{"product_id":"9780889224377","title":"Modern Canadian Plays: Vol. 2","description":"In Volume II, Wasserman shows us Canadian drama from 1985 up to 1997, during which we see women playwrights rise to greater prominence, along with Native, gay and lesbian, and Quebecois playwrights. But, continuing on from Volume I, this selection of plays not only takes us farther into the annals of the lives of the marginalized; it also provides a revealing cultural and philosophical cross-section of late-20th-century life in Canada.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn one way or another, we are shown ourselves as we are, and not in the critically-neutral, determinedly naïve terms of the contemporary mainstream in which we are all represented as gloriously enmeshed in a world of cybernetic stringency—the uncomplicated aesthetic of a never-ending stream of zeroes and ones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf the plays presented in these two volumes are the contours of an “indigenous Canadian drama,” they outline anything but a norm.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe plays in this fourth edition of \u003ci\u003eModern Canadian Plays: Volume II\u003c\/i\u003e date from 1985 to 1997:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBordertown Café\u003c\/i\u003e by Kelly Rebar\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolygraph\u003c\/i\u003e by Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoo\u003c\/i\u003e by Sally Clark\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Orphan Muses\u003c\/i\u003e by Michel Marc Bouchard\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e7 Stories\u003c\/i\u003e by Morris Panych\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing\u003c\/i\u003e by Tomson Highway\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmigo’s Blue Guitar\u003c\/i\u003e by Joan MacLeod\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLion in the Streets\u003c\/i\u003e by Judith Thomson\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNever Swim Alone\u003c\/i\u003e by Daniel MacIvor\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFronteras Americanas\u003c\/i\u003e by Guillermo Verdecchia\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarlem Duet\u003c\/i\u003e by Djanet Sears\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eProblem Child\u003c\/i\u003e by George F. Walker","brand":"Talonbooks, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022734803184,"sku":"9780889224377","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889224377_p0.jpg?v=1763855382","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889224377","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}