Tracing the impact of North America’s longest-running women-led theatre company, this book sheds light on the rise, impact, and redefinition of nonprofessionalizing theatre in Canada.
Tracing the impact of North America’s longest-running women-led theatre company, this book sheds light on the rise, impact, and redefinition of nonprofessionalizing theatre in Canada.
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Alumnae Theatre Company, Alterity, and the Idea of Nonprofessionalizing Theatre Part One: History and Programming 1. The University Years: Founding Daughters and Their Philanthropic Little Theatre (1918-1939) 2. Producing on the Homefront and in the Postwar Theatre Boom (1939-1957) 3. The Coach House Years and Intellectual Modernism (1957-1972) 4. The Firehall Years in Toronto’s Expanding Theatre Ecology (1972-Present) Part Two: Perspectives 5. A "Distinct Passage-Way": Theatre Spaces 6. "This is the Competitive Democracy of Amateur Drama": Festivals and Nationhood 7. "No Cause for Alarm": New Plays 8. "Pace-Setting and Ranging": A Nonprofessionalizing Theatre in the Professionalizing Era Conclusions Appendix 1 Selected Biographies of Alumnae’s Early Women Appendix 2: Alumnae’s Production History Pre-firehall Appendix 3: Alumnae Production History Firehall Notes Works Cited Index
List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Alumnae Theatre Company, Alterity, and the Idea of Nonprofessionalizing Theatre Part One: History and Programming 1. The University Years: Founding Daughters and Their Philanthropic Little Theatre (1918-1939) 2. Producing on the Homefront and in the Postwar Theatre Boom (1939-1957) 3. The Coach House Years and Intellectual Modernism (1957-1972) 4. The Firehall Years in Toronto’s Expanding Theatre Ecology (1972-Present) Part Two: Perspectives 5. A "Distinct Passage-Way": Theatre Spaces 6. "This is the Competitive Democracy of Amateur Drama": Festivals and Nationhood 7. "No Cause for Alarm": New Plays 8. "Pace-Setting and Ranging": A Nonprofessionalizing Theatre in the Professionalizing Era Conclusions Appendix 1 Selected Biographies of Alumnae’s Early Women Appendix 2: Alumnae’s Production History Pre-firehall Appendix 3: Alumnae Production History Firehall Notes Works Cited Index
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