Harlequin in Hogtown : George Luscombe and Toronto Workshop Productions / Neil Carson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carson, Neil, author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Luscombe, George, 1926-1999.

Luscombe, George.

Toronto Workshop Productions--History.

Toronto Workshop Productions.

Experimental theater--Ontario--Toronto.

Experimental theater.

Ontario--Toronto.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [1995]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The challenge facing the new company, therefore, was how to break through that indifference and make their audiences look at themselves and their country with new eyes. Ideally, what was needed was original Canadian plays ... Until such new works were available, however, Luscombe and his actors would have to make up their repertoire from the existing stock of world dramatic literature. But instead of treating these 'masterpieces' of bourgeois theatre with the respect normally paid to them, Luscombe intended to follow the example of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator, Bertolt Brecht, and Joan Littlewood. Those directors had shown how the classics of earlier periods could be made relevant to contemporary audiences.

From the beginning, Luscombe envisaged his new company as part of an international contingent of artists determined to further the cause of socialism through art. He saw himself as part of a tradition which sought to bring about change by 'educational' rather than political or revolutionary means ... Unfortunately, Canadian audiences, unlike their counterparts in Russia, Germany, or England, appeared to be stubbornly indifferent to live theatre.

Contents:

1. Don Valley Quixote

2. Strolling Player

3. Building a Company

4. Finding a Voice

5. Collaborative Creation I: Hey Rube! and The Mechanic

6. Adding the Language: Before Compiegne

7. Going Professional

8. Collaborative Creation II: Woyzeck and The Golem of Venice

9. The Search for Audiences

10. Political Entertainment: Mr Bones

11. Broadway Beckons

12. Chronicling the Revolution: Che Guevara

13. Collaborative Creation III: Chicago '70

14. The European Repertoire

15. New Perspectives

16. Old Wine in New Bottles: Ten Lost Years

17. The Indignant Muse

18. A Vintage Season

19. Looking Backward

20. New Blood

21. Board Games

22. Catastrophe Averted

23. Harlequin in Hogtown

24. Final Act

25. Curtain-Call.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)

ISBN:

9781487596460

1487596464

9781442631656

1442631651

OCLC:

1004988301