Environmental and Site-Specific Theatre
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2007
- Category
- Drama, Anthologies (multiple authors), Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887548062
- Publish Date
- May 2007
- List Price
- $25.00
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Description
Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available. The series publishes the work of scholars and critics who have traced the coming-into-prominence of a vibrant theatrical community in English Canada.
About the author
Andrew Houston is a Views & Reviews Editor for Canadian Theatre Review and a faculty member of the Department of Drama, Speech Communication and Digital Arts at the University of Waterloo. In 2002, he and scenographer Kathleen Irwin started Regina-based Knowhere Productions, a performance company which had its debut with a multi-disciplinary, site-specific performance in a disused wing of the Saskatchewan Mental Hospital at Weyburn, entitled The Weyburn Project. Their next large-scale site-specific work entitled Crossfiring took place at the Claybank historical brick plant in southwestern Saskatchewan in 2006.