A collection of monologues and scenes from such plays as:Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of Godby Djanet Sears;WhylahFalls by George Elliott Clarke;Tiger of Malayaby Hiro Kanagawa;Rice Boyby Sunil Kuruvilla;Bhopalby Rahul Varma;The Yoko Ono Projectby Jean Yoon;The Plum Treeby Mitch Miyagawa;Burning Visionby Marie Clements;alterNativesby Drew Hayden Taylor; andErnestine Shuswap Gets Her Troutby Tomson Highway.
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
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.â€
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
