Another Perfect Piece, Beyond the Pale: Dramatic Writing from First Nations Writers and Writers of Colour, Monologues: Plays from Martinique, France, Algeria, Quebec

• Published in: Canadian Theatre Review
• Main Authors: Fulton, Allegra, Hamill, Tony, Kaplan, Jon, Nolan, Yvette, Quan, Betty, Seremba, George, Kourilsky, Françoise, Strempel, Cristina, Temerson, Catherine, Fraser, Kathleen D.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 1997
• Subjects: Visual Arts and Performing Arts; First Nations; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.93.014; https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.93.014

It is not every day I have the pleasure of commenting on the work of 140 playwrights. The first two books are publications of Playwrights Union of Canada, which has approximately 350 members, receiving, in 1996, 136 new scripts from members and non-members. With funding from the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council, the Union, through its publishing imprint Playwrights Canada Press, publishes six to seven plays a year in trade book format. It also maintains a list of cerlox-bound copyscripts. This year, for sale in book stores, it will also start publishing copyscripts that sell well in a form analogous to the Samuel French format. Daniel David Moses’ Almighty Voice, for example, is about to be issued in this format. In addition to publishing single scripts, the Press also publishes anthologies, including in 1997 a collection of Newfoundland dramas, the largest and most costly project in the Press’s history, a conscious decision to bring Atlantic Province theatre - well, at least one Atlantic Province - to “mainland” Canada. The East has certainly been under-published in the last decade or longer.