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Ten Premiere Plays from Walterdale Playhouse

Edited by Robin Whittaker
Categories: Art & Performance Studies, Film Studies, Literature & Language Studies
Series: Canadian Plays
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Paperback : 9781897425268, 584 pages, October 2008
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Table of contents

General Introduction

The Plays

The Canadian Fact (1967) / Wilfred Watson

Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again or The Taming of the Sioux
(1974) / Warren Graves

Mutants (1981) / Brad Fraser

Swipe (1981) / Gordon Pengilly

The Tenth Negative Pig (1983) / Barbara Sapergia and
Geoffrey Ursell

The Three Sillies (1983) / Mary Glenfield

Just (1999) / Trevor Schmidt

The Beaver Effect (2002) / Mark Stubbings

[ice land] (2003) / Jonathan Seinen

The Trial of Salomé (2007) / Scott Sharplin

Appendix I: New Plays Premiered by Walterdale Theatre Associates

Appendix II: Music

Notes

Bibliography

Description

This collection commemorates Walterdale’s 50th anniversary and
highlights the social and artistic significance of amateur theatre
practice in Canada by drawing together significant plays by acclaimed
and emerging Canadian playwrights, detailed introductions, and archival
production photographs.