Theatre And (Im)migration

Theatre And (Im)migration
Author: Yana Meerzon
Publisher: New Essays in Canadian Theatre
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2019-06-18
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780369100016

Theatre and (Im)migration shines a bright light on the impact that immigrant artists have made and continue to make on the development of Canadian theatre, from themes, characters, and world issues to financial structures and artistic techniques. The collection of essays demonstrates how the increased presence of immigrant theatre artists actively contributing to English- and French-Canadian theatre prompt their audiences to rethink fundamental concepts of nationalism and multiculturalism. Contributors include Moira Day, Alan Filewood, Aida Jordão, Ric Knowles, Natasha Martina Koechl, Rebecca Margolis, Lisa Ndejuru, Nicole Nolette, Eleanor Ty, and many more.

Canada's Playwrights

Canada's Playwrights
Author: Don Rubin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1980
Genre: Drama
ISBN:

A guide to Canada's major playwright's of the time. Lists 70 playwrights with biographical information.

Truth in Play

Truth in Play
Author: David Stewart Craig
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-01-22
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781770912724

A collection of short scenes from Canadian plays geared towards helping youth in theater performances.

Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada

Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada
Author: Sarah MacKenzie
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2020-11-15T00:00:00Z
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1773634313

Despite a recent increase in the productivity and popularity of Indigenous playwrights in Canada, most critical and academic attention has been devoted to the work of male dramatists, leaving female writers on the margins. In Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada, Sarah MacKenzie addresses this critical gap by focusing on plays by Indigenous women written and produced in the socio-cultural milieux of twentieth and twenty-first century Canada. Closely analyzing dramatic texts by Monique Mojica, Marie Clements, and Yvette Nolan, MacKenzie explores representations of gendered colonialist violence in order to determine the varying ways in which these representations are employed subversively and informatively by Indigenous women. These plays provide an avenue for individual and potential cultural healing by deconstructing some of the harmful ideological work performed by colonial misrepresentations of Indigeneity and demonstrate the strength and persistence of Indigenous women, offering a space in which decolonial futurisms can be envisioned. In this unique work, MacKenzie suggests that colonialist misrepresentations of Indigenous women have served to perpetuate demeaning stereotypes, justifying devaluation of and violence against Indigenous women. Most significantly, however, she argues that resistant representations in Indigenous women’s dramatic writing and production work in direct opposition to such representational and manifest violence.

Voices of a Generation

Voices of a Generation
Author: Michelle MacArthur
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780369102966

This collection of three Canadian plays--zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan, The Millennial Malcontent by Erin Shields, and Smoke by Elena Eli Belyea--speaks to millennials' complex and varied experiences and the challenges and stereotypes they often face.

Mahmoud

Mahmoud
Author: Tara Grammy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781770913240

A play about strangers, racism, sexism, homophobia, and homesickness.

Q2Q

Q2Q
Author: Peter Dickinson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2018-06-18
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781770919150

A companion anthology to Q2Q: Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance, the work contained in this volume provides a snapshot of Canadian contemporary queer performance practices--from solo performance to political allegory to family melodrama to intersectional narratives that combine text, movement, and music.

New Canadian Realisms

New Canadian Realisms
Author: Roberta Barker
Publisher: New Essays in Canadian Theatre
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781770910720

A collection of writing by celebrated scholars and artists that explores the state of political performance in contemporary Canada.