Wrestling with Regionalism in Atlantic Canada: The Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre
I will preface my discussion of the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (PARC) with the following caveat. Although I spent over ten years of my adult life on Canada’s East Coast, and held extended residence in three out of four of the Atlantic provinces, I was acutely aware throughout that time of...
| Published in: | Canadian Theatre Review |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
2003
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.114.008 https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.114.008 |
| Summary: | I will preface my discussion of the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (PARC) with the following caveat. Although I spent over ten years of my adult life on Canada’s East Coast, and held extended residence in three out of four of the Atlantic provinces, I was acutely aware throughout that time of my C.F.A. status. “C.F.A.,” for those who have never visited Newfoundland, stands for “Come From Away.” The term is shortened to “From Away” in the Maritimes, but the condition – and the multiple attitudes it evokes – are, for all intents and purposes, the same. As a “From Away,” one is regularly reminded, in sometimes conspicuous but often subtle ways, of the depth of history, personal and cultural, from which one is not so much cut off as set safely at arm’s length. A “From Away” can experience the East Coast; but it is the experience of the visitor – and, if you’re lucky, the guest. And this, of course, also shapes the degree to which – and the ways in which – one can actually know the East Coast. |
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