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[Greenwood, Audrey]

CTR 166, Spring 2016
Performing Politicians<http://bit.ly/ctronline166>
Edited by Laura Levin, Barry Freeman


CTR 166 Performing Politicians, edited by Barry Freeman and Laura Levin, explores the Canadian performance community's longstanding engagement with political culture as well as its fascination with the staging of politicians. Inspired by forms of theatre staged within and in response to the 2015 federal election, this issue suggests that the many political figures appearing on the Canadian stage, and the many theatre artists who have recently run for political office, reveal a growing recognition of politics as itself a site of theatre. This topic is explored in the form of a Wrecking Ball-ripped-from-the-headlines cabarets staged across Canada over the past decade in response to recent political happenings.



CTR 166 actively embraces this riotous format of political cabaret. The issue alternates quickly, and sometimes jarringly, between critical articles and short satirical sketches: rants, reflections, scripts, pranks, letters, dance routines, a course syllabus, and more. Many of these texts take the form of #elxn42 dispatches, offering timely commentary on the dramaturgical conventions and key players of the recent federal election-from Wrecking Ball scripts by Marty Chan and Frances Koncan that skewer party leaders and election processes to a string of overly earnest emails written by Conservative Party nominee Chris Lloyd to former PM Stephen Harper (penned before he was outed as a performance artist who had infiltrated the party). The featured script, Common Boots Theatre's The Public Servant, delves into the backstage experiences of women civil servants-the bureaucratic soldiers who carry out the administrative work necessary to sustain the public images of political parties and government ministers.



Online features include a vivid slideshow of production photos tracing the political histories staged over several decades by Toronto's VideoCabaret and poignant archival scripts from past Wrecking Balls by Yvette Nolan, Janet Munsil, and Guillermo Verdecchia, which give a broader sense of the history of the Wrecking Ball as theatrical form.


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