Diversity Representation in Modern & Contemporary Drama
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The Elephant Man by Bernard Pomerance
Plays with Indigenous Representation
1
819.2 MOJ
Princess Pocahontas and the blue spots : two plays
Mojica, Monique, 1954-
2
819.2 MOS
Coyote City : a play in two acts
Moses, Daniel David, 1952-
3
819.2 TAY
The boy in the treehouse ; : Girl who loved her horses
Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-
4
819.2 HIG
The Rez sisters : a play in two acts
Highway, Tomson, 1951-
5
819.2 LIL
Sisters : a play
Lill, Wendy, 1950-
6
822 RYG
The ecstasy of Rita Joe and other plays
Ryga, George.
7
819.2 TAY
Toronto at dreamer's rock ; and, Education is our right : two one act plays
Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-
8
819.2 LOR
Where the blood mixes
Loring, Kevin, 1974-
9
819.2 HIG
Ernestine Shuswap gets her trout : a "string quartet" for four female actors
Highway, Tomson, 1951-
10
819.2 LAK
Misty Lake
Lakevold, Dale, 1957-
11
819.2 TAY
Dead white writer on the floor
Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-
12
819.2 HIG
Dry lips oughta move to Kapuskasing : a play
Highway, Tomson, 1951-.
13
819.2 TAY
Someday : a play
Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-
14
812 TAY
God and the Indian : a play
Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-
15
812 TAY
Cerulean blue
Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-,
16
819.2 KIN
Three plays
King, Alanis
17
812.6 CLE
The unnatural and accidental women
Clements, Marie Humber, 1962-
18
819.2 MOS
Almighty Voice and his wife : a play
Moses, Daniel David, 1952-
19
819.2 CAR
Huff & stitch
Cardinal, Cliff,
20
819.12 BEA
Reckoning
Beagan, Tara,
21
819.2 TAY
Only drunks and children tell the truth
Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-
22
812.6 CLE
Tombs of the vanishing Indian
Clements, Marie Humber, 1962-
23
819.12 BAR
The hours that remain
Barker, Keith (Keith Norman Victor)
24
819.2 BEA
Dreary and Izzy
Beagan, Tara.
25
819.2 BEA
In spirit
Beagan, Tara.
26
812.54 TAY
Sir John A : acts of a gentrified Ojibway rebellion
Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-
27
819.2 BAR
This is how we got here
Barker, Keith (Keith Norman Victor),
28
812.6 TAY
Cottagers and Indians : a play
Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-
29
819.2 CAL
Redpatch : a play
Calvert, Raes,
30
819.2 BEA
Honour beat
Beagan, Tara,
31
819.2 CLE
Iron Peggy : a play
Clements, Marie, 1962-
32
819.208 IND
Indian Act : residential school plays
33
819.208 TWO
Two plays about residential school.
34
819.2 NOL
The unplugging
Nolan, Yvette
35
819.2 ARN
Inheritance : a pick-the-path experience
Arnold, Daniel,
36
819.2 BER
Reasonable doubt
Bernbaum, Joel,
37
812.6 MACK
Bears
MacKenzie, Matthew
38
371.399 CAR
Smallest circles first : exploring teacher reconciliatory praxis through drama education
Carter, Mindy R.,
39
819.2 JOH
Two Indians
Johnson, Falen, 1982-
40
812 BON
Bug
Bonnell, Yolanda, 1982-
41
812 KAN
Indian Arm
Kanagawa, Hiro, 1963-,
42
790.2 MAC
Indigenous women's theatre in Canada : a mechanism of decolonization
MacKenzie, Sarah (Sarah Emily), 1981-
43
822.33 H CAR
William Shakespeare's As you like it : a radical retelling
Cardinal, Cliff,
Plays with LGBTQ+ Representation
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Call No
Title
Author
1
822 WIL
The importance of being earnest : and other plays
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
2
819.2 TRE
Hosanna
Tremblay, Michel, 1942-
3
819.2 WIL
Kilt
Wilson, Jonathan
4
822 MAC
Love! Valour! Compassion! ; and, A perfect ganesh : two plays
McNally, Terrence.
