Vancouver’s New Play Centre led the way in developing and producing the work of playwrights from Western Canada for the emergent Canadian theatre in the 1970s. The New Play Centre has been a major for
?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 th
Spanning the years 1967 to 2010, the two volumes of this anthology will ultimately include thirty plays with introductions and bibliographies by theatre critic Jerry Wasserman. The plays in the first
This new edition includes the original French script along with its long out-of-print English translations by American historical preservationist Harriette Taber Richardson and Canadian scholars Engen
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. B
That both autobiography and biography have acquired a position of unprecedented importance over the past 30 years is now obvious. Less obvious are the reasons for this phenomenon. Theorists and studen
A cautionary tale about the hidden costs of trying to embody traditional models of masculinity: to make the most money, to have sex with the most women, and to never, ever be vulnerable. Cast of 1 man
