New Canadian Realisms

New Essays in Canadian Theatre Volume 2: New Canadian Realisms gathers writing by celebrated scholars and artists from both Canada and the US in order to explore what this much-debated genre might be doing for political performance in Canada today. Topics range from Hollywood’s influence on the look and feel of the contemporary Canadian “real,” to the power and the pitfalls of a “realism of redress” in intercultural Canadian theatre, to the apparently oxymoronic notion of “devised” realism, to the complexities of Indigenous realism(s). Together, this book’s authors suggest that Canada’s theatrical realisms are, like so much else among us, fractious, multiple, difficult, yet rife with potential.

AUTHOR

Roberta Barker

Roberta Barker is Associate Professor of Theatre at Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College. She is the author of Early Modern Tragedy, Gender and Performance, 1984–2000: The Destined Livery. Her work on early modern and modern drama in performance has been published in Early Theatre, Modern Drama, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Shakespeare Survey, among other journals and essay collections, while her articles on contemporary Atlantic Canadian theatre have appeared in Canadian Theatre Review and Theatre in Atlantic Canada.

AUTHOR

Kim Solga

Kim Solga is Professor of Theatre Studies at Western University, where she works in the Department of English and Writing Studies. Kim’s most recent books include Theatre & Feminism, Theory for Theatre Studies: Space, and A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age. She writes about teaching, performance, and activism at http://theactivistclassroom.wordpress.com.

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Dimensions:

304 Pages
9.00in * 6.03in * .80in
460.00gr

Published:

June 01, 2012

ISBN:

9781770910720

Book Subjects:

DRAMA / Canadian

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