Play Chronology
In the past 30 years the Belfry has produced more than 210 plays, of which 150 have been Canadian, and over 32 have been premiere productions.
Many of the plays that have premiered at the Belfry have gone on to acclaim across Canada, in the U.S., Australia, Europe and London’s West End. Belfry Theatre productions have won awards in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary.
You can also download the play chronology in pdf format here.
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Season |
Series |
Title |
Author |
Nationality |
Production Status |
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2008 – 09 |
Bonus |
Anything That Moves |
Music by Allen Cole, book by Ann-Marie MacDonald and Alisa Palmer |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Half Life |
John Mighton |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla |
Electric Company Theatre |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
The Real Thing |
Tom Stoppard |
UK |
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Mainstage |
The Ends of the Earth |
Morris Panych |
Canada |
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Festival |
Bash’d: A Gay Rap Opera |
Chris Craddock and Nathan Cuckow |
Canada |
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Festival |
Radio: 30 |
Chris Earle |
Canada |
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Festival |
Haircuts by Children |
Conceived by Darren O’Donnell |
Canada |
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Festival |
Moving Along |
Chris Craddock |
Canada |
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Festival |
Rage |
Michele Riml |
Canada |
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2007 – 08 |
Bonus |
The Number 14 |
The Number 14 Collective |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Homechild |
Joan MacLeod |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Glorious! |
Peter Quilter |
UK |
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Mainstage |
The Turn of the Screw |
Henry James, Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher |
UK / US |
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Mainstage |
The Violet Hour |
Richard Greenberg |
US |
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Festival |
Any Night |
Daniel Arnold and Medina Hahn |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Festival |
Leo |
Rosa Laborde |
Canada |
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Festival |
My Chernobyl |
Aaron Bushkowsky |
Canada |
Premiere |
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2006 – 07 |
Bonus |
Mom’s the Word 2: Unhinged |
Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard and Deborah Williams |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
I Am My Own Wife |
Doug Wright |
US |
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Mainstage |
Urinetown: The Musical |
Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis |
US |
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Mainstage |
Honour |
Joanna Murray-Smith |
Australia |
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Mainstage |
Mesa |
Doug Curtis |
Canada |
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Festival |
Skydive |
Kevin Kerr |
Canada |
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Festival |
[storm] |
Battery Opera |
Canada |
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Festival |
Bigger than Jesus |
Rick Miller and Daniel Brooks |
Canada |
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Festival |
Cross This Bridge at a Walk |
Charles Tidler |
Canada |
Premiere |
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2005 – 06 |
Bonus |
The Ballad of Jim Pane |
Ross Desprez |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Girl in the Goldfish Bowl |
Morris Panych |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Unless |
Carol Shields and Sara Cassidy |
Canada |
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Bonus |
The Syringa Tree |
Pamela Gien |
US |
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Mainstage |
The Love List |
Norm Foster |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
A Number |
Caryl Churchill |
UK |
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Festival |
Janus Janis |
Jan Kudelka |
Canada |
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Festival |
Tempting Providence |
Robert Chafe |
Canada |
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Festival |
The Winter’s Tale |
William Shakespeare, Adadpted by Runaway Moon Theatre |
Canada |
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Festival |
The Qualities of Zero |
Jacob Richmond |
Canada |
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2004 – 05 |
Bonus |
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change |
Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts |
US |
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Mainstage |
Rough Magic |
John Lazarus |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Trying |
Joanna McClelland Glass |
Canada |
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Bonus |
A Twisted Christmas Carol |
Charles Dickens and Rock-Paper-Scissors |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Corker |
Wendy Lill |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Stones in His Pockets |
Marie Jones |
UK |
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Bonus |
Wingfield’s Inferno |
Dan Needles |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Festival |
Featherland |
Denise Clarke |
Canada |
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Festival |
Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout |
Tomson Highway |
Canada |
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Festival |
Danny, King of the Basement |
David S. Craig |
Canada |
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Festival |
The Wedding Pool |
Amiel Gladstone |
Canada |
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Festival |
The Ballad of Jim Pane |
Ross Desprez |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Festival |
Lion in the Streets |
Judith Thompson |
Canada |
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2003 – 04 |
Bonus |
Sexy Laundry |
Michele Riml |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Blue/Orange |
Joe Penhall |
UK |
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Mainstage |
Dirty Blonde |
Claudia Shear |
US |
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Bonus |
Ethan Claymore |
Norm Foster |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
