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In Cecilia Morgan’s forthcoming book, Sweet Canadian Girls Abroad, the little-known lives of late-nineteenth-century Canadian actresses take center stage. In this era, many Canadian women left their homes at young ages with hopes of becoming successful in the theatre circuits of the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. While only a handful of … Read More >
Since our recent publication of Shadow Woman, by Grant Hayter-Menzies, we’ve been seeing puppets everywhere!
We came across this fascinating article in the McGill News Alumni Magazine on Master of Puppets Jeffrey Achtem, AKA “Mr. Bunk”, a McGill grad who is now taking the world by storm with his cinematic puppet shows.
“Getting the silhouette … Read More >
The following excerpt is from Shadow Woman: The Extraordinary Career of Pauline Benton, by Grant Hayter-Menzies.
At least throughout the first three decades of the twentieth century, walled Beijing was, as David Strand points out, one of the few Chinese cities that “looked so traditional and Chinese and at the same time harbored the essentials of modern … Read More >
The following is excerpted from Dramaturgy of Sound in the Avant-garde and Postdramatic Theatre by Mladen Ovadija.
But what is sound to theatre, or theatre to sound? What would be the motive and the cue for our cry for sound? Whatever the answers to this quasi-Shakespearean question, it holds true that sound has become the subject … Read More >