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Filip, the ten-year-old son of Croatian immigrants, lives in a boring suburb of the big city, where he passes his time either at school or in his cozy kitchen, googling everything from dinosaurs to

Seventeen-year-old Jemma's older brother took her in when she needed to get away from her abusive ex-boyfriend, Razor. All Jemma wants now is to be a good mom to her baby daughter, Violet.

Modo, who first made his appearance in The Hunchback Assignments, is a young, disfigured spy trained to be the ultimate secret agent.

"Hummingbirds and angels don't need two good feet. They have wings." That's what Alba's mother always says. Of course, Alba doesn't have wings or two good feet: she has Cleo.

At the age of three, Arthur Biyarslanov fled with his family from the war-ravaged frontier of Chechnya.

"When life comes knocking you don't want it to find you on the couch in a soiled bathrobe." Norm Foster's quick wit is strong in this lighthearted buddy comedy about living life

Mustard shouldn't still be here, but he is. Imaginary friends don't normally stay with their Person until that Person is a troubled teenager, exhibiting strangely violent behaviour.

It's been over twenty years since Guy ditched his high-school sweetheart Gloria at the prom, and they haven't spoken since.

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After Samantha's baba dies, her fractured family is summoned to pick through the house full of belongings and trash, leaving taped notes on whatever they want to take.

Two of the most produced, popular, and important Canadian plays for young audiences are back in an updated edition.

"I bore him fourteen children and he had me down here faster than lightning." In 1887, women were property and could be imprisoned for any reason.

From masturbation to motherhood, body shaming to burlesque, Catherine Hernandez reveals the reality of living as a queer woman of colour.

"She doesn't care about me; she doesn't even want to see me; she just pretends she does." Shy, fourteen-year-old Maddie wasn't expecting to have to worry about taking care

In these two plays for young audiences, award-winning playwright Erin Shields presents the challenges of friendship and communication.