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Drama Canadian

Answer Me Home

by (author) Agnes Walsh

Publisher
Breakwater Books Ltd.
Initial publish date
Mar 2011
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550813487
    Publish Date
    Mar 2011
    List Price
    $17.95

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Description

Tramore Theatre was formed in 1999 by Agnes Walsh and Arlene Morrissey. It is a community-based arts organization dedicated to the promotion of the oral history and the cultural traditions of the Cape Shore of Placentia Bay, including the rich Irish heritage of the area. Plays from Tramore showcases the settlement history of the area and depicts the lives of the local people over the centuries. The plays also cross into social injustice, out migration, aging, changes in the fishery, and inter-generational communication. These plays aim to show audiences a unique culture through theatre, song, and dance.

About the author

Poet and playwright Agnes Walsh was born in Placentia, Newfoundland. She has published three previous collections of poetry: In the Old Country of My Heart (Killick Press, 1996), Going Around with Bachelors (Brick Books, 2007), and Oderin (Pedlar Press, 2018). Her work as founder, artistic director, and writer for the Tramore Theatre Troupe (1999–2012) won her the Newfoundland and Labrador Hospitality Award. In 2011, her collection of plays Answer Me Home was published by Breakwater Books. She was the inaugural poet laureate for the City of St. John’s from 2006 to 2009 and was awarded the 2020 Hall of Honour Award from ArtsNL.

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Editorial Reviews

There is a craft and style to their language that is often pre-literate, of people who really talk and really listen, who enjoy and employ words and language as a quotidian art form. This is what so captivates Walsh and what she renders here - not as straight verbatim presentation, but as another kind of artistry

Joan Sullivan, the Telegram