Toronto Book Awards

[Anton Wagner]

The University of Toronto Press has nominated Establishing Our Boundaries: English-Canadian Theatre Criticism for the 2000 Toronto Book Awards. The shortlist finalists for the Award will be announced in early September, in conjunction with International Literacy Month celebrations, and the winner will be announced at Word on the Street, Sunday September 24th. 
Establishing Our Boundaries: English-Canadian Theatre Criticism, Anton Wagner, ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999

"A fascinating premise. By considering the output of 21 drama critics, it
attempts to construct a cultural history of Canada from 1829 to the present
day . . . an excellent collection of essays."
--Mark Fisher, Glasgow Herald, Scotland

"Wagner and his contributors have rounded up an intriguing cast of characters . . . As this valuable volume demonstrates, the true critics, for all their foibles and quirks, have brought a passionate urgency to their belief in the value of theatre that no amount of cheery promotional copy will ever be able to duplicate." --Martin Morrow, The Calgary Herald

"Reading it will expand anyone's knowledge of our culture, our theatre, and our journalism." --Robert Fulford, The Globe and Mail

"Destined to leave its mark on the history of criticism and Canadian theatre and drama." --Geraldo Ferreira de Lima, A Gazeta, Cuiabá, Brazil

"Surprisingly lively and capacious."  --Frank Moher, The National Post

"A very thorough set of essays . . . a revealing picture of the gradual emergence of a truly national theatre for English Canada through the eyes of those who chronicled it." --Ian Herbert, Theatre Record, London

"A gem . . . This is must reading for all of us--critics, artists and spectator." --Gaetan Charlesbois, Hour, Montreal

"Brilliant analytical essays . . . Boundaries is a uniquely informing, always interesting, book on a universal subject: cultural identity and the forces that form and are influenced by it." --Carol Douglass, American Theatre Critics Association Critics Quarterly



 
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