Performing national identities : international perspectives on contemporary Canadian theatre
A collection of 18 original essays on contemporary Canadian theatre by drama specialists in Belgium, Finland, Germany, Hungary and elsewhere
Aufsatzsammlung
320 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780889224759, 0889224757
56010962
pt. 1: Playwrights and their works. Performing lives: Linda Griffiths and other famous women
Michel Tremblay in Scots: celebration and rehabilitation
Imagining Canada: Sharon Pollock's 'Walsh' and 'Fair Liberty's Call'
"Some kind of transition place between Heaven and Hell": George Walker's aesthetics of hybridity in 'Heaven'
A Different 'Othello Music': Djanet Sears's 'Harlem Duet'
Joan MacLeod and the geography of the imagination
pt. 2: Productions and reception. Canadian plays on a German stage: a production of Michel Marc Bouchard's Le Chemin des Passes-Dangereuses
The alarming/boring binary logic of reviewing English-Canadian drama in Britain
Imagination import: reception and perception of the Theatre of Québec in the United Kingdom
Theatre as national export: on being and passing in the United States
Canadian plays on the Japanese stage
The story of Morris Panych's '7 Stories' in Hungary: a documentary production analysis
Maintaining the alternative: an interview with Urjo Kareda
pt. 3: Movements and issues. Naming the movement: recapitalizing popular theatre
The hearts of its women: rape, residential schools, and re-membering
Performing history: the reconstruction of gender and race in British Columbia drama
Can Weesageechak keep dancing? The importance of trickster figures in the work of native earth dramatists, 1986-2000
Yellow claw, yellow fever, yellow peril: performing the fantasy of the "Asian-Canadian."