I was searching online for some Canadian plays, and happened to stumble upon one called “Casting the Angel”. The play is pretty much about a group of four friends who met each other at the spawn of all their attempted acting careers. Years later, the friends reunite in Vancouver and reminisce about their years apart. There seems to be some jealousy from Kay, who feels that Brindle’s “successful” acting career was more luck than talent. As the play unfolds, the women rekindle past emotions of love, envy, and even disgust at some of each others’ ways.

http://www.playwrightstheatre.com/canplay.php?action=playresults&id=77

In looking online for plays I found one titled "Wreckage" by Sally Stubbs. The play is about a young woman who disappears in a train wreck and then many years later her suitcase appears on her daughter's doorstep. Her daughter Violet then attempts to find out what happened to her mother twenty-five years ago. It involves her daughter temporarily taking over the role of her mother after reading her diary as well as some flashbacks to the mother (Lucy) when she was actually on the train. I actually really enjoyed reading this play and would love to be able to see it performed. I was the perfect mix of drama and humor for me. All in all it seemed to be a very interesting play.

Les Belles-soeurs was Michel Tremblay's first play written in 1965, and was a huge success when it appeared on the stage. The piece was controversial and permanently changed Quebecois theater. The play is about a poor Quebecois woman named Germaine Lauzon. One day she wins a million trading stamps in the lottery, which she has to glue into provided booklets in order to redeem them. She decides to invite her family and friends over for a "stamp party" in order to get the task done. Unfortunatly the women become jealous and start bickering, stealing stamps, and whine about their poor lifestyles. Although this play is rather humorous the characters create a large sense of pity and what it means to be a poor Quebecois.

http://www.amazon.ca/belles-soeurs-Michel-Tremblay/dp/0776100254

while searching on the internet for a Canadian play I came upon a play by Mary Burns, which is quite interesting. This play, "Casting the Angel", is a play about four actresses who met in Vancouver years before and are together again in Toronto to audition for the lead female in the film version of Margaret Laurences book, "Stone Angel". The play follows the actresses through times of personal and work problems.
I had a great time reading over some of the play, as the entire script was posted at: www.playwrightstheatre.com I encourage any and all to check this great play out.

Sky Gilbert’s play “Drag Queens on Trial” is lewd and offensive. Just my cup of tea. Three drag queens make up the entire cast: Marlene Delorme, Judy Goose and Lana Lust. The queens steal a place in your heart as they primp in front of their mirrors and chat shamelessly with one another. Preparing for the play (within this play), a disembodied voice interrupts their gossip to announce showtime. In three scenes, Marlene, Judy and Lana take turns playing courtroom personalities: one plays the judge and a surprise witness, one the prosecuting attorney and one the defendant. They each stand accused of being drag queens. In their defenses, they each confront a surprise witness which attests to their childhoods as effeminate boys. The queens are forced to face deep, dark secrets hidden inside themselves, beneath their dresses. Accustomed to lying about their gender professionally, they risk exposure on the stand. The drag queens must find the courage to live the lie.

http://www.treyanthony.com/1_1-overview.php
The playwright and play, to an extent, that i chose to write about is Trey Anthony and Da
Kink in my Hair. Trey is an African-Canadian writer who was born in England in 1974. She
also is a comedian who has performed at Yuk-Yuk's and The Second City as well as writing
for the Chris Rock Show. Her show Da Kink in my hair, her first play, is about a woman
named Novelette who has to confront some of her goals and values when an exboyfriend dies
who lent her money to start her own hair salon. After his death, his daughter comes
calling for repayment of the loan which is the set-up for the play. The play has taken
Canada by storm and is just starting to come to the states. I would love to see it as it
sounds quite amusing.

In my search for a Canadian play, I was intrigued by several that came up by George Elliot Clark, especially since he is one of our authors for the class. I chose his most recent theatrical work, which he put out just this year, called “Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path.” Though this is a dramatic poem, it was originally composed to be set as the libretto in an opera. I figured this fact, along with the dramatic narrative of the poem and the ease with which it could be performed, could qualify it for the Canadian “play” category. The work basically recalls the life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau. I have to confess, also, that the most I knew previously about Trudeau was that there is a nearby airport named after him. The poem follows Trudeau through his personal life, beginning in 1949 in China during a civil war, where he meets his wife. It follows him through his political career, and shows him in moments with John F. Kennedy Jr. before he was president, and in Cuba during the Day of Pigs Invasion meeting with Fidel Castro. The aspect of Clark’s work that I find most interesting here, is that the play shifts from a look at historically noted, physically played-out revolutions, to a look at the Quiet Revolution, which we’ve now learned a bit about.

http://www.gaspereau.com/1554470374.shtml