Drama - Canadian

Annie Mae's Movement explores what is must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a man's movement, a Canadian in America, an American Indian in a white-dominant culture. This play looks for the truth by examining the life and...

Sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.Author: Natalie RewaISBN-10: 0887548334ISBN-13: 9780887548338Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2010Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d

Two plays with a deep sense of Newfoundland's history. Butler's Marsh explores 30-year-old family secrets hidden in the dark, dense woods. In Tempting Providence, Myra Grimsley boards a steam ship from London in 1921, charged to serve as the sole health provider for the...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Six Years in the Canadian Northwest is a memoir written by Jean D'Artigue, originally published in 1882. The book recounts the author's experiences living and working in the Canadian Northwest during the late 19th century. D'Artigue was a French-Canadian trader who spent six years...

Upon the death of King Edward VI, the thirty-eight-year-old princess Mary--daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon--wrests the throne from Edward's deemed heir. But Mary's mother appears from the vaults of memory, and adamantly questions the motives of Mary's cousin Jane and her...

A new apartment should be a warm and welcoming signal to a fresh chapter of life. It shouldn't be where a family waits in the dark, surrounded by unpacked boxes, as missiles rain down around them. Already eight years into the Iran-Iraq war, Nasrin...

Tramore Theatre was formed in 1999 by Agnes Walsh and Arlene Morrissey. It is a community-based arts organization dedicated to the promotion of the oral history and the cultural traditions of the Cape Shore of Placentia Bay, including the rich Irish heritage of the...

Winner of the 2019 Governor-General's Award for French-language Drama Strangers Elsie and Matt are both feeling great voids in their lives. Elsie, a literature professor, is grieving her famous novelist mother's tragic death. Matt, a city engineer, is trying to regain childhood memories from...

When the Westray mine exploded, the human tragedy and suffering that resulted were chilling proof that the age-old price paid for coal is human blood. After the dead were laid to rest, the bureaucratic back-stabbing and corporate refusal of responsibility were all too familiar...

World War II veteran Hank Dunfield is about to turn one hundred years old. The staff at Ponderosa Pine Lodge have recruited Sarah, a young nursing student, to keep Hank safe, comfortable, and in the building while they plan a grand centenarian celebration. There's...

Monogamy means sharing your life with one person, but what if you shared your kitchen with 5.6 million? Caroline Mortimer, the nation's favourite TV cook, has it all - a sparkling career, a big house in Highgate, a (golf) loving husband, smart kids and...

At a crumbling zoo, an elephant keeper, a security guard, and a newly hired media consultant have differing views over what should be done about the zoo's main attraction, the aging Sri Lankan elephant Matara. Matara is deteriorating by the day following the loss...

2006 marked the 400th anniversary of a major theatrical event in the history of North American drama. The Theatre of Neptune in New France by lawyer, poet and historian Marc Lescarbot was a masque of welcome performed on the Bay of Fundy by members...

DramaCharacters: 4 male, 3 femaleInterior Set An exceptional drama by an award winning Canadian playwright.The Mercer family's cohesiveness is being torn asunder. The subtle threads of mutual understanding, confidence and trust have come unraveled. The key character is the patriarch, Jacob, a man obsessed...

Three Young Native American sisters and their mother board a bus bound for Los Angeles, leaving home as part of a 1950s government mandate to relocate reserve Indians to urban centres. This assimilationist policy was one focus of M騁is playwright Marie Clements's research when...

Two Ships Passing is the sequel to Dave Carley's Midnight Madness, which received its world premiere in 1988, and went on to become one of Canada's most widely produced plays.Author: Dave CarleyISBN-10: 0889242828ISBN-13: 9780889242821Publisher: Dundurn PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1998Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w...

Winner of the 2009 Carol Bolt Award France. 1917. Aided by a nurse from Nova Scotia, four wounded Canadian soldiers recover in a field hospital in the wake of the battle for Vimy Ridge.Author: Vern ThiessenISBN-10: 1770918302ISBN-13: 9781770918306Publisher: Playwrights Canada PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2018Pages: 144Format:...

A contemporary dramatic take on a 4,000-year-old Sanskrit epic that is foundational to Indian culture. Why Not Theatre's large-scale, once-in-a-generation retelling of Mahabharata brings together a cast of performers entirely from the South Asian diaspora, blending cultures and art forms in a spectacular production...

Contributors assess the deployments of various emotional registers in theatrical performance and explore how and where the "affective turn" in contemporary humanities scholarship affects theatre studies in Canada. What is it to think feeling, to put the affective dimensions of theatrical experience and its...

Finalist for the Governor General's Award for Drama. Monster, a one-man play, begins in the total darkness of a movie theatre. After a long silence, someone in the audience rudely shushes his neighbour, and the show begins. Daniel MacIvor transforms himself into a series...

Daniel's ready to talk. And his friends Krystina and Jeremy are ready to help. But is it too late? Set in separate but simultaneous lunch periods at two different high schools, the teenagers are faced with acknowledging what drove them apart. At his new...

What stories do we tell ourselves to keep our walls up and our privilege intact? What is the cost of revolution? In this contemporary retelling of Antigone, denial of what rages outside of a city's perimeter comes to a head when a young princess...

The first major artistic statement by the renowned Canadien theatre director and visionary artist.Author: Robert LepageISBN-10: 1559361654ISBN-13: 9781559361651Publisher: Theatre Communications GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/1999Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.59d

Rod Langley's Bethune chronicles the medical and political career of Norman Bethune, a Canadian-born doctor who died a national hero in the Republic of China in 1939. He remains an esteemed figure in China today, for his selfless contributions to the Communist Party of...

