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Author Carson, Neil

Title Harlequin in Hogtown : George Luscombe and Toronto Workshop Productions / Neil Carson
Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 247 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Don Valley Quixote -- 2. Strolling Player -- 3. Building a Company -- 4. Finding a Voice -- 5. Collaborative Creation I: Hey Rube! and The Mechanic -- 6. Adding the Language: Before Compiegne -- 7. Going Professional -- 8. Collaborative Creation II: Woyzeck and The Golem of Venice -- 9. The Search for Audiences -- 10. Political Entertainment: Mr Bones -- 11. Broadway Beckons -- 12. Chronicling the Revolution: Che Guevara -- 13. Collaborative Creation III: Chicago '70 -- 14. The European Repertoire -- 15. New Perspectives -- 16. Old Wine in New Bottles: Ten Lost Years -- 17. The Indignant Muse -- 18. A Vintage Season -- 19. Looking Backward -- 20. New Blood -- 21. Board Games -- 22. Catastrophe Averted -- 23. Harlequin in Hogtown -- 24. Final Act -- 25. Curtain-Call
Summary From the beginning, Luscombe envisaged his new company as part of an international contingent of artists determined to further the cause of socialism through art. He saw himself as part of a tradition which sought to bring about change by 'educational' rather than political or revolutionary means ... Unfortunately, Canadian audiences, unlike their counterparts in Russia, Germany, or England, appeared to be stubbornly indifferent to live theatre
The challenge facing the new company, therefore, was how to break through that indifference and make their audiences look at themselves and their country with new eyes. Ideally, what was needed was original Canadian plays ... Until such new works were available, however, Luscombe and his actors would have to make up their repertoire from the existing stock of world dramatic literature. But instead of treating these 'masterpieces' of bourgeois theatre with the respect normally paid to them, Luscombe intended to follow the example of Vsevolod Meyerhold, Erwin Piscator, Bertolt Brecht, and Joan Littlewood. Those directors had shown how the classics of earlier periods could be made relevant to contemporary audiences
Analysis Theatre History
Canada
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index
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Subject Luscombe, George, 1926-1999.
SUBJECT Luscombe, George, 1926-1999 fast
Luscombe, George. swd
Subject Toronto Workshop Productions -- History
SUBJECT Toronto Workshop Productions fast
Subject Experimental theater -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History
PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
DRAMA -- Canadian.
Experimental theater
Experimentelles Theater
Experimenteel toneel.
Toronto Workshop Productions.
Ontario -- Toronto
Toronto
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442631656
1442631651