Scripting (Im)Migration: New Canadian Plays

400 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In The Aeneid by Olivier Kemeid, translated by Maureen Labonté, the classic tale of searching for a new home is reimagined into an urgent modern-day refugee story.Settling Africville by George Elliott Clarke is a dedication to the African American refugees of the War of 1812 that settled in Nova Scotia.The Tashme Project: The Living Archives, a documentary-style play, carefully pieces together the experiences of Japanese Canadians who were in the internment camps in the 1940s.Foreign Tongue: The Musical represents the mark that accents place on immigrants.In My Name is Dakhel Faraj, the true story of a refugee of the Iraq war is presented in English, English Sign Language, and Arabic.And In Sundry Languages is a collection of multilingual skits on immigrant experiences.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Drama, Theaterstücke, Drehbücher
• ISBN: 9780369100009
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.09.2019
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Theatre Communications Group
• Herausgegeben von: Yana Meerzon