Australasian Drama Studies

Theatre and the Canadian Imaginary

Number 29 October 1996

Contents

JOANNE TOMPKINS
Canadian virtual realities: Canadian theatre and Australian theatre criticism

ANN WILSON
Border crossing: the technologies of identity in Fronteras Americans

ALAN FILEWOD
The comintern and the canon: Workers’ Theatre, Eight Men Speak and the genealogy of mise-en-scene

SHEILA RABILLARD
The seductions of theatricality: Mamet, Tremblay and political drama

RICHARD PAUL KNOWLES
The theatre of form and the production of meaning: contemporary Canadian dramaturgies

ED NYMAN
Out with the queers: moral triage and George F. Walker’s Theatre of the Film Noir

DENIS SALTER
Blood….Sex….Death….Birth:

Paula de Vascomcelos’s Le Making of de Macbeth: an interview

NATALIE REWA
Astrid Janson’s designs for performance

VALERIE SHANTZ
Colonising Yvette Nolan: the making of an Australian playwright

Playscript: Child by Yvette Nolan

Playscript: The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum by Wendy Lill

HELENE BEAUCHAMP
Of desire, freedom, commitment and the mise en scène as a very fine art: the work of the theatre director

KYM BIRD
Leaping into the breeches: liberal feminism and cross-dressing in Sarah Ann Curzon’s The Sweet Girl Graduate

MARVIN GILMAN
Fennario and Ryga: Canadian political playwrights

CRAIG STEWART WALKER
James Reaney’s The Donnelly’s and the recovery of ‘the ceremony of innocence’