Plays by Women
A Live Bird In Its Jaws
Translated by Yves Saint-Pierre
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama, this is a play within a play. Hélène is writing a play which draws heavily on the past of her lover and his twin brother, but refuses to reveal... >>
Emphysema (A Love Story)
Silent-film performer Louise Brookes was living in obscurity when bad-boy theatre critic Kenneth Tynan, who was infatuated with her film persona Lulu, tracked her down for a New Yorker profile. In a... >>
Evidence to the Contrary
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Lena Fulvi has been arrested for her mother's murder. She insists it was an accident, but she has been accused by a nurse who saw her do the deed, and her sisters happily furnish a motive. But the... >>
L’Affaire Tartuffe, The Garrison Officers Rehearse Molière
A riveting drama of cross-cultural love affairs, seditious plans to join the Yankees and the stranglehold of Church and State, L'Affaire Tartuffe is inspired by historical fact: this was the first... >>
Magpie, Having, Hunger Striking
Three plays from award-winning playwright Kit Brennan which explore secrets, obsessions, and desire through the stories of three women, Bernice, the victim of small-town repression, Sarah, a former... >>
Spring Planting
Spring Planting tells the story of two widowed neighbours, one an illiterate elder, the other a suddenly single mother. Their new circumstances are made yet more difficult by younger family members... >>
The Last Journey of Captain Harte
A phone call from the nomadic Captain Harte, an old friend of her husband's, awakens a middle-aged widow's imagination. As the Captain makes his circuitous way home, she follows his journey and... >>
The Queen of Queen Street
Based on the life of Bertha Rand, Winnipeg's notorious Cat Lady, who battled her neighbours and city hall to save her cats, this play looks behind the headlines, giving a sensitive portrayal of the... >>
Triple Play
El Clavadista is a black comedy about two vacationing teachers in Mexico, A Sort of Holiday a romantic comedy about two strangers who clash in a small college library, and Amelia Earhart Was Not a... >>
Venus of Dublin
While on tour in Dublin, the once-great, untamable stage performer Edmund Kean hires a local renegade to paint his portrait. As Kean relives his encounters with the Huron of Quebec, the spirits of... >>
