Hippies And Bolsheviks And Other Plays

Author : Amiel Gladstone
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1552451836

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Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays by Amiel Gladstone Pdf

Hippies and Bolsheviks and Other Plays collects three works by one of Canada's dramatic luminaries. Hippies and Bolsheviks is set in that hotbed of hippie idealism, 1970s British Columbia. Young Star stumbles home from a Led Zeppelin concert with a draft dodger and sets in motion a crisis of love and of faith in their idealism against the Establishment. In Lena's Car , a woman whose marriage is on the verge of collapse reflects on how it got to that point, harkening back to a youth when things were both more simple and more complicated. In The Wedding Pool , a group of dissatisfied single friends decide to each contribute fifty dollars a month to a pool to be collected by the first one to marry. But when one of the friends starts dating the bank teller who opens their account, the others are forced to confront their ideas about loneliness and personal responsibility. ' The Wedding Pool is a particularly smart and entertaining example of the thirtysomething angst genre.' - The Globe and Mail 'If Hippies and Bolsheviks is any indication of the quality of work at this years playrites Festival, Calgary theatregoers are in for a phenomenal month.' Calgary Sun

Author : Marc Maufort,Caroline De Wagter
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 905201454X

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Signatures of the Past by Marc Maufort,Caroline De Wagter Pdf

In the last decades of the twentieth century, North American drama has powerfully enacted the problematic notions of cultural memory and identity, as the essays assembled in this critical anthology demonstrate. Echoing Derrida's non-essentialist interpretation of the term «signature», this collection provides an innovative focus on North American theatre and drama as a site of latent cultural memories. In this volume, the concept of cultural memory offers a privileged vantage point from which to redefine issues of diasporic identities, exilic predicaments, and multi-ethnic subject positions at the dawn of a new century. Playwrights examined here include noted Canadian and US artists such as Marie Clements, Eva Ensler, Lorraine Hansberry, Tomson Highway, Cherríe Moraga, Djanet Sears, Guillermo Verdecchia, August Wilson, and Chay Yew, to cite but a few. In the process of remembering, North American dramatists develop new aesthetic modes in which the signatures of the past merge with the present and foreshadow an imagined future.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : NWU:35556038768396

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Quill & Quire by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jordan Tannahill
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770564114

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Theatre of the Unimpressed by Jordan Tannahill Pdf

How dull plays are killing theatre and what we can do about it. Had I become disenchanted with the form I had once fallen so madly in love with as a pubescent, pimple-faced suburban homo with braces? Maybe theatre was like an all-consuming high school infatuation that now, ten years later, I saw as the closeted balding guy with a beer gut he’d become. There were of course those rare moments of transcendencethat kept me coming back. But why did they come so few and far between? A lot of plays are dull. And one dull play, it seems, can turn us off theatre for good. Playwright and theatre director Jordan Tannahill takes in the spectrum of English-language drama – from the flashiest of Broadway spectacles to productions mounted in scrappy storefront theatres – to consider where lifeless plays come from and why they persist. Having travelled the globe talking to theatre artists, critics, passionate patrons and the theatrically disillusioned, Tannahill addresses what he considers the culture of ‘risk aversion’ paralyzing the form. Theatre of the Unimpressed is Tannahill’s wry and revelatory personal reckoning with the discipline he’s dedicated his life to, and a roadmap for a vital twenty-first-century theatre – one that apprehends the value of ‘liveness’ in our mediated age and the necessity for artistic risk and its attendant failures. In considering dramaturgy, programming and alternative models for producing, Tannahill aims to turn theatre from an obligation to a destination. ‘[Tannahill is] the poster child of a new generation of (theatre? film? dance?) artists for whom "interdisciplinary" is not a buzzword, but a way of life.’ —J. Kelly Nestruck, Globe and Mail ‘Jordan is one of the most talented and exciting playwrights in the country, and he will be a force to be reckoned with for years to come.’ —Nicolas Billon, Governor General's Award–winning playwright (Fault Lines)

Author : Ted Johns,Paul Thompson
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781552450123

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The Farm Show by Ted Johns,Paul Thompson Pdf

'This is a record of our version of grassroots theatre. The idea was to take a group of actors out to a farming community and build a play of what we could see and learn. There is no story or "plot" as such ... Nevertheless, we hope that you can see many stories woven into the themes of this play and that out of it will emerge a picture of a complex and living community.' - Paul Thompson

Author : Perry King
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781770566743

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Rebound by Perry King Pdf

HERITAGE TORONTO 2022 BOOK AWARD NOMINEE From basketball hoops to cricket bats, the role community sports play in our cities and how crucial they are to diversity and inclusion. “The virus exposed how we live and work. It also revealed how we play, and what we lose when we have to stop.” For every kid who makes it to the NBA, thousands more seek out the pleasure and camaraderie of pick-up basketball in their local community centre or neighbourhood park. It’s a story that plays out in sport after sport – team and individual, youth and adult, men's and women's. While the dazzle of pro athletes may command our attention, grassroots sports build the bridges that link city-dwellers together in ways that go well beyond the physical benefits. The pandemic and heightened awareness of racial exclusion reminded us of the importance of these pastimes and the public spaces where we play. In this closely reported exploration of the role of community sports in diverse cities, Toronto journalist Perry King makes an impassioned case for re-imagining neighbourhoods whose residents can be active, healthy, and connected. "I couldn’t stop reading Perry King’s Rebound. An evocative essay about the transformative and uniting power of local sports in a city with residents from every country in the world, the book is well researched, entertaining, and informative. It spoke to my own experiences as a young athlete fitting into a new city when I first came to Toronto – and to the importance our city government must place on local recreation and sports if our city is to help all residents reach their potential. A fantastic contribution to understanding Toronto – and to the power of local recreation in any major city." —David Miller, former mayor of Toronto

Author : Jonathan Ball
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781552452363

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Clockfire by Jonathan Ball Pdf

Talented newcomer Jonathan Ball’s Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce.

