Ann Messenger


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Novel Herstory
By Ann Messenger
Published in Poets’ Words. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 115 (Winter 1987): 234-235.
  • Mothers of the Novel by Dale Spender
Teaching Dreams
By Ann Messenger
Published in The Times Between. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 107 (Winter 1985): 125-127.
  • The Penguin Book of Modern Canadian Drama. Vol. I by Richard Plant
  • Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 by Richard Perkyns
  • Modern Canadian Plays by Jerry Wasserman
Endlessly Talking
By Ann Messenger
Published in Fictional Patterns. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 99 (Winter 1983): 135-137.
  • The Work: Conversations with English Canadian Playwrights by Robert Wallace (Author), Cynthia Zimmerman (Author) and Ann Messenger (Reviewer)
Power Plays
By Ann Messenger
Published in Fiction in the Seventies. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 92 (Spring 1982): 101-103.
  • Flytrap by David Freeman
  • Gossip by George F. Walker
Canajun, Eh?
By Ann Messenger
Published in The Structure of Fiction. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 86 (Autumn 1980): 89-93.
  • Angel City & Other Plays by Sam Shepard
  • Zastrozzi by George F. Walker
  • Far as the Eye Can See by Rudy Wiebe and Theatre Passe Muraille
The Long and the Short of It
By Ann Messenger
Published in Sources. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 76 (Spring 1978): 101-104.
  • The Execution by Marie-Claire Blais
  • Tiln & Other Plays by Michael Cook
  • On the Job by David Fennario
  • Some Angry Summer Songs by John Herbert
  • I Love You, Baby Blue by Theatre Passe Muraille
  • La Duchesse de Langeais & Other Plays by Michel Tremblay (Author)
In the Name of Drama
By Ann Messenger
Published in Women and Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 74 (Autumn 1977): 90-95.
  • A Bibliography of Canadian Theatre History 1583-1975 by J. L. Ball and Richard Plant
  • Playwrights in Profile: Carol Bolt by Carol Bolt
  • Maurice by Carol Bolt
  • Shelter by Carol Bolt
  • One Crack Out by David French
  • The Night No One Yelled by Peter Madden
  • Burlap Bags by Len Peterson
  • The Rainmaker by Gwen Pharis Ringwood
  • Quarks by J. Michael Yates
Words and Images
By Ann Messenger
Published in Exiles and Expatriates. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 73 (Summer 1977): 110-112.
  • Question Time by Robertson Davies
  • Preparing by Beverley Simons
More Utile than Dulce
By Ann Messenger
Published in Links with the Great Tradition. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 65 (Summer 1975): 90-95.
  • Esker Mike & His Wife Agiluk by Herschel Hardin
  • Walsh by Sharon Pollock
  • Battering Ram by David Freeman
  • You're Gonna Be Alright Jamie Boy by David Freeman
In Sickness and in Health
By Ann Messenger
Published in Lovers and Losers. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 59 (Winter 1974): 101-103.
  • The Clam Made a Face by Eric Nicol
  • Creeps by David Freeman

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The Work: Conversations with English Canadian Playwrights
By Robert Wallace, Cynthia Zimmerman and Ann Messenger
Reviewed in Endlessly Talking by Ann Messenger