Refractions: Scenes - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1770919627 ISBN 13: 9781770919624

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press,Canada, 2021

Synopsis

Refractions: Scenes is the hotly anticipated follow-up to Refractions: Solo, a collection of monologues also edited by St. Bernard and Nolan.

This collection can be used both as a source for actors and students, or as a primer on diverse Canadian theatre and an entry point into new works. Refractions: Scenes includes work by Michaela di Cesare, Rob Salerno, Lisa Codrington, Patti Flather, Ciarán Myers, Reneltta Arluk, Colleen Murphy, Deidre Walton, David Yee, and many more.

The works are about ten minutes in length each, containing 3-7 characters.

About this title

About the Authors

Donna-Michelle St. Bernard is a Canadian playwright, theatre director and arts administrator. Her work has been recognized with a Siminovitch Prize nomination, SATAward nomination, the Herman Voaden Playwriting Award, the Enbridge playRites Award, a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, and two nominations for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama. She is the current artistic director of New Harlem Productions. She is based in Toronto.

Yvette Nolan is a Canadian playwright, dramaturg, and director. Her plays include Annie Mae's Movement, The Unplugging, and The Birds. She has been writer-in-residence at Brandon University, Mount Royal College, Saskatoon Public Library, and McGill University, as well as playwright-in-residence at the National Arts Centre. Born in Saskatchewan to an Algonquin mother and an Irish immigrant father and raised in Manitoba, Yvette lived in the Yukon and Nova Scotia before moving to Toronto, where she served as artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts from 2003 to 2011. Her book Medicine Shows about Indigenous theatre in Canada was published in 2015. She lives in Saskatoon.

Edition details

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press,Canada
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1770919627
• ISBN 13: 9781770919624
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: St. Bernard Donna-Michelle, Nolan Yvette