Author : Claudia Dey
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1552451623

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Trout Stanley by Claudia Dey Pdf

Cast size: small.

Author : Andrew Wedderburn
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1552451801

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The Milk Chicken Bomb by Andrew Wedderburn Pdf

The kid sells lemonade. Not a lot of people buy lemonade, especially now that it's winter, but the kid makes good lemonade, even if his friend Mullen thinks it ought to be sweeter. They don't talk much with the other ten-year-olds - most of the others are Dead Kids anyway. Except for Jenny Tierney, but she's busy breaking kids' faces with her math book. Besides, the Russians from the meat-packing plant are a lot cooler, and they always win at curling. But in small-town Alberta, there are just too many roman-candle fights, bonspiels, retaliatory river diversions, black-market submarines, exploding boilers, meat-packing-plant suicides and recess-time lightning strikes for one lonely kid to get any attention. He might as well go to Kazakhstan. Then the adults in his life start disappearing down tunnels and into rendering vats. Being ten is hard enough without all that, especially when your best friend is ruining the lemonade. But the Milk Chicken Bomb should change everything. Frenetic, hilarious and gently heartrending, The Milk Chicken Bomb takes us inside the mind of a troubled ten-year-old who is just beginning to understand that the adults around him are as lonely and bewildered as he is in the face of the slapstick demands of the world.

Author : Juliane Fürst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191092510

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Flowers Through Concrete by Juliane Fürst Pdf

Flowers through Concrete: Explorations in Soviet Hippieland takes the reader on a journey into the lives and thoughts of Soviet hippies. In the face of disapproval and repression, they created a version of Western counterculture, skillfully adapting to, manipulating, and shaping their late socialist environment. Flowers through Concrete takes its readers into the underground hippieland and beyond, situating the world of hippies firmly in late Soviet reality and offering both an unusual history of the last Soviet decades as well as a case study of transnational youth culture and East-West globalization. Flowers through Concrete is based on over a hundred interviews, declassified documents, and private archives hidden for many decades. It tells the almost forgotten story of how hippie communities sprang up across the Soviet Union in the late-60s, often under the tutelage of the rebellious offspring of privileged households at the heart of the Soviet establishment. It charts how these communities linked up to create an impressive network with elaborate customs and rituals, ensuring its survival for more than two decades. Flowers through Concrete recounts not only a compelling story of survival against the odds - hippies who were harassed by police, shorn of their hair by civilian guards, and confined in psychiatric hospitals by doctors who believed non-conformism was a symptom of schizophrenia - but also advances a surprising argument. It suggests that the land of Soviet hippies and the world of late socialism were not entirely incompatible, but in fact meshed surprisingly well. Ultimately, it was not the KGB but the arrival of capitalism in the 1990s that ended the Soviet hippie sistema.

Author : Andrei Znamenski
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-19
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780835630283

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Red Shambhala by Andrei Znamenski Pdf

Many know of Shambhala, the Tibetan Buddhist legendary land of spiritual bliss popularized by the film, Shangri-La. But few may know of the role Shambhala played in Russian geopolitics in the early twentieth century. Perhaps the only one on the subject, Andrei Znamenski’s book presents a wholly different glimpse of early Soviet history both erudite and fascinating. Using archival sources and memoirs, he explores how spiritual adventurers, revolutionaries, and nationalists West and East exploited Shambhala to promote their fanatical schemes, focusing on the Bolshevik attempt to use Mongol-Tibetan prophecies to railroad Communism into inner Asia. We meet such characters as Gleb Bokii, the Bolshevik secret police commissar who tried to use Buddhist techniques to conjure the ideal human; and Nicholas Roerich, the Russian painter who, driven by his otherworldly Master and blackmailed by the Bolshevik secret police, posed as a reincarnation of the Dalai Lama to unleash religious war in Tibet. We also learn of clandestine activities of the Bolsheviks from the Mongol-Tibetan Section of the Communist International who took over Mongolia and then, dressed as lama pilgrims, tried to set Tibet ablaze; and of their opponent, Ja-Lama, an “avenging lama” fond of spilling blood during his tantra rituals.

Author : Andrew Houston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131698099

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Environmental and Site-specific Theatre by Andrew Houston Pdf

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

Author : Brady Wagoner,Fathali M. Moghaddam,Jaan Valsiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108421621

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The Psychology of Radical Social Change by Brady Wagoner,Fathali M. Moghaddam,Jaan Valsiner Pdf

Develops a social psychological approach to revolutions through analyzes of cases from around the world and during different historical periods.

Author : Amiel Gladstone,Veda Hille
Publisher : Concord Theatricals
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573707957

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Onegin by Amiel Gladstone,Veda Hille Pdf

When Onegin, a dashing but jaded aristocrat from St. Petersburg, inherits his uncle’s estate in the country, his arrival sets hearts afire and stirs the embers of jealousy. Even the reclusive young Tatyana falls hopelessly under the spell of the aloof Onegin and professes her love for him. Will playing with lonely Russian hearts reap heartbreak or romance?

Author : Stuart Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Hippies
ISBN : UVA:X001243900

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The Hippies by Stuart Hall Pdf