Expand the Canon is a curated list of classic plays by women & underrepresented genders – and a call to action to produce them. 

While the podcast season has ended

(though you can now go back and hear our curators discuss

all 18 plays!

), our next season of Expand the Canon is getting ready to launch! Want to be the first to know what the new plays are? Join us for

The Canon Ball

 on

September 19th

to find out and celebrate!  

Our final podcast of the season: Les Blancs by Lorraine Hansberry (1970)

If you’re looking to tackle race, imperialism, and the prejudice of the Western world towards African countries…

consider this mesmerizing masterpiece. Set in a rural Christian mission in an unnamed African country, this play explores the complexities of navigating personal relationships across racial divides when every decision you make is inherently political. Intricate, atmospheric, and shimmering with emotional truth, this play is as relevant to our modern world now as it was fifty years ago.

In case you missed it:

This energetic, bawdy comedy centers around the tricksy courtship of the clever Clarabell and the rakish Rightwit. Through a series of deceptions, plots, pranks, and manipulations, they find a way to be together – and manage to marry off everyone else in the cast as well.

Listen now

Looking to Expand Your Confidence?

Our workshops bring theatre tools to the workplace to develop vocal power, physical presence & action-oriented devices for persuasion. Participants learn hard skills, like vocal tactics, psychological gestures, collaborative communication, and action-based persuasion that can be applied to presentations, meetings, pitches, and more! 

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 We'd love to hear from you. 

Sincerely,

The Hedgepigs