The plays in this volume show western Canadians at the point ofleaving, returning, and renewing against the backdrop of their nativelandscape.

The sound of the wind across a Prairie field, the smell of grass on thefirst day of spring, the vocalization of birds in the early morningwoods, the silence of the lake at night interrupted by call of the loon– these are the shapes and sounds of the Prairie landscape.Katherine Koller invokes the Prairie setting as a central character ineach of the four plays in Voices of the Land. Serving asupportive and, at other times, antagonistic role, the landscape actsupon the characters, driving and intensifying their transformation.