Download or read book A Collection of Canadian Plays written by Rolf Kalman and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1972-06-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wedding in White, by William Fruet; Three Women, by Hugh Garner; The Devil's Instrument, by W.O. Mitchell; The Pile, The Store, and Inside Out, by Mavor Moore; Westbound 12:01, by Brock Shoveller.
Download or read book Modern Canadian Plays written by Jerry Wasserman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Performance Documents and Debates written by Anthony J. Vickery and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian Performance Documents and Debates provides insight into performance activities from the seventeenth century to the early 1970s, and probes important yet vexing questions about Canada as a country and a concept. The volume collects playscripts and archival material to explore what these documents tell us about the values, debates, and priorities of artists and their audiences from the past 400 years. Analyses throughout rethink the significance of theatre, dance, opera, circus, and other performance genres and events. This landmark collection challenges readers to reconsider Canadian theatre and performance history. Contributors: Clarence S. Bayne, Kym Bird, Justin A. Blum, Amy Bowring, Jill Carter, Jenn Cole, Cynthia Cooper, Heather Davis-Fisch, Moira J. Day, Ray Ellenwood, Alan Filewod, Howard Fink, Liza Giffen, J. Paul Halferty, James Hoffman, Erin Hurley, John D. Jackson, Stephen Johnson, Sasha Kovacs, Sylvain Lavoie, Louis Patrick Leroux, Allana C. Lindgren, Denyse Lynde, Erin Joelle McCurdy, Wing Chung Ng, Glen F. Nichols, M. Cody Poulton, VK Preston, Daniel J. Ruppel, Jordan Stanger-Ross, Paul J. Stoesser, Christl Verduyn, Anthony J. Vickery, Anton Wagner
Download or read book Canadian Plays from Hart House Theatre written by Vincent Massey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1926 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Plays from Hart House Theatre V 1 written by Vincent Massey and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Truth in Play written by David Stewart Craig and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short scenes from Canadian plays geared towards helping youth in theater performances.
Download or read book Modern Canadian Plays written by Jerry Wasserman and published by Burnaby, B.C. : Talonbooks. This book was released on 2000 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth edition contains "The Orphan Muses," "Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing," "Amigo's Blue Guitar," "Fronteras Americanas" and others.
Download or read book New Canadian Realisms written by Roberta Barker and published by New Essays in Canadian Theatre. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writing by celebrated scholars and artists that explores the state of political performance in contemporary Canada.
Download or read book Directory of Canadian Plays and Playwrights written by Playwrights Canada and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Q2Q written by Peter Dickinson and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion anthology to Q2Q: Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance, the work contained in this volume provides a snapshot of Canadian contemporary queer performance practices--from solo performance to political allegory to family melodrama to intersectional narratives that combine text, movement, and music.
Download or read book Performing Autobiography written by Jennifer Stephenson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Performing Autobiography, Jenn Stephenson presents an innovative new approach to autobiography studies that links the growing field of research to drama. Stephenson’s analysis engages with performance histories to demonstrate the extent to which the dramatic form, which recasts autobiography as ambiguously fictive, ensures that the experience of the plays remains open to revision, alteration, and interpretation. As such, Performing Autobiography understands this form not to be the impossible documentation of the backward-looking narrative of one’s life, but rather an evolving process of self-creation and transformation. Stephenson explores the autobiographical form by analysing seven works by Canadian playwrights written and performed between 1999 and 2009, including Judith Thompson’s Perfect Pie, Daniel MacIvor’s In On It, and Timothy Findley’s Shadows. Her analysis encourages us to see autobiography as a uniquely political act, one that, where enacted on stage, illustrates the variety of ways that self-reflection and interpretation has an expanding role in contemporary culture.
Download or read book The God of Gods A Canadian Play written by Carroll Aikins and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carroll Aikins’s play The God of Gods (1919) has been out of print since its first and only edition in 1927. This critical edition not only revives the work for readers and scholars alike, it also provides historical context for Aikins’s often overlooked contributions to theatre in the 1920s and presents research on the different staging techniques in the play’s productions. Much of the play’s historical significance lies in Aikins’s vital role in Canadian theatre, as director of the Home Theatre in British Columbia (1920–22) and artistic director of Toronto’s Hart House Theatre (1927–29). Wright reveals The God of Gods as a modernist Canadian work with overt influences from European and American modernisms. Aikins’s work has been compared to European modernists Gordon Craig, Adolphe Appia, and Jacques Copeau. Importantly, he was also intimately connected with modernist Canadian artists and the Group of Seven (who painted the scenery for Hart House Theatre). The God of Gods contributes to current studies of theatrical modernism by exposing the primitivist aesthetics and theosophical beliefs promoted by some of Canada’s art circles at the turn of the twentieth century. Whereas Aikins is clearly progressive in his political critique of materialism and organized religion, he presents a conservative dramatization of the noble savage as hero. The critical introduction examines how The God of Gods engages with Nietzschean and theosophical philosophies in order to dramatize an Aboriginal lover-artist figure that critiques religious idols, materialism, and violence. Ultimately, The God of Gods offers a look into how English and Canadian theatre audiences responded to primitivism, theatrical modernism, and theosophical tenets during the 1920s.
Download or read book A Collection of Canadian Plays written by Rolf Kalman and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1972 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marsh Hay, by Merrill Denison; The Unreasonable Act of Julian Waterman, by Ron Taylor; The Twisted Loaf & Soft Voices, by Aviva Ravel; Vicky, by Grahame Woods; The Vice President, by John Schull.
Download or read book Performing Back written by Dalbir Singh and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of plays examines topics including race, imperialism, and notions of "otherness" insofar as they intersect with post-colonial theatre.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Post Colonial Literatures in English written by Eugene Benson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 1950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Download or read book Translating Canada written by Luise von Flotow and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2007-10-25 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, Canadian federal governments offered varying degrees of support for literary and other artistic endeavour. A corollary of this patronage of culture at home was an effort to make the resulting works available for audiences elsewhere in the world. Current developments in the study of translation and its influence as cultural transfer have made possible new assessments of such efforts to project a national image abroad. Translating Canada examines cultural materials exported by Canada in addition to those selected for acquisition by German publishers, theatres, and other culture brokers. It also considers the motivations of particular translators and the reception by German reviewers of works by a wide variety of Canadian writers -- novelists and poets, playwrights and children's authors, literary and social critics. Above all, the book maps for its readers a number of significant, though frequently unsuspected, roles that translation assumes in the intercultural negotiation of national images and values. The chapters in this collection will be of value to students, teachers, and scholars in a number of fields. Informed lay readers, too, will appreciate the authors’ insights into the different ways in which translation has contributed to German reception of Canadian books and culture.
Download or read book Canada and the Idea of North written by Sherrill E Grace and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002-04-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada and the Idea of North examines the ways in which Canadians have defined themselves as a northern people in their literature, art, music, drama, history, geography, politics, and popular culture. From the Franklin Mystery to the comic book superheroine Nelvana, Glenn Gould's documentaries, the paintings of Lawren Harris, and Molson beer ads, the idea of the north has been central to the Canadian imagination. Sherrill Grace argues that Canadians have always used ideas of Canada-as-North to promote a distinct national identity and national unity. In a penultimate chapter - "The North Writes Back" - Grace presents newly emerging northern voices and shows how they view the long tradition of representing the North by southern activists, artists, and scholars. With the recent creation of Nunavut, increasing concern about northern ecosystems and social challenges, and renewed attention to Canada's role as a circumpolar nation, Canada and the Idea of North shows that nordicity still plays an urgent and central role in Canada at the start of the twenty-first century.
