Sharon Pollock: Collected Works Volume One: Volume One - Softcover

Pollock, Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887548180 ISBN 13: 9780887548185

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press, 2006

Synopsis

“Sharon Pollock is Canada’s best-known woman playwright. Produced nationally and internationally, author of a large and varied canon, she has had a long and illustrious career in the theatre.”—from the introduction by Cynthia Zimmerman

Includes among others Walsh; The Komagata Maru Incident; The Wreck of the National Line; Sweet Land of Liberty; Doc; Prairie Dragons; and Getting it Straight.

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About the Authors

Sharon Pollock is one of Canada's best-known women playwrights. Produced nationally and internationally, author of a large and varied canon, she has had a long and illustrious career in the theatre. From backstage to onstage, from front of house to director's chair, from actor to author, from teacher and mentor to artistic director of venues both large and small, Sharon Pollock remains an active, controversial and prolific participant in the Canadian theatre scene. Three volumes of her collected works were compiled by editor Cynthia Zimmerman and are available from Playwrights Canada Press.

Cynthia Zimmerman has been a highly regarded commentator on Canadian playwriting and on the voice of women on the Canadian stage for her whole career at Glendon College, York University, where she is a professor in the English department. Previously book review editor of the international journal Modern Drama and a member of its advisory board, Zimmerman has authored or co-authored a number of books, including Playwriting Women: Female Voices in English Canada. She has produced many articles, chapters, and public papers. She also edited the successful anthology, Taking the Stage, for Playwrights Canada Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887548180
• ISBN 13: 9780887548185
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 406