One Last Kiss |
Aaron Bushkowsky |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Knock, Knock |
Rachel Wyatt |
Canada |
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Festival |
Earshot |
Morris Panych |
Canada |
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Festival |
Casualties of Progress |
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Canada |
Premiere |
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Festival |
Coming Up for Air |
George Orwell, Adapted by Leslie Mildiner |
Canada |
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Festival |
Espresso |
Lucia Frangione |
Canada |
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Festival |
Tortoise Boy |
Charles Tidler |
Canada |
Premiere |
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2002 – 03 |
Bonus |
Blankety Blank: The Unknown Musical |
Diana Frances |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Garage Sale |
David King |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Mary’s Wedding |
Stephen Massicote |
Canada |
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Bonus |
Wingfield on Ice |
Dan Needles |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Time After Time: The Chet Baker Project |
James O’Reilly |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Proof |
David Auburn |
US |
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Festival |
Ivanka Chews the Fat |
Jo-Ann Waytowich |
Canada |
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Festival |
Nowhere Revolution |
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Canada |
Premiere |
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Festival |
Frankie |
Mary Ellen MacLean |
Canada |
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Festival |
Second Skin |
Joan Schirle |
US |
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Festival |
Between Lovers |
Sheri-D Wilson |
Canada |
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Festival |
Crushed |
Trace de Jaray |
Canada |
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2001 – 02 |
Bonus |
Menopositive: The Musical |
JJ McColl |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Flying Blind |
Flying Blind Collective |
Canada / Australia |
Premiere |
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The Weir |
Conor McPherson |
UK |
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Bonus |
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) |
Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield |
US |
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Mainstage |
When We Were Singing |
Dorothy Dittrich |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Art |
Yasmina Reza, Translated by Christoper Hampton |
France / UK |
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Festival |
The Shape of a Girl |
Joan MacLeod |
Canada |
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Festival |
I, Claudia |
Kristen Thomson |
Canada |
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Festival |
Down Dangerous Passes Road |
Michel Marc Bouchard, Translated by Linda Gaboriau |
Canada |
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2000 – 01 |
Bonus |
Lies & Legends – The Musical Stories of Harry Chapin |
Harry Chapin |
US |
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Mainstage |
Kilt |
Jonathan Wilson |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
One Night Stand |
Carol Bolt |
Canada |
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Bonus |
A Twisted Christmas Carol |
Charles Dickens and Rock-Paper-Scissors |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
The Cripple of Inishmaan |
Martin McDonagh |
UK |
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Mainstage |
The Drawer Boy |
Michael Healey |
Canada |
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Festival |
In On It |
Daniel MacIvor |
Canada |
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Festival |
Cirque Poule |
Lois Anderson, Meredith Babcock, Manon Beaudoin, Susan Bertoia, Nino Parent, Heidi Specht and Michelle Carriere |
Canada |
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Festival |
Be Still |
Janet Munsil |
Canada |
Premiere |
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1999 – 2000 |
Bonus |
All Grown Up |
Leslie Mildiner with Ellen Kennedy and Bonnie Panych |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again |
Michel Tremblay |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Patience |
Jason Sherman |
Canada |
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Bonus |
The Wingfield Series |
Dan Needles |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Sylvia |
A.R. Gurney |
US |
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Mainstage |
The Coronation Voyage |
Michel Marc Bouchard, Translated by Linda Gaboriau |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Festival |
Je Me Souviens |
Lorena Gale |
Canada |
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Festival |
15 Seconds |
Francois Archambault |
Canada |
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Festival |
Blind Dancers |
Charles Tidler |
Canada |
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Festival |
Red Mango |
Charles Tidler |
Canada |
Premiere |
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1998 – 99 |
Bonus |
A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline |
Dean Regan |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
How I Learned to Drive |
Paula Vogel |
US |
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Mainstage |
Ingenious Speculations: Inspirations from Leonardo |
Rita Bozi, Jan Derbyshire, Kim Selody and Roy Surette |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Two |
Jim Cartwright |
UK |
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Mainstage |
A Guide to Mourning |
Eugene Stickland |
Canada |
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Festival |
Featuring Loretta |
George F. Walker |
Canada |
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Festival |
Problem Child |
George F. Walker |
Canada |
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Festival |
Urban Tattoo |
Marie Clements |
Canada |
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1997 – 98 |
Bonus |
Come Rain or Come Shine |
Harold Arlen, Conceived by Don Shipley |
Canada / US |
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Mainstage |
A Perfect Ganesh |
Terrence McNally |
US |
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Mainstage |
Sincerely, A Friend |
