Ethnicities: Plays from the New West

ISBN 13: 978-1-896300-03-0
208 pages, paperback
Spring 1999

Drama

about this book

Edited by Anne Nothof, the three plays included this anthology all deal with intercultural issues in Canada with humour, wit and at times, heartbreak. They range from a village idiot in a French Canadian hamlet to arranged marriages to a multiracial relationship that is unhinged once he tells his parents that he is 'living with a white girl.'

The anthology features biographic details of the contributing playwrights and their work:

House of Sacred Cows -- Padma Viswanathan
Mom, Dad, I'm Living with a White Girl -- Marty Chan
Elephant Wake -- Jonathan Christenson and Joey Tremblay

Click here to see the trailer for Elephant Wake from the Globe Theate. This play will be touring in the following cities:
- Ottawa - National Arts Centre - November 3 - 14, 2009
- Saskatoon - Persephone Theatre - November 19 - 29, 2009
- Vancouver - Vancouver Cultural Centre, March 16 to 20, 2010
- Waterloo - Magnetic North Theatre Festival - June 2010