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[Playwrights Union of Canada]

                                                                    For
Immediate Release

November 28, 2000


Theatre Community Saddened at the Loss of
Playwright, CAROL BOLT


The Canadian theatre community is deeply saddened by the death of Carol
Bolt early this morning at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto from complications
due to liver cancer.  A founding member and, for many years, president of
the Playwrights Union of Canada (as well as its predecessors Playwrights
Canada and Playwrights Co-op), Carol Bolt was a constant champion of
Canadian playwrights and the Women's Caucus of PUC.

Her most produced play remains the thriller "One Night Stand" which
premiered at the Tarragon Theatre in 1977 starring Brent Carver and
Chapelle Jaffe and was later produced as a film by Allan King for CBC-TV.
Other outstanding works from her prolific career include "Buffalo Jump"
(Theatre Passe Muraille, 1972); "Red Emma" (Toronto Free Theatre, 1974,
also adapted into an opera by the Canadian Opera Company with composer Gary
Kulesha, 1977); "Shelter" (St. Lawrence Centre Theatre Season 1975); "Love
or Money" (Blyth Festival, 1981); "Escape Entertainment" (Tarragon Theatre,
1982); and "Famous" (Tarragon Extra Space, 1997).  She also wrote many
children's plays including "Cyclone Jack" and "My Best Friend is Twelve
Feet High" both produced at Young People's Theatre in the 1970s and "Ice
Time" which won the 1988 Chalmer's Award for Best Children's Play.  In
addition, Ms. Bolt was a prolific writer for radio and television, and was
midway through a new work, "Lives of the Poet", at the time of her death.

According to Ken Gass, Artistic Director of the Factory Theatre, "She was a
tremendous pioneering force in Canadian theatre, both in terms of her own
body of work and her tireless advocacy on behalf of playwrights across the
country.  She will be deeply missed."

Carol Bolt was born in Winnipeg in 1941 and graduated from the University
of British Columbia before moving to Toronto.  Married to actor David Bolt,
the couple have one son, Alexander.  There will be a private interment at
Mt. Pleasant Cemetery and plans for a public memorial will be announced
shortly.

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For further information contact
Ken Gass, Factory Theatre (416) 504-4473
Sheldon Rosen, Executive Member, Playwrights Union of Canada   (416) 363-9348


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