Popular Political Theatre and Performance

Volume editor Julie Salverson
Series edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Non-Fiction / Essays
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Includes:

Seize the Day: The Mummers' Gros Mourn by Chris Brookes (1983)
Reclaiming Popular Theatre by Rose Adame (1983)
Mixed Company Redefines Political Theatre by Banuta Rubess (1984)
The Interactive ...

Theatre in Atlantic Canada

Edited by Linda Burnett
Series edited by Ric Knowles
Subjects: Non-Fiction / Essays, Atlantic Playwrights
Series: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English

Includes:
Mermaid Theatre: The Mythic Dimension by Donna E. Smyth (1978)
On the Edge: Michael Cook's Newfoundland Trilogy by Brian Parker (1980)
The Political Dramaturgy of the Mummers Troupe by Alan ...

Scorched

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Theatre of War, Canadian Classics, Family Life, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Translations, (Im)migration, Death, Grief & Loss
Casting: 7 actors

Wajdi Mouawad's writing is powerful; a beautifully penned story that paves a path to a mother's unspeakable pain. The closer Janine and Simon get to finding the source of her silence, the closer they ...

Pyaasa & Letters to My Grandma

By Anusree Roy
Introduction by Thomas Morgan Jones
Subjects: Family Life, South Asian Canadian Playwrights, Solo Shows, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age — 15–18, Ontario Playwrights, Women Writers, (Im)migration
Casting: 1 f

Set in Calcutta, Pyaasa tells the story of Chaya, an eleven-year-old untouchable who dreams of nothing more than learning her times tables. When Chaya's mother begs a woman from a higher caste to give ...

Afterimage

By Robert Chafe
Preface by Michael Crummey
Subjects: Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Adaptations, Family Life, Award Winners, Atlantic Playwrights, Newfoundland & Labrador, Rural Settings
Casting: 4 f, 4 m

Seeing beyond Winston’s disfiguring scars and foreseeing a future with him, Lise falls in love and the couple soon marry. Years later, having inherited Lise’s gift, two of their children, Theresa ...

True Love Lies

By Brad Fraser
Subjects: Ontario Playwrights, Family Life, LGBT/Queer Theatre
Casting: 2 f, 3 m

Sparking a series of further revelations, the sudden reappearance of David exposes suppressed emotions and desires in everyone and the family must renegotiate their relationships with each other and, ...

Pure Gold

Edited by Brian Kennedy
Subjects: Theatre Studies, Acting & Technique, Scenes & Monologues, Canadian Classics, Anthologies, Theatre for Young Audiences, By Age - 15-18

Culled from a wide variety of award-winning plays, the pieces presented here are sure to delight both those new to Canadian plays and those familiar with some of this country's most memorable stage shows ...

Toronto the Good

By Andrew Moodie
Subjects: Black Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast, Ontario Playwrights
Casting: 3 f, 3 m, doubling

When top Crown attorney Thomas Matthews, a victim of racial profiling himself, is assigned to prosecute the accused against a Left-leaning white attorney, tensions mount and personal politics bubble to ...

String Quartet

By Ronnie Burkett
Introduction by Liz Nicholls
Subjects: Puppets & Puppetry, Canadian Classics, Ontario Playwrights

A collection of four plays by internationally renowned puppeteer Ronnie Burkett. This anthology includes the three plays of the Memory Dress Trilogy: Tinka's New Dress, Street of Blood, and Happy, ...

Forests

By Wajdi Mouawad
Translated by Linda Gaboriau
Subjects: Award Winners, Quebec Playwrights, Translations, Middle Eastern Canadian Playwrights, Community Theatre Picks, Large Cast
Casting: 5 f, 6 m, doubling

From Odette to Hélène, then to Léonie, Ludivine, Sarah, Luce and finally to Aimée, Loup's mother.

It would seem that a curse of tragedy and death decimated this family in the heart of the Ardennes ...