John D.

[Kathy Chung]

Hi Norman,

THanks for telling us about all these interesting activities!!

I just heard Guillermo Verdecchia read from _The Terrible But Incomplete
Journals of John D._ at the annual conference of the Association for
Canadian Theatre Research/Association de la recherche au theatrale Canada
(ACTR/ARTC) in Ottawa (HSSFC Congress, formerly the Learneds).  It was
indeed funny, thought-provoking, and passionate.

For those of you who can't make it to Vancouver to see the performance or
who would like to obtain a printed version of the text, at present it is
available in a recent (sorry, forgot to write down the details)  issue of
_Canadian Theatre Research_ (_CTR_). ... Anyone who was there in Ottawa
remember which issue?

Anyway, I'm curious about the "Legacies Project."  Would it be possible
for you to tell us more about this or share some of the information to be
presented on 12 June with the subscribers of CANDRAMA and the members of
ACTR/ARTC?  As creators, students, teachers, and supporters of Canadian
theatre and arts, it might be useful for us to share information about
interesting projects and strategies for funding the arts and arts
education/research (much discussed issues at the ACTR/ARTC conference)!

Cheers, Kathy.
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Kathy Chung  <kchung at chass.utoronto.ca>
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama
University of Toronto, CANADA



On Fri, 29 May 1998, Norman Armour wrote:

> Thinking about sex all the time.
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> The terrible but incomplete journals of John D.
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> A Rumble Production
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> Written by Governor General's Award-winning author Guillermo Verdecchia
> (Fronteras Americanas),The terrible but incomplete journals of John D. is a
> melancholy, funny, and musical look a the multifarious strains of
> deception.
>
> A  "regular, straight, white, fin-de-siecle kind of guy", a woman known
> only as M., and a cello are the central elements of this chamber piece
> built around the curmudgeonly introspections of the reluctant,
> quasi-EveryMan, John D.  The Terrible But Incomplete Journals of John D. is
> an invitation to listen, reflect, judge and, maybe, just maybe, forgive.
>
> June 4 - 14, 8:30pm at Performance Works on Granville Island. Tickets: $12/$10
> Pay What You Can June 7 & 9. Call TicketMaster at 280-3311.
>
> AND Rumble has produced a studio recorded CD of The terrible but incomplete
> journals of John D., which will be released at a CD launch on June 11th ,
> 7pm at Performance works.
>
> AND in conjunction with Rumble's presentation of John D., Pacific
> Cinematheque presents Terrible Voices: four days of films in ferocious
> first-person. This is four-day exhibition of independent, innovative,
> original cinema in frequently ferocious, always terrifyingly direct
> first-person featuring: Alan Willams' The Cockroach That Ate Cincinnati,
> and Anne Clair Poirier's Tue as crie (Let Me Go).
>
> AND in keeping with Rumble's process for developing  new work, a reading of
> the upcoming multimedia adaptation by Sally Clark of Chekhov's Three
> Sisters will be held at Performance Works, June 6, 3pm. Presented in
> conjunction with the Arts Club Theatre.
>
> AND Rumble Productions is now an active member in the Legacies Project. The
> Legacies Project is composed of cultural and educational institutions and
> involves the development of  arts and public affairs programming which will
> be presented between 1998 and 2001.  An information session about the
> project will be held at Performance Works, June 12, 4pm.
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