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[Reid Gilbert]

Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue:  Marie Clements

Edited by Reid Gilbert
 

Marie Clements has emerged as an important playwright, actor, producer,
filmmaker, and activist for women’s, aboriginal, and minority rights.
Her work is widely produced in Canada and internationally; she is often
published and anthologized; she is the recipient of numerous awards in
various categories, and she has become a strong voice of social concern
throughout the Americas. Her work is often discussed at Canadian and
international symposia and in a growing number of articles and
introductions. The Editorial Board of TRiC feel it is time for a special
issue to gather together a body of criticism on various aspects of
Clements’s work. We invite, also, articles on related issues that make
reference to Clements’s work, but do not exclusively focus on her work. 

Essays might consider, among many other issues: 

      The feminist, aboriginal, social, and political thematics of her
work;

      The material condition of production and performance of
alternative, aboriginal, and women’s theatre;

      The writing and rehearsal process usually employed by Clements
(and others), developing a performance through collaboration, readings,
workshop productions, and group development;

      Influences, including classical drama, aboriginal memory
narrative, story telling, film montage, and others;

      Ecology and her treatment of the land and the community;

      The semiotics of her complex staging; simultaneity of images,
characterizations, and themes;

      Adaptations among various media in which her work has appeared,
especially, but not only, the film, Unnatural and Accidental;

      Memory and space-time in Clements’s work; historical revision in
Clements’s work;

      The vision of North in her work;

      Issues of Aboriginal theatre; comparisons of Clements’s work to
that of other playwrights and storytellers; issues of non-Western
staging and dramatic conventions;

      The treatment of men in Clements’s work; relations between men and
women in her work;

      The multi-vocal, allegorical iconography of Clements’s work;

      Dreams, visions and totems in Clements’s work;

      The visual graphology of Clements’s plays;

      Clements’s use of projections, surtitles, lighting, symbolic
geographies, and soundscapes;

      Scenography and locale in productions of Clements’s work;

      Humour in Clements’s work;

      The family—daughters and mothers, sons and mothers, husbands and
wives; sisters and 
spiritual sisters—in Clements’s work; the family and reservation life.

      Issues of indigeneity and performance in a transnational context. 
       
       

Submissions, in English or French, should be addressed to the  

Editors, Theatre Research in Canada,

Graduate Centre for Study of Drama,

University of Toronto,

214 College Street, 3rd Floor,

Toronto, Canada M5T 2Z9

FAX 1-416-971-1378

Email: tric.rtac at utoronto.ca

Website: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/TRIC).  

All submissions should be sent to the TRiC office, which will forward
them to the Guest Editor.

Please submit via email attachment in Word. 
 

All submissions are refereed. Full articles should normally be no longer
than 5,000 words, typed double-spaced, following the internal
documentation style of Joseph Gibaldi, MLA Style Manual and Guide to
Scholarly Publishing (2nd. Ed. New York: MLA, 1998). Please employ an
absolute minimum of document formatting in all electronic submissions
(beyond the indentation of quotations and the use of endnotes). Endnotes
are permitted (do not use footnotes), but should be kept to a minimum.
All published articles will be included on our electronic website. 

The issue is expected to appear in FALL 2010. 

DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF SUBMISSIONS:  Feb 1, 2009. 

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ReiCo-editor, Canadian Theatre Review
Editorial Board, Theatre Research in Canada
Executive committee, Canadian Association for Theatre Research
Dept. of English, Capilano University (retired)
rgilbert at capilanou.ca