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In 1939, a group of students at a fictional residential school in Ontario are faced with the daunting task of putting on a play by William Shakespeare for the King and Queen of England on their first Royal Tour of Canada. But as news spreads and audience expectations abound, the students, resilient and resourceful, find their own way into the text, determined to challenge the notion that there's only one way to do Shakespeare. Born of both family legacy and the calls to action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the development of 1939 was guided by Indigenous Elders, survivors, and ceremony.

Daddy wants to win the lottery, Mommy is still bitter about getting knocked up at twenty, Simeon has war-related PTSD, and Rachel just wants to get out of her parents' Oakwood/Eglinton place and have a home of her own, but first there are a few things she's got to get off her chest. It's Jamaica's Independence Day, Toronto is sweltering, and everyone is on edge--then the air-conditioner breaks. Loosely inspired by Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Andrea Scott's Get That Hope looks at the dysfunction of a Jamaican-Canadian family that has no idea how to communicate without wounding.

In Gay for Pay with Blake & Clay, two out-of-work gay actors teach straight men how to play the gay roles that lead to awards season glory. Blake and Clay may not be leading men, but they are leading these men to greatness by teaching them to go from straight to straight-up booked. Because representation matters, but Blake and Clay's representation hasn't called them in ages. Blake & Clay's Gay Agenda invites you to the fabulous book launch for the world's first how-to manual about the eternal conundrum that is gay living. Watch as Blake and Clay take the guesswork out of the queer experience and unite the community once and for all. Because if the gays can agree on one thing, it's that they can't agree on anything.

Considered a masterpiece of Canadian literature, Margaret Laurence's The Diviners is the compelling story of Morag Gunn, a woman who perseveres through challenge after challenge as she attempts to carve out an authentic life as a writer. The play moves backward and forward through time, taking us to Morag's impoverished childhood in rural Manitoba, her early struggles to establish herself as a female artist, and her present, as she works to finish a novel while navigating a thorny relationship with her teenage daughter, Pique. Inextricably bound with Morag's Scottish settler story is the Metis story of Jules Tonnerre, her friend, lover, and Pique's father. Adapted for the stage by Vern Thiessen with Yvette Nolan, The Diviners illuminates issues of identity, class, and reconciliation.

Scirocco Drama presents two plays by Jessica B. Hill: The Dark Lady, a drama about Shakespeare's mysterious "Dark Lady of the Sonnets," and Pandora, a solo show about hope, interconnection, and life's biggest questions.Emilia Bassano, believed to be the woman known as "the Dark Lady" in Shakespeare's sonnets, was actually one of England's first female published poets. She was also trilingual, mixed race, and a force to be reckoned with. In The Dark Lady, Shakespeare and Bassano collide as they wrestle with artistic collaboration, ambition, envy, and love--an entanglement that will profoundly shape both their lives and their work.Pandora is sorry. It's all her fault and she's so sorry. From devastating natural disasters to that time you hit your shin on the coffee table, Pandora's been carrying the burden of world chaos and human suffering since the beginning of time. But she's starting to feel pretty suspicious...What if it was a set up? What if the box was empty all along? If there's one thing we know about Pandora, it's that she's curious. That curiosity leads her on a quest across time to discover the meaning of life, but the more she searches, the more questions seem to arise!

"I swear, I absolutely swear that hope has a sound..." It's October 1991, and the residents of Casey House, Canada's first free-standing AIDS hospice, have woken up to the life-changing news that Princess Diana will be paying them a visit. Inspired by incredible true events, Casey and Diana is the story of compassion, kindness, community, and forgiveness in the face of devastating loss.

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama. Winner of the Chalmers Play Award. A rhapsodic blues tragedy. "Harlem Duet" could be the prelude to Shakepeare's "Othello," and recounts the tale of Othello and his first wife Billie (yes, before Desdemona). Set in contemporary Harlem at the corner of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X boulevards, the play explores the space where race and sex intersect. "Harlem Duet" is Billie's story.