Hot Thespian Action!
Ten Premiere Plays from Walterdale Playhouse
Distributed for Athabasca University Press
Hot Thespian Action!
Ten Premiere Plays from Walterdale Playhouse
This collection commemorates Walterdale’s 50th anniversary and highlights the social and artistic significance of amateur theatre practice in Canada by drawing together significant plays by acclaimed and emerging Canadian playwrights, detailed introductions, and archival production photographs.
Table of Contents
General Introduction
The Plays
The Canadian Fact (1967) / Wilfred Watson
Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again or The Taming of the Sioux (1974) / Warren Graves
Mutants (1981) / Brad Fraser
Swipe (1981) / Gordon Pengilly
The Tenth Negative Pig (1983) / Barbara Sapergia and Geoffrey Ursell
The Three Sillies (1983) / Mary Glenfield
Just (1999) / Trevor Schmidt
The Beaver Effect (2002) / Mark Stubbings
[ice land] (2003) / Jonathan Seinen
The Trial of Salomé (2007) / Scott Sharplin
Appendix I: New Plays Premiered by Walterdale Theatre Associates
Appendix II: Music
Notes
Bibliography
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