Asian Canadian Theatre

Asian Canadian Theatre
Author: Nina Lee Aquino
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group - Playwrights Canada Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780887549861

This is the first book to consider the formation, history, and practice of Asian Canadian theatre.

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.

Performing Indigeneity

Performing Indigeneity
Author: Yvette Nolan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781770915374

This volume on Indigenous theatre features an all-Indigenous table of contents that will accompany the two-volume anthology Staging Coyote's Dream.

Theatres of Affect

Theatres of Affect
Author: Erin Hurley
Publisher: New Essays on Canadian Theatre
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781770912168

A collection of essays by seasoned and emerging scholars that take the emotional temperature of Canadian performances.

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.

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.

Establishing Our Boundaries

Establishing Our Boundaries
Author: Anton Wagner
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1442611839

An impressive collection of essays by 21 of English Canada's leading theatre critics provides a cultural history of Canada, and Canadians intense relationship to theatre, from 1829 to 1998, and across the whole country.

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.

Digital Performance in Canada: New Essays on Canadian Theatre in English

Digital Performance in Canada: New Essays on Canadian Theatre in English
Author: David Owen
Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-06-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780369102515

Especially necessary in a historical moment in which many theatre companies have been forced to move their work online, Digital Performance in Canada illuminates the influence and ubiquity of digital technology on performance practices in Canada. This collection of essays explores how digital technology forces us to reimagine our relationships to performance. Looking at the three categories of space, bodies, and relationships, this collection includes contributors Bruce Barton, Owen Brierley, Chris Eaket, Alan Filewod, Patrick Finn, Peter Kuling, Pyrrko Marula-Denison, Kim McLeod, Jennifer Nikolai, Xavia Publius, Andrea Roberts, and Don Sinclair.

Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies

Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies
Author: Heather Davis-Fisch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781770917750

Challenging the idea of a singular narrative of Canadian theatre history and centring on questions of historiography and methodology, the essays in this collection investigate performances that have been excluded from mainstream theatre histories and re-evaluate well-known theatre movements to explore cultural memory. This collection asks, how do we remember performances of the past and why do some stories survive while others have been largely forgotten? Contributors draw on recent critical developments in performance studies, historiography, Indigenous studies, and hemispheric studies to explore topics ranging from the affective labour performed in life writing by World War I veterans, to a reconsideration of the role of dramaturgs in the alternative theatre movement, to a microhistory of petitions protesting minstrel performers appearing in Toronto, to a timely consideration of digital technologies in performance art documentation.