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Feminist Realism In Canada: Then And Now, Kim Solga, Susan Bennett
Feminist Realism In Canada: Then And Now, Kim Solga, Susan Bennett
Kim Solga
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New Canadian Realisms: New Essays On Canadian Theatre Vol. 2, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker
New Canadian Realisms: New Essays On Canadian Theatre Vol. 2, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker
Kim Solga
New Essays in Canadian Theatre Volume 2: New Canadian Realisms gathers writing by celebrated scholars and artists from both Canada and the US in order to explore what this much-debated genre might be doing for political performance in Canada today. Topics range from Hollywood’s influence on the look and feel of the contemporary Canadian “real,” to the power and the pitfalls of a “realism of redress” in intercultural Canadian theatre, to the apparently oxymoronic notion of “devised” realism, to the complexities of Indigenous realism(s). Together, this book’s authors suggest that Canada’s theatrical realisms are, like so much else among us, …
New Canadian Realisms: Eight Plays, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker
New Canadian Realisms: Eight Plays, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker
Kim Solga
New Canadian Realisms: Eight Plays collects works of contemporary theatre, each of which may be defined as “realist” through both a crucial link to the past and a zest for re-tooling old definitions. Grounded by Gwen Pharis Ringwood’s pioneering Still Stands the House, the anthology also features trey anthony’s ’da Kink in my hair, Tara Beagan’s Miss Julie: Sheh’mah, Madeleine Blais-Dahlem’s sTain, Hillar Liitoja’s The Last Supper, selections from the Impromptu Splendor series by National Theatre of the World, Theatre Replacement’s BioBoxes, and Zuppa Theatre’s Penny Dreadful, as well as a series of text-specific introductions and a resource page for …
Introduction: Reclaiming Canadian Realisms, Part 2, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker
Introduction: Reclaiming Canadian Realisms, Part 2, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker
Kim Solga
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Introduction: Reclaiming Canadian Realisms, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker
Introduction: Reclaiming Canadian Realisms, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker
Kim Solga
No abstract provided.
Realism And The Ethics Of Risk At The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Kim Solga
Realism And The Ethics Of Risk At The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Kim Solga
Kim Solga
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is notoriously risk-averse, creating quality "classical" theatre without rocking any audience worlds. Or is it? This paper re-examines the history of "risk" at Stratford and explores two key productions directed by Peter Hinton at the Festival. I conclude that, perhaps, risk-taking directors and a "conservative" acting company serve the work very well indeed.