List of Canadian plays

List of Canadian plays

Canada has a vibrant theatre scene with notable experimental, fringe and other alternative forms. Indeed, the largest fringe festival in North America is the Edmonton International Fringe Festival.

This is an incomplete list of plays created by Canadian playwrights.

*"7 Stories" by Morris Panych
*"Beatrice Chancy" by George Elliot Clarke
*"Being at Home with Claude" by René-Daniel Dubois
*"Les Belles-soeurs" by Michel Tremblay, produced in Scotland as "The Guid-Sisters"
*"Billy Bishop Goes to War" by John Gray with Eric Peterson
*"Blood on the Moon" by Pierre Brault
*"Blood Relations" by Sharon Pollock
*"Butler's Marsh" by Robert Chafe
*"The Canvas Barricade" by Donald Jack
*"The Crackwalker" by Judith Thompson
*"Cranked" by Michael P. Northey
*"The Drawer Boy" by Michael Healey
*"Departures and Arrivals" by Carol Shields
*"Doc" by Sharon Pollock
*"The Donnellys" by James Reaney
*"Drag Queens on Trial" by Sky Gilbert
*"Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing" by Tomson Highway
*"Earshot" by Morris Panych
*"Eight Men Speak"
*"Einstein's Gift" by Vern Thiessen
*"Elizabeth Rex" by Timothy Findley
*"The Ecstasy of Rita Joe" by George Ryga
*"Fortune and Men's Eyes" by John Herbert
*"Fronteras Americanas" by Guillermo Verdecchia
*"Girl in the Goldfish Bowl" by Morris Panych
*"The Glace Bay Miner's Museum" by Wendy Lill (adapted from the novel by Sheldon Currie)
*"Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)" by Ann-Marie MacDonald
*"La guerre, yes sir!" by Roch Carrier
*"Leaving Home" by David French
*"The Head, Guts and Soundbone Dance by Michael Cook
*"I, Claudia" by Kristen Thomson
*"The Investigator" by Reuben Ship
*"Leaving Home" by David French
*"Lillies" by Michel-Marc Bouchard
*"Lion in the Streets" by Judith Thompson
*"Moo" by Sally Clark (playwright)
*"Never Swim Alone" by Daniel MacIvor
*"Not Wanted on the Voyage" by Timothy Findley; adapted by Richard Rose and D.D. Kugler
*"Nothing Sacred" by George F. Walker
*"One Man Star Wars Trilogy" by Charles Ross
*"Perfect Pie" by Judith Thompson
*"Possible Worlds" by John Mighton
*"The Rez Sisters" by Tomson Highway
*"Rootless but Green Are the Boulevard Trees" by Uma Parameswaran
*"Same Time, Next Year" by Bernard Slade
*"Suburban Motel" by George F. Walker
*"Tamara" by John Krizanc
*"Tideline" by Wadji Mouawad
*"Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love" by Brad Fraser
*"Vigil" by Morris Panych
*"Yesterday the Children were Dancing" ("Hier, les enfants dansaient") by Gratien Gélinas

See also: List of Canadian playwrights


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