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Nightwood Theatre

Author : Shelley Scott
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1897425554
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (974 download)

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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

Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre

Author : Kailin Wright
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0228003245
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)

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Book Synopsis Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre by : Kailin Wright

Download or read book Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre written by Kailin Wright and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Canada, adaptation is a national mode of survival, but it is also a way to create radical change. Throughout history, Canadians have been inheritors and adaptors: of political systems, stories, and customs from the old world and the new. More than updating popular narratives, adaptation informs understandings of culture, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as individual experiences. In Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre Kailin Wright investigates adaptations that retell popular stories with a political purpose and examines how they acknowledge diverse realities and transform our past. Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre explores adaptations of Canadian history, Shakespeare, Greek mythologies, and Indigenous history by playwrights who identify as English-Canadian, African-Canadian, French-Canadian, French, Kuna Rappahannock, and Delaware from the Six Nations. Along with new considerations of the activist potential of popular Canadian theatre, this book outlines eight strategies that adaptors employ to challenge conceptions of what it means to be Indigenous, Black, queer, or female. Recent cancellations of theatre productions whose creators borrowed elements from minority cultures demonstrate the need for a distinction between political adaptation and cultural appropriation. Wright builds on Linda Hutcheon's definition of adaptation as repetition with difference and applies identification theory to illustrate how political adaptation at once underlines and undermines its canonical source. An exciting intervention in adaptation studies, Political Adaptation in Canadian Theatre unsettles the dynamics of popular and political theatre and rethinks the ways performance can contribute to how one country defines itself.

Nightwood

Author : Djuna Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nightwood written by Djuna Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance

Author : Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137550139
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance by : Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva

Download or read book Women, Collective Creation, and Devised Performance written by Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role and centrality of women in the development of collaborative theatre practice, alongside the significance of collective creation and devising in the development of the modern theatre. Tracing a web of women theatremakers in Europe and North America, this book explores the connections between early twentieth century collective theatre practices such as workers theatre and the dramatic play movement, and the subsequent spread of theatrical devising. Chapters investigate the work of the Settlement Houses, total theatre in 1920s’ France, the mid-century avant-garde and New Left collectives, the nomadic performances of Europe’s transnational theatre troupes, street-theatre protests, and contemporary devising. In so doing, the book further elucidates a history of modern theatre begun in A History of Collective Creation (2013) and Collective Creation in Contemporary Performance (2013), in which the seemingly marginal and disparate practices of collective creation and devising are revealed as central—and women theatremakers revealed as progenitors of these practices.

Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada

Author : Sarah MacKenzie
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1773634313
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada written by Sarah MacKenzie and published by Fernwood Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-15T00:00:00Z with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a recent increase in the productivity and popularity of Indigenous playwrights in Canada, most critical and academic attention has been devoted to the work of male dramatists, leaving female writers on the margins. In Indigenous Women’s Theatre in Canada, Sarah MacKenzie addresses this critical gap by focusing on plays by Indigenous women written and produced in the socio-cultural milieux of twentieth and twenty-first century Canada. Closely analyzing dramatic texts by Monique Mojica, Marie Clements, and Yvette Nolan, MacKenzie explores representations of gendered colonialist violence in order to determine the varying ways in which these representations are employed subversively and informatively by Indigenous women. These plays provide an avenue for individual and potential cultural healing by deconstructing some of the harmful ideological work performed by colonial misrepresentations of Indigeneity and demonstrate the strength and persistence of Indigenous women, offering a space in which decolonial futurisms can be envisioned. In this unique work, MacKenzie suggests that colonialist misrepresentations of Indigenous women have served to perpetuate demeaning stereotypes, justifying devaluation of and violence against Indigenous women. Most significantly, however, she argues that resistant representations in Indigenous women’s dramatic writing and production work in direct opposition to such representational and manifest violence.

