A short history of the Canadian Players, 1954-1966 ...

• Main Author: Penistan, Violet Mary
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2009
• Subjects: Moosonee; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0099129; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0099129

A brief history of the Canadian Players, a theatre company which toured across Canada and the United States from 1954 -1966. The company played in cities and university centres and in small towns and communities from Moosonee and Flin Ron in the North to the southern United States and from Newfoundland and the New England States to Vancouver Island and southern California. The nucleus of the Canadian Players came from the Stratford Shakespearean Festival. Robin Patterson and Laurel Crosby crossed the continent as agents of the company, interesting influential citizens in sponsoring a theatrical company performing the plays of Shaw and Shakespeare. From a small company of eight actors performing Saint Joan on a bare stage the company grew to two casts and crews of up to twenty members, who spent eight months annually travelling by bus to perform across the length and breadth of the continent. The information about the Canadian Players was obtained from letters, chiefly those from Robin Patterson to Tom ...