A new drama teacher teaches two aggressive girls the art of stage combat, hoping to get them to understand the costs of violence. The girls battle out their issues in rehearsals, and as the their interest in stage combat grows, so does their interest...

What happens when a passion is turned into a means to survive? Sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bront have always enjoyed writing and storytelling, but so far, it's been for their own personal enjoyment. Now that their father is sick and their brother is...

You Never Can Tell is an 1897 four-act play by George Bernard Shaw that debuted at the Royalty Theatre. It was published as part of a volume of Shaw's plays entitled Plays Pleasant. In June 2011, the play was revived at the Coliseum Theatre...

Gilgamesh is one of the most powerful men in Iraq. A king, a demi-God and a fearsome tyrant, he thrives on the shame and suffering of his subjects, robbing them of their innocence to fuel his lust. But when the Gods turn against him,...

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, up from 603,502 in 2011. The Greater Vancouver area...

Aspiring historian Maxine is researching Canadian social policy when she discovers the story of Everett Klippert--the last Canadian man jailed simply for being gay. Maxine becomes fascinated with Everett's case and with discovering the man beyond the headlines, a beloved Calgary bus driver on...

Refractions: Scenes is the hotly anticipated follow-up to Refractions: Solo, a collection of monologues also edited by St. Bernard and Nolan. This collection can be used both as a source for actors and students, or as a primer on diverse Canadian theatre and an...

Loving music was never a bad thing, until the love and obsession John had possessed not only him but his instrument. Will he find love, or Madness...Author: John Anthony DavisISBN-10: 1548116009ISBN-13: 9781548116002Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/14/2017Pages: 88Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.28lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w...

The last of the Canadian Indian Agents travels north to the tiny Native Village of Fort Norman located on the Mackenzie River in the North West Territory of Canada, now called Tulita. He brings with him his wife and four small children. The year...

W.O. Mitchell's "Jake & The Kid" captivated radio audiences in the days before television and enjoyed ratings that rivalled those for the radio broadcasts of the CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada." These homespun tales about the hired hand, Jake Trumper and his sidekick, The...

At the beginning of the 20th century in China, copies of Ibsen's A Doll House began circulating secretly amongst women in tea-houses. In China Doll, Marjorie Chan's first play, Ibsen is a catalyst for a young woman who comes to see her future in...

In language that is at once poetic and vernacular, Don Hannah creates characters and stories that long remain with the reader and audience. The three plays in Shoreline explore that most basic and complicated of emotional territories: the family.Author: Don HannahISBN-10: 0889242909ISBN-13: 9780889242906Publisher: Dundurn...

Of all the subjects taught in the school system, dramatic arts probably has the greatest potential to help students prepare for life. The study of acting helps students develop personal and social skills: increased poise and confidence, better awareness of their physical and vocal...

The editor of this lively, updated assortment of reviews, interviews and other critical deliberations on contemporary Canadian drama has gathered material from books, theatre and scholarly journals; from major daily newspapers in Canada and abroad; from critics, academics, journalists and playwrights. This new expanded...

Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild their lives and their families after the war, Ralph...

If Jesus Met Nanabush, When Jesus disappears from the bible as a young man, he emerges here, in Canada during the turbulent 1970s.The first person he meets up with is trickster Nanabush, the great Anishinaabe impersonation of life. Together the two make an odd...

For more than three decades, Robert Lepage's dynamic multimedia performance works have been produced on stages worldwide. Celebrated for his bold, visionary aesthetic, Lepage has received several high-profile commissions in recent years, including two Peter Gabriel world tours, Cirque du Soleil's Kﾁ in Las...

A historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana massacre at Little Big Horn. The play examines Sitting Bull's relationship with superintendent Walsh of the North West Mounted Police and is the study of the disillusionment of a man who believes...

Waiting for the Parade is John Murrell's play, set in Calgary during World War II, in which five women gather to work for the war effort while their men are away. Waiting for the Parade was first performed by Alberta Theatre Projects, Calgary. Subsequently,...

Presented in the original Cree text! First published in English, with several major awards and nominations: Nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama Dora Mavor Moore Award winner, 1989 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award winner, 1990 Paasteewitoon Kaapooskaysing Tageespichit (Dry Lips...

Lila, a Black cop, has been on leave from the police force ever since she shot an unarmed Black man. She's moved back in with her mother, Karen, and is drinking beer for breakfast. So when Tim, a white playwright, shows up at her...

Inspired by the true story of a New Brunswick teenager who committed suicide in prison when corrections officers failed to intervene. From the two-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award, this play is a bold, captivating portrait of three women who remain helpless...

Jake is a widower whose life is devoted to his son, a severely disabled seventeen-year-old boy. However, when Jake suddenly develops a serious medical condition, he becomes the one to rely on the people around him. As Jake's condition worsens, an ethical dilemma troubles...

Love, Loss, and Longing: South Asian Canadian Plays is a collection of six plays from acclaimed and award-winning South Asian Canadian playwrights that explore themes of family, love, trauma, race, and more. Featuring introductions by directors, dramaturgs, and playwrights, each play is contextualized to...

David, a successful novelist with writer's block, has received some devastating news. Lucy, his housekeeper of twenty-eight years, has her own secret. As Lucy is getting ready to end her shift, David invites her to stay and have a drink. But as the night...