Week 10: Belmore’s Speaking To Their Mothers

Consider the ways Speaking to Their Mothers offers alternative modes of recognition and connection through performance. Between what and whom? Or what and what? Who is the audience and who is the performer?

Week 9: Yvette Nolan’s The Unplugging

EN-FACTORY17 TORONTO, ON-MARCH 17 – Diana Belshaw and Allegra Fulton on stage during a rehearsal of The Unplugging at Factory Theatre in Toronto, March 17, 2015. Marta Iwanek/Toronto Star

Week 8: Iphigenia & Chaos

Week 7: Demon’s Nun & Body Indian

Please post your responses here for these two plays (feel free to write about one or the other). If you have time, here is a video of FOMMA’s La Bruja Monja (The Demon’s Nun) provided by the Hemispheric Institute’s Digital Video archive.

Week 6: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots

Mural in Tlaxacala. This image is also on the cover of Prof. Ybarra’s book Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theater, History and Identity in Tlaxacala Mexico. 

Week 5: The Unnatural and Accidental Woman & Vigil

Week 4: The Couple in the Cage & Artifact Piece

Week 3: Kent Monkman

Please post your responses to this weeks readings here. View more of Monkman’s performances and his incredible paintings on his website.  

Week 2: New Fire & In Plain Sight (Moraga and Mojica)

Please post your (150-200 word) thoughts on Moraga’s New Fire: To Put things Right Again and Monique Mojica’s Essay, In Plain Sight: Inscripted Earth and Invisible Realities.  

Week 1: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Due Monday February 1 at 5 PM 

Please post your 150-200 word response, which can be a meditation on a specific part of the text, a series of questions that you try to answer, or something you found particularly complicated and compelling and why. You can post by clicking the “Leave a Comment” button at the bottom of this post. Be sure to write in your name! You will be able to view other comments after 5 PM on Mondays.