Thematic Table of Contents
Foreword | JERRY WASSERMAN
Acknowledgements
Introduction | ALLANA C. LINDGREN, GLEN F. NICHOLS, & ANTHONY J. VICKERY
1 | The Theatre of Neptune (1606) | JILL CARTER
The Theatre of Neptune in New France | MARC LESCARBOT
Translation by VK PRESTON & DANIEL J. RUPPEL
2 | The Conquest of Canada; or the Siege of Quebec (1766) | GLEN F. NICHOLS
The Conquest of Canada; or the Siege of Quebec | GEORGE COCKINGS
3 | Acadius, or Love in a Calm (1774) | JUSTIN A . BLUM
Acadius, or Love in a Calm | ANONYMOUS
4 | Early Quebec Circus (1797–1950s) | LOUIS PATRICK LEROUX
5 | Petitions Against Performances of “Jim Crow” (1840–1843) | STEPHEN JOHNSON
Transcripts of Petitions
6 | Shipboard Performances (1851) | HEATHER DAVIS-FISCH
Excerpts of Shipboard Performances
7 | Canadian Fancy Dress Balls (1876–1898) | CYNTHIA COOPER
8 | The Sweet Girl Graduate (1882) | KYM BIRD
The Sweet Girl Graduate | SARAH ANNE CURZON
9 | A Red Girl’s Reasoning (1892) | SASHA KOVACS
A Red Girl’s Reasoning | E . PAULINE JOHNSON (TEKAHIONWAKE)
10 | Walker Theatre, Winnipeg (1905–1907) | ANTHONY J. VICKERY
11 | Cantonese Theatre in Vancouver (1916–1936) | WING CHUNG NG
12 | The Man Who Went (1916) | ANTHONY J. VICKERY
The Man Who Went | WILLIAM ANDREW TREMAYNE
13 | Little Theatre Scenography (1919–1937) | PAUL J. STOESSER
14 | The Wood Carver’s Wife (1919) | MOIRA DAY
The Wood Carver’s Wife | MARJORIE PICKTHALL
15 | Evelyn Geary and the Uptown Girls (1922–1938) | AMY BOWRING
16 | The IODE’s Historical Pageant (1927) | ALLANA C. LINDGREN
17 | Rocks (1932) | ANTON WAGNER
Rocks | HERMAN VOADEN
18 | Unity (1933) | ALAN FILEWOD
Unity | OSCAR RYAN
19 | Cocktail (1935) | CHRISTL VERDUYN
Cocktail | YVETTE O. MERCIER-GOUIN
Translation by GLEN F. NICHOLS
20 | The Winnipeg Ballet Club (1939) | ERIN JOELLE MCCURDY
21 | William Tell (ca. 1943–1945) | CODY POULTON & JORDAN STANGER-ROSS
William Tell | FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
Act III, scene three, in a Japanese rendering by JOHN NIHE I
Translation by MATSUKI MASUTANI
22 | Gay/Queer and Trans Performances and Cultures in Toronto
(1946–1965) | J. PAUL HALFERTY
23 | The Good Life (1947) | RAY ELLENWOOD
The Good Life | CLAUDE GAUVREAU
Translation by RAY ELLENWOOD
24 | Hilda Morgan (1949) | JOHN JACKSON & HOWARD FINK
Hilda Morgan | LISTER SINCLAIR
25 | Christmas Mummering Plays in Newfoundland (1949) | DENYSE LYNDE
Oldtime “Mumming” Christmas Play in Newfoundland
26 | A Dialogue on the State of the Theatre in Canada (1951) | JAMES HOFFMAN
A Dialogue on the State of the Theatre in Canada | ROBERTSON DAVIES
27 | Tyrone Guthrie and the Festival Stage (1953) | LIZA GIFFEN
28 | Zone (1953) | SYLVAIN LAVOIE
Zone | MARCEL DUBÉ
English Adaptation by AVIVA RAVE L (1977)
29 | How Now Black Man (1965–1970) | CLARENCE S. BAYNE
How Now Black Man | LORRIS ELLIOTT
30 | Theatre in the Canada Pavilion at Expo 67 (1967) | ERIN HURLEY
31 | Lament for Confederation (1967) | JENN COLE
Lament for Confederation | CHIEF DAN GEORGE (GESWANOUTH)
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