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How can Shane reconcile his feelings for David with his desire for a better life?  Shane is still reeling from the suicide of his kid sister, Destiny.  How could he have missed the fact that she was so sad? He tries to share his grief with his girlfriend, Tara, but she’s too concerned with her own needs to offer him much comfort.  What he really wants is to be able to turn to the one person on the rez whom he loves—his friend, David.  Things go from bad to worse as Shane’s dream of going to university is shattered and his grieving mother withdraws from the world.

Dans son quotidien régulé par les sonneries des radios-réveils et les bulletins météo animés par son ex, le gars tente tant bien que mal de ne pas s’affaisser. Seul, sans le sou, happé par un tourbillon dont il ne parvient pas à s’extirper, ce héros malgré lui se retrouve dans la boue jusqu’au cou. Mais avec le soutien de Super-Poulet BBQ, véritable ange gardien déplumé qui se métamorphose au gré des situations, il réapprendra peu à peu à vivre.

Après une longue absence, James Coutu rentre chez lui, une petite communauté de pêcheurs métis sur les bords du Grand lac. Il revient, dit-il, pour rdonni la vie à lis ceuses ki nont pas. En ce faisant, il se met à dos des puissances redoutables, celles-là mêmes qui lui ont imposé l'exil. Sans en ignorer les conséquences, James poursuit pourtant la destinée qu'il s'attribue jusqu'à son terme incontournable. Alors seulement se permit-il de repartir, mais cette fois le coeur en paix...

Sans se déculotter complètement, l'auteur se dévoile dans Mes shorts. Ce recueil de textes brefs pour enfants, pour jeunes et moins jeunes est un heureux mélange de styles et de genres, passant du monologue, à la courte pièce et même au vaudeville. Recueil rétrospectif qui valse entre le comique et le dramatique, en passant par l'absurde.

Les six textes de La Robe de mariée de Gisèle Schmidt sont des nouvelles en forme de théâtre inventées pour défier le temps et se laisser rêver. En guise de présentation, Julie Vincent écrit : « Il y a quelques années on jouait chez Duceppe Ivanov d’Anton Tchekhov. Gisèle Schmidt était de la distribution. Elle regardait une scène d’amour terrible entre Sacha et Ivanov. C’est dans cette coulisse qu’elle m’a dit : J’aurais donné toute ma carrière pour vivre une grande histoire d’amour.

Freeze is an allegorical comedy play that dramatizes the Great Ice Storm of '98 as a metaphor presaging “cooler” more inclusive times in Quebec compared to the separatist firestorms of earlier decades. Five quirky Montrealers, trapped in a power-outed duplex, butt heads in candlelight over love, language and politics, provoking us to ponder with laughter whether Montreal's “two solitudes” of the past has become a stereotype in this new century?

Winner of the 2017 Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Canadian Play. Winner of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards. Stage Award for Best Performance, 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Mouthpiece follows one woman, for one day, as she tries to find her voice. Two performers express the inner conflict that exists within a modern woman's head: the push and pull, the past and the present, the progress and the regression. Interweaving a cappella harmony, dissonance, text, and physicality, Mouthpiece is a harrowing, humorous, and heart-wrenching journey into the female psyche.

In the vast, unnamed metropolis of Hello … Hello, art and commerce have finally and completely conjoined; stylish cafés serve up zebra mussels and the air is thick with a gentle rain of sparrows plummeting down from the mirrored office towers. Everywhere, people are falling for an edgy new fashion accessory: a shiny ball filled with poison that hangs from a delicate chain. In this oddly peaceful world, Cassandra, a salesgirl at a clothing store called the Abyss, meets a charismatic ad man named Ben in the graveyard where she is mourning her lover, the last true artist on earth.

Winner of the 2013 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama. In Greenland, the discovery of a new island off the nation's coast mirrors a growing rift between the island’s discoverer and his family. In Iceland, set against the backdrop of the banking crisis, a confrontation between a real estate agent and a tenant takes an unexpected turn. A young woman's idealism is challenged by the infamous whale hunt in Faroe Islands. Nicolas Billon's critically acclaimed trilogy asks the audience to consider the values that guide human relations.

‘I used to want a black enamel farmhouse sink. Now, I just want shelter.’ From acclaimed playwright Karen Hines come two darkly comic meditations on security, safety, and shelter. Crawlspace is a comic, Kafkaesque monologue about the darker side of home ownership that moves past ‘cautionary’ as it snakes through the brutal battleground of Toronto real estate, decorative twig orbs, and the state of the human soul.