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Playwrights Canada Press
Playwrights Canada Press is a Canadian publishing house founded in 1984 by the Playwrights Guild of Canada. It was incorporated in 2000 as an independent company. Notable books *''The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God'', Djanet Sears (2003) *''Almighty Voice and His Wife'', Daniel David Moses (1991) *''Annie Mae's Movement'', Yvette Nolan (1998) *''The Crackwalker'', Judith Thompson (1980) *''The December Man (L'homme de décembre)'', Colleen Murphy (2007) *''Drag Queens on Trial'', Sky Gilbert (1994) *''The Drawer Boy'', Michael Healey (1999) *'' I, Claudia'', Kristen Thomson (2001) *''The Last Wife'', Kate Hennig (2015) *''Lilies'', Michel Marc Bouchard, trans. Linda Gaboriau (1990) *'' Lion in the Streets'', Judith Thompson (1992) *''Maggie and Pierre'', Linda Griffiths (1980) *''Mary's Wedding'', Stephen Massicotte (2002) *''The Melville Boys'', Norm Foster (1984) *''The Monument'', Colleen Wagner (1996) *'' Palace of the End'', Judith Thompson (2007) *'' Scorch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word wikt:w"wright" is an archaic English term for a Artisan, craftsman 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. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". It appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which is thought to refer to John Marston (playwright), John Marston: :''Epigram XLIX — On Playwright'' :PLAYWRIGHT me reads, and still my verses damns, :He says I want t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvette Nolan
Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) (1961) is a Canadian playwright, director, actor, and educator based out of Saskatchewan, Canada. She was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. She has contributed significantly to the creation and performance of Indigenous theatre in Canada. Early life Nolan was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to an Algonquin mother and an Irish immigrant father. Nolan was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba and attended the University of Manitoba where she graduated with a B.A. Nolan's commitment to Indigenous and feminist live art is attributed to the first time she saw a Native character on stage during Royal Winnipeg Ballet's adaptation of ''The Ecstasy of Rita Joe''. Career Nolan launched her career as a playwright at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival in 1990 where her play ''Blade'' premiered. It was later remounted at both the Best of the Fringe (1990) and Women in View Festival (1992). She has worked at various theatre companies throughout Canada including Agassiz Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Griffiths
Linda Pauline Griffiths (7 October 1953 – 21 September 2014) was a Canadian actress and playwright best known for writing and starring in the one woman play ''Maggie and Pierre'', in which she portrayed both Pierre Trudeau and his then-estranged wife, Margaret.Linda Griffiths at . Among her cinematic work, she is best known for her acclaimed, starring role in ''''. Early life Griffiths was born in |
Lion In The Streets
''Lion in the Streets'' is a two-act play by award-winning Canadian playwright Judith Thompson, workshopped as the first Public Workshop Project at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto, Canada in May 1990. It was then produced in its current form one month later at the duMaurier Theatre Centre, also in Toronto, as part of the duMaurier World Stage Theatre Festival. Music for the production was composed and performed by Bill Thompson. Its central character is the ghost Isobel, a nine-year-old Portuguese girl who is searching for her killer by observing and occasionally interacting with her neighbors seventeen years after her murder, revealing their dark, horrific, emotional, and very private experiences. ''Lion in the Streets'' was published in 1992 by Playwrights Canada Press. Characters There are twenty-eight or twenty-nine characters with speaking parts of varying lengths. The original ensemble was composed of four women and two men who split the roles up roughly as follows (th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Gaboriau
Linda Gaboriau ( Johnson)"Decoding the message a translator's challenge". ''The Globe and Mail'', January 26, 1991. is a Canadian dramaturg and literary translator who has translated some 125 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English-speaking audiences."Just one ad lib can spoil translator's careful work". ''Montreal Gazette'', February 9, 1991. Background A native of Boston, she moved to Montreal in 1963 to pursue her studies at McGill University where she obtained a B.A. and M.A. in French language and literature. While a student, she was briefly married to a man whose surname was Gaboriau; although the marriage was short-lived, she kept his surname as her professional pen name. She has worked as a freelance journalist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Radio Canada and the ''Montreal Gazette'', pursued a career in Canadian and Quebec theatre and, in the 2000s, served as the founding director of the Banff Inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Marc Bouchard
Michel Marc Bouchard, (born February 2, 1958) is a Canadian playwright. He has received the Prix Journal de Montreal, Prix du Cercle des critiques de l'Outaouais, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, and nine Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards for the Vancouver productions of ''Lilies'' and ''The Orphan Muses''. Early life Born in Saint-Cœur-de-Marie, Quebec, he studied theatre the University of Ottawa. Career Bouchard made his professional playwriting debut in 1983 and since then has written more than 25 plays, including ''The Coronation Voyage (Le voyage du Couronnement)'', ''Down Dangerous Passes Road (Le chemin des Passes-dangereuses)'', and ''Written on Water (Les manuscrits du déluge)''. In 1993, Bouchard and his theatre company Les deux mondes were awarded the National Arts Centre Award, a companion award of the Governor General's Performing Arts Awards. His best-known work, the play ''Lilies'', was produced as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lilies (play)
