Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award

[Don Perkins]

On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Ches Skinner wrote:

> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 15:14:07 -0600
> From: Ches Skinner <Skinner at HG.ULETH.CA>
> To: CANDRAMA at hermes.csd.unb.ca
> Subject: Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award
>
> This past weekend at the 16th Annual Alberta Writers Guild Awards in
> Calgary, Ron Chambers' Three Really Nasty Plays (Red Deer College Press,
> 1998) won the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award. The collection contains Pretty
> Blue, Dirt, and Marg Szkaluba. All three have been produced
> professionally in Canada.
> Ron teaches at the University of Lethbridge.


>
> Might I add to this, having seen two of the plays in production, that Dirt
> is especially interesting as a study of the small-time
> business/bottom-line mentality at work, and of the personal consequences
> of the "take any job at any cost to keep off welfare" ethic we are
> constantly encouraged to adopt.  I hope to have it, at least, on a course
> at the soonest. It made the members of an Alberta LIBERAL party
> constituency association pretty uncomfortable with its implications, the
> night I saw it.  Heaven knows what it might have done to a P.C. group.

Don Perkins
U. of Alberta