Beyond the Pale, revised edition

Includes excerpts from:
Drew Hayden Taylor – The Buz’Gem Blues
Sunil Kuruvilla – Rice Boy
Terrie A. Hamazaki – Furasato Tasha
Faye Evans – She Stands Still
Joy Russell – Hogan’s Alley
Walter Borden – Tightrope Time
Lisa Codrington – Cast Iron
Penny Gummerson – Wawatay
M.J. Kang – dreams of blonde and blue
Nina Aquino / Nadine Villasin – Miss Orient(ed)
trey anthony – ‘da Kink in my hair
Darrell Dennis – Tales of an Urban Indian
naila belvett / d’bi.young – yagayah
Primrose Madayag Knazan – Shades of Brown
Terry Ivins – Time Stands Still
Joseph Pierre – Beatdown a.k.a Life
Marie-Leofeli Romero Barlizo – The Prophecies of a Prince of Barotac
Diane Roberts – Bone Bred
Floyd Favel – The House of Sonya
Laura Cranmer / Sandy Scofield – DP’s Colonial Cabaret
Rahul Varma – Bhopal
George Elliott Clarke – Whylah Falls
Marty Chan – The Forbidden Phoenix
Jean Yoon – The Yoko Ono Project
Mitch Miyagawa – The Plum Tree
Hiro Kanagawa – Tiger of Malaya
Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble – The Scrubbing Project
Marie Clements – The Burning Vision
Djanet Sears – The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God
Tomson Highway – Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout
Drew Hayden Taylor – alterNatives

AUTHOR

Yvette Nolan

Yvette Nolan is a playwright, dramaturge, and director. In 1996, she was the Aboriginal Writer-in-Residence at Brandon University, where she wrote the first draft of Annie Mae’s Movement. Her other plays include BLADE, Job’s Wife, Video, the libretto Hilda Blake, and the radio play Owen. She is also the editor of Beyond the Pale: Dramatic Writing from First Nations Writers and Writers of Colour and co-editor of Refractions: Solo and Refractions: Scenes. She was the president of Playwrights Union of Canada from 1998–2001, and of Playwrights Canada Press from 2003–2005. Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to an Algonquin mother and an Irish immigrant father, raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she lived in the Yukon and Nova Scotia before moving to Toronto.