Where the Blood Mixes is meant to expose the shadows below the surface of the author's First Nations heritage, and to celebrate its survivors. Though torn down years ago, the memories of their Residen
In 1956, Silvio Rosato, a decorated World War II veteran, shows up at the house of his bigamist father, Eduardo Rosato, who had abandoned him and his mother in Italy in 1920, starting a second life an
Penny and Ezra lamb are home-schooled on a hippie colony until the police discover it also happens to be the largest marijuana grow-op in Saskatchewan. "Legoland" is how their pot-smoking elders alway
In 1993 when Robert Lepage suggested to his colleagues that a specific identity and image be found for his next working group, he imposed one condition. The word ?theatre” was not to be part of the na
Strange Comfort collects the best of Sherrill Grace's many published essays on the novelist and writer Malcolm Lowry, along with new pieces that incorporate her contemporary approach to his work. The
On Friday, April 24, 1885, Captain James Peters took the world’s first battlefield photographs under fire at the battle of Fish Creek in the Canadian Northwest Territory of Saskatchewan. As Captain of
In 1903, eighteen years after leading the Metis Army against the Northwest Expeditionary Force and the Northwest Mounted Police at Fish Creek, Duck Lake and Batoche, Louis Riel’s Adjutant General Gabr
Fuelled by equal parts outrage, intelligence and wit, Fronteras Americanas re-creates one person’s struggle to construct a home between two cultures, while exploding the images and constructs built up
Where is the East End? It’s where the sun comes up and where you bury the dead. It’s where George Walker set six of his plays. It’s the East End of Toronto; the Lower East Side of New York; down by th
Something completely different from George Walker! Six plays, united only by the fact that they each take place in one and the same suburban motel room. Transients, lovers, the haunted and the hunted,
A very liberal contemporary couple?Angel, an urban Native science fiction writer, and Colleen, a ?non-practising” Jewish intellectual who teaches Native literature?hosts a dinner party. The guests at
It has been well known since Marius Barbeau’s review of the first edition of Franz Boas’s Tsimshian Mythology in 1917, that something was seriously amiss with Boas’s alleged ?translations” of the stor
In an imaginary letter to an absent older brother, Braidie struggles to understand the torture and killing of a teenage girl by a group of her school-mates. MacLeod’s young protagonist enters all the
The Buz’Gem Blues is the third play in Drew Hayden Taylor’s ongoing zany, outrageous, often farcical examination of both Native and non-Native stereotypes in what is to become what he calls his ?Blues
Based on a deposition signed by fourteen Chiefs of the Thompson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets He
Adrift is a play about the tragedy of the innocents caught between the Holy Wars of our twenty-first century.A group of urban Egyptian hipsters gathers every night on a Cairo houseboat where they smok
While readers of theater history will find this biography invaluable, those more interested in the personal story of a writer’s commitment to her craft and discipline will find Pollock’s
Empire of Desire traces western civilization's quest for immortality across a further four centuries - from Moliere to Proust, by way of Voltaire and Rousseau, Goethe and Hegel, Melville and Joyce - e
The year is 1967 - Expo - and everyone else in Montreal is waiting for the great day when they can visit the exotic foreign pavilions. For the characters of The Red Notebook, the second in Tremblay's
It is extraordinary that one can take the measure of how radically cultural sensibilities can change throughout a century by a careful reading of only two texts - in this case Rainer Maria Rilke's Dui
