Running Through the Devil's Club - Softcover

Hurford, Deborah

9781895836851: Running Through the Devil's Club

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1895836859 ISBN 13: 9781895836851

Publisher: River Books, 2001

In this book, accomplished theatre professional Deborah Hurford turns her talents to the written form as she chronicles the development of the celebrated production Running Through The Devil's Club and its tour through prisons, women's centres and communities throughout Western Canada. This intensely personal chronicle is supported by transcripts of discussions with two other well-known directors who have created hit shows using popular theatre: Eileen Sproule, One Morning I Realized I Was Licking the Kitchen Floor: A Comic Look at Depression.

The foreword by Jan Selman puts the play into perspective with a brief discussion of the history of popular theatre in both the Canadian and global context.

Includes the complete original playscript.

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About the Author:

Deborah Hurford has been working as an artist and educator in teh Edmonton theatre community for the past 16 years. She has collaborated with accomplished actors as well as emerging artists and other special groups including incarcerated teens and adults. Among other accolades, she is hte recipient of the Canada 125 Medal and the Alberta Premier's Award for her work with Azimuth Theatre and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Although her roots are in popular theatre, Deborah's work has expanded to incorporate her interests in music, dance, multimedia and visual art. She is now a frelance theatre artist and educator, and recently spent a year as the Theatre Artist in Residence at the Unviersity of Alberta Hospital.

We went down to the river with a bucket of water and some towels, and we just started smearing mud all over ourselves and each other:

When we were all covered in mud, we started running through the field in our bare feet.

Faster and faster. Swishing our skirts int eh air. Laughing and jumping. Feeling the dirt in between our toes.

Without our knowing, a group of teenage boys had gathered to watch us from teh top of the bank. They started yelling, "Run you bitches! Run!"

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