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What was Canada’s centennial year/When was The Ecstasy of Rita Joe produced?
1967
When was Native Earth Performing Arts founded?
1982
When was the Rina Fraticelli Report released?
1982
Who was the founding member of Obsidian Theatre?
Djanet Spears
Who wrote Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapucasing?
Tomson Highway
who wrote Goodnight Desdemona (Goodmorning Juliet?)
Ann-Marie Macdonald
who wrote Harlem Duet?
Djanet Spears
who wrote Lion in the streets?
Judith Thompson
who wrote 7 Stories?
Morris Panych
who wrote Never Swim Alone?
Daniel Macivor
who wrote Tempting Providence?
Robert Chafe
Who wrote Kims Connivence?
Ins Choi
What is Native Earth Performing Arts?
Canada’s first Indigenous theatre company. Established in 1982. Based out of Toronto but frequently tours, often to Indigenous reserves.
what is Debajehmujig?
First theatre company on an Indigenous reserve. Founded in 1984 on Manitoulin Island in Southern Ontario
What does Tomson Highway Explore in his plays?
folklore and mythology, spirituality, the trickster, language, and, hope in his plays.
What imagery, symbolism, motifs are found in Dry lips oughta move to Kapuskasing?
Knit baby boots • Nanabush • The crucifix • Blood • Dreams
what is Alternative Theatre/Experimental Theatre?
Individual artists or theatre groups exploring ideas and forms (anti-realism) that oppose mainstream theatre. it is an Alternative to Regional/Commercial theatre. Putting on plays that mainstream theatre won’t, can’t, or can’t afford to.
What is Nightwood Theatre?
Toronto company founded in 1979 by four women: Cynthia Grant, Kim Renders, Mary Vingoe, and Maureen White. First feminist theatre in Canada. (Ann-Marie MacDonald got her start as a playwright here.)
What are the themes in Harlem Duet?
race, privilege and relationships.
What are some aspects found in Judith Thompson’s writing?
Surrealistic style, Focus on the voice of a character. Emotional Truth. Extreme Opposites
Morris Panych was born in ______ and raised in ______.
Calgary and Edmonton
The philosophy of Panych’s writing is in line with which philosophical stance?
Existentialism
True or False: Panych “frequently explores the meaning of life in the face of death, explored through metatheatricality.”
True
Who is Panych’s most frequent collaborator?
His husband, Ken MacDonald
What two theatre companies does Panych most frequently work with?
Tarragon Theatre and The Arts Club
True or False: Panych refuses to see his own plays.
False. He often directs his own plays
What are some aspects of Daniel MacIvor’s Writing?
Surrealistic and unconventional. Rhythmic and performative. Explores darker/uncomfortable topics through humour. Breaks the fourth-wall.
what are some Themes found in Never Swim alone?
competition, masculinity, the effects of unresolved trauma, time
who is Robert Chafe’s biggest collaborator?
Jillian Keiley
What Theatre company has produced almost all of Robert Chafe’s Plays?
Artistic Fraud
What real-life person inspired Tempting Providence?
Myra Bennet
What are some themes found in Kim’s Convenience?
immigration, generational gaps, gentrification, community,
What are some themes found in Goodnight Desdemona?
Feminism, the power of literature, fate vs free will, redemption.
What playwright worked closely with Fu-GEN
Ins Choi
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