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Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Rita Joe is a Native girl who leaves the reservation for the city, only to die on skid row as a victim of white men’s violence and paternalistic attitudes towards First Nations peoples.
Aurash
'Based on a Persian myth dating back over one thousand years, in the 1970s the fable was adapted into a dramatic narrative by Bahram Beyza'ie. In Beyza'ie's story, Aurash, a naïve and human stablehand, becomes an unwilling player in his country's post-war border treaty. He must determine his people's fate by firing an arrow from the top of a mountain." -- from the publisher
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First produced
1998, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto
Publication year
2008
Published by
Playwrights Canada Press
ISBN
9780887548192
Published in Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran
Published in Stories from the Rains of Love and Death: Four Plays from Iran
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