Framing Our Past

Author : Sharon Anne Cook
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773521720
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Framing Our Past by : Sharon Anne Cook

Download or read book Framing Our Past written by Sharon Anne Cook and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflecting a rethinking of the making of modern Canada, this well- illustrated anthology of 85 essays reaches beyond ivory tower images and taken for granted assumptions of women's roles. This sampling by primarily women contributors, drawn from personal and organizational records, emphasizes the experiences of diverse women engaged in all spheres of private and public life: from a vignette of Native community life, to profiles of innovators in many fields. Includes a cross-referenced essay index. 10 x 9.5 " format. Cook is a professor of education at the U. of Ottawa. c. Book News Inc.

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Play)

Author : Ann-Marie MacDonald
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307366332
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) (Play) written by Ann-Marie MacDonald and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is an exuberant comedy and feminist revisioning of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet. It takes us from a dusty office in Canada’s Queen’s University, into the fraught and furious worlds of two of Shakespeare’s best-known tragedies, and turns them upside-down. Constance Ledbelly is the beleaguered “spinster” academic, and unlikely heroine who embarks on a quest for Shakespearean origins and, ultimately, her own identity. When she deciphers an ancient and neglected manuscript, Constance is propelled through a very modern rabbit hole and lands smack in the middle of the tragic turning points of each play in turn. Her attempts to save first Desdemona, then Juliet, from their harrowing fates, result in a wild unpredictable ride through comedy and near-tragedy, as mild-mannered Constance learns to love, sword-fight, dance Renaissance-style, and master a series of disguises… Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) a gender-bendy, big-hearted and crazily intelligent romp, where irony and anger sing in perfect harmony with innocence and poignancy.

Theatre Audiences

Author : Susan Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136207244
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Theatre Audiences written by Susan Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Bennett's highly successful Theatre Audiences is a unique full-length study of the audience as cultural phenomenon, which looks at both theories of spectatorship and the practice of different theatres and their audiences. Published here in a brand new updated edition, Theatre Audiences now includes: • a new preface by the author • a stunning extra chapter on intercultural theatre • a revised up-to-date bibliography. Theatre Audiences is a must-buy for teachers and students interested in spectatorship and theatre audiences, and will be valuable reading for practitioners and others involved in the theatre.

Establishing Our Boundaries

Author : Anton Wagner
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802041159
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Establishing Our Boundaries written by Anton Wagner and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An impressive collection of essays by 21 of English Canada's leading theatre critics provides a cultural history of Canada, and Canadians intense relationship to theatre, from 1829 to 1998, and across the whole country.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Author : Arthur Holmberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136118365
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Arthur Holmberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre covers the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, including the United States. Entries on twenty-six countries are preceded by specialist introductions on Theatre in Post-Colonial Latin America, Theatres of North America, Puppet Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Music Theatre and Dance Theatre. The essays follow the series format, allowing for cross-referring across subjects, both within the volume and between volumes. Each country entry is written by specialists in the particular country and the volume has its own teams of regional editors, overseen by the main editorial team based at the University of York in Canada headed by Don Rubin. Each entry covers all aspects of theatre genres, practitioners, writers, critics and styles, with bibliographies, over 200 black & white photographs and a substantial index. This is a unique volume in its own right; in conjunction with the other volumes in this series it forms a reference resource of unparalleled value.

World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre

Author : Don Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136359281
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre written by Don Rubin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new in paperback edition of World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre covers the Americas, from Canada to Argentina, including the United States. Entries on twenty six countries are preceded by specialist introductions on Theatre in Post-Colonial Latin America, Theatres of North America, Puppet Theatre, Theatre for Young Audiences, Music Theatre and Dance Theatre. The essays follow the series format, allowing for cross-referring across subjects, both within the volume and between volumes. Each country entry is written by specialists in the particular country and the volume has its own teams of regional editors, overseen by the main editorial team based at the University of York in Canada headed by Don Rubin. Each entry covers all aspects of theatre genres, practitioners, writers, critics and styles, with bibliographies, over 200 black & white photographs and a substantial index. This Encyclopedia is indispensable for anyone interested in the cultures of the Americas or in modern theatre. It is also an invaluable reference tool for students and scholars of a wide range of disciplines including history, performance studies, anthropology and cultural studies.

