Table of Contents

Preface Introduction by Jerry Wasserman 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 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 & Camyar Chai Age of Arousal (2007) by Linda Griffiths BIOBOXES: Artifacting Human Experience (2007) by Theatre Replacement The Edward Curtis Project (2010) by Marie Clements Kim's Convenience (2011) by Ins Choi Selective Bibliography of Source Material

Promotional Information

Volume 1 was recently made available in the US January 2013 Volume 1 will be launched at the Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Victoria, BC, in May 2013 Both volumes will be displayed at the Talonbooks booth at the American Theatre Association for Higher Education Annual Conference in Orlando, FL, in August 2013 Online social media campaign: LibraryThing, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, Tumblr

About the Author

Professor of English and theatre at the University of British Columbia, Jerry Wasserman has written and lectured widely on Canadian drama. His books include Spectacle of Empire: Marc Lescarbot's Theatre of Neptune in New France, Theatre and AutoBiography (with Sherrill Grace), and Twenty Years at Play, all published by Talonbooks. He has more than two hundred professional acting credits on stage and screen, and has reviewed more than fifteen hundred plays for CBC Radio, the Province newspaper, and his website, Vancouverplays.com. Wasserman has received the Killam Teaching Prize (1998), the Dorothy Somerset Award (2005), and the Sam Payne Award (2012), honouring a lifetime of achievement in the performing arts.

Reviews

Praise for Jerry Wasserman’s Modern Canadian Plays, Fourth Edition:
“The anthology of choice for most courses ... both Jerry Wasserman and Talonbooks continue to expand, update, and broaden the representational range of the standard teaching anthology in the field. One can only look forward to the fifth edition, and all those to follow.”
– Ric Knowles, Canadian Literature

“Unquestionably, Jerry Wasserman and Talonbooks deserve praise for publishing an anthology that brings together in such a reader-friendly format … the most important plays of the Canadian dramatic repertory.”
– Andre Loiselle, Theatre Research in Canada