Download or read book Dora Mavor Moore written by Paula Sperdakos and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the life of the extraordinary woman best remembered for her work with the New Play Society (NPS), this biography chronicles the career of a Dora Mavor Moore as a key figure in the development of the theater in Canada. When Dora founded the NPS in 1946, she was already close to 60 years old, and she had been working tirelessly as actress, director, producer, and teacher, for almost 40 years. The story of her remarkable achievements will appeal to anyone with an interest in the arts in Canada.
Download or read book Now You See Her written by Amy Nostbakken and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now You See Her nominated for three Dora Mavor Moore Awards; Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Costume Design & Outstanding Sound Design/Composition. Now You See Her named one of Toronto’s Top Ten Plays of 2018 by the Toronto Star. Six diverse women’s voices merge into one devastating (and funny) portrait of modern feminism. They are the invisible, the vanishing, and the disappeared. In an insurrectionary outburst of original music, words, and movement, the six characters in Now You See Her explore some of the diverse ways women fade from sight in our culture. They sing, dance, and thrust themselves into the elements as they travel through the seasons of their lives. Their voices are defiant. Their question is simple: why and how do we allow our power to disappear without a fight? Now You See Her follows Quote Unquote Collective’s acclaimed international hit Mouthpiece.
Download or read book The Bombay Plays written by Anosh Irani and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From renowned author Anosh Irani comes an updated edition of The Bombay Plays featuring two plays that explore the depths of the back alleys of Bombay.
Download or read book The Forgotten Legend written by Shawn Henshall and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations, Canadian artists have made their mark on the world, with countless individuals rising to fame on stage and screen, and as frontrunners in the various arts, inspiring and influencing all who come after them. One of these legends has been largely forgotten, though his contribution to the arts have inspired the likes of Monty Python and Kids in the Hall, and brought hope and laughter to troops serving their countries at home and overseas, all the while pushing boundaries as a prolific artist, illustrator, author, and actor. This book tells the story of forgotten legend John Wilson (Jack) McLaren from his birth in Scotland to his early years in Canada, becoming a soldier in WWI, entertaining his comrades in arms on the stages of Europe, his business career after the war, his deep involvement with the Group of Seven, his membership in Toronto’s famed Arts & Letters Club, and his eventual retirement to the community of Benmiller, near Goderich, Ontario, where he passed away in 1988. His is a story that deserves to be told ... and remembered.
Download or read book My Double Life written by Don Harron and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-11-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After 15 books about somebody else (mostly alter ego Charlie Farquharson), Don Harron now presents the colourful story of his 77-year career in the entertainment business.
Download or read book The Dogs written by Allan Stratton and published by Scholastic Canada. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback--the internationally acclaimed psychological thriller from Governor General's Award nominee Allan Stratton. Cameron and his mom have been on the run for five years. His father is hunting them--or at least that's what Cameron's been told. When they settle into an isolated farmhouse, Cameron soon finds himself embroiled in the unsolved mystery of a woman and child who disappeared decades ago, and he starts to hear and see things that just aren't possible. What's hiding in the night? What's buried in the past? Are there dark secrets to uncover, or is Cameron's own mind playing tricks on him? In The Dogs, acclaimed author Allan Stratton manages to deliver at once a page-turning thriller and a powerful exploration of the realities of domestic violence and its after-effects.
Download or read book Dynamic Dialogues written by Melee Hutton and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using twenty distinct scenarios, students can engage in structured role play in a student-centered learning environment.
Download or read book How Theatre Educates written by David Wallace Booth and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Theatre Educates is a fascinating and lively inquiry into pedagogy and practice that will be relevant to teachers and students of drama, educators, artists working in theatre, and the theatre-going public.
Download or read book Mouthpiece written by Norah Sadava and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2017 Toronto Theatre Critics Award for Best New Canadian Play Winner of three Dora Mavor Moore Awards Stage Award for Best Performance, 2017 Edinburgh Festival Fringe Mouthpiece follows one woman, for one day, as she tries to find her voice. Two performers express the inner conflict that exists within a modern woman's head: the push and pull, the past and the present, the progress and the regression. Interweaving a cappella harmony, dissonance, text, and physicality, Mouthpiece is a harrowing, humorous, and heart-wrenching journey into the female psyche.
