Play Archives | Prairie Theatre Exchange

2018 to Present -- Thomas Morgan Jones

PTE totals to June 2020: 360 plays, 159 World Premieres

2020-21
Digital only productions

Katharsis (Yvette Nolan ✪) | Post-Democracy (Hannah Moscovitch ✪) | VOICE (Ismaila Alfa ✪)

Presentations
Frequencies (Aaron Collier), HEIST |1 Hour Photo (Tetsuro Shigematsu), Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre

2019-20
The Third Colour (Ian Ross ✪) | The Wedding Party (Kristen Thomson, based on characters created with Trish Lindstrom, Tony Nappo, Moya O’Connell, Tom Rooney & Bahia Watson), in partnership with the Arts Club Theatre Company | Ghost Light (Shawn Wright) | By Grand Central Station (Adapted From Elizabeth Smart’s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down & Wept, Music by Heavy Bell ✪), Heavy Bell – shortened run due to pandemic | The Paper Bag Princess (Based on the story by Robert Munsch, adapted by Alissa Watson, PTE Emerging Playwrights Unit ✪)

Cancelled due to pandemic
The Gingerbread Girl (Sharon Bajer, PTE Playwrights Unit ✪)

Leap Series
No Foreigners (Created by Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Milton Lim, Remy Siu &David Yee), collaboration between fu-GEN Theatre & Hong Kong Exile, in association with Theatre Conspiracy | MÆ -Motion Aftereffect (Freya Bjorg Olafson ✪) | Exciting Consequences (Ming Hon ✪), A.O.V Adults Only Video

2018-19
Prairie Nurse (Marie Beath Badian) | Happy Place (Pamela Mala Sinha) | New Magic Valley Fun Town (Daniel MacIvor ✪) | Mom’s the Word: Nest ½ Empty (Linda A. Carson, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard & Deborah Williams), Arts Club Theatre | What To Do With Albert? (Danielle Séguin-Tétreault ✪), in partnership with Le Théâtre Cercle Molière | Munschtopia (Based on the stories of Robert Munsch, adapted by Debbie Patterson ✪)

Leap Series
Empire of the Son (Tetsuro Shigematsu), Vancouver Asian Canadian Theatre | Finding Wolastoq Voice (Natalie Sappier), Theatre New Brunswick, in association with Prairie Theatre Exchange | How It Ends (Debbie Patterson, PTE Playwrights Unit ✪), Sick + Twisted Theatre

2003 to 2018 -- Robert Metcalfe

PTE totals at the end of tenure: 342 Plays, 150 World Premieres

2017-18
Gracie (Joan Macleod) | Ubuntu (The Cape Town Project) (Daryl Cloran, Mbulelo Grootbroom, Deborah Hay, David Janssen, Holly Lewis, Michelle Monteith, Andile Nebulane), co-production with Citadel Theatre | Salt-Water Moon (David French), Factory Theatre touring with Why Not Theatre | How the Heavens Go (Joseph Aragon, PTE Playwrights Unit ✪ 150th new play) | Fly Me To the Moon (Marie Jones) | The Good, the Bad & the Munsch (Based on stories by Robert Munsch, adapted by Debbie Patterson ✪)

Bonus Series
Who Killed Spalding Gray? (Daniel MacIvor), reWork Productions | True Crime (Torquil Campbell & Chris Abraham), Crow’s Theatre presenting the Castleton Massive production

2016-17
The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble (Beth Graham) | Mom’s the Word (Linda A. Carson, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard & Deborah Williams) | The Flats (Ginny Collins, PTE Playwrights Unit ✪), in partnership with Le Théâtre Cercle Molière | Elle (adapted by Severn Thompson, from the book by Douglas Glover) | The Birds and the Bees (Mark Crawford) | Munschbusters! (Based on the stories of Robert Munsch, adapted by Debbie Patterson ✪)

2015-16
Little Thing, Big Thing (Donal O’Kelly) | Butcher (Nicolas Billon) | Spin (evalyn parry), Outspoke | Seeds (Annabel Soutar), Porte Parole | Marriage: A Demolition in Two Acts (Rick Chafe, PTE Playwrights Unit ✪) | Mission: Munschpossible (Based on the stories of Robert Munsch, adapted by Debbie Patterson ✪)

