Hot thespian action! : : ten premiere plays from Walterdale Playhouse / / edited with a critical introduction by Robin C. Whittaker.

• Superior document: Canadian plays series
• Author: Robin Whittaker
• TeilnehmendeR: Whittaker, Robin, 1976-,
• Place / Publishing House: Edmonton [Alta.] : : AU Press,, c2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Canadian plays series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (585 pages) :; illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Hot Thespian Action! Robin Whittaker argues that new plays can thrive in amateur theatres, which have freedoms unavailable to professionalised companies. And he proves it with ten relevant, engaging play scripts originally produced by one of Canada’s longest-running theatres, Edmonton’s acclaimed Walterdale Theatre Associates. This collection challenges notions that amateur theatre is solely a phenomenon of the pre-professional past. In this, the first North American anthology in eighty years, Whittaker makes an important contribution to Canadian theatre studies. Plays by: Brad Fraser, Mary Glenfield, Warren Graves, Gordon Pengilly, Barbara Sapergia & Geoffrey Ursell, Trevor Schmidt, Jonathan Seinen, Scott Sharplin, Mark Stubbings, and Wilfred Watson.

Table of Contents

Cover Page; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; GENERAL INTRODUCTION; Overview; A Brief History of Walterdale Theatre Associates; A View of Amateur Theatre Practised in the Professional Era; New Play Production at Amateur Theatres; Publishing Walterdale's New Plays: Selection and Content; THE PLAYS; The Canadian Fact (1967); Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again or The Taming of the Sioux (1974); Mutants (1981); Swipe (1981); The Tenth Negative Pig (1983); The Three Sillies (1983); Just (1999); The Beaver Effect (2002); [ice land] (2003); The Trial of Salomé (2007)

APPENDIX I: NEW PLAYS PREMIERED BY WALTERDALE THEATRE ASSOCIATESAPPENDIX II: MUSIC; The Tenth Negative Pig; The Three Sillies; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY