âI donât see how a play can be Canadian. I donât think there are any plays that you could call strictly Canadian  What does that phrase mean?â
Now, thirty-three years after Canadian directors spoke their minds, or rather shrugged their shoulders at the seeming hopelessness of de-colonizing Canadian theatre, this fourth edition of the âclassicâ Modern Canadian Plays sets out for us an even broader range of plays than previous editions, outlining a Canadian drama-scene that is far from colonial, inert, middle-class, or middle-aged. Spanning the years from 1967 to 1997, this anthology will likely continue to be the standard anthology for Canadian dramaâand not without good reason.
Edited by Jerry Wassermanâprofessor at the University of British Columbia, theatre critic for CBC, and one of Vancouverâs most recurring (and memorable) faces on televisionâ Volume I still contains plays such as George Rygaâs seminal and highly political The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (first performed in 1967, it was described as a âcicatriceâ of Canadian society that âshowed the bleeding flesh beneathâ), as well as Michel Tremblayâs Les Belles-Soeurs (one of the most critically acclaimed plays in Canada, translated from the original, controversial, joual). But more to the point, this edition of Volume I carries with it an even more distinct flavour of adventurousness in its juxtaposition of plays that are strikingly, even wildly, variousâplays that can only be said to cohere around the difficulty of amorphous notions such as social justice, cultural belonging, and the existence of a collective past.
The plays in this fourth edition of Modern Canadian Plays: Volume I date from 1967 to 1986.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Dramas & Plays
- Regional & Cultural
- Canadian
- Regional & Cultural
- Dramas & Plays
Publisher : Talonbooks
Author : Wasserman, Jerry
Language : English
Edition : 4th ed.
Published :2000-09-15
Number Of Pages : 464
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0889224366
ISBN-13 : 9780889224360
Item weight : 1.5 lb
Dimensions : 0.9 in x 6.7 in x 9.6 in
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