DRAM 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Summer Stock Theatre, Asian Canadians, Ronnie Burkett
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Canadian theatre keeping canada in the margins. A masque by marc lescarbot (performance for the royals) British military bases in halifax, st. john"s york (present day toronto), Works by sheridan, shakespeare and other homeland playwrights (miami. Heavily influenced by the british poetic drama. These were known as closet dramas : a play to be read rather than performed. Sarah ann curzon"s laura secord, the heroine of 1812. Adjudicated by people from abroad (most from the united kingdom) Vincent massey chairs a royal commission into the arts, in 1949. Recommendations: we need money for professional facilities and playhouses, we need a creation of an arms length government funding agency. Canada council established in 1957: it is an arms length candidacy. Three c programming: classical plays, contemporary plays, canadian plays. Collective creation a lot of the time you don"t have a play wright, you have a theme that you want to work on.