5
819.2 FRA
Poor Super Man : a play with captions
Fraser, Brad, 1959-
6
812 KAU
Gross indecency : the three trials of Oscar Wilde
Kaufman, Moisés
7
812 OUT
Out plays : landmark gay and lesbian plays of the twentieth century
8
819.204 OUT
Outspoken : a Canadian collection of lesbian scenes and monologues
9
812 KAU
The Laramie project
Kaufman, Moisés.
10
812 GRE
Take me out : a play
Greenberg, Richard.
11
819.2 TAN
Age of minority : three plays
Tannahill, Jordan.
12
812 WRI
I am my own wife : studies for a play about the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
Wright, Doug, 1962-
13
812 KUS
Angels in America : a gay fantasia on national themes
Kushner, Tony
14
812 KRA
The normal heart
Kramer, Larry.
15
812 SHE
Bent : the play
Sherman, Martin.
16
812 MAC
Hir : a play
Mac, Taylor, 1973-,
17
819.2 DUN
Outside
Dunn, Paul,
18
819.12 QUE
Queer/play : an anthology of queer women's performance and plays
19
822.914 HAR
Beautiful thing
Harvey, Jonathan, 1968-
20
812 KAR
Speech & debate
Karam, Stephen,
21
822.92 COA
Callisto : a queer epic
Coase, Hal
22
822.92 BRI
Rotterdam
Brittain, Jon
23
812.54 SHI
Teddy Ferrara
Shinn, Christopher
24
812.6 KRO
Fun home
Kron, Lisa
25
812.6 ATK
The gay heritage project
Atkins, Damien, 1975-
26
812 FIE
Harvey Fierstein's Torch song trilogy : the celebrated landmark play, in both its original and newly revised versions.
Fierstein, Harvey, 1954-,
27
812 GRE
Body politic
Green, Nick,
28
819.208 Q
Q2Q : queer Canadian performance texts
29
812 MCC
Choir boy
McCraney, Tarell Alvin,
30
812 KIL
The Kilroys' list : 67 monologues and scenes by women and nonbinary playwrights
31
782.14 JAC
A strange loop
Jackson, Michael R., 1981-
32
812 HAR
Significant other
Harmon, Joshua Elias,
33
812 KIL
The Kilroys List : 97 monologues and scenes by female and trans playwrights. Volume one /
34
812 MCC
The brother/sister plays
McCraney, Tarell Alvin,
Plays with Asian (East, West & South) Representation
1
822.08 MUL
Multicultural theatre II : contemporary Hispanic, Asian, and African-American plays
2
819.2 YEE
Lady in the red dress
Yee, David, 1977-
3
819.2 CHO
Kim's Convenience
Choi, Ins, 1974-
4
819.2 ROY
Brothel #9
Roy, Anusree
5
819.2 GRA
Mahmoud
Grammy, Tara, 1988-,
6
812 LOV
Love, loss, and longing : South Asian Canadian plays
7
812.6 AKH
Disgraced : a play
Akhtar, Ayad.
8
812.6 TAX
The TAXI project
9
812 BAD
The making of St. Jerome
Badian, Marie Beath
10
F MAJ
The fish eyes trilogy
Majumdar, Anita
11
819.12 LY
Ga ting
Ly, Minh, 1983-,
12
819.12 BAD
Prairie nurse
Badian, Marie Beath,
13
819.2 YOU
Jabber : a play
Youssef, Marcus,
14
819.204 REF
Refractions : Solo
15
812 RAF
Heather Raffo's 9 parts of desire : a play
Raffo, Heather, 1970-
16
819.2 HO
Trace
Ho, Jeff.
17
812 CHO
The language archive and other plays
Cho, Julia,
18
812 LEE
Untitled feminist show ; Straight white men /
Lee, Young Jean,
19
819.2 MOU
Incendies
Mouawad, Wajdi, 1968-,
20
812 JOS
Gruesome playground injuries ; Animals out of paper ; Bengal tiger at the Baghdad Zoo : three plays /
Joseph, Rajiv.
