Alumnae Theatre Company
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4826-1 (ISBN)
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Delving into previously untapped archival resources, Alumnae Theatre Company traces the history and ongoing impact of North America’s longest-running women-led theatre group, Toronto’s Alumnae Theatre Company. The book illuminates the essential yet downplayed relationships between professional and nonprofessionalizing theatre practices, drawing on primary and secondary sources that have contributed to the practice and scholarship of theatre since the early twentieth century. It uses Alumnae as a case study for recognizing female leadership roles that support the development of theatre artists in Canada.
The book considers Alumnae’s historical influences on university philanthropy, intellectual modernism, and Toronto’s expanding theatre ecology. It revisits past eras to focus on four dominant perspectives: theatre spaces, festival competition, new play production, and nonprofessionalizing theatre’s relationship to an emerging profession. The book tethers Alumnae’s alterity to contemporary critical notions of the nonprofessionalizing theatre practitioner as counter-culture revolutionary. It urges scholars and practitioners alike to not take for granted the values and possibilities of contemporary nonprofessionalizing theatre practices. Alumnae Theatre Company also serves as a fascinating history of Toronto through the eyes of its oldest active theatre company.
Robin C. Whittaker is an associate professor of drama at St. Thomas University.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 191 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 1 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-4826-5 / 1487548265 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-4826-1 / 9781487548261 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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