2014-15
Small Things (Daniel MacIvor ✪) | Vigil (Morris Panych) | Life, Death and the Blues (Raoul Bhaneja), Theatre Passe Muraille, in association with Hope and Hell Theatre Company | Playing With Fire: The Theo Fleury Story (Kirstie McLellan Day, based on the book by Theo Fleury & Kirstie McLellan Day), co-production with Citadel Theatre | The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Steven Canny & John Nicholson) | Munsch Upon A Time (Based on the stories of Robert Munsch, adapted by Debbie Patterson ✪)

2013-14
The Best Brothers (Daniel MacIvor) | Social Studies (Trish Cooper, PTE Playwrights Unit ✪) | Chelsea Hotel: The Music of Leonard Cohen (Conceived by Tracey Power, Musical Arrangements by Steve Charles), Firehall Arts Centre | The Valley (Joan Macleod) | Harvest (Ken Cameron) | Portage & Munsch: 50 Below (Based on the stories of Robert Munsch, adapted by Debbie Patterson ✪)

2012-13
40th Anniversary Season

The Brink (Ellen Peterson, PTE Playwrights Unit ✪) | The Swearing Jar (Kate Hewlett) | The Dishwashers (Morris Panych) | This Is War (Hannah Moscovitch), Tarragon Theatre | Gunmetal Blues (Scott Wentworth, Music & Lyrics: Craig Bohmler & Marion Adler), in association with Vancouver Playhouse | Magical Mystery Munsch (Based on the stories of Robert Munsch, adapted by Debbie Patterson ✪)

2011-12
Bingo! (Daniel MacIvor) |The Secret Mask (Rick Chafe, PTE Playwrights Unit ✪) | Lost: A Memoir (adapted for the stage by Cathy Ostlere & Dennis Garnhum, based on the book by Cathy Ostlere), Theatre Calgary Production | Altar Boyz (Music & Lyrics by Gary Adler & Michael Patrick Walker, Book by Kevin Del Aguila), In Association with Winnipeg Studio Theatre | Till It Hurts (Morris Panych) | The Three Munschketeers (Based on the stories of Robert Munsch,adapted by Debbie Patterson ✪)

2010-11
The Savannah Disputation (Evan Smith) | Back To You, the Life and Music of Lucille Starr (Tracey Power), in association with Musical Theatreworks | The December Man (Colleen Murphy) | Burnin’ Love (Sharon Bajer, PTE Playwrights Unit ✪) | Thunderstick (Kenneth T. Williams), Persephone Theatre/Theatre Network | Wingfield Lost and Found (Dan Needles) | The Paper Bag Princess & More (Based on the stories by Robert Munsch, adapted by Kim McCaw)

2009-10
Souvenirs (Michele Riml ✪), a co-production with Green Thumb Theatre | Bordertown Café (Kelly Rebar), a co-production with The Belfry Theatre | Goodness (Michael Redhill), Volcano Theatre | Lawrence and Holloman (Morris Panych) | Glorious (Peter Quilter) | Munscha Meeya (Based on the stories of Robert Munsch, adapted by Debbie Patterson ✪)

Limited Run
Where the Blood Mixes (Kevin Loring), Vancouver Playhouse Theatre, The Belfry Theatre & The Savage Society

2008-09
How it Works (Daniel MacIvor) | Wingfield’s Inferno (Dan Needles) | The Vertical Hour (David Hare) | The Fly Fisher’s Companion (Michael Melski) | Moonlight and Magnolias (Ron Hutchinson) | Little Munsch on the Prairie (Based on stories by Robert Munsch, adapted by Debbie Patterson ✪)

2007-08
Chimera (Wendy Lill) | Tempting Providence (Robert Chafe), Theatre Newfoundland Labrador | All Restaurant Fires Are Arson (Bruce McManus ✪) | Mesa (Doug Curtis) | Having Hope at Home (David S. Craig) | Munsch Ado About Nothing (Based on the stories by Robert Munsch, adapted by Debbie Patterson ✪)

2006-07
Apple (Vern Thiessen) | Mom’s the Word 2: Unhinged (Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard & Deborah Williams), Mom’s the Word Collective | MacGregor’s Hard Ice Cream and Gas (Daniel Macdonald) | Honour (Joanna Murray-Smith), a joint production with The Belfry Theatre | Here on the Flight Path (Norm Foster) | Love You Forever & Other stories (Based on stories by Robert Munsch, adapted by Kim McCaw)

