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Layne Coleman
Layne Coleman is a Canadian actor, playwright and theatre director, most noted as a former artistic director of Theatre Passe Muraille. Originally from North Battleford, Saskatchewan, he first became prominent as a cofounder and artistic director of the 25th Street Theatre in Saskatoon in the 1980s."Coleman, Layne" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', June 22, 2015. He briefly stepped in as interim artistic director of Theatre Passe Muraille in 1991 following the departure of Brian Richmond, holding the role for about a year before he was succeeded by Susan Serran in early 1992; he stepped in again as interim artistic director in 1997 after Serran left, and was named the permanent artistic director the following year. Coleman established an early success when Michael Healey's ''The Drawer Boy'', the first play he booked for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just Reading (process), reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwright" and is the first person in English literature to refer to playwrights as separate from Poet, poets. The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are the Ancient Greeks. William Shakespeare is amongst the most famous playwrights in literature, both in England and across the world. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English , from Old English ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word ''wikt:wwright'' is an archaic English term for a Artisan, craftsperson or builder (as in a wheelwright or Wagon, cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form — a play. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleanna (play)
''Oleanna'' is a 1992 two-character play by David Mamet, about the power struggle between a university professor and one of his female students, who accuses him of sexual harassment and, by doing so, spoils his chances of being accorded tenure. The play's title, taken from a folk song, refers to a 19th-century escapist vision of utopia. Mamet adapted his play into a 1994 film of the same name. Plot summary Act I Carol, a college student, is in the office of her professor, John. She expresses frustration that she does not understand the material in his class, despite having read the assigned books and attending his lectures. Of particular concern is a book written by John himself, wherein he questions the modern insistence that everyone participate in higher education, referring to it as "systematic hazing". While talking with Carol, John is often interrupted by the phone ringing. He is about to be granted tenure along with a handsome raise. Anticipating this, John is about to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue City Slammers
''Blue City Slammers'' is a 1987 Canadian drama film directed by Peter Shatalow."Blue City hits a bland slam". ''Toronto Star'', April 29, 1988. Based on the theatrical play by Layne Coleman, the film centres on the personal and sport lives of the players on a women's softball team in the small town of Blue City. The cast includes Tracy Cunningham, Eric Keenleyside, Fran Gebhard, Gary Farmer, Murray Westgate and Gabriel Hogan. The film garnered three Genie Award nominations at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988: Best Supporting Actor (Westgate), Best Supporting Actress (Gebhard) and Best Original Score ( Tim McCauley)."Un Zoo tops Genie list; Quebec film nominated for record 14 awards". ''Montreal Gazette ''The Gazette'', also known as the ''Montreal Gazette'', is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network. It is published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the only English-language daily newspape ...'', February 17, 1988. Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraxas, Guardian Of The Universe
''Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe'' is a 1991 Canadian-American science fiction film written and directed by Damian Lee, starring Jesse Ventura, Sven-Ole Thorsen and Marjorie Bransfield. Ventura plays an extraterrestrial cop seeking to protect a child prodigy from his father, a fellow alien who has virginally conceived him with a human woman to solve the advanced equation that will grant him absolute powers. Jim Belushi has a cameo in the film, reprising his role from ''The Principal'' (1987). Plot Abraxas and Secundus are Finders, intergalactic police officers from the planet Sargacia. Their race is physically similar to humans but with an extended lifespan; Abraxas has been a Finder for almost 10,000 years. Each Finder is equipped with an Answer Box, which serves as a communicator and scanner. It can also detect any object from a distance based on the object's vibration. When testing for the Anti-Life Equation, the subject being scanned will disintegrate if they do not conta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humongous (1982 Film)
''Humongous'' is a 1982 Canadian slasher film directed by Paul Lynch, and starring Janet Julian, John Wildman, and David Wallace. The story centers on a group of young adults who become stranded on a deserted island, where they are stalked and murdered by a monstrous assailant. Plot During Labor Day weekend in 1946, young Ida Parsons is chased into the woods and raped by a houseguest. Her dogs break out of their pen and attack and kill Ida's rapist. In 1982, brothers Eric and Nick borrow their father's yacht to take their girlfriends, Sandy and Donna, and their sister, Carla, on a weekend outing to St. Martin Island. That night, Eric and Nick discover and rescue a shipwrecked fisherman named Bert. Bert was wrecked offshore Dog Island, the home of lumber baroness Ida Parsons, who has used her family fortune to hole herself up on the island for the past thirty-five years, only making two annual voyages to the mainland for supplies, and never speaking to anyone. Recovering from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Is Wonderland
