National coverage

[Edward Mullaly]

Yes, indeed. While I do enjoy having Toronto there to visit, I must agree
that it is our most provincially-minded and artistically insulated area. But
I'm not sure how to bridge the moat................


At 10:53 AM 11/12/1998 -0600, Deborah A. Cottreau wrote:
>Gaetan et al,
>
>I never really understood how "Torontocentric" this country was until I
>moved further and further away from the so-called "centre".  If you feel
>this way in Montreal, Canada's second largest urban centre, imagine how
>they feel in St John's where they do some amazing, kick-ass work, or haow
>they feel here in Saskatchewan, which, generally speaking, is overlooked
>by the rest of Canada most of the time -- except, of course, when Lepage
>comes to co-direct...
>
>Deborah Cottreau
>
>On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Gaetan Charlebois wrote:
>
>> I don't know about the rest of you but after months of forcing myself to
>> slog through the Globe and Mail and just a couple of weeks of the National
>> Post, I've given up on any kind of national theatre coverage emerging from
>> Toronto (don't get me started on MacLeans). I think the final insult came
>> with the first Sat. edition of the Post not having a word about
>> theatre...anywhere. And if I open our soi-disant National Paper (G&M) one
>> more time to find JUST the theatre in Toronto covered, I'll join a
>> monastery.  Why aren't we, in the rest of the country, more yanked off
>> about this?
>>
>> Gaetan Charlebois
>>
>
>
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