Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock - Softcover

Grace, Sherrill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889225869 ISBN 13: 9780889225862

Verlag: Talonbooks, 2008

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Book by Grace Sherrill

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"An absorbing biography that confronts the realities of writing lives -with all of the detours, diversions and distractions. Sherrill Grace involves the reader in the process of discovering her subject and how life transforms itself to the stage. This is a work that reveals the complementary roles of an important playwright, actor, director and artistic director in the often uncertain world of the Canadian theatre. This is a biography that not only crosses Canada but disciplines."
-- Ira Nadel

"Rich in detail and nuanced understanding, Sherrill Grace's Making Theatre establishes a new standard for theatrical biography. A profound meditation on the power of theatre, the art of storytelling and the cost of creativity, this expert study of a life lived publicly and communally succeeds in probing Pollock's multi-layered psychological drama while holding up a mirror to our geography and history. Grace's insightful exploration of the vanished artefact of theatrical performance and the traces of Pollock's successive re-inventions of herself is unrivalled."
-- Patricia Demers

"Sherrill Grace's Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock is a great read: beautifully crafted, detailed and compelling. It is also a thoroughly researched and deeply empathetic account of the life and work of a feisty, opinionated, and deeply committed woman who is arguably Canada's greatest playwright. This book is required reading for anyone interested in the movement that forever changed the face of Canadian theatre in the 1960s, 70s, and beyond. It is also the life story of a great woman whose will and determination have consistenty resisted the assimilation of her feminist, anti-racist politics into mainstream platitudes. The woman Grace so brilliantly showcases here is a strong, independent, and outspoken model for us all."
-- Ric Knowles

"The approach thoughtfully chosen and developed with particularly original pizzaz by Grace to tell the Pollock story is a skilful blending of multiple contexts and a weaving of a dazzling array of impeccably verified facts, accounts of personal events and issues beginning in Pollock's early years, analyses of plays, rehearsals, and performances, discussions of political and ethical stakes embedded in moments of history, reminders of exciting developments across the anglophone theatre landscape in Canada, and probing queries into the meaning of concepts and practices such as dramaturgy, writing, theatricality, autobiography and biography."
-- Louise H. Forsyth

Reseña del editor:

While readers of theater history will find this biography invaluable, those more interested in the personal story of a writer’s commitment to her craft and discipline will find Pollock’s story fascinating. While often calling her family past a “ghost story,” Pollock has coped with many much more corporeal challenges in her life. As a woman in a male-dominated field, as a mother of six children, as the survivor of an abusive marriage, she has managed to slay what Virginia Woolf once called the “angel in the house” to become one of Canada’s greatest living writers.

 

Making Theatre: A Life of Sharon Pollock explores each of Pollock’s major plays and discusses many of their most interesting productions in Canada, the United States, Japan, and England. 

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• Verlag: Talonbooks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0889225869
• ISBN 13: 9780889225862
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480