LEADER 03576nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910455822903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-05621-2 010 $a9786612056215 010 $a1-4426-7310-9 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442673106 035 $a(CKB)2420000000003946 035 $a(OCoLC)646704783 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10219208 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443813 035 $a(DE-B1597)464333 035 $a(OCoLC)944178264 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442673106 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3255300 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443813 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10290739 035 $a(OCoLC)932314530 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000003946 100 $a19880830d1987 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCollective encounters$b[electronic resource] $edocumentary theatre in English Canada /$fAlan Filewod 210 $aToronto ;$aBuffalo $cUniversity of Toronto Press$dc1987 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 311 $a0-8020-6669-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. The Evolution of Documentary Theatre in Canada --$t2. Documentary and Collective Creation The Farm Show --$t3. Documentary and Popular History Ten Lost Years --$t4. Documentary and Regionalism No. i Hard and Paper Wheat --$t5. The Political Documentary: Buchans: A Mining Town --$t6. Documentary and Audience Intervention: It's About Time --$tConclusion: Canadian Documentary Theatre in Context --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aAlternative theatre has been one of Canada's strongest cultural institutions over the past twenty years. Coinciding with a major revival of nationalism in Canadian culture during the late 1960s, this strength was in evidence throughout the country, and provided fertile ground for the growth of an important dramatic genre: the collectively created documentary play. Typically inspired by a distinctive community or a political issue, these plays are created through a process that begins with a group of actors researching a specific issue or distinctive community, and ends with a performance aimed at a specific audience. Some of the works thus created represent the most popular plays ever staged in Canada.In this study of the genre as it has developed nationally, Alan Filewod examines six landmark examples in terms of their impact on their respective theatres and their role in Canada's cultural development generally. The plays include Theatre Passe Muraille's The Farm Show, Toronto Workshop Production's Ten Lost Years, Globe Theatre's No. 1 Hard, Twenty-fifth Street Theatre's Paper Wheat, The Mummers Troupe's Buchans: A Mining Town, and Catalyst Theatre's It's About Time.Each of these six plays represents an aspect of the documentary genre. Together they evoke a period of unprecedented activity in Canadian theatre and the wide range of social, political, and cultural issues that have driven it. 606 $aExperimental theater$zCanada 606 $aTheater$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aExperimental theater 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 676 $a792/.0971 700 $aFilewod$b Alan D$g(Alan Douglas),$f1952-$01055399 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455822903321 996 $aCollective encounters$92488759 997 $aUNINA