Theatre and (Im)migration: New Essays in Canadian Theatre, Vol. 10 (New Essays in Canadian Theatre, 10) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0369100018 ISBN 13: 9780369100016

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Yana Meerzon is a professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Ottawa. Her books include A Path of the Character: Michael Chekhov's Inspired Acting and Theatre Semiotics (2005) and Performing Exile—Performing Self: Drama, Theatre, Film (2012). She also co-edited Performance, Exile and “America”; Adapting Chekhov: The Text and Its Mutations; History, Memory, Performance; and The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov. She was the editor of special issues of Theatre Research in Canada on theatre and immigration and Modern Drama on migration and multilingualism. Her current project is on performance and cosmopolitanism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0369100018
• ISBN 13: 9780369100016
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Editor: Meerzon Yana