Summer in the Bight Theatre Festival
Rising Tide’s Summer in the Bight originated in Trinity in 1991 with Rick Boland’ s monologue on the origin of Newfoundland’s judi cial system. It developed into a Newfoundland historical pageant written by Boland and Donna Butt which was first performed in 1993.The pageant led to a full fledged the...
| 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)
1996
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.89.014 https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.89.014 |
| Summary: | Rising Tide’s Summer in the Bight originated in Trinity in 1991 with Rick Boland’ s monologue on the origin of Newfoundland’s judi cial system. It developed into a Newfoundland historical pageant written by Boland and Donna Butt which was first performed in 1993.The pageant led to a full fledged theatre festival in 1994. In its third season the festival,running from late Jun e to September, featu red plays by Newfoundland playwri ghts David French, Michael Cook, Al Pittman, Des Walsh, and Ted Russell, mainland collaborators Fern e Downey and Paul Ledoux, and Shakespeare. |
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