This course is designed to introduce students to contemporary drama and theatre in Canada through the study of twelve plays.
Exclusions Required course work includes viewing twelve one-hour television programs.
This course is designed to acquaint students with the dramatic literature and theatrical practices of a cross-section of the best playwrights at work in Canada since 1967. The course should also deepen and enrich their appreciation of live theatrical performance, and indeed filmed or televised drama. The second function is to cultivate skills of observation and criticism by having students write about what they see and think. Analyse the experience of characters in some representative Canadian plays dating from 1967 to the 1990s. Describe the nature, range, and variety of social and political criticism inherent in Canadian drama since the 1960s.