An interview with Canadian author Marjorie Chan on her 2004 play “China Doll”, an adaptation of Ibsen’s “A Doll’s House” set in early-20th-century China.

Jacqueline Taucar examines the intersections between the official institutional script of Canadian multiculturalism and the social performance of multucultural identities in Toronto’s International Festival Caravan, a festival that ran for nearly forty years under the mandate of showcasing the traditions of the city’s ethnic communities. Audiences…[Read more]

Jacqueline Taucar, in conversation with Thea and Dario Jackson, investigates the sculptural qualities of the Josephine Baker Mas for the Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival Festival in 2011. This article traces the conception, construction, and complexities of choreography for this carnivalesque reimagining of Baker in Paris of the twenties for a…[Read more]

This article examines the gender discourses at play in Lee Breuer and Maude Mitchell’s production “Mabou Mines DollHouse,” which re-imagines Henrik Ibsen’s play “A Doll House” as a literal dollhouse. By casting the male roles with little people (no more than four feet tall) opposite women (who stand at close to six feet tall), Breuer inverts the…[Read more]