Modern Canadian Plays,

by Jerry Wasserman

Modern Canadian Plays is the core text for university-level Canadian drama courses around the world. Now in its fifth edition, with the previous edition published in 2002, the two-volume Modern Canadian Plays drama series anthologizes major Canadian plays written and performed since 1967. The second volume presents a range of exciting Canadian plays from the late 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first ­century. These plays respond directly or indirectly to the events of our time; work effectively on the stage, on the page, and in the classroom; and are contextualized with accompanying history, biography, and criticism.

Polygraph (1988) by Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard
7 Stories (1989) by Morris Panych
Never Swim Alone (1991) by Daniel MacIvor
The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum (1995) by Wendy Lill
Counter Offence (1996) by Rahul Varma
Problem Child (1997) by George F. Walker
Harlem Duet (1997) by Djanet Sears
Street of Blood (1998) by Ronnie Burkett
The Shape of a Girl (2001) by Joan MacLeod
Tempting Providence (2002) by Robert Chafe
Scorched (2003) by Wajdi Mouawad
The Adventures of Ali & Ali and the aXes of Evil (2005) by Marcus Youssef, Guillermo Verdecchia, and Camyar Chai
Age of Arousal (2007) by Linda Griffiths
Artifacting Human Experience (2007) by Theatre Replacement
The Edward Curtis A Modern Picture Story (2010) by Marie Clements
Kim’s Convenience (2011) by Ins Choi

Genres: Drama

560 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Jackson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wasserman does so much grunt work for contextualizing the plays. A great read.

[Joti · Rating 5 out of 5]

I haven't read all the plays in the anthology; just the ones for my course but there is great stuff here. Plus, I didn't know we had so much great theatre in Canada