Why North? Whose North? Where North?

Drawing upon work presented at the 1999 ACTR meetings and situated within a decades-old debate about Canadian theatre, these four essays explore representations of the North in plays by southern and northern playwrights and theatre companies. The authors explore the history of Yukon's Nakai the...

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Main Author: Grace, Sherrill
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto 2000
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Online Access:https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/12643
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spelling ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/12643 2023-05-15T16:54:44+02:00 Why North? Whose North? Where North? Grace, Sherrill 2000-01-01 text/html https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/12643 eng eng Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/12643/13530 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/12643 Copyright (c) 2015 Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada; Volume 21 Number 1 / Spring 2000 1913-9101 1196-1198 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2000 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-07-11T11:51:01Z Drawing upon work presented at the 1999 ACTR meetings and situated within a decades-old debate about Canadian theatre, these four essays explore representations of the North in plays by southern and northern playwrights and theatre companies. The authors explore the history of Yukon's Nakai theatre, Quebec's "myth of the North," a popular play by a now forgotten prairie playwright, and images of the Inuit in plays by Inuit and non-Inuit. D'après le travail présenté a l'asemblée de l'ARCT en 1999, et situés dans un débat continue sur le théâtre canadien, ces quatres articles examinent les représentations du Nord dans des oeuvres théâtrales d'écrivains et de troupes venant du nord et du sud. Les auteurs examinent l'histoire du Théâtre Nakai du Yukon, le "mythe du nord" au Québec, une pièce populaire d'un auteur maintenant oublié et, finalement, des représentations de l'Inuit dans des pièces créées par des Inuits et des non-Inuits. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit inuits Yukon University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals Yukon
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description Drawing upon work presented at the 1999 ACTR meetings and situated within a decades-old debate about Canadian theatre, these four essays explore representations of the North in plays by southern and northern playwrights and theatre companies. The authors explore the history of Yukon's Nakai theatre, Quebec's "myth of the North," a popular play by a now forgotten prairie playwright, and images of the Inuit in plays by Inuit and non-Inuit. D'après le travail présenté a l'asemblée de l'ARCT en 1999, et situés dans un débat continue sur le théâtre canadien, ces quatres articles examinent les représentations du Nord dans des oeuvres théâtrales d'écrivains et de troupes venant du nord et du sud. Les auteurs examinent l'histoire du Théâtre Nakai du Yukon, le "mythe du nord" au Québec, une pièce populaire d'un auteur maintenant oublié et, finalement, des représentations de l'Inuit dans des pièces créées par des Inuits et des non-Inuits.
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op_source Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada; Volume 21 Number 1 / Spring 2000
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