Modern Canadian Plays

by Wasserman, Jerry

• ISBN13: 9780889224377
• ISBN10: 0889224374
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Talonbooks Ltd

Summary

In Volume II, Wasserman shows us Canadian drama from 1985 up to 1997, during which we see women playwrights rise to greater prominence, along with Native, gay and lesbian, and Quebecois playwrights. But, continuing on from Volume I, this selection of plays not only takes us farther into the annals of the lives of the marginalized; it also provides a revealing cultural and philosophical cross-section of late-20th-century life in Canada. In one way or another, we are shown ourselves as we are, and not in the critically-neutral, determinedly naive terms of the contemporary mainstream in which we are all represented as gloriously enmeshed in a world of cybernetic stringency--the uncomplicated aesthetic of a never-ending stream of zeroes and ones. If the plays presented in these two volumes are the contours of an "indigenous Canadian drama," they outline anything but a norm. The plays in this fourth edition of Modern Canadian Plays: Volume IIdate from 1985 to 1997: Bordertown Cafeby Kelly Rebar Polygraphby Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard Mooby Sally Clark The Orphan Musesby Michel Marc Bouchard 7 Storiesby Morris Panych Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasingby Tomson Highway Amigo's Blue Guitarby Joan MacLeod Lion in the Streetsby Judith Thomson Never Swim Aloneby Daniel MacIvor Fronteras Americanasby Guillermo Verdecchia Harlem Duetby Djanet Sears Problem Childby George F. Walker

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Bordertown Cafe	p. 31
Polygraph	p. 71
Moo	p. 95
The Orphan Muses	p. 129
7 Stories	p. 155
Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing	p. 187
Amigo's Blue Guitar	p. 229
Lion in the Streets	p. 261
Never Swim Alone	p. 293
Fronteras Americanas	p. 313
Harlem Duet	p. 337
Problem Child	p. 375
A Selective Bibliography of Source Material	p. 395
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