Download or read book Buffoon written by Anosh Irani and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-time Governor General’s Literary Award–shortlisted author and playwright Anosh Irani’s critically acclaimed one-man show Buffoon is a masterclass of tragicomic theatre. Born to circus folk who prefer trapezing over parenting, Felix quickly learns to turn life’s misfortunes into jokes. His longing for family and home is piqued at the tender age of seven when he falls hopelessly in love with an older woman, the beguiling Aja, who is eight. In the process, a clown is born, and we watch him grow into a middle-aged buffoon. Over time, Felix stops waiting for someone else to love him; his journey becomes one of loving himself. A story of love, loss, and the fate that binds us, Buffoon is a gut-wrenching one-man show that expertly walks the tightrope between heartbreak and hilarity.
Download or read book Tamara written by John Krizanc and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available for the first time in over thirty years, John Krizanc’s internationally acclaimed play redefined the limits of theatre with its haunting tale of art, sex, violence, and political intrigue in Fascist Italy. In the late twenties the poet, war hero, and lothario Gabriele d’Annunzio waits in his opulent villa — a gift from Benito Mussolini in return for his political silence — for the arrival of the artist Tamara de Lempicka, who is to paint his portrait. What follows is a tale of art, sex, violence and the meaning of complicity in an authoritarian state. The action is directed by the reader/audience member, who decides which characters to follow and which narratives to experience. John Krizanc’s masterpiece redefined theatre and won six L.A. Drama Critics Circle Awards, six Dora Mavor Moore Awards, six Drama-Logue Awards, and six Mexican Association of Theatre Critics, and Journalists Awards for its original productions. Now available in a handsome new A List edition, Tamara is an astonishing piece of experimental art and a penetrating look into ethical choices in times of encroaching autocracy.
Download or read book Stories from the Rains of Love and Death written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversial plays from some of Iran's leading dramatists, translated into English for the first time.
Download or read book Forget Me Not written by Ronnie Burkett and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "The New Now," written language has been forbidden and forgotten. Those who wish to hold onto love's language must make a dangerous journey to find the Keeper of the Lost Hand.
Download or read book Boublil and Sch nberg written by Margaret Vermette and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Two Frenchmen, an idea, and a blank piece of paper. That's how it started. Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg are the creators of the multi-award-winning and much-loved musicals Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, Martin Guerre and now an exciting new work The Pirate Queen . Les Miserables alone has been seen by over 53 million people. The Musical World of Boublil and Schonberg is the first book to offer a comprehensive look behind the closed doors of these intensely private musical theatre giants. Boublil and Schonberg take center stage and talk openly about their methods and the creative processes involved in writing the book, the music, and the lyrics. Additional interviews from collaborators such as their co-writers Herbert Kretzmer, Richard Maltby, Stephen Clark, and John Dempsey; their directors Trevor Nunn, John Caird, Nicholas Hytner, Conall Morrison, and Frank Galati; the choreographer of The Pirate Queen , Mark Dendy; and their long-time producer Cameron Mackintosh gives the reader a full view into their successful process. Full-color production photographs tell the story of each musical. Visit www.musicalworld-boublil-schonberg.com for more information!
Download or read book Nightwood Theatre written by Shelley Scott and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nightwood Theatre is the longest-running and most influential feminist theatre company in Canada. Since 1979, the company has produced works by Canadian women, providing new opportunities for women theatre artists. It has also been the "home company" for some of the biggest names in Canadian theatre, such as Ann-Marie MacDonald. In Nightwood Theatre, Scott describes the company?s journey toward defining itself as a feminist theatre establishment, highlighting its artistic leadership based on its relevance to diverse communities of women. She also traces Nightwood?s relationship with the media and places the theatre in an international context by comparing its history to that of like companies in the U.K. and the U.S
Download or read book Great Shakespeareans Set IV written by Adrian Poole and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Shakespeareans presents a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers, and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. An essential resource for students and scholars in Shakespeare studies.
Download or read book What s On The Air Tonight written by Barry Nesbitt and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: