Drama Anthologies (multiple Authors)
Staging Coyote's Dream Volume 1
An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2003
- Category
- Anthologies (multiple authors), Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887546259
- Publish Date
- May 2003
- List Price
- $29.95
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Description
An anthology of First Nations drama in English, Staging Coyote's Dream is the first anthology of First Nations plays to be published in Canada. It brings together ten major plays by First Nations playwrights living in Canada and the United States. The collection will be required reading for specialists and students of Native Studies, Native theatre or literature, and will serve as an outstanding introduction to newcomers to the field.
About the authors
Monique Mojica’s (Guna and Rappahannock) theatrical practice is centred in land-based embodied research and the development of culturally specific Indigenous dramaturgies. Her first play, Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots, was produced in 1990 and is taught in curricula internationally. She founded Chocolate Woman Collective in 2006 to create the play Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way. She is the co-editor, with Ric Knowles, of Staging Coyote’s Dream vols. I and II. Newly released is Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way: Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance, written with Brenda Farnell. Most recent performances include Izzie M.: The Alchemy of Enfreakment written by Monique with a diverse creative team, My Sister’s Rage for Tarragon Theatre and The Unnatural and Accidental Women at the National Arts Centre. Monique has collaborated with Santee Smith since 2013 as the dramaturge for Kaha:wi Dance Theatre’s tryptic Re-Quickening / Blood Tides / SKe:NEN, Teneil Whiskeyjack’s Ayita for Edmonton’s SkirtsAfire Festival ,and Audrey Dwyer’s Come Home: The Legend of Daddy Hall for Tarragon Theatre. She is a member of the newly formed Indigenous Dramaturgy Circle at Tarragon Theatre and was the inaugural Wurlitzer Visiting Professor at the University of Victoria’s Theatre Department in 2023.
Ric Knowles is of anglo-Scottish heritage, and is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, editor of Canadian Theatre Review, and past editor of Modern Drama (1999â??2005). He is author of The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning, Shakespeare and Canada, and Reading the Material Theatre, co-author (with the Cultural Memory Group) of Remembering Women Murdered by Men, editor of Theatre in Atlantic Canada, Judith Thompson, and The Masks of Judith Thompson, and co-editor (with Joanne Tompkins and W.B.Worthen) of Modern Drama: Defining the Field. He is general editor of the book series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English and New Essays on Canadian Theatre from Playwrights Canada Press.
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