Toward a Reception of Canadian Plays in German-Speaking Theaters

• Main Author: Glapp, Albert Reiner
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Toronto 2001
• Subjects: Canada; Faraway; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/TRIC/article/view/7034

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...