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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The University of Toronto Press today published
<EM>Establishing Our Boundaries: English-Canadian Theatre Criticism</EM>, edited
by Anton Wagner. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The collection of essays written by 17 members
of the ACTR is the first cultural history of Canada as seen through its theatre
and theatre criticism over two centuries.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The first copies of the 416 page book were
rushed to members of the ACTR criticism panel </FONT><FONT color=#000000
size=2>(Don Rubin, Patrick O'Neill, Malcolm Page, Don Perkins and Anton Wagner)
who will discuss theatre criticism, past and present, at the ACTR conference at
Bishop's University June 2.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>The official launch of <EM>Establishing Our Boundaries
</EM>will also take place at the ACTR conference, on June 4, together with
the launch of the play anthology <EM>Staging the North</EM>, edited by Sherrill
Grace, Eve D'Aeth and Lisa Chalykoff, published by Playwrights Canada Press.
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Two copies of <EM>Establishing Our Boundaries
</EM>were won by this year's winners of the Nathan </FONT><FONT color=#000000
size=2>Cohen Award for Excellence in Theatre Criticism: Robert Cushman (long
review category, <EM>National Post</EM>) and Kate Taylor (short review category,
<EM>Globe and Mail</EM>).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The contributors and contents of the book are as
follows:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><EM>Establishing Our Boundaries:
English-Canadian Theatre Criticism. </EM>Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1999. 416 p. hard cover, $60.
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><BR>Introduction: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Establishing Our Boundaries:
English-Canadian Theatre Criticism"--Anton Wagner</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Editor/Critics:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"From Puffery to Criticism--William Lyon
Mackenzie, Joseph Howe and Daniel Morrison: Theatre Criticism in Halifax and
Toronto 1826-1857"</FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2>--Patrick
O'Neill </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Reviewer/Critics:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"The Critic as Reviewer: E.R. Parkhurst at
the Toronto Mail and Globe 1876-1924"--Ross Stuart
</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"The Cosmopolitan, the Cultural Nationalist
and the Egocentric Critic: Harriet Walker, Charles W. Handscomb and Charles H.
Wheeler in Winnipeg 1898-1906"--Douglas Arrell
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Cultural Nationalism:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Hector Willoughby Charlesworth and the
Nationalization of Cultural Authority 1890-1945"--Denis
Salter </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><BR>"Saving the Nation's Aesthetic Soul:
B.K. Sandwell at the Montreal Herald 1900-1914 and Saturday Night
1932-1951"--Anton Wagner </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Becoming Actively Creative: Dr. Lawrence
Mason, The Globe's Critic 1924-1939"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>--Anton Wagner </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Herbert Whittaker, Reporting >From the
Front: Montreal Gazette 1937-1949 and the Globe and Mail
1949-1975"--Jennifer Harvie and Richard Paul Knowles </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Criticism in a Canadian Social Context:
Nathan Cohen's Theatre Criticism 1946-1971"--Don Rubin
</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"In Hope and Anger: Oscar Ryan at the
Canadian Tribune 1955-1988" --Mayte Gómez
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"The Classical Humanist: Jamie Portman at
the Calgary Herald 1959-1975 and the Southam News Service 1975-1987"--Moira
Day </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"The Archetypal Enthusiast: Urjo Kareda at
the Toronto Star 1971-1975"--Denis Johnston </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"The Critic as Cultural Nationalist: Don
Rubin at the Toronto Star 1968-1972 and the Canadian Theatre Review
1974-1983"--Ira Levine </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The Post-Nationalist Period:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Subverting Modernisms in B.C.: Christopher
Dafoe at the Vancouver Sun 1968-1975"--James Hoffman
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Journalist or Critic?: Brian Brennan at
the Calgary Herald 1975-1988"--Diane Bessai </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"The Iconoclast Sceptic on the Beat: Gina
Mallet at the Toronto Star 1976-1984"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>--Alan Filewod </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Establishing Contact Between Two Cultures:
Marianne Ackerman at the Montreal Gazette 1983-1987"--Leanore Lieblein
</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Theatre: Transgression or Tribal
Celebration--Ray Conlogue at the Globe and Mail 1978-1998"--Robert
Nunn </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Selected Bibliography:--Anton
Wagner </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The University of Toronto Press is extending a
20% ($12) publication discount to ACTR members for <EM>Establishing Our
Boundaries</EM>. Please quote the "UTP Marketing Code
1025."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Copies of the book can be ordered from the
University of Toronto Press at 1-800-565-9523 or 416-667-7791, or by mail at
Orders, University of Toronto Press, 5201 Dufferin Street, North York, Ontario,
M3H 5T8.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>The UTP jacket for the hard cover book quotes Richard Plant on
the back cover: "...I expect that this book will prove to be one of the
most valuable ever made available about Canadian theatre."</FONT></DIV>
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