Leonard Cohen, Conceived by Bryden MacDonald |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Skylight |
David Hare |
UK |
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Mainstage |
Picasso at the Lapin Agile |
Steve Martin |
US |
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Festival |
High Life |
Lee McDougall |
Canada |
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Festival |
The Wines of Tuscany |
Conrad Alexandrowicz |
Canada |
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Festival |
The Opposite of Everything is True |
Jan Derbyshire |
Canada |
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1996 – 97 |
Bonus |
Mom’s the Word |
Linda Carson, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard and Deborah Williams |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Crackpot |
Rachel Wyatt |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Atlantis |
Maureen Hunter |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Wingfield Unbound |
Dan Needles |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
The Threepenny Opera |
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Adapted by Morris Panych |
Canada / Germany |
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Festival |
Tinka’s New Dress |
Ronnie Burkett |
Canada |
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Festival |
Two Pianos, Four Hands |
Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt |
Canada |
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Festival |
Grace |
Michael MacLennan |
Canada |
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1995 – 96 |
Mainstage |
Vigil |
Morris Panych |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Mom’s the Word |
Linda Carson, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard and Deborah Williams |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Three Tall Women |
Edward Albee |
US |
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Mainstage |
Death and the Maiden |
Ariel Dorfman |
US |
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Mainstage |
The Sum of Us |
David Stevens |
Australia |
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Festival |
Here Lies Henry |
Daniel MacIvor |
Canada |
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Festival |
Sensible Footwear |
Alex Dallas, Alison Field and Wendy Vousden |
Canada / UK |
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Festival |
Emphysema |
Janet Munsil |
Canada |
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1994 – 95 |
Mainstage |
If We Are Women |
Joanna McClelland Glass |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Oleanna |
David Mamet |
US |
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Mainstage |
The Faraway Nearby |
John Murrell |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
The Orphan Muses |
Michel Marc Bouchard, Translated by Linda Gaboriau |
Canada |
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Bonus |
A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline |
Dean Regan |
Canada |
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Festival |
Whale Riding Weather |
Bryden MacDonald |
Canada |
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Festival |
Tough! |
George F. Walker |
Canada |
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Festival |
The Two-Headed Roommate |
Bruce McCulloch |
Canada |
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1993 – 94 |
Mainstage |
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid |
Michael Ondaatje |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Lips Together, Teeth Apart |
Terrence McNally |
US |
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Mainstage |
Anatol |
Arthur Schnitzler, Adapted by Morris Panych |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Puttin’ on the Ritz |
Don Shipley |
Canada / US |
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Festival |
Fronteras Americanas |
Guillermo Verdecchia |
Canada |
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Festival |
Path with No Moccasins |
Shirley Cheechoo |
Canada |
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Festival |
To Cry is Not So |
Dean Gilmour, Teresa Przybylski, Jason Sherman, Michele Smith and Alec Stockwell |
Canada |
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Festival |
Toronto at Dreamer’s Rock |
Drew Hayden Taylor |
Canada |
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1992 – 93 |
Mainstage |
Homeward Bound |
Elliott Hayes |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr |
Jovette Marchessault, Translated by Linda Gaboriau |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Gunmetal Blues |
Marion Adler, Craig Bohmler and Scott Wentworth |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Hunter of Peace |
Sharon Stearns |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe |
Jane Wagner |
US |
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Festival |
The Boy in the Garden |
Stephen White |
Canada |
Premiere |
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1991 – 92 |
Mainstage |
Italian American Reconcilation |
John Patrick Shanley |
US |
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Mainstage |
Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet |
Ann Marie MacDonald |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Hank Williams, The Show He Never Gave |
Maynard Collins |
Canada / US |
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Mainstage |
Democracy |
John Murrell |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
The Hostage |
Brendan Behan |
Ireland |
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Studio |
Cost of Living |
Morris Panych |
Canada |
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Studio |
The Hope Slide |
Joan MacLeod |
Canada |
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1990 – 91 |
Mainstage |
The Cocktail Hour |
A.R. Gurney |
US |
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Mainstage |
Memories of You |
Wendy Lill |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Schedules |
Bruce McManus |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Amigo’s Blue Guitar |
Joan MacLeod |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Shirley Valentine |
Willy Russell |
UK |
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Studio |
I Wasn’t Born Here |
Lina de Guevara and the Puente Project |
Canada |
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1989 – 90 |
Mainstage |
Pump Boys and Dinettes |
John Foley |
US |
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Mainstage |
Harbour House |
