Toward a Reception of Canadian Plays in German-Speaking Theaters
Not long ago, it would not have occurred to Europeans interested in theatre that there was a lively theatrical scene in Canada. The plays written in the wake of Canadian nationalism and regionalism in the late 1960s and 1970s were hardly of interest to European audiences. They were too specifically...
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ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/7034 2023-05-15T17:22:04+02:00 Toward a Reception of Canadian Plays in German-Speaking Theaters Glapp, Albert Reiner 2001-06-01 text/html https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/7034 eng eng Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/7034/8093 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/7034 Copyright (c) 2015 Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada; Volume 22 Number 2 / Fall 2001 1913-9101 1196-1198 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion collection 2001 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-07-11T11:50:31Z Not long ago, it would not have occurred to Europeans interested in theatre that there was a lively theatrical scene in Canada. The plays written in the wake of Canadian nationalism and regionalism in the late 1960s and 1970s were hardly of interest to European audiences. They were too specifically Canadian, dealing as they did with life on the prairies, with Western settlement, ice hockey, the Parti Québécois, or the problems of people living in the faraway outports of Newfoundland. Since the early eighties, however, new topics and new approaches have altered the characteristic features of Canadian plays. Cultural differences have increasingly been thematized, and more and more playwrights are voicing their different experiences from marginalized positions. Experiments count more than ever before; there has been a remarkable influx of new voices, and innovative concepts are being developed by women playwrights. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals Canada Faraway ENVELOPE(-28.763,-28.763,-79.200,-79.200) |
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Not long ago, it would not have occurred to Europeans interested in theatre that there was a lively theatrical scene in Canada. The plays written in the wake of Canadian nationalism and regionalism in the late 1960s and 1970s were hardly of interest to European audiences. They were too specifically Canadian, dealing as they did with life on the prairies, with Western settlement, ice hockey, the Parti Québécois, or the problems of people living in the faraway outports of Newfoundland. Since the early eighties, however, new topics and new approaches have altered the characteristic features of Canadian plays. Cultural differences have increasingly been thematized, and more and more playwrights are voicing their different experiences from marginalized positions. Experiments count more than ever before; there has been a remarkable influx of new voices, and innovative concepts are being developed by women playwrights. |
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Toward a Reception of Canadian Plays in German-Speaking Theaters |
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Toward a Reception of Canadian Plays in German-Speaking Theaters |
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Toward a Reception of Canadian Plays in German-Speaking Theaters |
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toward a reception of canadian plays in german-speaking theaters |
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Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto |
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2001 |
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Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada; Volume 22 Number 2 / Fall 2001 1913-9101 1196-1198 |
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