Looking for Canadian biogrpahical dramas

[Brian Morton]

Ned and Jack - Sheldon Rosen
McClure by Monroe Scott
Bethune - Rod Langley
Gone the Burning Sun - Ken Mitchell
The Mary Shelley Play - Mary Baldridge

Brian Morton



On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:03 PM, David Ferry <appledor at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> The Donnelly Trilogy (Sticks and Stones (part 1); St. Nicholas Hotel (part
> 2); Handcuffs (part 3) by James Reaney; The Dismissal by James Reaney;
> Baldoon by C.H. Gervais and James Reaney.
>
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> On Oct 30, 2013, at 6:08 PM, Louise Forsyth <louise.forsyth at SHAW.CA>
> wrote:
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> Here are suggestions for a few Québec plays in translation – the last four
> are in my anthology :****
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> Raoul Granger, *Bonneau et la Bellehumeur* (bilingual publication)****
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> Laurier Gareau, *La trahison *(Louis Riel)****
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> Louisette Dussault, *Mommy* (autobiography)****
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> Jovette Marchessault, *The Edge of Earth is Too Near, Violette Leduc*****
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> Michèle Magny, *Marina, the Blush of Life*****
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> Pol Pelletier, *Joy* (autobiography)****
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> Louise Forsyth****
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> *De :* Canadian Theatre Research [mailto:CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA<CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA>]
> *De la part de* T. Berto
> *Envoyé :* 30 octobre 2013 14:13
> *À :* CANDRAMA at LISTSERV.UNB.CA
> *Objet :* Looking for Canadian biogrpahical dramas****
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> 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>
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> ****
>
> Dr. T. Berto
> School of English and Theatre Studies,
> University of Guelph.
> aberto at uoguelph.ca****
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