Aboriginal Drama and Theatre: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English: Volume One

by Rob Appleford (Editor)

A series that sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work readily available.

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Phillip · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good collection of essays (for full disclosure, I didn't read them all in their entirety, I read ones that I though might be relevant to my current research). Like any edited collection trying to provide a broad impression of a topic, there are a lot of different focuses and approaches to these essays. Many are written by Indigenous playwrights, actors, dancers, performers, many are written by academics (Indigenous or not), and the essays cover various subjects. There are articles about individual dramatists like Tompson Highway, Daniel David Moses, and Drew Hayden Taylor. There are articles about important Indigenous performance spaces/theatres/organizations like Native Earth performing Arts. And many of the essays focus on Indigenous themes, styles, or performance components like tricksters, community building, colonialism, the interconnectedness of the human and the natural, etc.