THTRFLM 3DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Comfort Object, Factory Theatre, Theatre New Brunswick
2 May 2015
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1958 manitoba theatre centre: merger of two companies: winnipeg little. Theatre and theatre 77: model for other regional theatres across the country. Institutionally: assumptions about aesthetic quality based on dominant cultural forms whose stories are not generally told or whose forms of expression are not used. Institutionally: who gets to decide what gets produced, Thematically: plays that question decision-making what wins awards? processes in canadian society. Commercialism vs nation-building: regionals need subscription audiences to be self-sustaining, most government money goes to established regional theatres, alternative theatres get funding from non-arts sources, look to american counter-culture for inspiration. Artistic goals of new alternative theatres: develop canadian theatre as a venue for public discussion of canadian concerns, write plays about canadian concerns, bring new audiences to canadian theatre, learn from a variety of international approaches. What is the relative importance of and relationship between: artistic skills, performance spaces, types of audience, canadian themes.
