Performing Blackface on the Newfoundland Stage: The Rossleys, Transnational Connections, and Early Twentieth Century Theatre in St. John’s

• Published in: Theatre Research in Canada
• Main Authors: Quigley, Colleen, Templeton, Melissa
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, University of Toronto 2020
• Subjects: Canada; Venus; Colleen; Quigley; Newfoundland; Terre-Neuve
• Online Access: http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071756ar; https://doi.org/10.3138/tric.41.1.64

The subject of race does not often breach the surface of contemporary theatre in Newfoundland. When it does, racial prejudice tends to be presented in ways that absolve white Newfoundlanders of guilt while echoing Canadian nationalist sentiments that position racism, especially anti-black racism, ou...