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Beyond the Pale

Dramatic Writing from First Nations Writers and Writers of Colour

selected and edited by Yvette Nolan

“As I ponder this second collection, I am gratified to see how far we have come in a mere ten years. Many of the plays represented here have been produced by mainstream companies, on major Canadian stages…. The very best theatre surprises, shakes us from our expectations, and we leave the theatre changed in some way. These writers take us ‘beyond the safe limits of decent everyday society,’ beyond the pale.”

—from the introduction by Yvette Nolan

Includes excerpts from:

Drew Hayden Taylor – The Buz’Gem Blues

Sunil Kuruvilla – Rice Boy

Terrie A. Hamazaki – Furasato

Tasha Faye Evans – She Stands Still

Joy Russell – Hogan’s Alley

Walter Borden – Tightrope Time

Lisa Codrington – Cast Iron

Penny Gummerson – Wawatay

M.J. Kang – dreams of blonde and blue

Nina Aquino / Nadine Villasin – Miss Orient(ed)

trey anthony – ‘da Kink in my hair

Darrell Dennis – Tales of an Urban Indian

naila belvett / d’bi.young – yagayah

Primrose Madayag Knazan – Shades of Brown

Terry Ivins – Time Stands Still

Joseph Pierre – Beatdown aka Life

Marie-Leofeli Romero Barlizo – The Prophecies of a Prince of Barotac

Diane Roberts – Bone Bred

Floyd Favel – The House of Sonya

Laura Cranmer / Sandy Scofield – DP’s Colonial Cabaret

Rahul Varma – Bhopal

George Elliott Clarke – Whylah Falls

Marty Chan – The Forbidden Phoenix

Jean Yoon – The Yoko Ono Project

Mitch Miyagawa – The Plum Tree

Hiro Kanagawa – Tiger of Malaya

Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble – The Scrubbing Project

Marie Clements – The Burning Vision

Djanet Sears – The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God

Tomson Highway – Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout

Drew Hayden Taylor – alterNatives

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