Joey Walks the Old Lost Land in Artistic Fraud’s The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland’s new production, an adaptation of Wayne Johnston’s award-winning 1998 novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, revisits the complex legacy of Newfoundland politician Joseph R. Smallwood. Smallwood, the man responsible for bringing Newfoundland into the Canadian federati...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/ctr.166.009 2023-12-31T10:12:57+01:00 Joey Walks the Old Lost Land in Artistic Fraud’s The Colony of Unrequited Dreams Freeman, Barry 2016 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.166.009 https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.166.009 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Canadian Theatre Review volume 166, page 50-53 ISSN 0315-0836 1920-941X Visual Arts and Performing Arts journal-article 2016 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.166.009 2023-12-01T08:17:48Z Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland’s new production, an adaptation of Wayne Johnston’s award-winning 1998 novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, revisits the complex legacy of Newfoundland politician Joseph R. Smallwood. Smallwood, the man responsible for bringing Newfoundland into the Canadian federation, and who served as its premier for more than two decades, was loved by many for his genuine passion for Newfoundland and resented by many others for his often disastrous political decisions. In this article, Barry Freeman finds in Robert Chafe’s adaptation of the novel for the stage not an examination of Joey as a political figure but a consideration of the deeper cultural psyche of Newfoundland trying to extricate itself from colonial rule. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Canadian Theatre Review 166 50 53 |
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Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland’s new production, an adaptation of Wayne Johnston’s award-winning 1998 novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, revisits the complex legacy of Newfoundland politician Joseph R. Smallwood. Smallwood, the man responsible for bringing Newfoundland into the Canadian federation, and who served as its premier for more than two decades, was loved by many for his genuine passion for Newfoundland and resented by many others for his often disastrous political decisions. In this article, Barry Freeman finds in Robert Chafe’s adaptation of the novel for the stage not an examination of Joey as a political figure but a consideration of the deeper cultural psyche of Newfoundland trying to extricate itself from colonial rule. |
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