Selena Couture's guest appearances

Selena Couture

Below the Radar

The Theatre History Podcast

David Chang

Scott Clark

Robert Davis

James White

Judy Heumann

Isaac Butler

Nick Montgomery

Bryan Doerries

Joleen Mitton

Lorraine Hansberry

Edith Wharton

Kanahus Manuel

Charles Demers

Christine Boyle

Hannah McGregor

OwlTail

Alex Dick

We know Richard Brinsley Sheridan as the comic playwright responsible for The Rivals and The School for Scandal. However, one of his most important plays is a major departure from those works. His play Pizarro, an adaptation of an early melodrama by the German playwright August von Kotzebue about the Spanish invasion of Peru, became a smash hit on the London stage in 1799.

We know Richard Brinsley Sheridan as the comic playwright responsible for The Rivals and The School for Scandal. However, one of his most important plays is a major departure from those works. His play Pizarro, an adaptation of an early melodrama by the German playwright August von Kotzebue about the Spanish invasion of Peru, became a smash hit on the London stage in 1799.

Episode 53: Rediscovering Sheridan’s Smash Hit Pizarro with Dr. Selena Couture & Dr. Alex Dick

Matt Hern

What does it mean to use and enjoy a city park on unceded Indigenous land? Am Johal interviews co-authors of “On This Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land” (Fernwood Publishing 2019), Matt Hern and Selena Couture, who wrote the book with two of their daughters, Sadie Couture and Daisy Couture. As a white settler family, they have lived near and around East Vancouver’s Victoria Park (AKA Bocce Ball Park) for years. Interrogating the concept of urban parks as colonial constructs, they investigate the land politics of this small green space with such a multiplicity of overlapping users and sovereignties.About the book: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/on-this-patch-of-grass

What does it mean to use and enjoy a city park on unceded Indigenous land? Am Johal interviews co-authors of “On This Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land” (Fernwood Publishing 2019), Matt Hern and Selena Couture, who wrote the book with two of their daughters, Sadie Couture and Daisy Couture. As a white settler family, they have lived near and around East Vancouver’s Victoria Park (AKA Bocce Ball Park) for years. Interrogating the concept of urban parks as colonial constructs, they investigate the land politics of this small green space with such a multiplicity of overlapping users and sovereignties. About the book: <a href="https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/on-this-patch-of-grass" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/on-this-patch-of-grass</a>

Politicizing the Urban Park — with Selena Couture and Matt Hern