Collective Creation, Collaboration and Devising: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, Volume 12 (Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, 12) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887547559 ISBN 13: 9780887547553

Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press, 2009

Synopsis

Sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.

About this title

About the Author:

Bruce Barton is an educator, playwright, dramaturg, and director. Born in Montreal, raised and educated in Ontario, he spent from 1991 through 2001 living on Canada’s East Coast, including Corner Brook, NF, Charlottetown, PE, and Halifax, NS. Bruce received a doctorate in Drama and Theatre from the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto, where he now holds a position in playwriting and dramaturgy. He has articles published in Canadian Theatre Review, Theatre Research in Canada, Essays in Drama, and Canada on Stage. Additional book projects include a theoretical study of the relationship between theatre and film (2004) and a critical history of Atlantic Canadian theatre (2005).

He is currently completing an extensive entry on Canadian Drama in English for the online Canadian Encyclopedia, and he is the author of the annual, year-end drama review essay for the University of Toronto Quarterly. He is also the editor of Theatre Research in Canada. As dramaturg, Bruce has worked extensively with new and established playwrights throughout Canada, and is currently focusing on physically-based theatre creation (specifically with Toronto’s Number Eleven Theatre). Bruce is a national award-winning playwright with credits in stage and video production, as well as CBC radio drama. His play Roswell is included in New Canadian Drama 8, published by Borealis Press. He is a past-president of the P

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"As the essays in this collection illustrate, the proximate positioning of concepts can be as illuminating as that of living bodies in performance. Inserting a fresh consideration of collaboration between the easily conflated terms collective creation and devising calls for a reconsideration of all three concepts, in isolation and in conversation, in abstract idealization and in concrete historical applications." —from the introduction by Bruce Barton

About this edition

• Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0887547559
• ISBN 13: 9780887547553
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Barton Bruce