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...
Published in: | Theatre Research International |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1993
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307883300017910 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0307883300017910 |
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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