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Quand Noémie apprend que son fils, son Théo, est accusé d'agression sexuelle, elle est aspirée par la vague et forcée de replonger dans ses traumas. Parce que si la tête peut faire croire à l'exil de la souffrance, le corps, lui, n'oublie jamais. De la fonte de ses propres glaces naît alors une seule certitude : elle doit confronter les deux hommes qui, il y a vingt ans sur le bord du fleuve Saint-Laurent, l'ont elle-même agressée. Le ressac des questions qui émergent bouscule les trajectoires de plusieurs personnes.

A diverse group of seven writers comes together to create seven tender scenes about their hopes for the future. "The seven of us, a diverse group of elders, have endured, loved, lost and celebrated life in our own ways.

At a crumbling zoo, an elephant keeper, a security guard, and a newly hired media consultant have differing views over what should be done about the zoo's main attraction, the aging Sri Lankan elephant Matara. Matara is deteriorating by the day following the loss of her companion elephant Cheerio and a petition is circulating to try to force the zoo's management to move her to a sanctuary. Karen, Matara's keeper, argues adamantly that the zoo is Matara's home and family, and that she is not strong enough to travel.

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild their lives and their families after the war, Ralph and Mitsue must find the grace and generosity necessary to forgive those who have wronged them. Their paths eventually cross in 1968 when Mitsue's son and Ralph's daughter begin dating, and Ralph is invited to Mitsue's home for dinner.

First produced in Canada by Canadian Stage, Toronto, in September 2021. First produced by Theater der Welt, Dusseldorf, in June 2021. The title of the play is a striking quote from Greta Thunberg's speech to the UK's parliament in April 2019.

The Sri Lankan civil war has left many scars on Thangan and his family, most noticeably the loss of his eldest son and the crippling epileptic seizures brought on by his torture. As the final days of the war play out, the family bears witness from their new home of Toronto. Thangan's other son Kanan comes home from a protest, shaken that someone referred to him by his brother's name. His young daughter Kavitha innocently dances around with a mysterious pair of anklets that she found. And Thangan's wife Sevi is consumed with feeling responsible for her broken family.

Les élèves du collège ont déclenché une grève générale illimitée. Zoé refuse de se joindre au mouvement: elle est persuadée que le meilleur moyen pour elle de contribuer à la société est de poursuivre ses études en vue d'entrer en médecine. Elle obtient de la Cour une injonction obligeant ses professeurs à lui enseigner, sous peine d'emprisonnement. C'est donc sous la contrainte que Luc, son professeur de philosophie, entame avec elle un dialogue qui les forcera tous deux à reconsidérer leur rapport à l'autre, et à éprouver les limites de leur liberté.

Mavis Gallant's only play, which premiered at Toronto's Tarragon Theatre on November 11, 1982, is a comedy that opens in 1942, in the heat of the battle against Fascism, when it was possible for Canadians to cheer for both Stalin and the Royal Family. At home in Montreal, Jenny (18) is impressed by her friend Molly's copy of a political pamphlet written by V.I. Lenin entitled What Is To Be Done?

Originally produced for the stage by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and For the Love of Learning, transVersing features some of Newfoundland's most vibrant and necessary trans-youth voices. Gathering the work of Violet Drake, Daze Jefferies, Fionn Shea, Perin Squires, Taylor Stocks, and Dane Woodland, and including the dramatic text by Berni Stapleton and Sharon King-Campbell, transVersing is where Shakespeare meets slam poetry and the fiddle meets soapbox rant. These are the creative and courageous voices charting our course to understanding and social justice for all.

Four members of the Canadian Armed Forces are interviewed by an unseen broadcasting corporation regarding their service in Afghanistan and the events that led up to a horrific incident.