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Hot Thespian Action!
Ten Premiere Plays from Walterdale Playhouse
Edited by Robin C. Whittaker
October 2008
Paperback
978-1-897425-26-8 (SC)
$39.95
October 2008
E-Book
978-1-897425-27-5 (e-book)
Series
Canadian Plays
About the Author
In Hot Thespian Action! Robin Whittaker argues that new plays can thrive in amateur theatres, which have freedoms unavailable to professionalized companies. And he proves it with 10 relevant, engaging playscripts originally produced by one of Canada’s longest-running theatres, Edmonton’s acclaimed Walterdale Theatre Associates.
This collection challenges notions that amateur theatre is solely a phenomenon of the pre-professional past. Whittaker makes an important contribution to Canadian theatre studies with the first North American anthology in 80 years to collect plays first produced by a nonprofessionalized theatre company.
Plays by • Brad Fraser • Mary Glenfield • Warren Graves • Gordon Pengilly • Barbara Sapergia & Geoffrey Ursell • Trevor Schmidt • Jonathan Seinen • Scott Sharplin • Mark Stubbings • Wilfred Watson
About the Author
Robin C. Whittaker is completing doctoral work at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama at the University of Toronto. He has written extensively on theatre in Canada and has taught, directed, and dramaturged at universities across the country.
