The Aboriginal Presence in Canadian Theatre and the Evolution of Being Canadian

Skylight Theatre's productions of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Earl Bales Park in Toronto (1987 and 1989) situated Prospero on the Queen Charlotte Islands off the coast of British Columbia, set the action during the late eighteenth-century voyages of Captain James Cook—the period of the ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Theatre Research International
Main Author: Peters, Helen
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1993
Subjects:
Literature and Literary Theory
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Queen Charlotte
haida
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883300017910
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0307883300017910
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Summary:Skylight Theatre's productions of Shakespeare's The Tempest in Earl Bales Park in Toronto (1987 and 1989) situated Prospero on the Queen Charlotte Islands off the coast of British Columbia, set the action during the late eighteenth-century voyages of Captain James Cook—the period of the area's colonization—and cast Ariel and Caliban as Haida Indians, Canadian Aboriginal people.

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