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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
Canadian Association for Theatre Research/ Association canadienne de la
recherch</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>e</span></b><b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> théâtrale is
pleased to announce the winner of the </span></b><b><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>200</span></b><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>9</span></b><b><span
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Robert Lawrence Prize. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
Lawrence Prize is awarded to </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>Jill Carter, for her paper “Shaking the
Paluwala Tree: Fashioning Internal ‘Gathering Houses’ and Re-Fashioning
the Spaces of Popular Entertainment through Contemporary Investigations into
Native Performance Culture (NpC).”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The
committee was very impressed with Jill Carter's presentation. She delivered it
well and with conviction and charisma. The argument Carter makes about the
representation of First Nations Elders on the stage and discrimination against
older female theatre practitioners is an issue that has not received sufficient
critical analysis. The committee agrees that this is a genuinely important
paper: it speaks to an urgent issue in Native theatre in Canada - ageism and
the forgetting of the movement's Elders on stage - and does a superb job of
thinking through the economics of the problem. Carter makes her points clearly
and supports them well with information gathered from her interviews with
members of Spiderwoman Theatre and her other observations. Her use of personal
anecdotes is both productive and meaningful. Carter’s stimulating and
thought-provoking paper combines research with rhetorical force, opening up
wide and forward-looking implications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Committee also gives honourable mention to two
other outstanding emerging scholars: Robin Whittaker for “Toward the
Rehistoricization of Contemporary Amateur Theatre Practice: The (Un)Disciplined
Case of Edmonton’s Walterdale Playhouse,” and Heather Davis-Fisch
for “’Acting Native’ and ‘Becoming Native’: The
Role of Mimesis in Charles Francis Hall’s Search for Franklin
Survivors.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Robert Lawrence Prize was established in 1995 by
the Association to honour the memory and contribution of a valued member and
friend. The prize recognizes the research of an emerging scholar who has
presented an outstanding paper at the Association's yearly conference. The
award of $150.00 is supported by the generous donations of Mrs Robert G.
Lawrence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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