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              <text>Carter, Jill. “Kicking the Heroin Habit: Memorializing the Survivance Skirmishes and Little Victories of the Merely Mortal Women Who Fought Them.” Solo Performance, edited by Jenn Stephenson. Playwrights Canada Press, 2011, pp. 191-199.
Esleben, Joerg and Ecem Yucel. “Indigenous Theatre meets Brecht in Sucker Falls and Red Mother.” Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of University Teachers of German, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, June 2019.
Esleben, Joerg. “Brechtian Theatre in Canada between Domestication and Alienation.” Congress of the International Brecht Society, Leipzig, Germany, June 2019.
“LaMaMa presents the premiere of Red Mother.” Press release, LaMaMa Theatre, New York City, 2010. URL: http://www.loosechangeproductions.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/RedMother_PR.pdf. Accessed 12 June 2019.
Red Mother. Touring Brochure by Spiderwoman Theater, 2013. http://mail.spiderwomantheater.org/docs/RM_Brochure2013.pdf. Accessed 7 May 2019.</text>
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