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First musical in 1866, accidental creation. story, song and dance, not operetta performers. sung by average voices
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Black Crook
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Musical with songs and dance carefully integrated into well-made story. origins in 1925. radio hits, hit movie versions.
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Book Musical
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Musical created by Rodgers and Hammerstein 1943, famous for dream ballet. Choreography advanced plot. What kind of musical & what's its name?
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Oklahoma, Book Musical
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Musical type concentrates on a specific group of characters and deprioritize plot.
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Concept Musical
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Concept musical composed by Galf MacDermot. 1967, hippies, drugs, anti-Vietnam war.
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Hair
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Concept musical with choreographer Micheal Bennet. 1975. Real life stories of difficulties faced by broadway dancers.
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A Chorus Line
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"Sung through musical" half-sung/half-spoken, little to no dialogue.
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Pop Opera
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1986 Pop Opera musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Longest running in U.S history.
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Phantom of the Opera
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Based on collection of songs written by well-known composer or associated with a singer or musical group.
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Jukebox Musical
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Golden Age choreographer. Famous for Cabaret, Chicago and All That Jazz. Dance-as-sex, sex-as-dance
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Bob Fosse
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Choreographer known for quick jerky moves contrasted by slow sinuous moves. Striptease, bowler, draping of limbs.
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Bob Fosse
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Composer and lyricist born in 1930. Known for Company, Into the Woods. Ironic Bitter cynical tone.
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Steven Sondheim
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Composer and lyricist born in 1930. Known for Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park With George. Dark, disturbing plots. Non-melodic musicality.
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Steven Sondheim
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Song form sung early in a musical to introduce the character and set out their goals and opposition.
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The "I" Song
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Song form that highlights dance with an upbeat number builds to a big finish and has a memorable melody.
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Rhythm Song
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Song form created for laughs.
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Comic Song
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Song form which is the popular/money maker of the show. Love song or lament for lost love, slow song.
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The Ballad
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Founders of the street performance troupe that eventually gave way to Cirque Du Solei.
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Guy Laliberte & Gilles St. Croix |
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Creator/Artistic Director of Villa Villa and Feurza Bruta(2002). Founded Dela Guarda in 1943.
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Piqui James
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This term for a type of theatre translates as "Brute Force"
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Feurza Bruta
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Creator/Artistic Director known for Aggressive dance, flying-aerial acrobatics, water, audience interaction/participation and having a small space with a large audience.
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Piqui James
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Creator of a form of theatre. Arrested tortured and exiled in 1971, uses theatre to speak up for people without a voice.
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Augusto Boal
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Creator of pedagogical principles, see situation, analyze root causes, explore group solutions, act to change situation.
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Paulo Freire
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Practicipatory type of theatre used to challenge oppression having spectactors improvise solutions.
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Forum Theatre
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Forum Theatre process:
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-Anti model, actors preform scenario -Acotrs reply same situation same way -Audience members encouraged to yell stop -Audience member replace actors onstage |
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Character that warms up the audience, introduces the concepts and inspires audience to act out against oppression.
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Joker
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Opportunity to both act and observe, engage in self-empowering dialogue.
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Spectactor
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Performance to determine the need for, create and enact laws.
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Legislative theatre
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This man used legislative theatre to pass 13 laws.
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Augusto Boal
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Physicalized representation of themes, concepts and abstract thoughts expressed through the physical body.
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Image Theatre
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Theatre form using body instead of voice to speak out against oppression
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Image Theatre
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Public place, bystanders unaware of a performance.
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Invisible Theatre
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Siminovitch nominee known for governor general award winning "The December Man" as well as her play "Pig Girl"
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Colleen Murphy
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said "often said writers can talk to the dead but a writer can also use imagination to let dead talk."
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Colleen Murphy
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Controversial play on the Pikton Murders often criticised for not involving aboriginal performers.
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Pig Girl
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Adoption of specific elements of one culture by a different cultural group.
