George Ryga is best known for The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, one of the most successful plays written in Canada. It established that an English-Canadian play could address serious social issues in vernacula...
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Critical Essay by Neil Carson
In my opinion, [The Ecstasy of Rita Joe] establishes Ryga as the most exciting talent writing for the stage in Canada today….
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe has been ...
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Critical Essay by Neil Carson
[Hungry Hills] tells of the efforts of the young Snit Mandolin to find his roots and re-establish a home in the barren farmlands of northern Alberta, to which he returns...
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Critical Essay by W. H. Rockett
Romeo Kuchmir is a character who has found an author who has failed to find a proper place for Romeo. Kuchmir is literally all there is to George Ryga's new nov...
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Critical Essay by Bruce Bailey
Ploughmen of the Glacier is an undisguised, sometimes clumsy attempt to say something cosmic about what Ryga's stage directions call "the elemental loneli...
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George Ryga
Critical Essay by Neil Carson
