Our Playwrights Unit, Pierrette Walker, Keira Silverglen, and Shailyn Pierre-Dixon will be sharing excerpts from their work after 8-months of intensive development led by Toronto-based actor and writer Lisa Codrington.

Our 25/26 season was filled with love, legacy and creation. Celebrate this past season with us after our Playwrights Unit Showcase! Meet the playwrights, connect with fellow artists and theatre lovers, enjoy good vibes, food & drinks available for purchase.

More about the excerpts:

Amorphous by Keira Silverglen

Amorphous follows Seraphina Goldman, a young Black Orthodox Jewish woman, on the eve of her wedding. When three of her Black ancestors appear in her childhood home – summoned through a box of unsent letters – Seraphina is forced to confront the part of herself she’s long buried.

Brotherhood is Not my Kin by Shailyn Pierre-Dixon

ACAB. Pigs. KKK. Abusers. Brutalists. Trigger-happy babies. Rapists in uniform. Self-esteem issues. Mommy issues. Daddy issues. Racists. Hypocrites. Whiteness is rightness. Uniforms are blood. Back the blue is not for you. Diversity hire. Uncle Tom. Black Master. White man’s dog. It’s different. I’m different. I can save them. Let me help them. From the inside. I can change them. I believe. I love. I promise. Listen. Listen. I can. Oh. oh.

Confronting Blackness in places of authority and the exploitation of Black isolation from within.

When Widows Speak by Pierrette Walker

When Widows Speak is an invitation into the lives of three women navigating the impact and shifts following the loss of their partners. It is an invitation to sit with the nuances of grief, its discomforts, its humor and its transformative possibilities – whether we want to or not. It is a dance between reality and the metaphysical. When Widows Speak is dedicated to those who were ever made to feel “too much” for feeling love and its layers- what some call grief or loss, and what others call memory.