2005-06
Copenhagen (Michael Frayn) | Dogbarked (James O’Shea) | Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (Morris Panych), in association with The Belfry Theatre | Marion Bridge (Daniel MacIvor) | Wingfield on Ice (Dan Needles) | Munschapalooza (based on stories by Robert Munsch, adapted by Arne Macpherson & Debbie Patterson ✪)

2004-05
Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad (Michael Melski), Marquis Entertainment Inc. | Unity (1918) (Kevin Kerr) | Strawberries in January (Evelyne De La Cheneliere, translated by Morwyn Brebner) | Molly’s Veil (Sharon Bajer ✪)| Sexy Laundry (Michele Riml) | Mmm, Munsch (Based on stories by Robert Munsch, adapted by Arne Macpherson & Debbie Patterson ✪)

2003-04
Blue/Orange (Joe Penhall), Co-Production With The Belfry Theatre, Victoria | Zadie’s Shoes (Adam Pettle) | Espresso (Lucia Frangione), Pacific Theatre | Liar (Brian Drader ✪) | I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Joe Dipietro & Jimmy Roberts) | Masked Munsch (Based on stories by Robert Munsch, adapted by Kim McCaw ✪)

1995 to 2003 -- Allan MacInnis

2002-03
‘Master Harold’… and the Boys (Athol Fugard) | Great Expectations (adapted by John Clifford) | The Well Being (Andrew Buckland, Lara Foot-Newton, Lionel Newton), Mouthpeace Productions, South Africa | Mary’s Wedding (Stephen Massicotte) | The Edible Woman (by Dave Carley, based on the novel by Margaret Atwood) | Puppet Munsch – family (Based on stories by Robert Munsch, adapted by Mariam Bernstein ✪)

2001-02
A Room of one’s Own (Virginia Woolf), The Shaw Festival | The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams) | Joni Mitchell: River (adapted by Allen MacInnis & Greg Lowe ✪) | The Rez Sisters (Tomson Highway) | Something Drastic (Colleen Curran ✪) | A Promise Is A Promise - family (Based on the book by Robert Munsch & Michael Kusugak, adapted by Barbara Poggemiller ✪)

Edinburgh Fringe Festival
fareWel (Ian Ross),August 2 – 25, 2001 – Traverse Theatre

2000-01
Salt-Water Moon (David French) | The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde) | Kilt (Jonathan Wilson) | The Gap (Ian Ross ✪) | Side by Side by Sondheim (Stephen Sondheim) | Much Munsch (Based on stories by Robert Munsch ✪)

Presenter’s Series
Tent Meeting (Morris Ertman & Ron Reed), Blinding Light Productions | The Arrogant Worms, Robert Missen Artists

1999-00
For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (Michel Tremblay), Centaur Theatre | Godspell (John-Michael Tebelak, Stephen Schwartz) | Mom, Dad, I’m Living With a White Girl (Marty Chan), Running With Scissors | 15 Seconds (Francois Archambault, translated by Bobby Theodore) | Walking on Water (Dave Carley ✪) | Love You Forever & More (Based on stories by Robert Munsch, adapted by Kim McCaw ✪)

1998-99
Still the Night (Theresa Tova), Tova Entertainment, Tapestry Music Theatre & Alberta Theatre Projects | The Norbals (Brian Drader ✪) | Love and Anger (George F. Walker) | Speak (Greg Nelson) | Old Wicked Songs (Jon Marans) | fareWel (Ian Ross ✪) | The Paper Bag Princess & Other Stories (Based on stories by Robert Munsch; adapted by Kim McCaw ✪)

1997-98
Mom’s the Word (Linda Carson, Jill Daum, Alison Kelly, Robin Nichol, Barbara Pollard, Deborah Williams) |Vigil (Morris Panych) | Jaques Brel is Alive and Well and Living In Paris (Eric Blau & Mort Shuman, music by Jacques Brel) | A Doll’s House(Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Bruce McManus ✪) | Painting Churches (Tina Howe) | Tree House(Martha Johnson, Mark Gane) | Head A Tete (David S. Craig, Robert Morgan)

1996-97
Crackpot (based on the novel by Adele Wiseman, adapted by Rachel Wyatt) | My Fair Lady(Books & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; music by Frederick Loewe; adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”) | 2 Pianos, 4 Hands (Created and performed by Ted Dykstra & Richard Greenblatt) | Marvin’s Room (Scott McPherson) | Supreme Dream (Frank Moher, Rhonda Trodd) | Little Monster (Jasmine Dube, translated by Maureen LaBonte) – school tour | Zeke and the Indoor Plants (Ruth Smillie) – school tour