''Lilies'' (french: Les Feluettes) is a Play (theatre), play written by Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard, which premiered in 1987. The play concerns the Confession (religion), confession of an aging prisoner to a bishop. Through the confession, and the staged scenes acted out by the male prisoners in the prison chapel, we learn that the bishop and the prisoner were part of a gay love triangle, and that the bishop was responsible for the death of a young man many years ago. The play's English translation by Linda Gaboriau was published in 1991, and was made into a film called ''Lilies (film), Lilies'', which was directed by John Greyson. ''Lilies'' was published in 1990 by Playwrights Canada Press. The play was adapted as an opera, with music by Kevin March (composer), Kevin March and a libretto by Bouchard, which premiered at Pacific Opera Victoria in 2017. References External links''Les Feluettes'' (Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia) Canadian LGBT-related plays 1987 pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Hennig
Kate Hennig is a Canadian actress and playwright, currently the associate artistic director of the Shaw Festival. Early life and education Hennig was born in Harlow, Ontario near London. Her father was a Lutheran minister. She and her family moved to Edmonton when Hennig was 7. Hennig attended York University briefly before dropping out. In 2002, Hennig was awarded a master's degree from the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Career She was a shortlisted Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Best Actress in a Play (Large Theatre) in 2003 for ''The Danish Play'', and won the Dora for Best Actress in a Musical in 2011 for ''Billy Elliot''. Although predominantly a stage actress, she also received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1993 for her performance in ''Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould'', and has appeared in the films ''Mrs. Winterbourne'' and '' The Claim'', and the television series ''Bomb Girls'', ''Saving Hope'' and '' L.M. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristen Thomson
Kristen Thomson (born 1966) is a Canadian actress and playwright. Thomson was born in Toronto, Ontario. She is known for her one-woman play ''I, Claudia'', which was adapted to film in 2004. In that play and film, Thomson plays all of the roles, using masks to change character. Thomson received her undergraduate training and University of Toronto's theatre school "University College Drama Program" currently under the tutelage of former Artistic Director of Factory Theatre's Ken Gass. In 2003, Thomson won an ACTRA Award for her performance in ''I Shout Love'' (2001), a short film directed by Sarah Polley. She has also won three Dora Awards for her stage work. Her most recent win was for the Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in the movie ''Away From Her ''Away from Her'' is a 2006 Canadian independent drama film written and directed by Sarah Polley and starring Julie Christie and Gordon Pinsent. Olympia Dukakis, Michael Murphy, Wendy Crewson, Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I, Claudia
''I, Claudia'' is a one-woman play starring Kristen Thomson, which was adapted into a movie, shown on CBC's ''Opening Night (TV series), Opening Night'' and at the Toronto International Film Festival. The play and film, written by Thomson, is a coming-of-age drama depicting the difficult transition into adolescence of Claudia, a 12-year-old girl struggling with her parents' divorce. Thomson plays all of the roles, using masks to change character. ''I, Claudia'' was published in 2001 by Playwrights Canada Press. See also *''I, Claudius'', a novel by Robert Graves, dealing with the life of the Roman Emperor Claudius which partially inspired Thomson's themes and title. External links * "Behind the mask" ''Eye Weekly'', March 29, 2001 Canadian plays adapted into films 2004 films English-language Canadian films Canadian drama films 2004 drama films 2000s English-language films 2000s Canadian films {{2000s-Canada-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Healey
Michael Healey is a Canadian playwright and actor. He graduated from the acting programme at Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School in 1985. His acting credits include the plays of Jason Sherman (''The League of Nathans'', ''Reading Hebron'' and ''Three in the Back, Two in the Head'') and George F. Walker (''The End of Civilization'', ''Better Living''). Playwright Healey trained as an actor at Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School in the mid -eighties. He began writing for the stage in the early nineties and his first play, a solo one-act called ''Kicked'', was produced at the Fringe of Toronto Festival in 1996. He subsequently toured the play across Canada and internationally, and in 1998 it won a Dora Mavor Moore Award (Toronto's theatre awards) as best new play. ''The Drawer Boy'', his first full-length play, premiered in Toronto in 1999 and won the Dora for best new play, a Chalmers Canadian Playwriting Award, and the Governor General's Literary Award. It has been produced across No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Drawer Boy
''The Drawer Boy'' is a play by Michael Healey. It is a two-act play set in 1972 on a farm near Clinton, Ontario. There are only three characters: the farm's two owners, Morgan and Angus, and Miles Potter, a young actor from Toronto doing research for a collectively created theatre piece about farming. ''The Drawer Boy'' premiered at Theatre Passe Muraille in 1999, starring Tom Barnett, David Fox and Jerry Franken. It is the winner of the 1999 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language drama and was published in 1999 by Playwrights Canada Press. Plot The Drawer Boy replays the adventures of a young actor from a Toronto theatre group who visits the rural Ontario home of two elderly bachelor farmers to "research" farm life for a new play. In doing so, he demonstrates the way in which a collective creation appropriated the lives of its subjects and changed their own interpretation of it. The two farmers, Morgan and Angus, have achieved a precarious balance in their li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