David King |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Homework and Curtains |
John Lazarus |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Wingfield’s Folly |
Dan Needles |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Emerald City |
David Williamson |
Australia |
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1988 – 89 |
Mainstage |
Beyond Therapy |
Christopher Durang |
US |
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Mainstage |
Snake Eyes – Two One Act Plays |
Eugene O’Neill and Nikolai Gogol |
US / Russia |
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Mainstage |
The Impossible Adventures of Darius Davereaux |
Leslie Mildiner |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Toronto, Mississippi |
Joan MacLeod |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Come Rain or Come Shine |
Harold Arlen, Conceived by Don Shipley |
Canada / US |
Premiere |
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1987 – 88 |
Mainstage |
Gone to Glory |
Suzanne Finlay |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
The Three Musketeers |
Alexandre Dumas, Adapted by Liz Gorrie |
Canada / France |
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Mainstage |
Wingfield’s Progress |
Dan Needles |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Not About Heroes |
Stephen MacDonald |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Moo |
Sally Clark |
Canada |
Premiere |
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1986 – 87 |
Mainstage |
The Melville Boys |
Norm Foster |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Gimme That Prime Time Religion |
Nexus Theatre |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Einstein |
Gabriel Emanuel |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Masterclass |
David Pownell |
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1985 – 86 |
Mainstage |
The Go-go Boys |
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UK |
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Mainstage |
The Victoria Show |
Colleen Eccleston, Jim Leard, Glynis Leyshon, David McLeod and Lorna Olafson |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Letter from Wingfield Farm |
Dan Needles |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Educating Rita |
Willy Russell |
UK |
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1984 – 85 |
Mainstage |
Quartermaine’s Terms |
Simon Gray |
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Mainstage |
Night, Mother |
Marsha Norman |
US |
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Mainstage |
Children |
A.R. Gurney |
US |
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Mainstage |
Saltwater Moon |
David French |
Canada |
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1983 – 84 |
Mainstage |
The Tomorrow Box |
Anne Chislett |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Hosanna |
Michel Tremblay |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Sea Marks |
Gardner McKay |
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Mainstage |
War Baby |
Margaret Hollingsworth |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
Waiting for Godot |
Samuel Beckett |
Ireland |
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Mainstage |
Stevie |
Hugh Whitmore |
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1982 – 83 |
Mainstage |
The Dining Room |
A.R. Gurney |
US |
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Mainstage |
Playing the Fool |
Alan Hibbert |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Mass Appeal |
Bill Davis |
US |
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Mainstage |
Ashes |
David Rudkin |
US |
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Mainstage |
Last Call |
Morris Panych |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Filthy Rich |
George F. Walker |
Canada |
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Studio |
Straight Ahead / Blind Dancers |
Charles Tidler |
Canada |
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1981 – 82 |
Mainstage |
Maggie and Pierre |
Linda Griffith |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Sonny |
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Mainstage |
Court of Common Pleas |
Alexis Bernier |
Canada |
Premiere |
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Mainstage |
The Au Pair Man |
Hugh Leonard |
Ireland |
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Mainstage |
Talley’s Folly |
Lanford Wilson |
US |
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1980 – 81 |
Mainstage |
I’ll Be Back Before Midnight |
Peter Collier |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Ever Loving |
Margaret Hollingsworth |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
On Golden Pond |
Ernest Thompson |
US |
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Mainstage |
Good Evening |
Keith Digby, Warren Graves and Ian D. Clark |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Starting Here, Starting Now |
David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr. |
US |
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1979 – 80 |
Mainstage |
Private Lives |
Noel Coward |
UK |
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Mainstage |
Side by Side by Sondheim |
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US |
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Mainstage |
Da |
Hugh Leonard |
Ireland |
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Mainstage |
Collette – The Colours of Love |
Christopher Covert |
Canada |
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1978 – 79 |
Mainstage |
Piaf |
Pam Gems |
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Mainstage |
A Day in the Life of Joe Egg |
Peter Nichols |
UK |
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Mainstage |
Spokesong |
Stewart Parker with Music by Jimmy Kennedy |
UK |
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1977 – 78 |
Mainstage |
Oscar Remembered |
Maxim Mazumdar |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
Dames at Sea |
George Haimsohn and Robin Miller and music by Jim Wise |
US |
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1976 – 77 |
Mainstage |
Puttin’ on the Ritz |
Don Shipley |
Canada / US |
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Mainstage |
Canadian Gothic / American Modern |
Joanna McClelland Glass |
Canada |
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Mainstage |
El Grande de Coca Cola |
Ron House, Diz White, Alan Shearman, John Neville-Andrews |
US |
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