Author: Nina Lee Aquino
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group - Playwrights Canada Press
ISBN: 9780887549861
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the first book to consider the formation, history, and practice of Asian Canadian theatre.
Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre
Author: Kailin Wright
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228003237
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In Canada, adaptation is a national mode of survival, but it is also a way to create radical change. Throughout history, Canadians have been inheritors and adaptors: of political systems, stories, and customs from the old world and the new. More than updating popular narratives, adaptation informs understandings of culture, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as individual experiences. In Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre Kailin Wright investigates adaptations that retell popular stories with a political purpose and examines how they acknowledge diverse realities and transform our past. Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre explores adaptations of Canadian history, Shakespeare, Greek mythologies, and Indigenous history by playwrights who identify as English-Canadian, African-Canadian, French-Canadian, French, Kuna Rappahannock, and Delaware from the Six Nations. Along with new considerations of the activist potential of popular Canadian theatre, this book outlines eight strategies that adaptors employ to challenge conceptions of what it means to be Indigenous, Black, queer, or female. Recent cancellations of theatre productions whose creators borrowed elements from minority cultures demonstrate the need for a distinction between political adaptation and cultural appropriation. Wright builds on Linda Hutcheon's definition of adaptation as repetition with difference and applies identification theory to illustrate how political adaptation at once underlines and undermines its canonical source. An exciting intervention in adaptation studies, Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre unsettles the dynamics of popular and political theatre and rethinks the ways performance can contribute to how one country defines itself.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228003237
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
In Canada, adaptation is a national mode of survival, but it is also a way to create radical change. Throughout history, Canadians have been inheritors and adaptors: of political systems, stories, and customs from the old world and the new. More than updating popular narratives, adaptation informs understandings of culture, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as individual experiences. In Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre Kailin Wright investigates adaptations that retell popular stories with a political purpose and examines how they acknowledge diverse realities and transform our past. Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre explores adaptations of Canadian history, Shakespeare, Greek mythologies, and Indigenous history by playwrights who identify as English-Canadian, African-Canadian, French-Canadian, French, Kuna Rappahannock, and Delaware from the Six Nations. Along with new considerations of the activist potential of popular Canadian theatre, this book outlines eight strategies that adaptors employ to challenge conceptions of what it means to be Indigenous, Black, queer, or female. Recent cancellations of theatre productions whose creators borrowed elements from minority cultures demonstrate the need for a distinction between political adaptation and cultural appropriation. Wright builds on Linda Hutcheon's definition of adaptation as repetition with difference and applies identification theory to illustrate how political adaptation at once underlines and undermines its canonical source. An exciting intervention in adaptation studies, Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre unsettles the dynamics of popular and political theatre and rethinks the ways performance can contribute to how one country defines itself.
Asian Canadian Theatre
Author: Nina Lee Aquino
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group - Playwrights Canada Press
ISBN: 9780887549861
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the first book to consider the formation, history, and practice of Asian Canadian theatre.
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group - Playwrights Canada Press
ISBN: 9780887549861
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the first book to consider the formation, history, and practice of Asian Canadian theatre.
Canadian Theatre History
Author: Don Rubin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A collection of original documents and publications by Canadian theatre professions and cultural commentators.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A collection of original documents and publications by Canadian theatre professions and cultural commentators.
Canadian Theatre History
Author: Don Rubin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Bibliography of Canadian Theatre History
Author: John Ball
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Theatre And (Im)migration
Author: Yana Meerzon
Publisher: New Essays in Canadian Theatre
ISBN: 9780369100016
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Theatre and (Im)migration shines a bright light on the impact that immigrant artists have made and continue to make on the development of Canadian theatre, from themes, characters, and world issues to financial structures and artistic techniques. The collection of essays demonstrates how the increased presence of immigrant theatre artists actively contributing to English- and French-Canadian theatre prompt their audiences to rethink fundamental concepts of nationalism and multiculturalism. Contributors include Moira Day, Alan Filewood, Aida Jordão, Ric Knowles, Natasha Martina Koechl, Rebecca Margolis, Lisa Ndejuru, Nicole Nolette, Eleanor Ty, and many more.
