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pleased to announce that <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">alt. theatre:
cultural diversity and the stage</I> 7.2 (December 2009) is now
out.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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features:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<P
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">• Ted Little’s editorial
(“Never Again”)--a look at intersections between oral history and performance in
the project, Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced By War, Genocide, and Other
Human Rights Violations.</SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN></B> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">• A
letter-to-the-editor by Savannah Walling, Artistic Director, Vancouver Moving
Theatre, in response to the article in <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">alt</I>. <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">theatre</I> 7.1 (September 2009) “<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">All White All Right?,” </I>in which Jerry
Wasserman publishes letters from his Vancouverplays Website about the absence of
non-white faces onstage in Vancouver.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">• Lisa
Ndejuru’s “A view from the diaspora,’ a reflection on Jennifer Capraru’s report
on Isôko’s production of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Monument
</I>in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rwanda</st1:place></st1:country-region> published
in <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">alt. theatre</I>
6.3.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">• Samer Al-Saber’s “A
Theatrical <I>Awda</I>: <st1:City w:st="on">Palestine</st1:City>,
<I>Sahmatah</I>, Refugees, and Going Home,” an essay exploring the political and
emotional power of theatre through <I>Sahmatah</I>—a play that faces head-on the
1948 catastrophe of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:City> on a very personal
level.</SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">•
<st1:City w:st="on">Savannah</st1:City> Walling’s “Excavating Yesterday,” a
reflection on her personal and professional journey as an artist in and of
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Vancouver</st1:City></st1:place>’s
Downtown Eastside.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">• Nicholas
Backman’s “Writing Peace: Can art be a powerful tool in building peace in the
context of <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Truth and Treason</I>?,” in
which he muses on how art can build peace through the evocation of compassion;
this is the winning essay in Teesri Duniya’s ‘Writing Peace Contest’ for
students under nineteen years of age in Quebec about Rahul Varma’s new play, <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Truth and Treason</I>, which premiered in
Montreal at the Monument-National in September 2009.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">• Alex
Bulmer’s <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Dispatch</I>, “<I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">It Happened in a Tent,</I>” a piece about
the Theatre Centre / Abit Omen / Die in Debt production of <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Book of
Judith</I>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">• Rob
Nunn’s book review of the second volume of <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Staging Coyote’s Dream: An Anthology of
First Nations Drama in English</I>, edited by Monique Mojica and Ric Knowles.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Upcoming in <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">alt.
theatre<o:p></o:p></I></SPAN></U></B></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">• Guest
editorial on theatre and politics by Rahul Varma.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">•
Elizabeth Courtney on Victoria-based Lina de Guevara’s Puente Theatre
co-production of <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Algarabia</I>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">• Adrienne
Wong’s <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Dispatch</I> on <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">The Wrecking Ball</I> and cuts to arts
funding in B.C.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=MsoNormal><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial">• Armand
Ruffo’s review of two volumes about De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group: <I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Where Stories Meet: An Oral History</I> and
<I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Stories from the Bush: The Woodland
Plays</I>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff
face=Arial>_________________________________________________________<BR>"They
were neither one thing nor the other; neither Victorians nor themselves. They
were suspended, without being, in limbo." Virginia Woolf, Between the
Acts.
<BR>_________________________________________________<BR>"Essentially, we strip
Mother Nature to a skeletal form. We still worship and appreciate that, but we
don't realize that it's a skeletal form. Not understanding that it's skeletal,
we also have no idea how close to perishing it is."--Richard
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