Coursepack on Canadian Drama

[Helen Ostovich]

For people teaching contemporary Canadian drama:  I made up a coursepack
(with student editors) of student papers on the drama of the last ten years.
If you think the book will be useful to your classes, you may order it from
McMaster "Titles" Bookstore:  attention Janet Walsh
< walshj at mcmaster.ca > I think the price is less than $10 (we are using the
"profit" to support contemporary drama speakers at McMaster) and it's worth
it, I think, just for the interviews, although the other papers are
excellent!  The table of contents is as follows:

SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS 1
AIDS Activism in Mary-Colin Chisholm’s Safe Haven  by Jennifer Carey 2
Moodie’s Riotous Success on Stage by Michael Collinson 4
Women, Pornography, and Empowerment in George F. Walker s Suburban Motel by
Susan Terzis 6

SHORT CRITIQUES 9
Absence in fareWel  by Julie Harris 10
Lack of Communication and Alienation: How Theme is Supported by Setting and
Properties in Dave Carley’s Into by Amber Lyons 12
Tearing the Brown Skin in Angel of the Medicine Show  by Rachel Zumpe 14

ESSAYS 16
Illusions of Power: Exploring the ‘Feminine’ Dynamic in Moo, Taking
Liberties, and The End of Civilization by  Elizabeth Garrett 17
The Splintering of Communities in Canadian Drama by Danijela Jovic 21
Jason Sherman’s Reading Hebron and M.J. Kang’s Noran Bang: The Yellow Room:
Cultural Identity Within the Canadian Mosaic  by Sarah Dykes 27
Transitions in Traditional Gender Roles in M.J. Kang’s Noran Bang: The
Yellow Room and George Walker’s Suburban Motel  by Carmela Gentile 31
"Specialty" Coffee at Starbucks: An Interview with Jason Sherman about It’s
All True  by Celia Brubacher 36
The Women of Walker’s Suburban Motel in Problem Child and Criminal Genius:
Gender Role Transitions and Omissions in Current Canadian Society   byTaryn
Davis 43
Two Interviews: Daniel David Moses and Michael Healey by Rachel Parks 48
The Concept of Long-Term Memory In Dave Carley’s Taking Liberties and
Michael Healey’s The Drawer Boy by Michael Pearson 61
An Assessment of the Role of Canadian Theatre in the Struggle for Gender
Equality in Canada by Michelle Young 67


Helen Ostovich
Editor, EARLY THEATRE / Dept of English CNH-321
McMaster University
Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S 4L9
(905)525-9140 x24496  FAX (905)777-8316
http://websites.mcmaster.ca/mupress/journals/et/journal.html
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~reed/early