Making Theatre

by Grace, Sherrill

• ISBN13: 9780889225862
• ISBN10: 0889225869
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Talonbooks Ltd

Summary

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 Pollockexplores each of Pollock's major plays and discusses many of their most interesting productions in Canada, the United States, Japan, and England.

Author Biography

Sher    Sherrill Grace is a distinguished Canadian author, scholar, and teacher who has co edited two collections of theater criticism for Talonbooks: Performing National Identities: International Perspectives on Contemporary Canadian Theatre [2003] (with Albert Rainer Glaap); and Theatre and AutoBiography: Writing and Performing Lives in Theory and Practice [2006] (with Jerry Wasserman). She is currently President, Academy I, of the Royal Society of Canada.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. 8
List Abbreviations	p. 10
Preface and Acknowledgements	p. 11
Writing Lives and Making Theatre	p. 17
Family Matters	p. 30
The Angel in the House	p. 68
Finding a Voice of Her Own	p. 89
Taking to the Stage: From Breakthrough to Banff and Beyond	p. 133
Murder She Said: Creating Blood Relations	p. 184
Family Trappings	p. 222
The Garry Years	p. 279
Still Making Theatre	p. 323
Taking the Fingerprints of Her Sources	p. 369
"Things I Like to Do" from Per Armas (1954), and "How Things Are" (1973) from The Fiddlehead	p. 381
The Gany Theatre, 1992-1997	p. 387
The Many Voices of Sharon Pollock	p. 394
Sharon Pollock Chronology	p. 412
Notes	p. 415
Sources	p. 424
Bibliography	p. 430
Index	p. 467
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