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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whittaker, Robin C.

Series:

Canadian plays series.

Canadian plays series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Walterdale Playhouse (Edmonton, Canada).

Canadian drama--21st century.

Canadian drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (585 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton : AU Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 561-569).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9786612819582

9781282819580

1282819585

9781897425275

1897425279

OCLC:

607927371