Where the Blood Mixes is meant to expose the shadows below the surface of the author’s First Nations heritage, and to celebrate its survivors. Though torn down years ago, the memories of their Residential School still live deep inside the hearts of those who spent their childhoods there. For some, like Floyd, the legacy of that trauma has been passed down through families for generations. But what is the greater story, what lies untold ...
Arguably the first North American play, this edition includes the original French script of Marc Lescarbot’s Theatre of Neptune in New France, two twentieth-century English translations, Ben Jonson’s Masque of Blackness, and an extensive historical and critical introduction by Jerry Wasserman. ...
In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer’s ward, intimately tending to his silent, vacant father’s bodily needs while hopelessly trying to reach him with monologues and settle misunderstandings. In Act 2, in an eerie reversal of roles, Alex visits Claude in the same ward, similarly finding disconsolate irony where he had looked for forgiveness. ...
The editor of this lively assortment of reviews, interviews and other critical deliberations on contemporary Canadian drama has gathered material from books, theatre and scholarly journals; from major daily newspapers in Canada and abroad; from critics, academics, journalists and playwrights. This new edition includes commentary on forty-three English-language plays written during the last fifty years, and a comprehensive index. ...
Immer mehr Menschen in Deutschland fallen ab vom Glauben an die Grundordnung und fullen das entstehende Vakuum mit Misstrauen und Hader: Politiker? Alle Verbrecher! Medien? Alle verlogen! Fremde? Alle verdachtig! Ob Regierungs-, Partei- oder Fernsehprogramm – die Adressaten verweigern die Annahme, wenden sich resigniert ab und denken: das ist doch das Letzte! Und so versucht sich der Leverkusener Werks-Kabarettist auch in seinem siebten Programm ...
Es ist schon wieder Dezember und damit Zeit, auf das vergangene Jahr zuruckzublicken. Mit wem konnte das mehr Spa? machen als mit dem Urvogel des satirischen Jahresruckblicks, Urban Priol? Lustvoll seziert er die gesellschaftspolitischen Ereignisse des vergangenen Jahres, stellt wahnwitzige Verknupfungen her und deckt verbluffende Hintergrunde auf. Da werden die Winkelzuge der Machtigen und Reichen entlarvt und so manch doppelzungige Scheinheili ...
<P>In Rose Eichenbaum's latest book on the confluence of art making and human expression, she sits down with thirty-five modern day storytellers—the directors of theater, film, and television. Eichenbaum's subjects speak with revealing clarity about the entertainment industry, the role and life of the director, and how theatrical and cinematic storytelling impacts our culture and our lives. The Director Within includes in ...
<P>Joan Schenkar, widely regarded as America's most original female contemporary playwright, is the author of numerous experimental plays which she refers to as «comedies of menace.» Bristling with wit and intelligence, the collection features Signs of Life, Cabin Fever, The Universal Wolf, Burning Desires, The Last of Hitler, and Fulfilling Koch's Postulate. These plays explore issues of feminism and gender politics, his ...
