Beyond the Pale: Dramatic Writing from First Nations: Writers of Colour - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887545424 ISBN 13: 9780887545429

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press, 1997

Synopsis

A collection of monologues and scenes from such plays as: Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God by Djanet Sears; Whylah Falls by George Elliott Clarke; Tiger of Malaya by Hiro Kanagawa; Rice Boy by Sunil Kuruvilla; Bhopal by Rahul Varma; The Yoko Ono Project by Jean Yoon; The Plum Tree by Mitch Miyagawa; Burning Vision by Marie Clements; alterNatives by Drew Hayden Taylor; and Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout by Tomson Highway.

About this title

From the Author

"What is Native theatre and what should Native theatre be. For a long time, well long is relative, for some time there has been an expectation of what Native theatre can be: that's buckskin, that's victim stories, that's overcoming our residential school experience, our alcohol issues, or whatever it is. Those kinds of stories have had a fairly narrow focus on what Native theatre should be. I look around in Toronto and I look around Stratford and I look around everywhere and I never see anybody of colour in those plays. I don't know why that is. Our People should be considered for those roles." (2011-10-07)

About the Author

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. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0887545424
• ISBN 13: 9780887545429
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Nolan Yvette, Quan Betty, Seremba George Bwanika