John Hirsch arrived in Winnipeg in 1947, a 17-year-old Hungarian orphan of the Holocaust, knowing no English. Ten years later, he co-founded the Manitoba Theatre Centre, establishing a model for regional ...

Winner of the Ann Saddlemyer Award from the Canadian Association of Theatre Research. Finalist for the Gabrielle Roy Prize from the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures

Committing Theatre offers ...

As the foundational volume in the development of a new field of study, it includes essays by major voices in Asian Canadian Studies and Asian North American Theatre Studies, as well as some of Canada’s ...

Edward Curtis saw his job as that of creating a photographic record of ?the vanishing race of the North American Indian. ” His work therefore became as much a projection of colonial attitudes upon aboriginal ...

Covering a diverse range of subject matter, many of these plays are published in English for the first time.

Includes:

When Books Come Tumbling Down (Le bibliothèque de Constance) by Marie-Eve Gagnon, ...

Includes:
Path With No Moccasins; by Shirley Cheechoo
The Indian Medicine Shows; by Daniel David Moses
More Than Feathers and Beads; by Murielle Borst
Annie Maeâ??s Movement; by Yvette Nolan
Trail of ...

In this powerful dramatic monologue, Lorena Gale remembers, by reconstructing for the audience, her childhood and coming of age as an African-Canadian in Montreal.

Her autobiographical protagonist is ...

Astrolabe / æstræ leÓb/ n. an instrument consisting of a disc and pointer, used to make astronomical measurements, especially of the altitudes of celestial bodies, and as an aid in navigation. Over ...

Doyle has a very funny problem: he hears too much. He can hear the most intimate details of the lives of everyone living in his apartment building. He can tell the temperature of a young neighbour’s ...

Talking Bodies collects Larry Tremblay’s four stunning and memorable solo performances for the stage. Thematically related, each deals with the reconstruction of an identity which, through trauma, illusion, ...