Drama

Includes:
When the Performer is Black by Rita Shelton Deverell (1986)
Heritage or Cultural Evolution: Federal Policy on Multiculturalism and the Arts by Carol Off (1988)
On Their Own Terms by Beverly Yhap (1988)
Angry Enough to Spit, But With Dry Lips it Hurts More Than You Know by Marie Annharte Baker (1991)
Family Matters: Reflections of Italia …

Acting Between the Lines is the first full-length study of Northern Ireland's Field Day Theatre Company. Since its creation in 1980 by actor Stephen Rea (The Crying Game) and playwright Brian Friel (Translations, Dancing at Lughnasa), Field Day has established itself as one of the most important elements in contemporary Irish culture. From its base …

Includes:
The Growth and Development of Black Theatre in Canada: A Starting Point by Robin Breon (1988)
Must All Blackness Be American? Locating Canada in Bordenâ??s Tightrope Time or Nationalizing Gilroyâ??s The Black Atlantic by George Elliott Clarke (1996)
â??From twisted history??: Reading Angélique by Alan Filewod (2001)
â??Thereâ??s …

Most readers know Antonin Artaud as a theorist of the theatre and as a playwright, director and actor manqué. Now, John C. Stout’s highly original study installs Artaud as a writer and theorist of biography.

In Alternate Genealogies Stout analyzes two separate but interrelated preoccupations central to Artaud’s work: the self-portrait and th …

“Webster’s iconoclasm was not the lonely experience of an alienated intellectual, but part of his generation’s struggle to create the future. As such, the critical energy we find in the plays was sustained, not by ideological certainty, but rather by interaction with the great complexity of thought and action—much of it negative—that co …

Includes the following essays:

Notes on Playing Shakespeare by Ann Wilson and Steven Bush (1988)
The Aboriginal Presence in Canadian Theatre and the Evolution of Being Canadian by Helen Peters (1993)
from Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan 1985â??1990: â??The Stratford of the West?? (NOT) by Moira Day (1996)
from Affirmative Shakespeare at Canadaâ? …

Includes:

In The Neighbourhood of My Heart by Don Bouzek (1987)
Shadowy Existence: Shadowlandâ??s Creative Design Community by Sarah B. Hood (1988)
Permission Granted: Romeo & Juliet by Sarah Stanley (1995)
The Spirit of Shivaree and the Community Play in Canada; or, The Unity in Community by Edward Little and Richard Paul Knowles (1995)
Wabana: A …