Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre

by Donna Coates (Editor), Kathy K. Y. Chung (Contribution by), Donna Coates (Contribution by), Carmen Derksen (Contribution by), Sherrill Grace (Contribution by)

Overview

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 played a major role in informing Canadians about the "dark side" of their history and current events. This collection, comprised entirely of new and original assessments of her work and contribution to theatre, is both timely and long overdue. Includes a new play titled "Sharon's Tongue" by the Playing with Pollock Collective With contributions by: Kathy K. Y. Chung Donna Coates Carmen Derksen Sherrill Grace Martin Morrow Jeton Neziraj Wes Pearce Tanya Schaap Shelley Scott Jerry Wasserman Jason Weins Cynthia Zimmerman

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781552387924
Publisher:	University of Calgary Press
Publication date:	10/08/2015
Series:	The West , #8
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Donna Coates is an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. She has edited, with George Melnyk, Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature; with Sherrill Grace, Canada and the Theatre of War: Volumes One and Two; and she has written dozens of book chapters and articles on Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and American women’s war fictions and drama.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction Donna Coates, Editor 1

1 Walsh and the (De-)Construction of Canadian Myth Jerry Wasserman 13

2 Sharon Pollock and the Scene of the Crime Shelley Scott 29

3 Ownership and Stewardship in Sharon Pollock's Generations Jason Wiens 47

4 Different Directions: Sharon Pollock's Doc Cynthia Zimmerman 65

5 "The art a seein' the multiple realities"; Fragmented Scenography in Sharon Pollock's Plays Wes D. Pearce 83

6 Listening is Telling: Eddie Roberts's Poetics of Repair in Sharon Pollock's Fair Liberty's Call Carmen Derkson 107

7 Loss and Mourning in Sharon Pollock's Fair Liberty's Call Kathy K. Y. Chung 127

8 Questions of Collective Responsibility in Sharon Pollock's Man Out of Joint Tanya Schaap 147

9 Equal-Opportunity Torturers in Judith Thompson's Palace of the End and Sharon Pollock's Man Out of Joint Donna Coates 169

10 Sharon Pollock and the Garry Theatre (1992-97) Martin Morrow 197

11 Sharon Pollock in Kosovo Jeton Neziraj 207

12 Biography and the Archive Sherrill Grace 213

13 Sharon's Tongue Calgary Playing with Pollock Collective Lindsay Burns Pamela Halstead Grant Linneherg Laura Parken 237

Pollock on Plays 273

Contributors 303

Index 311

Editorial Reviews

Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre (as are Pollock’s plays) is relevant for a wide range of readers and academic disciplines: theater and drama studies, of course, but also literature, history, political science, women’s studies, and postcolonial studies. It might also inform the choices made by artistic directors and inspire productions.

Anne Nothof