Download or read book Modern Canadian Plays written by Jerry Wasserman and published by Burnaby, B.C. : Talonbooks. This book was released on 2000 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Volume II, Wasserman shows us Canadian drama from 1985 up to 1997, during which we see women playwrights rise to greater prominence, along with Native, gay and lesbian, and Quebecois playwrights. But, continuing on from Volume I, this selection of plays not only takes us farther into the annals of the lives of the marginalized; it also provides a revealing cultural and philosophical cross-section of late-20th-century life in Canada. In one way or another, we are shown ourselves as we are, and not in the critically-neutral, determinedly naive terms of the contemporary mainstream in which we are all represented as gloriously enmeshed in a world of cybernetic stringency--the uncomplicated aesthetic of a never-ending stream of zeroes and ones. If the plays presented in these two volumes are the contours of an "indigenous Canadian drama," they outline anything but a norm. The plays in this fourth edition of Modern Canadian Plays: Volume IIdate from 1985 to 1997: Bordertown Cafeby Kelly Rebar Polygraphby Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard Mooby Sally Clark The Orphan Musesby Michel Marc Bouchard 7 Storiesby Morris Panych Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasingby Tomson Highway Amigo's Blue Guitarby Joan MacLeod Lion in the Streetsby Judith Thomson Never Swim Aloneby Daniel MacIvor Fronteras Americanasby Guillermo Verdecchia Harlem Duetby Djanet Sears Problem Childby George F. Walker

Download or read book Modern Canadian Drama volume One written by Fredelle Bruser Maynard and published by Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Modern Canadian Drama written by Richard Plant and published by Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books. This book was released on 1984 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Performing Autobiography written by Jennifer Stephenson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Performing Autobiography, Jenn Stephenson presents an innovative new approach to autobiography studies that links the growing field of research to drama. Stephenson’s analysis engages with performance histories to demonstrate the extent to which the dramatic form, which recasts autobiography as ambiguously fictive, ensures that the experience of the plays remains open to revision, alteration, and interpretation. As such, Performing Autobiography understands this form not to be the impossible documentation of the backward-looking narrative of one’s life, but rather an evolving process of self-creation and transformation. Stephenson explores the autobiographical form by analysing seven works by Canadian playwrights written and performed between 1999 and 2009, including Judith Thompson’s Perfect Pie, Daniel MacIvor’s In On It, and Timothy Findley’s Shadows. Her analysis encourages us to see autobiography as a uniquely political act, one that, where enacted on stage, illustrates the variety of ways that self-reflection and interpretation has an expanding role in contemporary culture.

Download or read book The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning written by Richard Paul Knowles and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do dramatic forms shape social formations? This study of Canadian dramatic structures asks this question of an extraordinarily wide range of contemporary plays. Knowles begins with a look at inherited naturalistic and modernist forms based, respectively, on time and space. He then uses this division to extend his inquiry first into post-naturalist forms of collective and collaborative creations, community plays, and historical metadramas, and then into postmodernist structures of environmental theatre and “dialogic monologue.” The book ends with a brief epilogue on the structures of “spacetime,” as Canadian theatre moves “towards a quantum dramaturgy.” From Michael Cook and David French through George F. Walker, Judith Thompson, and Sally Clark, to Monique Mojica, John Mighton, and feminist performance art, this book revolutionizes the study of contemporary Canadian drama. It’s a thoughtful and timely advance in our ways of thinking about dramaturgical form and meaning in Canadian theatrical production, and in Canadian society.

Download or read book The Dark Moon written by Julia Gray and published by Orbit. This book was released on 2000-09-07 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich and exciting, powerful and engrossing, DARK MOON marks the arrival of a thrilling new series in fantasy adventure. The birth of the Emperor's son had been prophesied many years before. The child would be the Guardian, savour of his people. What had not been foreseen was the fact that there would be two imperial children born that night. Jax, the firstborn, is raised in the Imperial Palace and groomed for his role as the future leader of The Floating Islands. Terrell, second born and hideously disfigured, is banished to Havenmoon, where he will spend his life unaware of his birthright. Both have hidden talents, but is either the true Guardian? When the Islands begin to spin out of control, in danger of colliding with the mainland, the prophecy begins to unfold ...

Download or read book Contemporary Canadian Theatre written by Anton Wagner and published by Simon & Pierre. This book was released on 1985 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-five critics provide a unique overview of the contemporary performing arts and their cultural and economic impact in French and English Canada, in a province-by-province assessment of playwrighting, theatre production, opera and dance, radio and TV drama. Over 70 production photographs and an extensive bibliography and index make this one of the most important books on Canadian theatre in the last decade.

Download or read book Canadian Drama and the Critics written by Leonard W. Conolly and published by Talon Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These critical deliberations on contemporary Canadian drama is an ideal companion text to Modern Canadian Plays Volumes I and II.

Download or read book Performing National Identities written by Sherrill Grace and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 18 original essays on contemporary Canadian theatre by drama specialists in Belgium, Finland, Germany, Hungary and elsewhere.

Download or read book Canadian Theatre History written by Don Rubin and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original documents and publications by Canadian theatre professions and cultural commentators.

Download or read book New Canadian Realisms written by Roberta Barker and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of eight contemporary Canadian plays, each of which may be defined as "realist.

Download or read book Testifyin written by Djanet Sears and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II features critical introductions to each of the 11 plays, which include: Angelique by Lorena Gale; Consecrated Ground by George Boyd; Common Man's Guide to Loving Women by Andrew Moodie; El Paso by Michael Miller; and Adventures of a Brown Girl in Search of a God by Djanet Sears.

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.

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