Shakespeare in St John’s
Shakespeare, like everything else, is different in Newfoundland. Most notably Shakespeare is important in a way that he seldom seems to be elsewhere. People like Shakespeare, produce Shakespeare, and go to Shakespeare, not because plays are presented under the sanctified auspices of a mass-audience...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/ctr.54.007 2023-12-31T10:19:30+01:00 Shakespeare in St John’s Ayres, Peter 1988 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.54.007 https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.54.007 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Canadian Theatre Review volume 54, page 34-38 ISSN 0315-0836 1920-941X Visual Arts and Performing Arts journal-article 1988 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.54.007 2023-12-01T08:18:25Z Shakespeare, like everything else, is different in Newfoundland. Most notably Shakespeare is important in a way that he seldom seems to be elsewhere. People like Shakespeare, produce Shakespeare, and go to Shakespeare, not because plays are presented under the sanctified auspices of a mass-audience Shakespearean festival in a place inevitably called Stratford, or because they are being done in fringe productions by terribly exciting experimental directors, but because they are good entertainment, good theatre, and good box-office. Within the last twelve months in St John’s, there have been four significant Shakespearean productions, all of them reasonably successful in attracting the audiences, and sustaining the enthusiasm, that support and have supported a number of different traditions of Shakespearean production in St John’s over a considerable period of time. Interesting as productions in their own right, and as approaches to the larger issues of Shakespearean production, they also provide a microcosm of the larger world of theatre in St John’s. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Canadian Theatre Review 54 34 38 |
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Shakespeare, like everything else, is different in Newfoundland. Most notably Shakespeare is important in a way that he seldom seems to be elsewhere. People like Shakespeare, produce Shakespeare, and go to Shakespeare, not because plays are presented under the sanctified auspices of a mass-audience Shakespearean festival in a place inevitably called Stratford, or because they are being done in fringe productions by terribly exciting experimental directors, but because they are good entertainment, good theatre, and good box-office. Within the last twelve months in St John’s, there have been four significant Shakespearean productions, all of them reasonably successful in attracting the audiences, and sustaining the enthusiasm, that support and have supported a number of different traditions of Shakespearean production in St John’s over a considerable period of time. Interesting as productions in their own right, and as approaches to the larger issues of Shakespearean production, they also provide a microcosm of the larger world of theatre in St John’s. |
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