General editor's preface / by Roberta Barker -- Theatre and (im)mmigration : the Canadian theatre of shimmering maps / by Yana Meerzon -- Theoretical primer. Playing on Indigenous land : settlers, immigrants, and theatre in fictive Canada / by Alan Filewod -- Part one. Canadian immigration and theatre history paradigms. Immigration Hall and last stands in Northwest performance (ca. 1885-1905) / by Ian McWilliams -- "A new Ireland in the Northwest" : shades of Irish/Canadian nation, immigration, and theatre-building on the Canadian prairies / by Moira Day -- Toronto theatre, American migration, and the Vietnam War / by David DeGrow -- Montréal Yiddish theatre as youth cultural imperative / by Rebecca Margolis -- Performing homeland and multicultural imaginaries in Toronto's Caravan Festival / by Jacqueline Taucar -- Teesri Duniya Theatre : resisting inequities and ethnocentric nationalism through politically engaged theatre / by Sheetal Lodhia, Rahul Varma, and Jaswant Guzder -- Staging the ordinary/constructing history in Olivier Kemeid's theatre of memory, history, and forgetting / by Yana Meerzon -- Part two. Canadian immigration and the paradigms of performance. Harvesting the body : devising across difference at MT Space / by Ric Knowles -- Moments of encounter : Iranian-Canadian immigrant and diasporic theatre / by Art Babayants and Marjan Moosavi -- Asian Canadian immigrant drama : tactical interventions in Acquiesce and Kim's Convenience / by Eleanor Ty -- From O nosso baile (Our dance) to O nosso fado (Our song) : Portugese-Canadian sex-role stereotypes and theatre / by Aida Jordão -- "No me inventes [don't invent me]" : performing the Latinx immigrant story in Canada / by Martha Herrera-Lasso González -- Québec theatre and its language in three snapshots, loosely framed / by Nicole Nolette -- Virtual migration : new Canadian digital performance experiences / by Peter Kuling -- Part three. Canadian immigration in the first person singular and plural. Building intercultural bridges : an interview with Puente Theatre founder Lina de Guevara / by Monica Prendergast with Lina de Guevara -- Displaced- three cultures, three time periods, three reasons to flee : recounting the devised creative process / by Natasha Martina Koechl -- Immigrant theatre and celebration : hope in the face of adversity / by Yasmine Kandil -- Shifting identities in new territories : creating theatre with and by immigrants / by Taiwo Afolabi, Anita Hallewas, and Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta -- On mobility, resonances, and making a loving / by Lisa Ndejuru -- Works cited -- About the contributors -- Index.