Showing West: Three Prairie Docu-Dramas edited by Diane Bessai and Don Kerr

Showing West is the best introduction to how the prairies imagined themselves in theatre during the 1970's. The history play, whether mythological or documentary, became theatre's most vital contribution to prairie culture in the decade, and both the plays and the essays of Showing West make it an indispensable record of that achievement.

Includes:

The West Show - Theatre Passe Muraille

      Social and historical mythologies of Saskatchewan.

Far As The Eye Can See - Ruby Wiebe & Theatre Passe Muraille

      Contemporary Alberta land issue enlivened by historical fantasy.

Medicare! - Rex Deverell

      The doctor's strike: the coming of socialized medicine to Saskatchewan.