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When it Rains is the story of four people, two marriages, and one increasingly improbable series of events. As misfortune mounts, communication fractures, relationships crumble, behaviour becomes absurd. People sing, get naked, give up, lose control, have sex with strangers. Some kind of God intervenes. Or observes. Or something. Or nothing. When it Rains is by turns blackly funny social satire, heartbreaking drama, existentialist graphic nove...

Dying to be Thin" is a witty and inspirational look behind locked doors into the secret life of a young teenager battling with the eating disorder bulimia. Written from the author's own personal experience, the play unfolds to tell the poignant story of Amanda, as she sets out to have her "Last Ever in Her Whole Life Binge.

Keeper is a powerful, intriguing story about a connection between two women--the memory of which carries such weight in each of their pasts that the only means of self-preservation has been to try to shut it down. We witness an evening in the lives of Avalon and Constance--the former in her early 20s, the latter 16 years older--who have been bonded and blistered by death, doubt and distance. As the details of their shared history emerge, long-...

Twelve Hours is the story of Jimmy Stanton. Convicted of the rape and murder of a young woman, Jimmy is facing his last hours on Death Row. As his story unfolds, so do those of the people whose lives he has impacted, from the sister of the woman he killed, to the Governor who must decide if Jimmy's execution should be commuted. Twelve Hours goes into the hearts and minds of ordinary people affected by a terrible crime--and the cruel and biased...

Happy Place explores the lives of seven women aged 23 to 60 who are residents of an in-patient care facility: a microcosm for the world outside its walls. What is it to live inside the suffering of these women...addressing the idea that we are not so different from each other, though our circumstances may be? Each woman must try to find a way to fit into a world that can't respond to or redress a pain that is unseeable. But they are also the o...

Reckoning is a triptych of three short plays: Witness is a dance-movement piece featuring a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner who unravels as he confronts the brutal testimony of residential school survivors, in Daughter, the daughter of a teacher who was accused of rape seduces her father's accuser, and Survivor is a solo piece about a man preparing to commit suicide as a protest against the insufficiencies of the reconciliation process.A...