Theatre in Alberta / edited by Anne Nothof.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction: surveying the landscape of Alberta theatre / Anne Nothof -- A literary perspective on the plays of W.O. Mitchell / Diane Bessai -- Elsie Park Gowan: distinctively Canadian / Anton Wagner -- CKUA: radio drama and regional theatre / Howard Fink -- The Banff School of FIne Arts 1933-1969: "A theatre of the people" / Moira Day -- "The country mouse at play": theatre in the Peace River District 1914-1945 / Moira Day -- "The actors excelled their first efforts": amateur theatre in Lethbridge, Alberta, 1885-1990 / Ches Skinner -- Reacting to the right[eous]: the political plays of Frank Moher, Raymond Storey and Greg Nelson / Anne Nothof -- World on a string / Liz Nicholls -- "Introduction" to Scraping the surface: three plays by Lyle Victor Albert / Lynne Van Luven -- Calgary's wild ride: how the high performance rodeo inspired a theatre community / Martin Morrow -- Globalization's marginalia: Anglo-Canadian identity and the plays of Brad fraser / Roberta Mock -- The construction of masculinity in Sharon Pollock's Whiskey six cadenza / Mark Vincent Diotte -- Canada's Citadel Theatre and the alternatives / Diane Bessai.

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