Scripting (Im)Migration: New Canadian Plays

Scripting (Im)Migration: New Canadian Plays
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Playwrights Canada Press
Published
26 September 2019
Pages
400
ISBN
9780369100009

Scripting (Im)Migration: New Canadian Plays

In The Aeneid by Olivier Kemeid, translated by Maureen Labonte, 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.

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