About the Book:

Refractions: Scenes is a collection of scenes from diverse contemporary works by Canadian playwrights that reflect the country's artistic landscape through a breadth of themes, styles, regions, and creative practices.

Refractions: Scenes is the hotly anticipated follow-up to Refractions: Solo, a collection of monologues also edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and Yvette Nolan. This collection can be used both as a scene source for actors and students, or as a primer on diverse Canadian theatre and an entry point into new works, many of which are not yet widely available.

Includes scenes by Carmen Aguirre, Reneltta Arluk, Leah Simone Bowen, George Boyd, Dionne Brand, Raes Calvert, Marjorie Chan, Marie Clements, Lisa Codrington, Carrie Costello, Mike Czuba, Michaela di Cesare, d-lishus, Audrey Dwyer, Joel Fishbane, Patti Flather, Linda Gaboriau, Ahmed Ghazali, Anosh Irani, Frances Koncan, Mishka Lavigne, Suvendrini Lena, Leonard Linklater, Daniel David Moses, Wajdi Mouawad, Colleen Murphy, Ciarán Myers, Sean Harris Oliver, Gilles Poulin-Denis, Christine Quintana, Anusree Roy, Rob Salerno, Bobby Theodore, Evan Tsitsias, Michaela Washburn, and David Yee.

The works are about ten minutes in length each, containing 3-7 characters.

About the Editors:

Donna-Michelle St. Bernard is a Canadian playwright, theatre director, and arts administrator. Born in the Caribbean islands of the Grenadines and raised in Canada, she is a three-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language drama (Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize). Her work has also been recognized with a Siminovitch Prize nomination, SAT Award nomination, the Herman Voaden Playwriting Award, the Alberta Theatre Projects' playRites Award, and a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play.

Yvette Nolan is a playwright, director, dramaturg and educator. Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to an Algonquin mother and an Irish immigrant father, raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she lived in the Yukon and Nova Scotia before moving to Toronto to take the helm at Native Earth Performing Arts where she served from 2003-2011. A prominent figure in Canadian Aboriginal theatre, her best-known and most-produced play is Annie Mae's Movement.