Newfoundland / 1: The Powers That Be
This year the LSPU Hall, the centre of theatre in St. John’s, is celebrating “A Decade of Performance.” But that strange dramatic flavour for which Newfoundland is justly famous didn’t really begin 10 years ago. Its birth took place a few years before, when Chris Brookes started the Mummers. Then ca...
| 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)
1986
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.48.001 https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.48.001 |
| Summary: | This year the LSPU Hall, the centre of theatre in St. John’s, is celebrating “A Decade of Performance.” But that strange dramatic flavour for which Newfoundland is justly famous didn’t really begin 10 years ago. Its birth took place a few years before, when Chris Brookes started the Mummers. Then came Codco and Newfoundland became a byword for energetic alternative theatre. |
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