Sharon Pollock: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, Volume 10 (Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, 10) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887547516 ISBN 13: 9780887547515

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press, 2009

Synopsis

Sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.

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About the Authors

Sherrill Grace is Professor of English and Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia. She specializes in Canadian literature and culture and her most recent books include Canada and the Idea of North (2001; 2007), Inventing Tom Thomson (2004), and Theatre & AutoBiography (2006), co-edited with Jerry Wasserman. She has just published Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock (2008) and is doing research for a book on Canadian representations of war. She is the winner of the 2008 Canada Council Killam Prize in Humanities.

Michelle La Flamme is a performer and educator who is of African-Canadian, Métis, and Creek ancestry. She is very involved with the Aboriginal arts community and has worked for (IMAG) Indigenous Media Arts Group and with Margo Kane at Full Circle First Nations Performance for a number of years. She has been the coordinator of the IPAA (Indigenous Performers Arts Alliance) and was recently project coordinator for the Indigenous Language Revitalization program at UBC. She has been a guest lecturer in Germany and has also taught in the Netherlands and Spain. Recently, she has been teaching in the English and theatre departments and in First Nation Studies at UBC. In 2006 she graduated from UBC and was awarded the Paul Stanwood Prize for the best doctoral thesis in the Department of English. She is revising her thesis, "Living, Writing and Staging Racial Hybridity" for publication with Wilfred Laurier University Press (2008).

Ric Knowles is a freelance dramaturge and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph. He is the award-winning author or editor of twenty books on theatre and performance, including Fundamentals of Directing, Judith Thompson, The Masks of Judith Thompson, "Ethnic," Multicultural, and Intercultural Theatre (with Ingrid Mündel), The Shakespeare’s Mine, Asian Canadian Theatre (with Nina Lee Aquino), Staging Coyote’s Dream (two volumes, with Monique Mojica), and Performing Indigeneity (with Yvette Nolan). He is also founding editor of the series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English and New Essays on Canadian Theatre.

Edition details

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887547516
• ISBN 13: 9780887547515
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Grace Sherrill, La Flamme Michelle