{"title":"<i>Lady Sunrise</i>: Reimagining a Modern Chinese Spoken Drama Classic in Contemporary Canada","authors":"Siyuan Liu","doi":"10.3138/tric-2023-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tric-2023-0001","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines Lady Sunrise, Canadian playwright Marjorie Chan’s localized and contemporary rewriting of Sunrise (1936), a modern Chinese spoken drama classic, which premiered in February–March 2020 at Toronto’s Factory Theatre under the direction of Nina Lee Aquino. Chan has condensed the massive dialogue play of fifteen male and female characters in a modern Chinese city to mostly monologues by six Asian Canadian women in present-day Vancouver and Richmond. The author focuses on the play’s transformation in both content—from clash of the haves and have-nots of the 1930s’ China to contemporary racial, gender, and class conflicts in contemporary Canada—and form—from realistic dialogue drama to one relying predominantly on the monologue format, together with the implications of its all-female Asian cast and predominantly female creative team.","PeriodicalId":53669,"journal":{"name":"Theatre Research in Canada-Recherches Theatrales au Canada","volume":"45 1","pages":"96-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147879633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Piercing the Veil: Metatheatrical Utterances in the Stratford Festival’s 2022 Hamlet","authors":"Marie Trotter","doi":"10.3138/tric-2023-0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tric-2023-0006","url":null,"abstract":"This article uses the Stratford Festival’s 2022 production of Hamlet, directed by Peter Pasyk and starring Amaka Umeh, to examine the performance conditions which shaped the play’s metatheatrical speech acts and subsequent audience responses. Building on J.L. Austin’s theory of speech acts and recent work by Stephen Purcell on Shakespearean metatheatricality, this article demonstrates spontaneous audience responses within the Stratford Hamlet as essential to the co-creation of the performance. This performance analysis also proposes new theoretical language for how metatheatrical speech acts provoke responses in a thrust-stage performance space such as Stratford’s Festival Theatre.","PeriodicalId":53669,"journal":{"name":"Theatre Research in Canada-Recherches Theatrales au Canada","volume":"68 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83509098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Listening to Linda Griffiths: Heeding to the Archives of an Emblematic Voice in Canadian Theatre","authors":"Amanda Attrell","doi":"10.3138/tric-2022-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tric-2022-0007","url":null,"abstract":"Linda Griffiths, actor and playwright, was a charismatic and vital presence within Canadian theatre from the early 1970s, writing and performing until her untimely death in 2014. She worked in theatres across Canada all the while maintaining her dedication to her home, Theatre Passe Muraille, creating award-winning pieces that were also audience hits. This article presents and employs an archival methodology that the author calls listening to Linda. In the first part of this piece, the author makes key historiographical interventions in Canadian theatre history based on her recognition of (and attentive listening to) Griffiths’s own historiographical intervention, made via her self-created and deliberately preserved archival record as well as her published autobiographical writing and interviews. Research into the Linda Griffiths fonds sheds new light on the early years of her career (1971–75) that have yet to be discussed in existing studies and rectifies misrepresentations of her story, repositioning her in the field of Canadian theatre. This methodology also sheds new light upon the analysis of her plays. In the case of O.D. in Paradise, by returning attention to this overlooked text the author discovered a multifaceted moment within Griffiths’s growth as a playwright which intertwines with the play’s historical importance. Research into Alien Creature: A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen revivifies the scholarly discussion on this well-known auto/biographical piece by perceiving Griffiths’s voice within her archive and in performance as insisting Canadian women artists be heard, believing in the lasting power of their work. Therefore, by listening to this creator’s voice within her self-curated archive, the author’s methodology enables a shifting of knowledge regarding her contributions to Canadian theatre, the remembering of lost histories, and the lasting effects of performance.","PeriodicalId":53669,"journal":{"name":"Theatre Research in Canada-Recherches Theatrales au Canada","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78787213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theatrical Recycling as Colonial Prequel: The Provocation!, Nootka Sound, and British Columbia’s “First” Play","authors":"Heather Davis-Fisch","doi":"10.3138/tric-2022-0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tric-2022-0019","url":null,"abstract":"The 