1995-96
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Frank McGuinness) | Playboy of The West Indies (Mustapha Matura) | The League of Nathans (Jason Sherman) | fareWel(Ian Ross ✪) | A Prairie Boy’s Winter (Sandra Birdsell, Martha Brooks, David Gillies) | A Whole Buncha Munsch(Robert Munsch; adapted by Kim McCaw ✪)

Second Stage
Heart of A Dog (Robert Astle)

1992 to 1995 -- Michael Springate

1982 to 1992 -- Kim McCaw

1991-92
Selkirk Avenue (Bruce McManus ✪) | Cornflower Blue (Kelly Rebar) | The Raft (Patrick Friesen ✪) | The End of The World Romance(Sean Dixon) | Love You Forever & Other Stories (Robert Munsch; adapted by Kim McCaw ✪) | The Grimm Sisters(Tannis Kowalchuk, Lora Schroeder ✪) – school tour | On The Go (Canadian Content Theatre) – school tour | Lisa (Carol Matas, Per Brask ✪) – school tour

Second Stage
The Easy T’s – Second Stage

1990-91
The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux(Gratien Gelinas) | The Fighting Days(Wendy Lill) | Sisters(Wendy Lill) Amigo’s Blue Guitar(Joan MacLeod) | A Flush of Tories (Allan Stratton ✪) | More Munsch (Robert Munsch; adapted by Kim McCaw ✪) – family | Jelly Belly Makes Garbage Delight of Alligator Pie (Dennis Lee, adapted by Kim Selody) – school tour

Second Stage
Brian Goes Hawaiian(Brian Linds) | A Day at the Beach (The Easy T’s)

1989-90
Inaugural season at Portage Place

Village of Idiots(John Lazarus) | Lloyd’s Prayer (Kevin Kling) | Odd Jobs (Frank Moher) | Cruel Tears (Ken Mitchell, Humphrey and the Dumptrucks) | A Prairie Boy’s Winter (Sandra Birdsell, Martha Brooks, David Gillies) – family | Murmel, Murmel, Mortimer, Munsch(Robert Munsch, adapted by Kim Selody ✪) – family |The General(Robert Morgan) – school tour | Section 23: The Sequel(David Arnason, Claude Dorge, Gerard Jean, Doug Smith ✪) – school tour

1988-89
My Memories of You(Wendy Lill ✪) | The Third Ascent (Frank Moher) | The Chinese Man Said Goodbye (Bruce McManus ✪) | The Mail Order Bride(Robert Clinton) | You Can Do It If You Try! (David Gillies, music by Fred Penner ✪) – family | Snowsuits, Birthdays & Giants (Robert Munsch, adapted by Kim McCaw) – provincial tour | Andrew’s Tree (Martha Brooks ✪) – school tour | On Your Marks (Robert Clinton) – school tour

1987-88
Bordertown Café(Kelly Rebar) | Don’t Blame the Bedouins (Rene-Daniel Dubois) | Boiler Room Suite (Rex Deverell) | Welcome to the NHL (Alan Williams ✪) | Snowsuits, Birthdays & Giants (Robert Munsch, adapted by Kim McCaw ✪) - family | All Over The Map (Kelly Rebar) – school tour | Talk to Me, Talk to Me (Rick Chafe, Bruce McManus ✪) - school tour

1986-87
Primrose School District 109(Ted Galay) | The Revival (Sandra Birdsell ✪) | Schedules (Bruce McManus ✪) | Dewline (David Arnason ✪) | A Prairie Boy’s Winter (Sandra Birdsell, Martha Brooks, David Gillies) – family | The Paper Bag Princess & Other Stories (Robert Munsch, adapted by Irene N. Watts ✪) – family | I Met a Bully on the Hill(Martha Brooks, Maureen Hunter ✪) – school tour | Fallout (Rex Deverell) – school tour | Bandits(David Gillies ✪) – school tour

1985-86
The Shunning (Patrick Friesen ✪) | Enemy Graces (Sharon Stearns) | Welcome To Hard Times: The Cultural Cabaret (David Arnason, Music by Gerard Jean ✪) | The Occupation of Heather Rose (Wendy Lill ✪) | A Prairie Boy’s Winter (Sandra Birdsell, Martha Brooks , David Gillies) – family/school tour | Section 23: The French Language Revue (David Arnason, Claude Dorge, Gerard Jean) – school tour

