Download or read book A Collection of Canadian Plays written by Rolf Kalman and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1972 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsh Hay, by Merrill Denison; The Unreasonable Act of Julian Waterman, by Ron Taylor; The Twisted Loaf & Soft Voices, by Aviva Ravel; Vicky, by Grahame Woods; The Vice President, by John Schull.

Download or read book Love Loss and Longing written by Dalbir Singh and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of six plays from acclaimed and award-winning South Asian Canadian playwrights.

Download or read book New Canadian Realisms written by Roberta Barker and published by New Essays in Canadian Theatre. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writing by celebrated scholars and artists that explores the state of political performance in contemporary Canada.

Download or read book Truth in Play written by David Stewart Craig and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short scenes from Canadian plays geared towards helping youth in theater performances.

Download or read book Q2Q written by Peter Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Hot Thespian Action written by Robin Whittaker and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hot Thespian Action! Robin Whittaker argues that new plays can thrive in amateur theatres, which have freedoms unavailable to professional companies. He proves it with ten relevant, engaging playscripts originally produced by one of Canada's longest-running theatres, Edmonton's acclaimed Walterdale Theatre Associates. This collection challenges notions that amateur theatre is solely a phenomenon of the pre-professional past. Whittaker makes an important contribution to Canadian theatre studies with the first North American anthology in 80 years to collect plays first produced by a nonprofessionalized theatre company.

Download or read book My TWP Plays written by Jack Winter and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first anthology of plays by one of the central figures of Toronto's left-wing theater collective TWP.

Download or read book Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934 1984 written by Richard Perkyns and published by Toronto, Ont. : Irwin. This book was released on 1984 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Theatre And Im migration written by Yana Meerzon and published by New Essays in Canadian Theatre. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Refractions written by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection can be used both as a source for actors and students, or as a primer on diverse Canadian theatre and an entry point into new works. Refractions: Scenes includes work by Michaela di Cesare, Rob Salerno, Lisa Codrington, Patti Flather, Ciarán Myers, Reneltta Arluk, Colleen Murphy, Deidre Walton, David Yee, and many more.

Download or read book Latin American Plays written by and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rappaccini's Daughter is the Mexican Nobel laureate Octavio Paz' lyrical tale of love, death and living for the present. Night of the Assassins is Cuban Jose Triana's controversial masterpiece, in which three siblings plot the murder of their parents. Griselda Gambaro's Saying Yes is an Argentine black comedy about man's grotesque inhumanity to man. Orchids in the Moonlight is Carlos Fuentes' dream play about the love between two Mexican women exiled in Hollywood's maze of mirrors. In Mistress of Desires, Mario Vargas Llosa erotically interweaves reality and fantasy as he investigates sex and money in darkest Peru.

Download or read book Voices of a Generation written by Michelle MacArthur and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays written by Amiel Gladstone and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays collects three works by one of Canada's dramatic luminaries. Hippies and Bolsheviks is set in that hotbed of hippie idealism, 1970s British Columbia. Young Star stumbles home from a Led Zeppelin concert with a draft dodger and sets in motion a crisis of love and of faith in their idealism against the Establishment. In Lena's Car , a woman whose marriage is on the verge of collapse reflects on how it got to that point, harkening back to a youth when things were both more simple and more complicated. In The Wedding Pool , a group of dissatisfied single friends decide to each contribute fifty dollars a month to a pool to be collected by the first one to marry. But when one of the friends starts dating the bank teller who opens their account, the others are forced to confront their ideas about loneliness and personal responsibility. ' The Wedding Pool is a particularly smart and entertaining example of the thirtysomething angst genre.' - The Globe and Mail 'If Hippies and Bolsheviks is any indication of the quality of work at this years playrites Festival, Calgary theatregoers are in for a phenomenal month.' Calgary Sun

Download or read book Outspoken written by Susan G. Cole and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for study, auditions, or general interest on gender, sexuality, family, and history.

Download or read book Almighty Voice and His Wife written by Daniel David Moses and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Almighty Voice and His Wife' shakes up a familiar story from the Saskatchewan frontier, reimagining it from the postmodern late twentieth century. The 'renegade Indian story' transforms into both an eloquent tale of tragic love and an often hilarious, fully theatrical exorcism of the hurts of history.

Download or read book Fronteras Vivientes written by Natalie Alvarez and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first anthology to showcase the work of established and emerging Latina/o playwrights in Canada.

Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Canadian Drama written by Per K. Brask and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of Canada's changing demographics and cultural fragmentation, fifteen essayists cover such issues as queer culture, feminist perspectives, Native and Asian theatre, regionalism and cultural immediacy in contemporary Canadian theatre.