Volume 3.1 (April 2004)
Cover Photo: Laurel Sprengelmeyer

3 - Political Theatre/Populist Theatre
Editorial by Edward Little

4 - Cultural Diversity at the Edmonton Fringe Festival
Shelley Scott looks at the strong presence of Asian-Canadian voices in past and present Edmonton Fringe Festivals.

6 - festival of imperialism
Framed as a letter of resignation, Suleikha Ali Yusuf’s poem is a condemnation of New World neo-colonialism.

8 - Teesri Duniya’s Untold Stories Project Visits Polynation Festival
David Fancy poses some difficult questions for community-based approaches to staging cultural difference within the context of Canada’s multi-ethnic reality.

11 - Dramatizing the Dead First Nations Female Body to Define and Defy BC Regionalism: Marie Clements’s The Unnatural and Accidental Women
Christopher Grignard examines how Marie Clements’s transformative theatre aesthetic redefines BC’s regional space, as her characters defy and transcend (mis)representation.

14 - The Plum Tree: Finding Its Roots in Southern Alberta
Misty Cozac writes about directing Mitch Miyagawa’s The Plum Tree and her discovery of how a new generation of Japanese-Canadians are breaking the silence of shikataga-nai.

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