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This volume of Native myths and legends is an indispensable document in the history of North American anthropology.

Three estranged sisters unite to nurse their dying mother. Includes screenplay and stage play. Cast of 3 women.

David Frenchs adaptation of August Strindbergs disturbing and enduring drama of the transgressive affair between the daughter of a count and the counts man-servant has an eerie contemporary feel about it. French has sharpened the psychodramas of the original scenes of desire, anger, jealousy, coercion, manipulation, exploitation, arrogance, dominance, submission, and deceit. Cast of 2 women and 1 man.

Hip-hop artist Brinkman resurrects Chaucer's brilliant stories into visible and audible contemporary forms.

Arguably the first North American play, this edition includes the original French script of Marc Lescarbots Theatre of Neptune in New France, two twentieth-century English translations, Ben Jonsons Masque of Blackness, and an extensive historical and critical introduction by Jerry Wasserman.

Artist and philosopher Herv Fischer heralds an inevitable shift from 35mm to digital distribution, which will move what has until now existed only on the margins of the entertainment industryindependent film, amateur film, documentary and other genresinto starring roles, and explains how digital distribution and film-making techniques could toll the bell for Hollywoods hegemony in the business of film.

beaulieu pushes the limits of poetry and poetics, challenging the status quo of the genre and the politics of language.

A piercing look at what it means when a Canadian prime minister puts his own private interests first.

A dilemma results when a man is asked to donate a kidney to his dying father. Cast of 2 men.

Alone on the stage with his puppet, a ventriloquist constructs multiple characters. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.

Remarkably engaging stories recounted by different residents of a northern Canadian village facing a gradual but devastating transformation.

The chaos of WWI resonates among patients confined to an insane asylum. Cast of 1 woman and 5 men.

His rejection of the limiting conventions of written language allow bissett to turn any linguistic event into a living performance.

In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimers ward, intimately tending to his silent, vacant fathers bodily needs while hopelessly trying to reach him with monologues and settle misunderstandings. In Act 2, in an eerie reversal of roles, Alex visits Claude in the same ward, similarly finding disconsolate irony where he had looked for forgiveness.

During the gold rush, a bedraggled troupe of players head north to perform. Cast of 2 men and 2 women.

The second book in Norris's travel trilogy is an unsettling novel-in-verse about the deficiencies of love amid clashing cultures.

Retells one of the most tragic cases of cultural genocide among Native peoples of British Columbia. Cast of 4 women.

Chief dishwasher Dressler tyrannizes his co-workers in an upscale restaurant with his rants of Marxist rhetoric. Cast of 3 men.

Twenty-five authors come together in this groundbreaking collection to recreate "prairie poetry," as it was known in the 20th century.

Haunted by the iron jealousy of their commanding officer, Dulac and Nell must risk everything to pursue their desires.

Before leaving home, Djouke is determined to discover the mystery of her paternity. Cast of 4 women and 5 men.