Drama

Book reviews of: Saskatoon Pie by Geoffrey Ursell. The Plainsman by Ken Mitchell. Talking Back by Don Kerr. Roundup by Barbara Sapergia.

Book reviews of 4 books: Treaties on Trial by Fay G. Cohen. The Canadian Prairies: A History by Gerald Friesen. New Native American Drama: Three Plays by Hanay Geiogamah. The three plays are entitled Foghorn, 49, and Body Indian. A Homeland for the Cree by Richard F. Salisbury.

Reports on the relations between police officers and Aboriginal residents in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The article also discusses how one Theatre Company is trying to improve this strained relationship.

[Theatre and Film] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2005.

Discusses plays written by Indigenous and women playwrights over the past 50 years.

Brief article on the young cast of Forever To Say Good-Bye who performed at the Labrador Creative Arts Festival in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland.

Discusses the play, published in 1936, which centered around culturally displaced mixed-blood youths in Oklahoma

Inaugural edition of the Building Aboriginal Economies magazine, which features short articles dealing with individuals and groups in the arts field.

Discusses how humorous mocking imitation is used to blend foreign ideas and events into the world of the Pueblo Indian.

Play about the Dene people, uranium mining in the Bear Lake region of the Northwest Territories, and the bombing of Hiroshima. Originally published by Talonbooks, 2003.

Highlights Aboriginal plays, playrights and theatre companies; includes interviews with authors Yvette Nolan and Daniel David Moses.

Examines five plays written over a period of one hundred years: Charles Mair's Tecumseh (1886), Robertson Davies' At My Heart's Core (1950), John Coulter's Riel (1962) and The Trial of Louis Riel (1967), and James Reaney's Sticks and Stones (1973).

Compares and contrasts Sartre’s play and Harjo’s short film; focuses on the setting, characters, and themes of confinement and social / personal interaction.

Description and evaluation of project which involved researching, writing, producing, and delivering a play about the impact of residential schools. Uses project files, key informant interviews, and documents and data collected by community support coordinator.

Institution with a mandate to develop Aboriginal theatre professionals. Offers a three-year program as well as two introductory summer programs.

Looks at various cross-cultural negotiations that occur in theatre productions.

Review of play: Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again, or The Taming of the Sioux by Warren Graves. Includes link to full script and interview with playwright.

Essay is a revised version of two oral presentations by the actor and playwright.

Writer/director of the play Night discusses his work. Duration: 28:55.

[Department of Film and Media Studies]Thesis (Ph.D)--Arizona State University, 2017. Focuses Sydney Freeland's Drunktown's Finest.

Comments on a play, produced by the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company's Circle of Voices, that looks at issues such as cultural identity and the intergenerational effects of residential school. Article located by scrolling to page 21.

Examines to what extent Native writers, critics, and researchers, as well as non-Native people who work in Native Studies, are led or constrained by beliefs about what is traditional, spiritually appropriate, politically effective and beneficial to Native communities.

Theology Thesis (D.Min.)--St. Stephen's College, 1999. Doctoral dissertation based on life of missionary James Evans.

Explores the interconnections between theater and history and the black and Native americanization program at Hampton Institute.

Literature Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University, 2009.

Argument that Jessica was representative of what was happening in regional theatre (Saskatoon) in the 1970s and 1980s.

Discusses the role of Native drama as an "intervention" to oppose the preconceived ideas engendered by colonialism.

(Theatre and Performance Studies?) Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2011.

Overview of Gordon Tootoosis and Maria Campbell's speeches at the 2007 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The two speakers talked about the importance of theatre in Aboriginal culture and the hurdles they faced in their careers.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.25.

Examines how theatrical and Indigenous methods of teaching can enrich environmental education in theory and in practice.

Originally published by Talonbooks, 2007.

Guide includes: synopses, production who's who, forms and facts, interviews with playwright/performers, themes, set design and extension activities.

Book review of: Coranderrk by Giordano Nanni and Andrea James. Scroll down to page 189 to read review.

Presents a selection of papers presented April 29-30, 2009, Faculty of the VCA and Music, The University of Melbourne about the business of Indigenous performing arts, its history and its future.

Looks at the difficulty to design, implement, and fund a healing program.

Discusses an arts unit designed to help students develop positive attitudes towards First Nations people.

Argues that Highway's plays have succeeded in bridging the gap between cultures through dramatizing the collision of feelings of hope and despair, comedy and tragedy, order and chaos and social issues like poverty, crime and abuse. Looks at The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.

Describes playwright's influence on theater.

Theatre Theory & Dramaturgy Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 2012.

Book reviews of: For Joshua: An Ojibway Father Teaches His Son by Richard Wagamese. The Setting Lake Sun by J. R. Lévillé. The Great Gift of Tears by Heather Hodgson.

Discusses the play in terms of the message it conveys about gender, race, and ideas about truth.

Website for Delaware poet and playwright contains links to bibliography, biography, awards and honours.

A non-profit organization site that nurtures artistic expression of original works by playwrights, actors and artists.

English Thesis, (M.A.)--University of Lethbridge, 2007.

Review of the play Agokwe, directed by Ed Roy, staged in Toronto, Ontario from September 23 to October 12, 2008.

Playwright discusses The Death of a Chief, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and issues related to power, betrayal and the interconnectedness between languages and politics.