1984-85
After Baba’s Funeral/Sweet and Sour Pickles (Ted Galay) | The Fighting Days (Wendy Lill) | Checkin’ Out(Kelly Rebar) | Section 23: The French Language Revue(David Arnason, Claude Dorge, Gerard Jean ✪) | A Prairie Boy’s Winter (Sandra Birdsell, Martha Brooks, David Gillies ✪) - family | Sarah’s Play (Rex Deverell) – school tour | You Want Me to Be Grown Up, Don’t I?(Rex Deverell) – school Tour

1983-84
Playing the Fool (Alun Hibbert) | Beyond the End of Your Nose (Patricia Henderson & Julie Salverson) | Pinocchio(a new adaptation by David Gillies ✪) | Drift (Rex Deverell) | So You Think You’re the Teacher?(Gilles Gauthier) | The Fighting Days (Wendy Lill ✪)

1980 to 1982 -- Gordon McCall

1974 to 1980 -- Manitoba Theatre Workshop

Manitoba Theatre Workshop
Director – Colin Jackson (to 1975) | Artistic Director – Deborah Baer Quinn (1976-1980)

1980
From You to Us to You (Quinn), TNT | Step Right Up Ladies and Jellybeans, Merry Time | Nonsensical Senses(Kimmelman), Puppet Tree | A Young Children’s Concert, Raffi | The Great Oompah Machine (Oliviero), Oliviero | Saturday Night (Silver/Bleeks), TNT | Keys, Penner/Sundance | Prairie Voices (Quinn), TNT | The White Raven, Theatre Sans Fils

1979
Sumidagawa, Kaleidoscope | Music for Young Folk, Penner | Puck’s Intimate Guide to Willie (Quinn), Senior Class | You Know what I Mean, Eh? (Gillies, Wilkins), TNT | A Place to Call Home (Kimmelman), Puppet Tree | Storybag II, Penner/Sundance | Idiot Strings (Silver), TNT | Lost In Between (Silverman), Young Co.

1978
Just Do It (Kimmelman), Puppet Tree | An Hour of Theatrical Magic with Brian Glow, Brian Glow | The Mountain Show, University of Alberta | Stories My Grandparents Told Me (Quinn), TNT | Raffi Concert, Raffi | Why?Intermediate/Senior Class | Dud Shuffle (Silver), Confidential Exchange | Expectations/Transformations, Senior Class | Shagata Ga Nai (Burns), School Class | Hey, Don’t Call Me Kid (Quinn), Senior Class | More of a Family (Silver), TNT | A King’s Breakfast of Tall Tales (Kimmelman), Puppet Tree | The Primaries/The Snow Queen (Oliviero), Senior Class

1977
Life Statements, Senior Class | Sunday Night Art and Artists Series, MTW | Quiet Moments (Quinn), TNT Dermot’s Illustrated Ballad Book(Richardson), Confidential Exchange | Alice in Wonderland, Senior Class

Artsfare, MTW | The Rocking Horse Winner, Intermediate Class | Period and Style, Senior Class

1976
Gabe/Sandhills/Naked on the North Shore, Confidential Exchange | Geppiniw Tales (Quinn), Senior Class | A Visitor From Charleston, Confidential Exchange | What’s That Got To Do With Price of Fish?, Newfoundland Mummers

1975
New Canadian Drivel (King), Confidential Exchange | I Like Me (Quinn) | Glooscap and the Mighty Bullfrog, Mermaid | Ken Feit, the Fool, Ken Feit | Atushmit/My World, Expectation | The West Show, Theatre Passe Muraille | If You’re So Good, Why Are You In Saskatoon?, 25th Street Theatre

1974
The Princess Who Wanted the Moon, Puppet Troupe | Wacky and His Fuddlejig (second in a series of cabarets), MTW | Pilot TV show with CKY, MTW | Rumpelstiltskin, Senior Students | Cabaret of dance, mime, etc., MTW | Whose Garden Was This? /Childhood Daze, Intermediate Class | The Tragi-Comedy of Don Cristobel and Miss Rosita, Puppet Troupe | Little Red Riding Hood (musical), MTW | Three Hungry Men on a Raft, Staff | A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Senior/Intermediate Class | Quatajorg/Quatajorg Revisited(King), MTW | Let’s Go (26 programs), MTW/CKY | Apple Butter/People Can’t Help Sneezing (on tour) (Reaney) Puppet Troupe