Bad Acting Teachers
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2007
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887545085
- Publish Date
- Apr 2007
- List Price
- $17.95
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Description
Seeing each of the teachers separately, he is progressively assaulted, insulted, and molested. Not since Ionesco’s The Lesson has being a student been quite so fraught with terror. A meditation on the sadism that so often accompanies power.
About the author
Sky Gilbert is a writer, director, and drag queen extraordinaire. He was co-founder and artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (North Americaâ??s largest gay and lesbian theatre) for 18 years. His hit plays include The Dressing Gown, Drag Queens on Trial, Play Murder, The Emotionalists, and the Dora Mavor Moore Award-winning The Whoreâ??s Revenge. His first three novels: Guilty (1998), St. Stephenâ??s, (1999) and I Am Kasper Klotz (2001) were critically acclaimed. ECW Press published Skyâ??s first collection of poetry, Digressions of a Naked Party Girl, in 1998, and his theatre memoir, Ejaculations from the Charm Factory, in 2000. His second book of collected poems, Temptations for a Juvenile Delinquent, was published by ECW in 2003. He was recently the recipient of the Margo Bindhardt Award (from the Toronto Arts Foundation), the Silver Ticket Award (from the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts), and the ReLit Award (for his fourth novel, An English Gentleman), and also recently received a PhD from the University of Toronto. By day, Sky holds a University Research Chair in Drama and Creative Writing at the University of Guelph.
Editorial Reviews
“The best sustained feat of comic writing, acting, and direction to appear in Toronto in ages.”
Robert Cushman
“Bad Acting Teachers develops an interesting parallel between the anonymous actor’s frustrating quest for a coach that isn’t completely crazy and the similar search for a suitable sexual identity.”
—J.S. EYE Magazine
“Playwright Sky Gilbert has tapped into a motherlode of tragicomic potential—the perilous, egomaniacal snake-and-dagger-filled world of dramatic instruction—for his latest play, Bad Acting Teachers.”
Mary Dickie
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