Herman Voaden websites

[awagner]

All the play texts and cultural advocacy by the experimental theatre director and arts activist Herman Voaden (1903-1991) can now be accessed on the website The Worlds of Herman Voaden http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Theatre/voaden/index.htm

The site includes 13 previously published but out of print plays and four unpublished texts. These include the dramatization of Louis Hemon's novel Maria Chapdelaine (1938), the dance scenario The Masque of the Red Death (1943) and Emily Carr (1960).
 
Voaden's advocacy for Canadian artists, his own multi-media symphonic expressionist playwriting and directing, and government support of the arts is reflected in 26 articles and essays. These appeared in publications such as the Toronto Globe, Saturday Night, the Canadian Forum, New Frontier, Theatre Arts, the Canadian Theatre Review and Theatre History in Canada.

Assessments of Voaden's playwriting and directing are found in 42 reviews and articles. These shed insights into the theatre criticism of the 1930s and early 1940s by critics such as Lawrence Mason, Augustus Bridle, Hector Charlesworth, B.K. Sandwell, Pearl McCarthy, Rica McLean Farquarson, and Rose Macdonald. Alexander Leggatt, Richard Perkyns, Denis Johnston, Anne Nothof, Robin Whittaker, Sherrill Grace and Anton Wagner provide recent assessments of Voaden's work. Wagner is the editor of The Worlds of Herman Voaden and also contributes his University of Toronto Ph.D. thesis, Herman Voaden's Symphonic Expressionism.

The Voaden site contains personal and production photographs and is hosted by the Atlantic Canada Theatre Site at the University of New Brunswick. ACTS also contains the bibliography of Canadian theatre, 19th century performance calendars, a large collection of playbills, Theatre Research in Canada, and much textual material. Ed Mullaly is the webmaster. Audio and video interviews with and about Voaden will be added to the site in the future. 

The Worlds of Herman Voaden site links to the complete inventory of the Herman Voaden Papers at the York University Archives 
http://info.library.yorku.ca/depts/asc/Finding_aids/Voaden_webpage/hvindex.htm

The link for the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition at Queen's University is http://www.queensu.ca/drama/




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