Staging poetry

[Sarah Stanley]

Hi Conrad,

Ted Dykstra's adaptation of Evangeline is also returning to The Confederation Centre this summer and The Citadel in the Fall. It played at Confed Centre 2 years ago and is being revisited with a new director Bob Baker.

Sarah

On Nov 30, 2014, at 6:59 AM, Susan Knutson <Susan.Knutson at USAINTEANNE.CA> wrote:

> Hi Conrad,
> 
> Evangéline, directed by Normand Godin, is a dramatization of H.W. Longfellow's poem Evangeline.  The musical drama was performed for eleven seasons in French and in English, by Les Araignées du boui-boui, in Clare, Nova Scotia. It was a semi-professional, prize-winning, community production.
> 
> Susan
> 
> Quoting Conrad Alexandrowicz <conrada at uvic.ca>:
> 
>> I am currently revising an article for publication that essentially reflects upon my recent SSHRC-funded project staging selections from the published poetry of Lorna Crozier and Erín Moure. This resulted in the creation of a number of staged works.
>> 
>> When I began this work I did a quick survey of recent work of this kind in Canada, and came up with very little in the professional theatre, apart from a couple of notable and inspiring examples: The Four Horsemen Project, by Volcano Theatre, and Doing Leonard Cohen, by One Yellow Rabbit.
>> 
>> I know that some work of this kind has been going on in the academy, but I'd like to gather some real evidence here.
>> 
>> Does anyone have anything to share in this regard? A project in which you have been involved, or which you know about?
>> 
>> I would very much appreciate hearing from you!
>> 
>> Warm regards,
>> --
>> Conrad Alexandrowicz, Associate Professor
>> Movement, Acting and Devised Physical Theatre
>> Department of Theatre
>> University of Victoria
>> 
>> Cell: 250.580.5524
>> Office: 250.853.3727
> 
> 
> Susan Knutson, PhD
> Professor, Département des études anglaises
> Université Sainte-Anne
> Church Point, NS B0W 1M0
> (902) 769-2114 ext 7151
> 
> "Aimer son projet, le répéter, le fondre en soi, le citer avait un jour dit Claire Dérive au bord de la mer."    Nicole Brossard, Picture Theory.