Playwright Comes of Age with Counter Offence

• Published in: Canadian Theatre Review
• Main Author: Sudon, Winston
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 1998
• Subjects: Visual Arts and Performing Arts; Cree indians
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.94.005; https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.94.005

Rahul Varma is honest and uncompromising in his work as a playwright. As founding member and Artistic Director of Teesri Duniya (an East Indian theatre company), his plays target racism, injustice and inequality in Canadian society. The broad spectrum of his work includes Isolated Incident, about the killing of a black man by a racist white cop; Equal Wages, dealing with wage disparity between men and women; Job Stealer, exploring the perception that immigrants are stealing jobs from Canadian-born workers; and Land Where The Trees Talk, about the North Bay Hydro Electric Project and its effects on the Cree Indians.