Contemporary Works

Contemporary Works

The best from contemporary storytellers from across the globe.

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  • Casey and Diana

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    As the Toronto AIDS hospice, Casey House, prepares for the historic visit of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1991, residents and staff are inspired to beat the odds as a plague continues to ravage a generation. This potent and moving drama by Nick Green, vividly captures a moment in time when a rebe...

  • Just Short of Reality

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    Just Short of Reality is a series of shorts that are told through the genres of surrealism, silent film and dance. Co-existing in one neighbourhood, seven individuals are presented with adversity and choice in this allegorical tale.

    Through six different chapters taking place in the same 24-hour...

  • Serving Elizabeth
    Movie + 1 extra

    Serving Elizabeth

    Movie + 1 extra

    IN THE SCRIPT OF HISTORY, WHO GETS A SPEAKING ROLE?

    In Kenya in 1952, Mercy, a restaurant proprietor, is hired to cater the impending visit of Princess Elizabeth, soon to be Queen. In 2015, another story unfolds in London, England, where a young Kenyan-born Canadian, Tia, is working as an intern...

  • 1939
    Movie + 2 extras

    1939

    Movie + 2 extras

    An inspiring journey from page to stage.
    Anticipating a visit by King George VI, an English teacher at a church-run residential school in Northern Ontario enlists her students in a production of All's Well That Ends Well. But her rigid ideas of how Shakespeare should be performed are challenged ...

  • Disaster - An audio play

    Following the catastrophic sounds of a vehicle collision, we encounter a disoriented woman and a man in the throes of pain, attended by a paramedic. Who are they and what has happened? From this dramatic opening “Disaster” explores themes of fear, trauma, care, fate, and unresolved grief.

  • Women of the Fur Trade

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    Set in eighteen hundred and something-something, somewhere upon the banks of a reddish river in Treaty One Territory, where three very different women with a preference for 21st-century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love and the hot nerd Louis Riel. In this lively historical sa...