Theatre History in Canada

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Theatre History in Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Defence of Theatre

Author : Kathleen Gallagher
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442630825
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book In Defence of Theatre written by Kathleen Gallagher and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre offers a range of passionate reflections on this important question. Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman bring together nineteen playwrights, actors, directors, scholars, and educators who discuss the role that theatre can – and must – play in professional, community, and educational venues. Stepping back from their daily work, they offer scholarly research, artists’ reflections, interviews, and creative texts that argue for theatre as a response to the political and cultural challenges emerging in the twenty-first century. Contributors address theatre’s contribution to local and global politics of place, its power as an antidote to various modern social ailments, and its pursuit of equality. Of equal concern are the systematic and practical challenges that confront those involved in realizing theatre’s full potential.

Gendered Citizenship

Author : Bishnupriya Dutt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319590936
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Gendered Citizenship written by Bishnupriya Dutt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how citizenship is differently gendered and performed across national and regional boundaries. Using ‘citizenship’ as its organizing concept, it is a collection of multidisciplinary approaches to legal, socio-cultural and performative aspects of gender construction and identity: violence against women, victimhood and agency, and everyday issues of socialization in a globalized world. It brings together scholars of politics, media, and performance who are committed to dialogue across both nation and discipline. This study is the culmination of a two-year project on the topic of 'Gendered Citizenship', arising from an international collaboration that has sought to develop a comparative and yet singular perspective on performance in relation to key political themes facing our countries of origin in the early decades of this century. The research is interdisciplinary and multinational, drawing on Indian, European, and North and South American contexts.

Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots

Author : Monique Mojica
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780889611658
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots written by Monique Mojica and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An angry, humorous and loving search for the truth behind the myth and legend of the 'Indian princess.' With her powerful words, Monique Mojica lays bare the hearts and minds of Pocahontas, Malinche, Sacajawea and the uncounted native women who first met and fought the European invasion of our lands. Moving across and through time, Mojica engages our imagination, our spirit, and invites us to witness this time-travel of exploding illusions and delusions, to the triumph and honesty of survival"-Beth Brant-- Back cover.

Contemporary Women Playwrights

Author : Penny Farfan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350316431
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Women Playwrights written by Penny Farfan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking new ground in this century, this wide-ranging collection of essays is the first of its kind to address the work of contemporary international women playwrights. The book considers the work of established playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Marie Clements, Lara Foot-Newton, Maria Irene Fornes, Sarah Kane, Lisa Kron, Young Jean Lee, Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks, Djanet Sears, Caridad Svich, and Judith Thompson, but it also foregrounds important plays by many emerging writers. Divided into three sections-Histories, Conflicts, and Genres-the book explores such topics as the feminist history play, solo performance, transcultural dramaturgies, the identity play, the gendered terrain of war, and eco-drama, and encompasses work from the United States, Canada, Latin America, Oceania, South Africa, Egypt, and the United Kingdom. With contributions from leading international scholars and an introductory overview of the concerns and challenges facing women playwrights in this new century, Contemporary Women Playwrights explores the diversity and power of women's playwriting since 1990, highlighting key voices and examining crucial critical and theoretical developments within the field.

Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works

Author : Sharon Friedman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786452390
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works written by Sharon Friedman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-visioning the classics, often in a subversive mode, has evolved into its own theatrical genre in recent years, and many of these productions have been informed by feminist theory and practice. This book examines recent adaptations of classic texts (produced since 1980) influenced by a range of feminisms, and illustrates the significance of historical moment, cultural ideology, dramaturgical practice, and theatrical venue for shaping an adaptation. Essays are arranged according to the period and genre of the source text re-visioned: classical theater and myth (e.g. Antigone, Metamorphoses), Shakespeare and seventeenth-century theater (e.g. King Lear, The Rover), nineteenth and twentieth century narratives and reflections (e.g. The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, A Room of One's Own), and modern drama (e.g. A Doll House, A Streetcar Named Desire).