Hot thespian action! : : ten premiere plays from Walterdale Playhouse / / edited with a critical introduction by Robin C. Whittaker.
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...
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Robin Whittaker auth Hot thespian action! : ten premiere plays from Walterdale Playhouse / edited with a critical introduction by Robin C. Whittaker. Athabasca University Press 2008 Edmonton [Alta.] : AU Press, c2008. 1 online resource (585 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s). text txt computer c online resource cr text file rda Canadian plays series Description based upon print version of record. 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 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. English Includes bibliographical references. Canadian drama 21st century. Canadian drama 20th century. theatre Walterdale plays Whittaker, Robin, 1976-, editor. Print version: 9786612819582 Canadian plays series. |
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