21
842.914 MOU
Birds of a kind
Mouawad, Wajdi,
22
819.1 BAI
Acha bacha
Baig, Bilal,
Plays with Physical Disability & Illness Representation
1
822 WIL
The glass menagerie : a play
Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983.
2
822 POM
The elephant man : a play
Pomerance, Bernard.
3
822.33 X5 MOW
The tragedy of Richard III
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
4
812 GIB
The miracle worker
Gibson, William, 1914-2008.
5
812 ZIN
The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds, a drama in two acts
Zindel, Paul.
6
819.2 FRE
Creeps.
Freeman, David, 1945-
7
812 KRA
The normal heart
Kramer, Larry.
8
812.54 WIL
The rimers of Eldritch : and other plays
Wilson, Lanford, 1937-2011.
9
812.6 HUN
The whale
Hunter, Samuel D.,
10
822.914 MCD
The cripple of Inishmaan
McDonagh, Martin.
11
822.92 ORE
Atypical plays for atypical actors : selected plays
O'Reilly, Kaite
12
792.087 JOH
Stage turns : Canadian disability theatre
Johnston, Kirsty, 1971-
13
822 HAD
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Haddon, Mark, 1962-,
14
819.2 BEA
Dreary and Izzy
Beagan, Tara.
15
822 RAI
Tribes
Raine, Nina.
16
812 GUN
I and you
Gunderson, Lauren,
17
819.1 INT
Interdependent magic : disability performance in Canada
Plays with African or Black Diaspora Representation
1
822.08 MUL
Multicultural theatre II : contemporary Hispanic, Asian, and African-American plays
2
822 UHR
Driving Miss Daisy
Uhry, Alfred.
3
822 WIL
The piano lesson
Wilson, August.
4
812 WOL
The colored museum
Wolfe, George C.
5
821 SHA
For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem
Shange, Ntozake
6
812 WIL
Fences : a play
Wilson, August.
7
812 WIL
Ma Rainey's black bottom : a play in two acts
Wilson, August.
8
812 NOT
Ruined
Nottage, Lynn
9
812 NOR
Clybourne Park : [a play]
Norris, Bruce.
10
819.2 PIE
Beatdown : three plays
Pierre, Joseph Jomo, 1975-
11
812 PAR
Topdog/underdog
Parks, Suzan-Lori.
12
812 HAN
A raisin in the sun
Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965.
13
822 MOR
Sunset baby
Morisseau, Dominique,
14
822.92 COA
Callisto : a queer epic
Coase, Hal
15
819.2 SCO
Better angels : a parable ; and, Eating pomegranates naked
Scott, Andrea, 1971-,
16
812 DRU
Fairview : a play
Drury, Jackie Sibblies.
17
812 ORL
Beauty's daughter ; Monster ; The gimmick : three plays
Orlandersmith, Dael.
18
812 ORL
Until the flood : a play
Orlandersmith, Dael,
19
812 GUR
Eclipsed
Gurira, Danai,
20
812 KIL
The Kilroys' list : 67 monologues and scenes by women and nonbinary playwrights
21
812.6 LEE
The shipment ; : Lear
Lee, Young Jean
22
782.14 JAC
A strange loop
Jackson, Michael R., 1981-
23
822 CHA
Red velvet
Chakrabarti, Lolita,
24
812 NWA
Pass over
Nwandu, Antoinette,
25
812 JAC
Appropriate ; An octoroon : plays
Jacobs-Jenkins, Branden,
26
822 GRE
Ear for eye : parts one, two and three
Green, Debbie Tucker,
27
822 LEE
Seven methods of killing Kylie Jenner
Lee-Jones, Jasmine,
CANADIAN
1
819.2 MOO
Riot
Moodie, Andrew, 1967-
2
819.2 SEA
Adventures of a Black girl in Search of God
Sears, Djanet
3
819.2 GAL
Angélique
Gale, Lorena.
4
822.08 TES
Testifyin' : contemporary African Canadian drama
5
819.2 COR
Scratch
Corbeil-Coleman, Charlotte.
6
819.2 SEA
Harlem duet
Sears, Djanet
7
819.2 ANT
'Da kink in my hair : [voices of black womyn]
Anthony, Trey.
8
819.2 MOO
Toronto the good
Moodie, Andrew, 1967-
9
819.2 ANT
How Black mothers say I love you
Anthony, Trey,
10
819.208 AFR
Afrika, solo
11
812.6 PAR
Other side of the game
Parris, Amanda,
12
819.2 SAI
Gas girls
St. Bernard, Donna-Michelle.
13
819.2 BOW
The flood : and other misadventures of the female prisoners of the St. Lawrence Market
Bowen, Leah Simone,
14
812 MCC
Choir boy
McCraney, Tarell Alvin,
15
819.1 SCO
Every day she rose
Scott, Andrea, 1971- (Playwright),
16
819.1 ADI
The negroes are congregating
Adiyana Morris, Natasha,
17
819.2 SAI
Reaching for starlight
St. Bernard, Donna-Michelle,
18
819.2 ROD
Simone, half & half
Rodriguez, Christine
Plays based on historical events & Verbatim Theatre
1
822 SHA
Amadeus : a play
Shaffer, Peter, 1926-
2
822 LAW
Inherit the wind
Lawrence, Jerome, 1915-
3
822 FRA
Copenhagen
Frayn, Michael.
4
819.2 GRA
Billy Bishop goes to war : a play
Gray, John, 1946-
5
822 MIL
The crucible : a play in four acts
Miller, Arthur, 1915-
6
819.2 MOO
Riot
Moodie, Andrew, 1967-
7
812 KAU
Gross indecency : the three trials of Oscar Wilde
Kaufman, Moisés
8
819.2 THI
Einstein's gift
Thiessen, Vern
9
812.54 MUR
The December man = L'homme de décembre
Murphy, Colleen, 1954-
10
819.2 GAL
Angélique
Gale, Lorena.
11
819.2 THI
Vimy
Thiessen, Vern
12
812 GIB
The miracle worker
Gibson, William, 1914-2008.
13
822 COR
My name is Rachel Corrie : taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie
Corrie, Rachel.
14
812 KAU
The Laramie project
Kaufman, Moisés.
15
822 BLY
London road
Blythe, Alecky.
16
812 ENS
The vagina monologues
Ensler, Eve, 1953-
17
812 WRI
I am my own wife : studies for a play about the life of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf
Wright, Doug, 1962-
18
782.14 SON
Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet Street
Sondheim, Stephen
19
812 SHE
Bent : the play
Sherman, Martin.
20
F BRI
There is no word for it
Bridgeman, Laura.
21
812 SCH
All the way
Schenkkan, Robert, 1953-,
22
812 ROG
Oslo
Rogers, J. T., 1968-,
23
812.54 TAY
Sir John A : acts of a gentrified Ojibway rebellion
Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-
24
812 RAF
Heather Raffo's 9 parts of desire : a play
Raffo, Heather, 1970-
25
812 SMI
Twilight -- Los Angeles, 1992 on the road : a search for American character
Smith, Anna Deavere.
26
819.2 CAL
Redpatch : a play
Calvert, Raes,
27
819.2 BOW
The flood : and other misadventures of the female prisoners of the St. Lawrence Market
Bowen, Leah Simone,
28
812 BLA
The exonerated : a play
Blank, Jessica, 1975-
29
822 CHA
Red velvet
Chakrabarti, Lolita,
30
819.2 BER
Reasonable doubt
Bernbaum, Joel,
Plays with Jewish Representation
1
822 SHA
Three plays
Shaffer, Peter, 1926-
2
822 GOO
The diary of Anne Frank : a play in two acts
Goodrich, Frances
3
822 SIM
Biloxi blues
Simon, Neil.
4
822 UHR
Driving Miss Daisy
Uhry, Alfred.
5
822 SIM
Brighton Beach memoirs
Simon, Neil.
6
782.14 STE
Fiddler on the roof
Stein, Joseph.
