Author: Jerry Wasserman
Publisher: Talonbooks
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Author: Richard Perkyns
Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : Irwin
ISBN:
Category : Canadian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 756

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Author: Jerry Wasserman
Publisher: Burnaby, B.C. : Talonbooks
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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This fourth edition contains "The Orphan Muses," "Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing," "Amigo's Blue Guitar," "Fronteras Americanas" and others.

Author: Leonard W. Conolly
Publisher: Talon Books
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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These critical deliberations on contemporary Canadian drama is an ideal companion text to Modern Canadian Plays Volumes I and II.

Author: Sydney Newman
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1773050532
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 699

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The memoir of the creator of Doctor Who and a legend in British and Canadian TV and film A major influence on the BBC and independent television in Britain in the 1960s, as well as on CBC and the National Film Board in Canada, Sydney Newman acted as head of drama at a key period in the history of television. For the first time, his comprehensive memoirs Ñ written in the years before his death in 1997 Ñ are being made public. Born to a poor Jewish family in the tenements of Queen Street in Toronto, NewmanÕs artistic talent got him a job at the NFB under John Grierson. He then became one of the first producers at CBC TV before heading overseas to the U.K. where he revitalized drama programming. Harold Pinter and Alun Owen were playwrights whom Newman nurtured, and their contemporary, socially conscious plays were successful, both artistically and commercially. At the BBC, overseeing a staff of 400, he developed a science fiction show that flourishes to this day: Doctor Who. Providing further context to NewmanÕs memoir is an in-depth biographical essay by Graeme Burk, which positions NewmanÕs legacy in the history of television, and an afterword by one of SydneyÕs daughters, Deirdre Newman.

Author: Jerry Wasserman
Publisher: Talon Books
ISBN:
Category : Canadian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Author: Jack Winter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780889227859
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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The first anthology of plays by one of the central figures of Toronto's left-wing theater collective TWP.

Author: Elizabeth Dahab
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 073911879X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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Ever since Bessie Smith's powerful voice conspired with the "race records" industry to make her a star in the 1920s, African American writers have memorialized the sounds and theorized the politics of black women's singing. In Black Resonance, Emily J. Lordi analyzes writings by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gayl Jones, and Nikki Giovanni that engage such iconic singers as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, and Aretha Franklin. Focusing on two generations of artists from the 1920s to the 1970s, Black Resonance reveals a musical-literary tradition in which singers and writers, faced with similar challenges and harboring similar aims, developed comparable expressive techniques. Drawing together such seemingly disparate works as Bessie Smith's blues and Richard Wright's neglected film of Native Son, Mahalia Jackson's gospel music and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, each chapter pairs one writer with one singer to crystallize the artistic practice they share: lyricism, sincerity, understatement, haunting, and the creation of a signature voice. In the process, Lordi demonstrates that popular female singers are not passive muses with raw, natural, or ineffable talent. Rather, they are experimental artists who innovate black expressive possibilities right alongside their literary peers. The first study of black music and literature to centralize the music of black women, Black Resonance offers new ways of reading and hearing some of the twentieth century's most beloved and challenging voices.

Author: Peter Dickinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781770919150
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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A companion anthology to Q2Q: Queer Canadian Theatre and Performance, the work contained in this volume provides a snapshot of Canadian contemporary queer performance practices--from solo performance to political allegory to family melodrama to intersectional narratives that combine text, movement, and music.

Author: Eugene Benson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian drama
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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