"Dans le salon de coiffure d'un centre commercial, des hommes et des femmes échangent les dernières nouvelles des voisins : l'un d'eux est devenu ministre ; Nolivé aime un homme que sa famille rejette ; un petit garçon s'est perdu dans les allées... Pendant ce temps, le supermarché diffuse des annonces promotionnelles, et un groupe de déplacées climatiques rêve d'un ailleurs au-delà des rives. Ce texte puise avec bonheur à toutes les sources du théâtre (comédie, tragédie, choeur antique, vaudeville) pour brosser le portrait saisissant d'Africains d'aujourd'hui pris entre traditions et mondialisation. Samo, Tribute to Basquiat offre une évocation poétique du peintre Jean-Michel Basquiat. Né en 1960 à Brooklyn, adolescent en rupture, il se consacre à la musique et tague les murs de Manhattan. Traversé par la musique et la danse, ce texte témoigne de la frénésie et de l'urgence de création qui habitaient cet artiste-météore dont l'oeuvre est une critique acerbe de l'Amérique. Ces deux textes interrogent avec force les identités en Afrique et en Amérique, où le Noir est renvoyé à son exotisme fantasmé et à sa supposée étrangeté."--Page 4 of cover.

"In All's Well That Ends Well, Helen, a lowly ward, risks her life to satisfy her boundless love for Bertram, a count and ward to the King of France. Following him to Paris, she concocts an endangering plan to win the King of France's favour and induce Bertram's hand in marriage. In the comprehensive introduction to this new, fully-illustrated Arden edition, Suzanne Gossett takes a transformative look at the play's critical and performance history by offering fresh perspectives on the conundrum of genre, sexuality and moral dilemmas with masculinity and the structures of family. The authoritative play text is amply annotated to clarify its language and allusions, and two appendices debate the play's authorship and review its casting. Offering students and scholars alike a wealth of insight and new research, this edition maintains the rigorous standards of the Arden Shakespeare." -- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: Nation, spectacle, and colliding narratives
• Neptune redux : the (First) Nation(s) enacted in Alexis Martin's Invention du chauffage central en Nouvelle-France
• Les racines imaginaires/mythical metissages : Quebec and the ruse of the metis turn
• Cinematic encounters on the reserve
• Endurance/enduring performance : Nadia Myre, La Marche Amun, and the Indian Act's tumultuous geographies
• Theater in contested lands : repatriating ancestors amid violence
• Conclusion.

Encounters on Contested Lands analyzes films, plays, visual art, and protest marches by Indigenous artists in Québec, Canada, to explore the performance of cultural identity, sovereignty, and nationhood in Québec's independence movement--Provided by publisher.

• Back of the throat
• Our enemies: lively scenes of love and combat
• Language rooms
• Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the new world
• Threesome
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern meet Abdallah and Ahmed: musings about Arabs and Muslims in American theater.

"Contemporary Arab American playwright Yussef El Guindi's works focus on the Arab/Muslim experience in the United States. In particular, his plays deal with the complex issues of Arabophobia, Islamophobia, media orientalism and bi-cultural issues faced by both immigrants and second-generation Arab Americans. The plays featured in this collection are: Back of the Throat Our Enemies: Lively Scenes of Love and Combat Language Rooms Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World Threesome The anthology also includes a range of supplementary material, designed to contextualise the work of El Guindi and support its use by students: - a foreword by Silk Road Rising Artistic Director Jamil Khoury and Torange Yeghiazarian, Artistic Director, Golden Thread Productions - an introduction by Professor Michael Malek Najjar - production stills of productions of El Guindi's plays - a bonus essay by El Guindi titled 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Meet Abdallah and Ahmed: Musings about Arabs and Muslims in American Theatre' - an annotated timeline of the work of Yussef El Guindi"-- Providied by publisher.

"Known for her distinctive lyrical dialogue and powerful sociopolitical themes, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most innovative and ambitious playwrights in the contemporary theatre world. In reaction to the extraordinary events of the first 100 days of the presidency of Donald J. Trump, one of America's most distinguished artists has created a unique and highly personal response to one of the most tumultuous times in our history. For each day, Parks created a play diary to capture and explore the events as they unfolded and to try and make sense out of a state of uncertainty, confusion, and chaos. An everyman's guide to the Trumpian universe"-- Provided by publisher.