In light of Canada's changing demographics and cultural fragmentation, fifteen essayists cover such issues as queer culture, feminist perspectives, Native and Asian theatre, regionalism and cultural immediacy in contemporary Canadian theatre.

Foreword /Per Brask -- Text as performance: reading and viewing Djanet Sear's Afrika Solo / Susan Bennett -- "Wisdome under a ragged coate": canonicity and Canadian drama / Chris Johnson -- Theatre of images: new dramaturgies / Sarah B. Hood -- The Spirit of Shivaree and the community play in Canada: or, The Unity of Community / Edward Little and Richard Paul Knowles -- Change the story: narrative strategies in two radio plays / Ann Jansen -- Native drama: a celebration of Native culture / Agnes Grant -- Protest for a better future: South Asian Canadian theatre's march to the centre / Uma Parameswaran -- Theorizing a queer theatre: buddies in bad times / Robert Wallace -- The culture of abuse in Under the Skin, This is for You, Anna and Lion in the Streets / Ann Wilson -- Drama in British Columbia: a special place / Denis Johnston -- Centres on the margin: contemporary prairie drama / Diane Bessai -- "One big Ontario": nation-building in the village of the small huts / Alan Filewod -- Spiritual resistance / Spiritual healing: Tremblay, Dalpe, Stetson, Champagne, Marchessault / Denis Salter -- In/Visible drama of Atlantic Canada / Denyse Lynde.