Publisher: New Essays in Canadian Theatre
ISBN: 9780369100016
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Theatre and (Im)migration shines a bright light on the impact that immigrant artists have made and continue to make on the development of Canadian theatre, from themes, characters, and world issues to financial structures and artistic techniques. The collection of essays demonstrates how the increased presence of immigrant theatre artists actively contributing to English- and French-Canadian theatre prompt their audiences to rethink fundamental concepts of nationalism and multiculturalism. Contributors include Moira Day, Alan Filewood, Aida Jordão, Ric Knowles, Natasha Martina Koechl, Rebecca Margolis, Lisa Ndejuru, Nicole Nolette, Eleanor Ty, and many more.
A Bibliography of Canadian Theatre History, 1583-1975
Author: John Leslie Ball
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada
Author: Sarah MacKenzie
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
ISBN: 1773634313
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Despite a recent increase in the productivity and popularity of Indigenous playwrights in Canada, most critical and academic attention has been devoted to the work of male dramatists, leaving female writers on the margins. In Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada, Sarah MacKenzie addresses this critical gap by focusing on plays by Indigenous women written and produced in the socio-cultural milieux of twentieth and twenty-first century Canada. Closely analyzing dramatic texts by Monique Mojica, Marie Clements, and Yvette Nolan, MacKenzie explores representations of gendered colonialist violence in order to determine the varying ways in which these representations are employed subversively and informatively by Indigenous women. These plays provide an avenue for individual and potential cultural healing by deconstructing some of the harmful ideological work performed by colonial misrepresentations of Indigeneity and demonstrate the strength and persistence of Indigenous women, offering a space in which decolonial futurisms can be envisioned. In this unique work, MacKenzie suggests that colonialist misrepresentations of Indigenous women have served to perpetuate demeaning stereotypes, justifying devaluation of and violence against Indigenous women. Most significantly, however, she argues that resistant representations in Indigenous women’s dramatic writing and production work in direct opposition to such representational and manifest violence.
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
ISBN: 1773634313
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Despite a recent increase in the productivity and popularity of Indigenous playwrights in Canada, most critical and academic attention has been devoted to the work of male dramatists, leaving female writers on the margins. In Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada, Sarah MacKenzie addresses this critical gap by focusing on plays by Indigenous women written and produced in the socio-cultural milieux of twentieth and twenty-first century Canada. Closely analyzing dramatic texts by Monique Mojica, Marie Clements, and Yvette Nolan, MacKenzie explores representations of gendered colonialist violence in order to determine the varying ways in which these representations are employed subversively and informatively by Indigenous women. These plays provide an avenue for individual and potential cultural healing by deconstructing some of the harmful ideological work performed by colonial misrepresentations of Indigeneity and demonstrate the strength and persistence of Indigenous women, offering a space in which decolonial futurisms can be envisioned. In this unique work, MacKenzie suggests that colonialist misrepresentations of Indigenous women have served to perpetuate demeaning stereotypes, justifying devaluation of and violence against Indigenous women. Most significantly, however, she argues that resistant representations in Indigenous women’s dramatic writing and production work in direct opposition to such representational and manifest violence.
Q2Q
Author: Peter Dickinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770919150
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A companion anthology to Q2Q: Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance, the work contained in this volume provides a snapshot of Canadian contemporary queer performance practices--from solo performance to political allegory to family melodrama to intersectional narratives that combine text, movement, and music.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770919150
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
A companion anthology to Q2Q: Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance, the work contained in this volume provides a snapshot of Canadian contemporary queer performance practices--from solo performance to political allegory to family melodrama to intersectional narratives that combine text, movement, and music.
New Canadian Realisms
Author: Roberta Barker
Publisher: New Essays in Canadian Theatre
ISBN: 9781770910720
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of writing by celebrated scholars and artists that explores the state of political performance in contemporary Canada.
Publisher: New Essays in Canadian Theatre
ISBN: 9781770910720
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of writing by celebrated scholars and artists that explores the state of political performance in contemporary Canada.