#FridayReads
As a part of their Walk the Walk: National Festival of Asian Canadian Women initiative, fu-GEN Theatre Company just released The 49. Compiled by Yvette Nolan, Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, Jenna Rodgers, and Mel Hague, this is a list of “49 plays by Women of Colour that you can program tomorrow.”
The Theatre Alberta Library currently has fourteen out of the nineteen published plays on the list (plus many that aren’t on this list), and we are working to get the remaining five in our collection soon. Here are the ones you can find in our library right now.
- Things That Go Bump Volume 1 contains “Binti’s Journey” by Marcia Johnson
- Angélique by Lorena Gale
- Blade / Job’s Wife / Video contains “Job’s Wife” by Yvette Nolan
- Who Knew Grannie: a Dub Aria by Ahdri Zhina Mandiela
- Mother Tongue by Betty Quan
- Leo by Rosa Laborde
- Kilt Pins by Catherine Hernandez
- Sistahs by Maxine Bailey & Sharon Lewis
- Staging Coyote’s Dream: Volume 1 (An Anthology of First Nations Drama in English) contains “The Unnatural and Accidental Women” by Marie Clements
- The Refugee Hotel by Carmen Aguirre
- The Red Priest by Mieko Ouchi
- A Nanking Winter by Marjorie Chan
- The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God by Djanet Sears
- Brothel #9 by Anusree Roy
What are your favourite plays by Women of Colour? Our members are the best resource to building our collection. Suggest a Script (https://www.theatrealberta.com/library/suggest-a-script-book/) through our website or tweet @TheatreAlberta with the hashtag #suggestAscript stating the play and playwright.
written by Silverius Materi
