OUR BOOK SALE STARTS TODAY! 😁📚✨️ Come visit our pop-up shop at the Paprika Festival 🎭 where all books are 30% off OR 50% off for three or more!
📍 LOCATION: Aki Studio (585 Dundas St E, Toronto ON)
🕗 BOOKSHOP HOURS:
Tuesday, May 12: 6-10 PM
Friday, May 15: 3:30-9 PM
Saturday, May 16: 6-10 PM
Book tickets at paprikafestival.com
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Office hours are open for May! Publisher Annie Gibson is holding space in her calendar once a month to speak with playwrights about any questions you may have about publishing a play that aren't already answered in our submission guidelines.
The calendar is now open for May 2026. Learn more and book a spot now at the link in our bio 🔗
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To every mother whose guidance, strength, and unconditional love shape our lives. Happy Mother’s Day!
Pre-order Raised by Women by Keith Barker now at playwrightscanada.com
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A big congratulations to Colin Wolf @mx.c.wolf whose play CoyWolf is a finalist for the Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose! The Indigenous Voices Awards (IVAs) are the only major literary prize to celebrate creativity and excellence for work by emerging Indigenous writers. Recipients of these awards will be announced on June 21.
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Isidor, a half-coyote, half-wolf coywolf, leaves home in search of belonging after losing his mother. But as Sharp-Tooths face extermination to make way for human expansion, Isidor and his pack must choose to either retreat to survive or fight alongside rogue animals to defend their homeland. In this gripping hopepunk thriller, Colin Wolf weaves a powerful allegory of resistance, paralleling the displacement of Métis people and the fight for Indigenous land rights. CoyWolf is a roadmap for young revolutionaries navigating survival, solidarity, and learning the wisdom of those who have walked the path before.
Order your copy today at playwrightscanada.com
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Here’s one more reason why you should come to the 2026 Paprika Theatre Festival ✨️ Playwrights Canada Press is back with an exclusive pop-up shop featuring all the latest and greatest drama books! 📚🎭 And everything will be 30% off OR 50% off when you purchase three or more books.
The pop-up shop will be set up outside the Aki Studio at Daniels Spectrum (585 Dundas St E) during the following dates/times:
Tuesday, May 12: 6-10 PM
Friday, May 15: 3:30-9 PM
Saturday, May 16: 6-10 PM
Come visit us and take advantage of these unbeatable deals! And don’t forget to book your tickets now to the Paprika Festival at paprikafestival.com 🎟
Happy Asian Heritage Month! Explore these brand new books written by authors with heritage from the diverse continent of Asia.
Salesman in China by Leanna Brodie & Jovanni Sy
Kainchee Lagaa & Jhooti: The Begging Brown Bitch Plays by Zaiba Baig
Love You Wrong Time by Maddie Bautista & Deanna H. Choi with Erin Brubacher
An IMM-Permanent Resident by Neha Poduval & Himanshu Sitlani
Homecoming by Kamila Sediego
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China. The West. Can art bridge the chasm between them? Today we celebrate the publication day of Salesman in China by Leanna Brodie and Jovanni Sy.
Beijing, 1983. Two theatrical titans, Ying Ruocheng and Arthur Miller, are about to embark on one of the most groundbreaking productions in theatre history: Ying's Mandarin translation of Miller's influential masterpiece, Death of a Salesman. This unprecedented artistic partnership between China and the United States attracts widespread curiosity and skepticism. In the wake of the communist Cultural Revolution, how can Chinese audiences possibly connect to this classic examination of the American Dream? Misunderstandings and tensions in the rehearsal room abound. As whispers of official scrutiny grow louder, the artists soon realize there is much more at stake than their artistic reputations.
Salesman in China explores the fascinating true story behind an historic collaboration that advanced political relations and forever changed the trajectory of theatrical expression in China. Through the challenges posed by mutual incomprehension, artistic and personal differences, and cultural collisions, their unwavering dedication serves as a testament to the transformative power of art and its ability to transcend borders and embrace a shared humanity.
Order now at the link in our bio 🔗
Cover art by @teddyteddykang@leannarhymeswithmadonna@stratfest@mirvishproductions@nac.cna
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In honour of Earth Day, explore these new eco-inspired plays published by Playwrights Canada Press.
Hurricane Mona by Pippa Mackie
As Above by Christine Quintana
Rise, Red River by Tara Beagan
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A relentless eco-activist creates family chaos amidst a climate disaster, today we celebrate the publication day of Hurricane Mona by Pippa Mackie.
It’s not easy being green, especially for Mona, a diehard environmental activist sentenced to a year of house arrest for her topless vandalism at the Global Climate March. Exiled from her commune co-op, Mona is forced to serve her sentence back home with her well-meaning parents and annoyed younger sibling who just want to enjoy their coffee pods and Amazon packages in peace. But when Mona’s tyrannical green crusade engulfs the entire household, her family spirals into a hilarious and chaotic maelstrom of hypocrisy, guilt, and generational finger-pointing, ultimately asking themselves what’s more unbearable: an ecological collapse or each other?
Hurricane Mona is an outrageous and arresting comedy about the collisions of Boomer complacency, Millennial disillusionment, and Gen Z apathy in the face of climate catastrophe. Complete with a giant talking frog, a psychedelic mushroom trip, and some hairy activism, Pippa Mackie’s riotous rallying cry delivers big laughs and even bigger questions about the mess we’re leaving behind and who’s left to clean it up.
Order your copy today at the link in our bio 🔗
Cover art by Patrick Gray
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Truth and deception unravel in two twisted, trans-led tales, today we celebrate the publication day of Kainchee Lagaa & Jhooti: The Begging Brown Bitch Plays by Zaiba Baig.
In this daring and disruptive double bill, Zaiba Baig dismantles the white saviour complex and demolishes the fourth wall with two subversive tales told by unreliable narrators.
In Kainchee Lagaa, the lives of two estranged siblings intertwine across space and time. Billo, a tandoori-chicken-loving sex worker, is saving up to run away with someone special, while her brother Arsalan is haunted by their family’s traumatic past. As memory and myth collide during a long-awaited reunion, nothing is certain, and no one is innocent. In Jhooti, a trans woman on the run, carrying a plastic bag full of her belongings, pleads for protection. But soon her story unravels into a dangerous web of destruction.
Together these explosive dramas plunge into the multidimensional depths of Brown trans women teetering on a tightrope between truth and survival. Toying with the audience at every turn, Kainchee Lagaa & Jhooti: The Begging Brown Bitch Plays are an essential theatrical intervention that promises to leave no one unscathed.
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Foreword by @alokvmenon
Cover photo by @jpg.eden@zaibabaig_@buddiesto
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