A close examination of the history of the Mummers Troupe raises questions about the nature of the theatre "company" as a central but problematic signifier in the narration of Canadian theatre history. An analysis of the conflicts between the Mummers' institutional history, as recorded through its dealings with the Canada Council, and its internal history of ideological conflict and personal rivalry, suggests that the Canada Council was unable to develop a policy that could support an activist and locally engaged model of theatrical structures. Insofar as its struggle to survive within the Canada Council's terms of containment exposes deeper crises in Canadian culture, the Mummers Troupe may be the typifying expression of Canadian theatre in...
This thesis undertakes a critique of Canada's Stratford Festival as an institutional site of theatre...
When Dora Mavor Moore founded the New Play Society in Toronto in 1946, she was already close to sixt...
A brief survey of political theatre in French Canada to Confederation, in its rapid evolution from t...
The discourse of Canadian theatre history assigns priority and value in terms of the evolution of th...
After completion of his book, A Public Nuisance: A History of the Mummers Troupe, Chris Brookes depo...
The methods of the 'new' history have helped to define the study of theatre history; at the same tim...
Abstract This dissertation argues that living history is, in fact, a theatrical genre despite its pr...
The discourse of Western theatre practice is founded on, and maintained as, a legitimizing struggle ...
Founded in 1963, Playwrights' Workshop Montreal has served the English-Canadian playwriting communit...
This article contends that through the work of academics committed to recording and discussing the e...
The thesis provides both a historical exploration and a theoretical model of the practice of develop...
To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Canada Council, and its years of assista...
A brief history of the Canadian Players, a theatre company which toured across Canada and the Unite...
One of the main points of contention in the Canadian theatre has centred on ownership of Canadian st...
The prevailing historical narratives of twentieth-century Canadian theatre have generally pinpointed...
This thesis undertakes a critique of Canada's Stratford Festival as an institutional site of theatre...
When Dora Mavor Moore founded the New Play Society in Toronto in 1946, she was already close to sixt...
A brief survey of political theatre in French Canada to Confederation, in its rapid evolution from t...
The discourse of Canadian theatre history assigns priority and value in terms of the evolution of th...
After completion of his book, A Public Nuisance: A History of the Mummers Troupe, Chris Brookes depo...
The methods of the 'new' history have helped to define the study of theatre history; at the same tim...
Abstract This dissertation argues that living history is, in fact, a theatrical genre despite its pr...
The discourse of Western theatre practice is founded on, and maintained as, a legitimizing struggle ...
Founded in 1963, Playwrights' Workshop Montreal has served the English-Canadian playwriting communit...
This article contends that through the work of academics committed to recording and discussing the e...
The thesis provides both a historical exploration and a theoretical model of the practice of develop...
To mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Canada Council, and its years of assista...
A brief history of the Canadian Players, a theatre company which toured across Canada and the Unite...
One of the main points of contention in the Canadian theatre has centred on ownership of Canadian st...
The prevailing historical narratives of twentieth-century Canadian theatre have generally pinpointed...
This thesis undertakes a critique of Canada's Stratford Festival as an institutional site of theatre...
When Dora Mavor Moore founded the New Play Society in Toronto in 1946, she was already close to sixt...
A brief survey of political theatre in French Canada to Confederation, in its rapid evolution from t...