Performing Arts History & Criticism
Sharon Pollock
First Woman of Canadian Theatre
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2015
- Category
- History & Criticism, Drama, Politics
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781552387924
- Publish Date
- Oct 2015
- List Price
- $34.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781552387894
- Publish Date
- Oct 2015
- List Price
- $34.95
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As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian theatre as passionately as she has done over the past fifty years. Pollock is nationally and internationally respected for her work and support of the theatre community. She has also played a major role in informing Canadians about the "dark side" of their history and current events. This collection, comprised entirely of new and original assessments of her work and contribution to theatre, is both timely and long overdue.
Includes a new play titled "Sharon's Tongue" by the Playing with Pollock Collective
With contributions by: Kathy K. Y. Chung Donna Coates Carmen Derksen Sherrill Grace Martin Morrow Jeton Neziraj Wes Pearce Tanya Schaap Shelley Scott Jerry Wasserman Jason Weins Cynthia Zimmerman
About the authors
Donna Coates teaches in the English Department at the University of Calgary. She has published dozens of articles and book chapters on Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and American women's responses to the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and contemporary warfare in fiction and drama. With Sherrill Grace, she has selected and edited Canada and the Theatre of War, Volume One (2008) and Volume Two (2010). With George Melnyk, she edited Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Writing (2007). She has edited Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre, published in 2015 with the University of Calgary Press. She is currently completing a book on Australian women's war fictions and editing an eight-volume collection on women and war for the History of Feminism series published by Routledge.
Kathy K.Y. Chung's profile page
Sherrill Grace
Sherrill Grace is a professor of English and theatre at the University of British Columbia. She is former President, Academy I, of the Royal Society of Canada. She has lectured widely in North America, as well as in Germany, Italy, England, Belgium, France, China and Japan.
A member of several professional associations, including the Association of Canadian Studies, the Canadian Association of American Studies, the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, the Canadian Comparative Literature Association, the Modern Languages Association and the International Association of Professors of English, Grace was awarded the prestigious Killam Teaching Prize in 2008, and in 2009 she received the Ann Saddlemyer Award for her biography Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock.
Winner of the Nathan Cohen Award for excellence in theatre criticism in 1995, Martin Morrow is a Calgary-based freelance writer and arts journalist who has followed the careers of the Rabbits since their early days. Wild Theatre is Morrow’s first book.
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A Life of Timothy Findley
Theatre and AutoBiography
Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice
Performing National Identities
International Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Theatre
Landscapes of War and Memory
The Two World Wars in Canadian Literature and the Arts, 1977-2007
Painting the Maple
Essays on Race, Gender, and the Construction of Canada
On the Art of Being Canadian
Canada and the Theatre of War: Volume Two
Volume Two
Strange Comfort
Essays on the Work of Malcolm Lowry
Making Theatre
A Life of Sharon Pollock
Canada and the Theatre of War: Volume One
Volume 1
