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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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 <EM>The Worlds of Herman Voaden</EM> <A
href="http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Theatre/voaden/index.htm">http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Theatre/voaden/index.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The site includes 13 previously published but out
of print plays and four unpublished texts. These include the dramatization of
Louis Hemon's novel <EM>Maria Chapdelaine</EM> (1938), the dance scenario
<EM>The Masque of the Red Death </EM>(1943) and <EM>Emily Carr</EM>
(1960).<BR> <BR>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 <EM>Toronto Globe</EM>, <EM>Saturday Night</EM>, the <EM>Canadian
Forum</EM>, <EM>New Frontier</EM>, <EM>Theatre Arts</EM>, the <EM>Canadian
Theatre Review</EM> and <EM>Theatre History in Canada</EM>.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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 <EM>The Worlds of
Herman Voaden </EM>and also contributes his University of Toronto Ph.D. thesis,
<EM>Herman Voaden's Symphonic Expressionism</EM>.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>The Worlds of Herman Voaden</EM> site links to
the complete inventory of the Herman Voaden Papers at the York University
Archives <BR><A
href="http://info.library.yorku.ca/depts/asc/Finding_aids/Voaden_webpage/hvindex.htm">http://info.library.yorku.ca/depts/asc/Finding_aids/Voaden_webpage/hvindex.htm</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The link for the Herman Voaden National Playwriting
Competition at Queen's University is <A
href="http://www.queensu.ca/drama/">http://www.queensu.ca/drama/</A></FONT></DIV>
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