List of Canadian plays

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Canada has a vibrant theatre scene with notable experimental, fringe and other alternative forms. Indeed, the largest fringe festival in North America is the Edmonton International Fringe Festival.

This is an incomplete list of plays created by Canadian playwrights.

• 7 Stories by Morris Panych
• Beatrice Chancy by George Elliot Clarke
• Being at Home with Claude by René-Daniel Dubois
• Les Belles-soeurs by Michel Tremblay, produced in Scotland as The Guid-Sisters
• Billy Bishop Goes to War by John Gray with Eric Peterson
• Blood on the Moon by Pierre Brault
• Blood Relations by Sharon Pollock
• Butler's Marsh by Robert Chafe
• The Canvas Barricade by Donald Jack
• The Crackwalker by Judith Thompson
• Cranked by Michael P. Northey
• The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey
• Departures and Arrivals by Carol Shields
• Doc by Sharon Pollock
• The Donnellys by James Reaney
• Drag Queens on Trial by Sky Gilbert
• Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing by Tomson Highway
• Earshot by Morris Panych
• Eight Men Speak
• Einstein's Gift by Vern Thiessen
• Elizabeth Rex by Timothy Findley
• The Ecstasy of Rita Joe by George Ryga
• Fortune and Men's Eyes by John Herbert
• Fronteras Americanas by Guillermo Verdecchia
• Girl in the Goldfish Bowl by Morris Panych
• The Glace Bay Miner's Museum by Wendy Lill (adapted from the novel by Sheldon Currie)
• Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
• La guerre, yes sir! by Roch Carrier
• Leaving Home by David French
• The Head, Guts and Soundbone Dance by Michael Cook
• I, Claudia by Kristen Thomson
• The Investigator by Reuben Ship
• Leaving Home by David French
• Lillies by Michel-Marc Bouchard
• Lion in the Streets by Judith Thompson
• Moo by Sally Clarke
• Never Swim Alone by Daniel MacIvor
• Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley; adapted by Richard Rose and D.D. Kugler
• Nothing Sacred by George F. Walker
• One Man Star Wars Trilogy by Charles Ross
• Perfect Pie by Judith Thompson
• Possible Worlds by John Mighton
• The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway
• Rootless but Green Are the Boulevard Trees by Uma Parameswaran
• Same Time, Next Year by Bernard Slade
• Suburban Motel by George F. Walker
• Tamara by John Krizanc
• Tideline by Wadji Mouawad
• Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love by Brad Fraser
• Vigil by Morris Panych
• Yesterday the Children were Dancing (Hier, les enfants dansaient) by Gratien Gélinas

See also: List of Canadian playwrights