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[Gaetan Charlebois]

What heartbreaking fucking news...

Gaetan

> From: Playwrights Union of Canada <info at PUC.CA>
> Reply-To: Playwrights Union of Canada <info at PUC.CA>
> Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 15:12:25 -0500
> To: CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA
>
> 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.
>
> --30-
> 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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