A collection of diverse contemporary works by Canadian playwrights that reflect the country's artistic landscape through a diversity of themes, styles, regions, and creative practices. The collection can be used both as a monologue source for actors and students, or as a primer on diverse Canadian theatre and an entry point into new works, many of which are not yet widely available. -- Publisher.

Tombs of the vanishing Indian / Marie Clements -- Fish eyes and The misfit / Anita Majumdar -- Kill Zone a love story / Wanda R. Graham -- A history of breathing / Daniel Macdonald -- Throat / Jason Maghanoy -- Cycle of a sari / nisha ahuja -- YICHUD (Seclusion) / Julie Tepperman -- The December man (L'homme de décembre) / Colleen Murphy -- The rabbi of Ragged Ass road / David Copelin -- The incredible speediness of Jamie Cavanaugh / Chris Craddock -- Cranked / Michael P. Northey -- Letters to my Grandma / Anusree Roy -- Lion in the streets / Judith Thompson -- Will the real JT Leroy please stand up? / Sky Gilbert -- Dreary and Izzy / Tara Beagan -- Falling in time / C.E. Gatchalian -- Red snow / Diana Tso -- The blue horse / Peter Anderson -- The silicone diaries / Nina Arsenault -- Hiding words (for you) / Gein Wong -- Samuel and Susan / Thomas Morgan Jones -- who knew grannie: a dub aria / ahdri zhina mandiela -- My fellow creatures / Michael Rubenfeld -- I'm so close ... / Ravi Jain, Katrina Bugaj, Troels Hagen Findsen and Nicolos Billon -- Napalm the Magnificent: dancing with the dark / David S. Craig -- While we're young / Don Hannah -- The hours that remain / Keith Barker -- If we were birds / Erin Shields -- Seven / Ned Dickens -- Fancydancer / Dawn Dumont -- The aftermath / Lisa Codrington -- carried way on the crest of a wave / David Yee -- The kente cloth / Tawiah M'Carthy -- Soulless / Aaron Bushkowsky -- Stori ya / Joan M. Kivanda -- Agokwe / Waawaate Fobister -- Big shot / Jon Lachlan Stewart -- Two rooms / Mansel Robinson -- The veil / Shahin Sayadi.