Contemporary Canadian Plays

This volume signposts ways of gaining an insight into contemporary Canadian drama. It contains twelve essays on various English-Canadian plays which were written over the past fifteen years and thus allow glimpses of recent trends and developments. The first essay briefly surveys the current state of Canadian theatre. Some articles overlap so that they also lend themselves to contrastive approaches to the plays discussed. The volume may as well serve as a course book for students of Canadian drama. Additional information and suggestions for classroom work at both school and university levels are provided in the appendix. · Canadian Theatre Today (Plays and Productions) · Theatre and Drama in the Maritime Provinces · Anguished Human Relations and the Search for Love · New Canadian Plays on American-Canadian Relations · Aspects of Multiculturalism · Dramatic Writing from African-Canadian Authors · Constructing a New Diversity · Contemporary Plays by First Nations Authors · Re-Discovering Canada in Plays from the Yukon · Canadian Plays in German-speaking theatres · Newfoundland Theatre and its Playwrights · Joan MacLeod’s The Shape of a Girl