7
819.2 SHE
Reading Hebron
Sherman, Jason, 1962-
8
819.2 MOS
The Russian play and other short works
Moscovitch, Hannah
9
819.2 MOS
East of Berlin
Moscovitch, Hannah
10
830.8 BER
Heldenplatz
Bernhard, Thomas
11
819.2 MOS
This is war
Moscovitch, Hannah
12
822 SHA
Equus
Shaffer, Peter, 1926-
13
819.2 MOS
Little one & other plays
Moscovitch, Hannah,
14
812 MAR
Sight unseen, and other plays
Margulies, Donald.
15
819.204 REF
Refractions : Solo
16
812 FIE
Harvey Fierstein's Torch song trilogy : the celebrated landmark play, in both its original and newly revised versions.
Fierstein, Harvey, 1954-,
17
812.6 ZIE
Actually
Ziegler, Anna,
18
812 MOS
Sexual misconduct of the middle classes
Moscovitch, Hannah.
Contemporary Plays - Coming-of-Age - Youth
1
819.2 FOO
Skin : &, Liars
Foon, Dennis.
2
821 SHA
For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf : a choreopoem
Shange, Ntozake
3
819.2 TAY
The boy in the treehouse ; : Girl who loved her horses
Taylor, Drew Hayden, 1962-
4
812 ZIN
The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds, a drama in two acts
Zindel, Paul.
5
832 WED
Spring awakening : a children's tragedy
Wedekind, Frank, 1864-1918.
6
819.2 TAN
Age of minority : three plays
Tannahill, Jordan.
7
812 HER
4000 miles
Herzog, Amy.
8
819.2 PIE
Beatdown : three plays
Pierre, Joseph Jomo, 1975-
9
819.2 MAC
The valley
MacLeod, Joan, 1954-,
10
819.2 TAN
Late company : a play
Tannahill, Jordan
11
819.2 MOS
Little one & other plays
Moscovitch, Hannah,
12
822.914 FUG
"Master Harold"-- and the boys
Fugard, Athol.
13
812 LON
This is our youth
Lonergan, Kenneth,
14
822.914 PEN
Blue/orange
Penhall, Joe
15
812 BAD
The making of St. Jerome
Badian, Marie Beath
16
822 PLA
Girls like that
Placey, Evan
17
812 COL
Really really : a play
Colaizzo, Paul Downs, 1985-,
18
812 KAR
The humans
Karam, Stephen.
19
819.2 YOU
Jabber : a play
Youssef, Marcus,
20
812 DEL
The wolves : a play
DeLappe, Sarah,
21
819.2 SAN
Bang, bang
Sandler, Kat,
22
819.2 SAN
Mustard
Sandler, Kat,
23
812 ORL
Beauty's daughter ; Monster ; The gimmick : three plays
Orlandersmith, Dael.
24
812.6 ZIE
Actually
Ziegler, Anna,
25
812 MOS
Sexual misconduct of the middle classes
Moscovitch, Hannah.
26
822 BIR
Anatomy of a suicide
Birch, Alice (1986- ).
27
822 KEL
DNA
Kelly, Dennis, 1970-
28
822 KEL
Girls and boys.
Kelly, Dennis, 1970-
29
812 NWA
Pass over
Nwandu, Antoinette,
30
819.1 SCO
Every day she rose
Scott, Andrea, 1971- (Playwright),
31
819.1 TAN
Is my microphone on?
Tannahill, Jordan,
32
819.1 VOI
Voices of a generation : three millennial plays
33
819.1 ADI
The negroes are congregating
Adiyana Morris, Natasha,
34
819.2 SAI
Reaching for starlight
St. Bernard, Donna-Michelle,
35
812 BAR
Dance nation
Barron, Clare,
36
822 GRE
Ear for eye : parts one, two and three
Green, Debbie Tucker,
37
812 WAS
Mr. Burns and other plays
Washburn, Anne (Anne Elizabeth),
38
822 LEE
Seven methods of killing Kylie Jenner
Lee-Jones, Jasmine,