Sharon Pollock First Woman of Canadian Theatre

Coates, Donna (Editor) (editor)

ISBN 10: 1552387895 / ISBN 13: 9781552387894

Published by University of Calgary 978-1-55238-789-4, Calgary, AB

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[978-1-55238-789-4] 2015. (Mass market paperback) As new. vii, 328pp. 8vo. Collection of essays from various contributors on the social, political, and historical contributions made by Sharon Pollock to Canadian theatre, not only as a playwright, but as a director, an actor, a mentor, and an educator. Includes a new play, 'Sharon's Tongue' by the Playing with Pollock collective, as well as 17 transcripts of from the reviews of her CBC 'Pollock on Plays' feature. Black and white photographs. As new.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sharon Pollock First Woman of Canadian Theatre
• Publisher: University of Calgary 978-1-55238-789-4, Calgary, AB
• ISBN 10: 1552387895
• ISBN 13: 9781552387894
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadiana

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Synopsis

As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada s national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian theatre as passionately as she has done over the past fifty years. Pollock is nationally and internationally respected for her work and support of the theatre community. She has also had a major part in informing Canadians about the dark side of their history and current events. This collection, composed entirely of new and original assessments of her work and contribution to theatre, is both timely and long overdue.

About the Author

Donna Coates teaches in the English Department at the University of Calgary. She has published dozens of articles and book chapters on Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and American women's responses to the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and contemporary warfare in fiction and drama. With Sherrill Grace, she has selected and edited Canada and the Theatre of War, Volume One (2008) and Volume Two (2010). With George Melnyk, she edited Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Writing (2007). She has edited Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre, published in 2015 with the University of Calgary Press. She is currently completing a book on Australian women's war fictions and editing an eight-volume collection on women and war for the History of Feminism series published by Routledge. Donna Coates teaches in the English Department at the University of Calgary. She has published dozens of articles and book chapters on Australian, Canadian, New Zealand, and American women's responses to the First and Second World Wars, the Vietnam War, and contemporary warfare in fiction and drama. With Sherrill Grace, she has selected and edited Canada and the Theatre of War, Volume One (2008) and Volume Two (2010). With George Melnyk, she edited Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Writing (2007). She has edited Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre, published in 2015 with the University of Calgary Press. She is currently completing a book on Australian women's war fictions and editing an eight-volume collection on women and war for the History of Feminism series published by Routledge. Sherrill Grace, OC, FRSC, is a University Killam Professor Emerita at the University of British Columbia. She specializes in Canadian literature and culture and has published extensively in these areas. Her recent books include Inventing Tom Thomson (2004), Canada and the Idea of North (2007), Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock (2008), and Landscapes of War and Memory (2014). "Jeton Neziraj is the former artistic director of The National Theater of Kosovo, and the founder and current director of Qendra Multimedia. He has written over twenty-five plays which have been staged, translated, and performed throughout Europe and the United States. With Saa Ili 'c, he coordinated a series of two-way anthologies, as well as separate editions, of the new literature of Serbia and Kosovo (2011)."