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

A collection of monologues and scenes from such plays 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.

"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)