Theatre and Performance in Toronto
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2011
- Category
- Canadian, Anthologies (multiple authors), Drama
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887549342
- Publish Date
- Jun 2011
- List Price
- $25.00
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Description
Includes:Toronto's Baby Building Boom by Sandra Souchotte Ketchum (1979)Growing Pains: Toronto Theatre in the 1970s by Robert Wallace (1980)from In the Beginning Was Toronto: The Emergence of an Alternative Theatre Movement in English Canada by Renate Usmiani (1983)from A Dialectical Drama of Facts and Fictions on the Feminist Fringe by Amanda Hale (1987)Erasing Historical Difference: The Alternative Orthodoxy in Canadian Theatre by Alan Filewod (1989)Six Million Dollars and Still Counting by M. NourbeSe Philip (1993)Space Administration: Rereading the Material History of Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto by Michael McKinnie (1999)Toronto's Spectacular Stage by Susan Bennett (2005)Multicultural Text, Intercultural Performance: The Performance Ecology of Contemporary Toronto by Ric Knowles (2009)Evicted in—and from—Toronto: Walker's Beautiful City at Factory Theatre by J. Chris Westgate (2009)Building Utopia: Performance and the Fantasy of Urban Renewal in Contemporary Toronto by Laura Levin and Kim Solga (2009)Decolonizing the Gathering Place: Chocolate Woman Dreams a Gathering House in Toronto by Jill Carter (2011)The Foster Children of Buddies: Queer Women at 12 Alexander by Moynan King (2011)Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available. The series publishes the work of scholars and critics who have traced the coming-into-prominence of a vibrant theatrical community in English Canada.
About the authors
Laura Levin is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at York University. Her research focuses on contemporary theatre and performance art, performing gender and sexuality, and site-specific and urban performance. She is editor of a number of collections and her writing appears in several books including Performance and the City and Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research. She was recently awarded the Canadian Association for Theatre Researchâ??s Richard Plant Essay Award for her article, â??Can the City Speak? Site-Specific Art After Poststructuralismâ?? (2009).
Ric Knowles is of anglo-Scottish heritage, and is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, editor of Canadian Theatre Review, and past editor of Modern Drama (1999â??2005). He is author of The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning, Shakespeare and Canada, and Reading the Material Theatre, co-author (with the Cultural Memory Group) of Remembering Women Murdered by Men, editor of Theatre in Atlantic Canada, Judith Thompson, and The Masks of Judith Thompson, and co-editor (with Joanne Tompkins and W.B.Worthen) of Modern Drama: Defining the Field. He is general editor of the book series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English and New Essays on Canadian Theatre from Playwrights Canada Press.
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