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Modern Canadian Plays: Volume 1 (Paperback, 4th Edition)
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Modern Canadian Plays: Volume 1 (Paperback, 4th Edition)
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"I don't see how a play can be Canadian. I don't think there are
any plays that you could call strictly Canadian ... What does that
phrase mean?"
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
"classic" "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
drama--and not without good reason.
Edited by Jerry Wasserman--professor at the University of British
Columbia, theatre critic for CBC, and one of Vancouver's most
recurring (and memorable) faces on television-- Volume I still
contains plays such as George Ryga's seminal and highly political
"The Ecstasy of Rita Joe" (first performed in 1967, it was
described as a "cicatrice" of Canadian society that "showed the
bleeding flesh beneath"), as well as Michel Tremblay's "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, various--plays 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.
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