Play Lending Library

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Books can be borrowed for two week blocks with the option to renew. In order to arrange a time to stop by the office or to find out if a book is currently available, please email info@gwaandaktheatre.ca. *New plays are added throughout the Season and the list below may not include all works.

Plays & Anthologies:

21 Black Futures The Anthology - Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Keshia Cheesman, Lisa Codrington, Miali-Elise Coley-Sudlovenick, Cheryl Foggo, Shauntay Grant, Lawrence Hill, Kaie Kellough, Adonis Critter King, Stephie Mazunya, Tawiah M'Carthy, Motion, Omari Newton, Amanda Parris, Joseph Jomo Pierre, Luke Reece, Cherissa Richards, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, Jacob Sampson, Djanet Sears, Syrus Marcus Ware

Alien Creature - Linda Griffiths

Annie Mae's Movement - Yvette Nolan

Ashes for Easter & Other Monodramas - David Watmough

Banana Boys - Leon Aureus

Beating Heart Cadaver - Colleen Murphy

Belle - Florence Gibson

Les Belles Soeurs - Michel Tremblay

Betrayal - Harold Pinter

Beyond The Pale - Dramatic Writing from First Nations Writers & Writers of Colour - Edited by Yvette Nolan, Betty Quan, George Bwanika Seremba

Billy Bishop Goes to War - John Gray with Eric Peterson

The Birthday Party - Harold Pinter

Boiler Room Suite - Rex Deverell

The Born-Again Crow (There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow) - Caleigh Crow

Brothel #9 - Anusree Roy

Carol Bolt: Buffalo Jump / Gabe / Red Emma - Carol Bolt

Captives of the Faceless Drummer - George Ryga

Colonial Tongues - Mansel Robinson

Colours in the Dark - James Reaney

A Common Man's Guide to Loving Women - Andrew Moodie

The Coronation Voyage - Michel Marc Bouchard

Counter Offence - Rahul Varma

Coyote City - Daniel David Moses

Criminals In Love - George F. Walker

Dead White Writer On The Floor - Drew Hayden Taylor

The December Man (L'homme de décembre) - Colleen Murphy

Darryl Dennis: Two Plays - Darryl Dennis

Dreary and Izzy - Tara Beagan

Dry Lips Outta Move To Kapuskasing - Tomson Highway

The Duchess aka Wallis Simpson - Linda Griffiths

The Ecstasy of Rita Joe - George Ryga

Empire of the Son - Tetsuro Shigematsu

Ethnicities - Edited by Anne Nothof

Fragments of a Farewell Letter Read by Geologists - Normand Chaurette

The Gaza Mono-Logues - Youth from Gaza

Goodness - Michael Redhill

A History of Breathing - Daniel Macdonald

The Hope Slide / Little Sister - Joan MacLeod

Huff & Stitch - Cliff Cardinal

I Still Love You - Five Plays by Daniel MacIvor - Daniel MacIvor

If We Were Birds - Erin Shields

In Care - Kenneth T. Williams

In Their Nightgowns, Dancing - Michael Armstrong

Indian Act - Residential School Plays - Edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

Indian Arm - Hiro Kanagawa

The Indian Medicine Shows - Daniel David Moses

It Is Solved By Walking - Catherine Banks

Joe from Winnipeg - Ian Ross

The Killer and Other Plays - Eugène Ionesco

Lac/Athabasca - Len Falkenstein

The Little Years - John Mighton

Littoral - Wajdi Mouawad

Love + Relasianships Vol. 1. - Edited by Nina Lee Aquino

Maggie & Pierre - Linda Griffiths with Paul Thompson

The Making of St. Jerome - Marie Beath Badian

A Map of the Senses - Edited by Rory Runnels

Mary's Wedding - Stephen Massicotte

Mesa - Doug Curtis

Modern Canadian Plays Volume I - Edited by Jerry Wasserman

Night - Christopher Morris

Niizh - Joelle Peters

Noran Bang: The Yellow Room - M.J. Kang

Oil and Water - Robert Chafe

paper SERIES - David Yee

Paradise - Patti Flather

The Plum Tree - Mitch Miyagawa

Possible Worlds - John Mighton

Reasonable Doubt - Joel Bernbaum, Lancelot Knight and Yvette Nolan

Reckoning - Tara Beagan and Andy Moro

The Red Priest - Mieko Ouchi

The Refugee Hotel - Carmen Aguirre

The Rez Sisters - Tomson Highway

Robert Chafe: Two Plays - Butler's Marsh / Tempting Providence - Robert Chafe

Running Dog, Paper Timer - Simon Johnson

Scorched - Wajdi Mouawad

Seventh Generation - An Anthology of Native American Plays - Edited by Mimi Gisolfi D'Aponte

Singkil - Catherine Hernandez

Six Plays by Rogers & Hammerstein - Oklahoma! / Carousel / Allegro / South Pacific / The King & I / Me & Juliet - Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II

Sixty Below - Leonard Linklater and Patti Flather

Squawk - Megan Gail Coles

Staging Coyote's Dream Vol. II - An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English - Edited by Monique Mojica and Ric Knowles

Stories from the Bush: The Woodland Plays of De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Company - Edited by Joe Osawabine and Shannon Hengen

Tellin' It Like It Is: A Compendium of African Canadian Monologues for Actors - Djanet Sears

Thirteen Hands - Carol Shields

This Is How We Got Here - Keith Barker

Thoughts And Other Human Tendencies - Reneltta Arluk

Three on the Boards - Edited by Kit Brennan

Three Plays - Eugene O'Neill

Tideline - Wajdi Mouawad

Tombs of the Vanishing Indian - Marie Clements

The Trial of Judith K. - Sally Clark

True Love Lies - Brad Fraser

Two Plays - David Geary

Two-Spirit Acts - Edited by Jean O'Hara

The Unnatural and Accidental Women - Marie Clements

The Unplugging - Yvette Nolan

Voices Of A Generation - Three Millennial Plays - Edited by Michelle MacArthur

Wawatay - Penny Gummerson

Westray: The Long Way Home - Chris O'Neill & Ken Schwartz

Where The Blood Mixes - Kevin Loring

Whlyah Falls: The Play - George Elliot Clarke

Who Look In Stove - Lawrence Jeffery

W;t - Margaret Edson

Women of the Fur Trade - Frances Koncan

Yellow Fever - R.A. Shiomi

Yukonstyle - Sarah Berthiaume - Translated by Nadine Desrochers

Actions - The Actors' Thesaurus - Marina Caldarone and Maggie Lloyd-Williams

An Assessment of the psychological impacts of The Gaza Mono-Logues on the mental health of children - Prepared by Nadel Shaath

Directors on Directing - A Source Book of the Modern Theatre - Toby Cole and Helen Krich Chinoy

Elements of Indigenous Style - A Guide for Writing By and About Indigenous Peoples - Gregory Younging

Medicine Shows - Indigenous Performance Culture - Yvette Nolan

No Culture, No Future - Simon Brault

Our Story - Aboriginal Voices on Canada's Past - Maria Campbell, Tantoo Cardinal, Tomson Highway, Drew Hayden Taylor, Basil Johnston, Thomas King, Brian Maracle, Lee Maracle, Jovette Marchessault, Rachel Qitsualik

Performing Indigeneity - New Essays on Canadian Theatre Volume Six - Edited by Yvette Nolan and Ric Knowles

Staging Harriet's House - Tara Goldstein

Using the Creative Arts for Transformational Learning - Tessa Mendel