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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Matthew,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Very cool discoveries! You might enjoy reading Christopher Grobe’s
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theatre-survey/article/abs/why-its-easier-to-act-with-a-telephone-than-a-man/48A848ED6149027C058AB562045DB8DA">
2016 <i>Theatre Survey </i>article</a>, “Why It’s ‘Easier to Act with a Telephone than a Man” as well as his 2016
<i>Theater </i>article, “Every Nerve Keyed Up: ‘Telegraph Plays’ and Networked Performance, 1850-1900.” I believe his focus is primarily US-based performance but I’m sure you’ll find connections to your focus on BC.
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<p class="MsoNormal">I hope this helps. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes with your research,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marlis<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Marlis Schweitzer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Professor, Dept. of Theatre & Performance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">York University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Candrama <candrama-bounces@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca> on behalf of Matthew Tomkinson <matttomkinson@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, March 31, 2023 at 7:40 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"candrama@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca" <candrama@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Candrama] Question re: Theatrophones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I am currently researching "opera by telephone" in BC, and have only come across one or two productions so far that incorporated this technology.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In 1893, G.C. Hodge (manager of the Burrard Inlet and New Westminster Telephone Company) set up a few receivers in the rafters of Herring's Opera House in New Wesminster.
In doing so, he claims to have invented the first proto-radio in the province.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">A couple years later, in 1895, he did the same for a performance of
<i>The Pirates of Penzance</i>, which was broadcast to Vancouver, Ladner, Cloverdale, Whatcom, Seattle, and St. Mary's hospital just down the street from the theatre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I'm wondering if anyone might have further info about this short-lived period of media history, or any potential leads re: earlier and/or later examples of the theatrophone
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Matthew<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Matthew Tomkinson
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">PhD, Theatre Studies,<span class="gmaildefault"> UBC</span><br>
Web: <a href="http://www.matthewtomkinson.com" target="_blank">matthewtomkinson.com</a><br>
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/mtthwtmknsn" target="_blank">@mtthwtmknsn</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">I am grateful to live and work on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the qʼʷa:n̓ƛʼən̓
(Kwantlen), q̓ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), SEMYOME (Semiahmoo), and sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen) Nations.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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