Canada’s first audition book, with monologues from plays of the seventies, also useful as a survey of Canadian playwriting.

Editors Margaret Bard, Peter Messaline and Miriam Newhouse, well-known in Canadian, American and British theatre for their acting, directing and writing have selected forty individual speeches from Canadian plays, and suggest how to approach each piece for audition.

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Peter Messaline voiced the Daleks in the 1972 Dr. Who serial Day of the Daleks and has worked in England, Canada, and the United States. After the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, he has principal casting in series and MOW. He hasn't had a joe job in 40 years.

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Miriam Newhouse has acted and directed in theatre worldwide and across Canada. She has appeared in film, radio, and television and is the Labour Co-Chair of the Ontario Advisory Committee for Health and Safety in the Live Performing Arts.

Peter Messaline voiced the original Dr. Who Daleks and has worked in England, Canada, and the U.S. After the Stratford and Shaw Festivals, he has principal casting in series and MOW. He hasn't had a joe job in 40 years.

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Born in Toronto in 1919, dramatist, actor, director, composer, producer, critic and teacher, Mavor Moore wrote more than 100 works for stage, radio and television. He was CBC-TV’s first chief producer, first chair of the Canadian Theatre Centre, founding director of the Charlottetown Festival and Toronto’s St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, and was the first artist to chair the Canada Council (1979-1983). He was a Companion of the Order of Canada, and among other honours held the Molson Prize and the Canadian Conference of the Arts Diplôme d’honneur. Moore passed away in December 2006. A collection of his plays, Six Plays by Mavor Moore was published by Talonbooks in 1989.

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