANG

By (author) Kat Sandler
Categories: Plays, playscripts

Lila, a young Black ex-cop, has been on leave from the force since she shot an unarmed Black youth. So when Tim, a white playwright, shows up at her door to casually inform her that his play inspired ...

Guarded Girls

By (author) Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman
Foreword by Kim Pate
Categories: Plays, playscripts

The stories and experiences of three imprisoned women and a guard intertwine in dramatic and dangerous ways, as the psychological destruction that is solitary confinement taunts each of their lives. At ...

Unholy

By (author) Diane Flacks
Categories: Plays, playscripts

Should women abandon religion? Four female panellists face off in a wild, whip-smart televised debate about the intersection of religion and misogyny. The debaters wrestle with themselves and with each ...

Category E

By (author) Belinda Cornish
Introduction by Ruth Bratt
Categories: Plays, playscripts

In a world where people are filtered through eugenics profiling into those worthy of life and those not, three test subjects in a laboratory await their fate.

Paradise Lost

By (author) Erin Shields
Introduction by Paul Stevens
Categories: Plays, playscripts

Erin Shields turns heaven and hell upside down in this witty, modern-feminist retelling of John Milton’s epic poem about the first battle between good and evil. In Shields’s Paradise Lost, the 17th ...