''This Is Wonderland'' is a Canadian legal comedy-drama television series that premiered on CBC on January 12, 2004. The series was created by George F. Walker, Dani Romain, and Bernard Zukerman. The second season premiered on January 25, 2005, and the third season on November 23, 2005. On February 13, 2006, CBC declined to order a fourth season, effectively cancelling the show. The final episode aired on March 15, 2006. Plot Alice De Raey, played by Cara Pifko, a young criminal lawyer fresh out of Osgoode Hall Law School, is thrown into a chaotic justice system. She encounters characters ranging from the truly desperate to the bizarre. Alice, with a good-natured openness that cloaks a tenacious, committed spirit, finds herself on a journey that constantly tests her patience and compassion. Alice has a distinctive habit of muttering to herself. Set in the courtrooms of Toronto's Old City Hall, cast regulars include Michael Riley, Michael Murphy, Michael Healey, Siu Ta, Eri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wind At My Back
''Wind at My Back'' is a television series which aired in Canada on CBC Television between 1996 and 2001. It was created and produced by Kevin Sullivan (producer), Kevin Sullivan, best known for his adaptation of ''Anne of Green Gables (1985 film), Anne of Green Gables'' and ''Road to Avonlea''. The series had five seasons, each with thirteen episodes, and a Christmas themed movie produced to wrap up loose ends, following the unexpected cancellation of the series. The series is set during the Great Depression of the 1930s, in the fictional small mining town of New Bedford in Northern Ontario. The family drama followed the members of the Bailey family as they lived through a time marked by hardship. ''Wind at My Back'' was loosely based on the Max Braithwaite books ''Never Sleep Three in a Bed'' and ''The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car''. Plot The series opens in 1932, as Jack and Honey Bailey lose their hardware store and are forced to move back to Jack's hometown of New Bedf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Street Legal (Canadian TV Series)
''Street Legal'' is a Canadian legal drama television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1994, followed twenty-five years later by a six-episode season with a substantially different cast."'Street Legal' reboot among new shows in CBC's 2018/19 lineup" '''', May 24, 2018. ''Street Legal'' was the longest-running one-hour scripted drama in the history of Canadian television, holding the record for twenty years before being surpassed by the 139th episode of '' Hear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Heat
''Night Heat'' is a Canadian police crime drama series that aired on both CTV in Canada and CBS in the United States. Original episodes were broadcast from 1985 to 1989. ''Night Heat'' was the first Canadian original drama series that was simultaneously aired on an American television network during its original broadcast. It was also the first original, first-run drama series to be aired during a late night time slot on a television network in the United States. During its original run it was the highest-rated Canadian-produced original series in Canada. The show won the Gemini Award for Best Drama Series in both 1986 and 1987. The show stars Scott Hylands and Jeff Wincott as police detectives Kevin O'Brien and Frank Giambone who work the graveyard shift in an unnamed northeastern North American metropolis. The series follows their nightly police beat as it is chronicled by journalist Tom Kirkwood ( Allan Royal) in his newspaper column titled "Night Heat". Synopsis A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giant Mine (film)
''Giant Mine'' is a Canadian television film, which dramatizes the events of the 1992 Giant Mine labour dispute and the subsequent bomb explosion which killed nine replacement workers. The film, written by John Hunter and Martin O'Malley (journalist), Martin O'Malley and directed by Penelope Buitenhuis, aired on CBC Television in 1996. The film received three Gemini Award nominations at the 12th Gemini Awards in 1998, for Canadian Screen Award for Best TV Movie, Best Dramatic TV Movie or Mini-Series (Alan Burke), Best Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series (MacNeill) and Best Picture Editing in a Dramatic Program or Series (Gordon McClellan).John McKay, "CBC's 5th Estate leads the pack for 1997". Canadian Press, January 13, 1998. Cast * Frank Moore (Canadian actor), Frank Moore as Roger Warren * Peter Outerbridge as Jim O'Neil * Thomas Mitchell as Chris Neill * Alberta Watson as Peggy Witte * Peter MacNeill as Harry Seaton * Wayne Robson as Bill Schram * Shawn Doyle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glory! Glory!
''Glory! Glory!'' is a 1989 televangelism comedy film directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Ellen Greene that originally aired on HBO in two parts. In the film, a radio preacher's operation is covertly controlled by his son. When the father finds a more skilled (and less honest) talent agent to promote his act, he severs all ties with his son. The son has the idea to turn a female rock and roll singer into the televangelist and faith healer Sister Ruth. Her act is a success, but her craving for cocaine and her sexual promiscuity are threatening her reputation. Investigative reporters find out that Ruth had an abortion, and a church leader uses the information to blackmail her. Plot A radio preacher's operation is controlled by his honest but bland son. When the preacher is made a media superstar by a savvy huckster, the son is left behind. Everything changes when the son wanders into a bar and witnesses the performance of a woman rock and roll singer. He realizes she is ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Marriage Bed
''The Marriage Bed'' is a Canadian television film, directed by Martin Lavut and broadcast by CBC Television in 1986. Adapted from the novel by Constance Beresford-Howe, the film stars Linda Griffiths as Annie Graham, a woman who is pregnant with her third child but whose marriage to her husband Ross (Layne Coleman) is breaking down, who is confronted by her friends and family about her choice to concentrate on being a housewife and mother rather than pursuing her career as a botanist.John Haslett Cuff, "A moving look at marriage gone wrong". ''The Globe and Mail'', December 20, 1986. The film's cast also includes Jan Rubeš and Vivian Reis as Annie's parents Max and Billie, Lyn Jackson as Ross's mother Edwina and R. H. Thomson as Dr. Jeff Reilly, as well as Clare Coulter, Martha Gibson, Eric Keenleyside, Carole Lazare and Sheila McCarthy in supporting roles. For the purposes of the film, writer Anna Sandor set the story around the Christmas season; although not specifically ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
