Looking for Canadian biogrpahical dramas

[Louise Forsyth]

Here are suggestions for a few Québec plays in translation – the last four are in my anthology :

 

Raoul Granger, Bonneau et la Bellehumeur (bilingual publication)

Laurier Gareau, La trahison (Louis Riel)

Louisette Dussault, Mommy (autobiography)

Jovette Marchessault, The Edge of Earth is Too Near, Violette Leduc

Michèle Magny, Marina, the Blush of Life

Pol Pelletier, Joy (autobiography)

 

Louise Forsyth

 

 

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Objet : Looking for Canadian biogrpahical dramas

 

Hello Candram:

Wondering if you could help. I'm trying to put together a reading list of Canadian biographical dramas for a first year course. That is plays that are based on real person(s) from history. 

I have a few but would love to get more. Here's what I've come up with off the top of my head.

Bill Bishop goes to war - Eric Peterson
Walsh - Sharon Pollock
It's all true - Jason Sherman
His Greatness - Daniel MacIvor
The Golden Thug - Edward Roy
Cavafy
Pasolini/Pelosi
Capote at Yado
In Which Pier Paolo Pasolini <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Paolo_Pasolini>  Sees His Own Death in the Face of a Boy 
My Night With Tennessee 
More Divine
The Emotionalists - all by Sky Gilbert
Alien Creature: A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alien_Creature:_A_Visitation_from_Gwendolyn_MacEwen&action=edit&redlink=1> 
Maggie and Pierre - Linda Griffiths
Detaining Mr. Trotsky <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Detaining_Mr._Trotsky&action=edit&redlink=1>  by Robert Fothergil <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Fothergill_%28playwright%29&action=edit&redlink=1> l
The Palace at the End - Judith Thompson
Angelique <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angelique_%28play%29&action=edit&redlink=1>  by Lorena Lillian Gale <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lorena_Lillian_Gale&action=edit&redlink=1> [ <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_plays_%28A-F%29#cite_note-41> 




Dr. T. Berto
School of English and Theatre Studies,
University of Guelph.
aberto at uoguelph.ca

 

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