Performing Arts History & Criticism
Theatre in British Columbia
- Publisher
- Playwrights Canada Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2006
- Category
- History & Criticism, Drama, Canadian, Anthologies (multiple authors)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780887548024
- Publish Date
- May 2006
- 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 authors
Ginny Ratsoy is Professor Emerita at Thompson Rivers University. In addition to co-editing, with James Hoffman, Playing the Pacific Province: An Anthology of British Columbia Plays, 1967–2000 (Playwrights Canada Press, 2001), she has edited Theatre in British Columbia (Playwrights Canada Press, 2006) and the Professional Theatres issue of The Small Cities Imprint (2012). Her scholarly publications (co-authored, edited, and co-edited books and numerous peer-reviewed articles) have focused on Canadian fiction, theatre, small cities, third-age learning, and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Ric Knowles is of anglo-Scottish heritage, and is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph, editor of Canadian Theatre Review, and past editor of Modern Drama (1999â??2005). He is author of The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning, Shakespeare and Canada, and Reading the Material Theatre, co-author (with the Cultural Memory Group) of Remembering Women Murdered by Men, editor of Theatre in Atlantic Canada, Judith Thompson, and The Masks of Judith Thompson, and co-editor (with Joanne Tompkins and W.B.Worthen) of Modern Drama: Defining the Field. He is general editor of the book series Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English and New Essays on Canadian Theatre from Playwrights Canada Press.
Excerpt: Theatre in British Columbia (by (author) Ginny Ratsoy; series edited by Ric Knowles)
"The composite that emerges from the collage of the eighteen articles herein is, as I have indicated, off-centre and complex. It is also celebratory of off-centredness and complexity—of the edginess of the British Columbia play/playwright/theatre company. These articles acknowledge political, social, and performative borders and examine British Columbia theatre from perspectives which pay tribute to the flouting of arbitrarily imposed restrictions." —from the introduction