1790 pantomime The Provocation!’s intervention into the Nootka Crisis may signal that what was to crystalize by 1871, when BC entered Canadian Confederation as a settler colony, was already taking shape: the confluence of the development of a series of extractive industries, the establishment of settler colonies, and persistent imperial ambivalence about the territory that would eventually become a Canadian province. Given that the Nootka Sound Crisis is now relatively unknown, this article begins by briefly summarizing the crisis. After describing Nootka Sound and The Provocation!, The Provocation!’s apparent intervention in British diplomacy is discussed. Finally, after outlining how the public appearance of the Cherokee Chiefs was deployed by the press, the article addresses how the two plays built on pre-circulating British understandings of Indigeneity and of the Pacific Northwest, recycling and activating these performative and visual genealogies to lay the groundwork for the settler-colonial structures that followed in the nineteenth century.","PeriodicalId":53669,"journal":{"name":"Theatre Research in Canada-Recherches Theatrales au Canada","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90972475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicole Nolette, Naila Keleta-Mae, Selena Couture, P. Thomas
{"title":"Mot de la rédaction : Vecteurs de différence","authors":"Nicole Nolette, Naila Keleta-Mae, Selena Couture, P. Thomas","doi":"10.3138/tric-2023-0016.fr","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tric-2023-0016.fr","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53669,"journal":{"name":"Theatre Research in Canada-Recherches Theatrales au Canada","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82320192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Allyson Mitchell and Cait McKinney, Inside Killjoy’s Kastle: Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and Other Lesbian Hauntings","authors":"X. Publius","doi":"10.3138/tric-2022-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tric-2022-0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53669,"journal":{"name":"Theatre Research in Canada-Recherches Theatrales au Canada","volume":"124 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83237812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ric Knowles, International Theatre Festivals and Twenty-First-Century Interculturalism","authors":"Naphtaly Shem-Tov","doi":"10.3138/tric-2023-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tric-2023-0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53669,"journal":{"name":"Theatre Research in Canada-Recherches Theatrales au Canada","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76570160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aurélie Lacassagne, Mémoires éclatées, mémoires conciliées : Essai sur le Wild West Show de Gabriel Dumont","authors":"S. Duval","doi":"10.3138/tric-2023-0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tric-2023-0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53669,"journal":{"name":"Theatre Research in Canada-Recherches Theatrales au Canada","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87474927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Nolette, Naila Keleta-Mae, Selena Couture, Priya Thomas
{"title":"Editorial Introduction: Vectors of Difference","authors":"N. Nolette, Naila Keleta-Mae, Selena Couture, Priya Thomas","doi":"10.3138/tric-2023-0016.en","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tric-2023-0016.en","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":53669,"journal":{"name":"Theatre Research in Canada-Recherches Theatrales au Canada","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73304171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kat Germain, Jody H. Cripps, Jessica Watkin, David Stinson
{"title":"“Visual Translation and the Amazing Broken Telephone Kaleidoscope”: A Dialogue","authors":"Kat Germain, Jody H. Cripps, Jessica Watkin, David Stinson","doi":"10.3138/tric-2023-0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tric-2023-0015","url":null,"abstract":"Kat Germain considers media accessibility strategies while translating signed music by Deaf artists, drawing on her experience as a visual translator/interpreter and audio describer for Blind and partially sighted audience members. Germain queries: What is the disparity between a Deaf artist’s (nonvocal) work and a Blind audience member’s experience of it? When does visual translation stop being a copy, and when does it become a work of art in its own right if the audience member’s only experience is the audible translation, an unavoidably a creative act? Along with Germain, the panel (Deaf scholar/artist, Blind scholar/creator/audience member, and a sound engineer) discusses aspects of ethics and aesthetics of accessibility in the arts.","PeriodicalId":53669,"journal":{"name":"Theatre Research in Canada-Recherches Theatrales au Canada","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86621122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}