Synopses & Reviews
A collection of contemporary Canadian plays. Includes Gwen Pharis Ringwood's Still Stands the House, Trey Anthony's 'da Kink in my hair, Tara Beagan's Miss Julie: Sheh'mah, Madeleine Blais-Dahlem's La Maculées Tain, Hillar Liitoja's The Last Supper, selections from the Impromptu Splendour series, Theatre Replacement's BIOBOXES, and Zuppa Theatre's Penny Dreadful.
Synopsis
A collection of eight contemporary Canadian plays, each of which may be defined as realist."
Synopsis
A collection of contemporary Canadian plays. Includes Gwen Pharis Ringwood's Still Stands the House, Trey Anthony's 'da Kink in my hair, Tara Beagan's Miss Julie: Sheh'mah, Madeleine Blais-Dahlem's La Maculees Tain, Hillar Liitoja's The Last Supper, selections from the Impromptu Splendour series, Theatre Replacement's BIOBOXES, and Zuppa Theatre's Penny Dreadful.
About the Author
Roberta Barker is Associate Professor of Theatre at Dalhousie University and the University of Kings College. She is the author of
Early Modern Tragedy, Gender and Performance, 19842000: The Destined Livery. Her work on early modern and modern drama in performance has been published in
Shakespeare Survey,
Shakespeare Quarterly,
Modern Drama, and
Early Theatre, among other journals and essay collections, while her articles on contemporary Atlantic Canadian theatre have appeared in
Canadian Theatre Review and
Theatre in Atlantic Canada.
Kim Solga is Associate Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario and Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Violence Against Women in Early Modern Performance: Invisible Acts, and co-editor of Performance and the City and Performance and the Global City. Her work on Canadian performance has appeared in Theatre Research in Canada, Canadian Theatre Review, The Drama Review, and Theatre Journal, as well as in several essay collections.