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Cultural Appropriation
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Casting a role without actors ethnicity
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Colour-blind casting
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use of actors of any race, sex, ethnicity or degree of disabilities in roles.
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Non-Traditional Casting
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Play by Neil Labute that opened in 2002 NYC about a man who worked at WTC but was with a mistress during 9/11.
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The Mercy Seat
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Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner known for The Glass Menagerie, Street Car Named Desire, Suddenly Last Summer
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Tennessee Williams
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Rigidly traditional form of Japanese drama combining music, dance and lyrics
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Noh
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In Noh theatre, "the doer" main character, often masked.
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Shite
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In Noh theatre, the supporting character, challenges shite.
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Waki
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comic character, or a play performed in between Noh plays for comic relief.
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Kyogen
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In Noh theatre, the bridge which performers make their entrance from dressing area to stage
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Hashigakari
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Traditional form of Japanese theatre with song and dance, highly stylized manor.
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Kabuki
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In Kabuki theatre, walkway through audience to the stage
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Hanamichi
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In Kabuki theatre, high points captured in physical poses accentuated by wooden clappers.
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Mie
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Japanese puppet theatre
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Bunraku
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In Bunraku, person at the side of the stage who narrates all the action.
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Chanter
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In this form of theatre, performers spend years training just to operate one part of the puppet. There are 3 handlers in total for the 3-4 foot tall puppets
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Bunraku
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17th century form of theatre in India that enacts tales from Indian epics as well as popular Hindu lore.
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Kathakali
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in Kathakali theatre, emotion states communicated through prescribed facial expressions
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Bhavas
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In this theatre, actors train for exact positioning of eyes, eyebrows, mouth and neck. (even place seeds in eyes to redden them)
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Kathakali
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Playwright Known for This is War, East of Berlin, The Russian Play
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Hannah Moscovitch
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Trillium Book Award winning play surrounding Canadian soldiers and Afghanistan war by Hannah Moscovitch
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This is War
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Largest and longest running queer theatre in world dedicated to promotion of Queer Canadian culture
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Buddies in Bad Times
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Artistic Director of Buddies in Bad Times
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Evalyn Perry
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Artistic Director of Nightwood Theatre
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Kelly Thorton
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Operate with firm belief in women's equality and use theatre to challenge stereotypes and assumptions about gender, races and sexuality.
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Nightwood theatre
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Dedicated to exploration, development and production of the Black Voice
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Obsidian Theatre
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Artistic director of Obsidian theatre
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Philip Aikin
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Artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts
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Ryan Cunningham
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Dedicated to expression of aboriginal experience in Canada. encourage use of theatre as form of communication in native culture
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Native Earth Performing Arts
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Artistic Director of Fugen Theatre
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David Yee
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Dedicated to development of professional Asian Canadian theatre artists
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Fugen Theatre
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Truth is in the subconscious mind, sought to reveal a higher reality
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Surrealism
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audiences sees the story through the mind of one character, sees the characters inner reality
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Expressionism
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complex analysis hoping to shape dialogue about a work of art. Large space allotted
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Critic
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guides public opinion and shapes market for a production. quick turnaround.
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reviewer
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4 roles of the critic
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-interpretor -artistic muse -visionary -artist as critic |
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information about past events given by the playwright through character conversation. usually at beginning
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Exposition
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sets action into motion. should act as a trigger for climatic outcome
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Inciting incident
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casual or linear plot. a to b to c cause and effect.
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Climatic structure
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made up of a series of scenes linked together by character, theme, place but held apart by individual plot, purpose subtext
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episodic structure
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Characteristic include anti-art, everything is insignificant. there is not truth, meaningless of civilization.
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Dadaism
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Movement is seen, mechanical and robotic. focussed on technology
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Futurism
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focused on the psychological and social problems of ordinary life. the more censored version of real life
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Realism
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theatre should not lie. present ordinary life as accurately as possible, not censored
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Naturalism
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in greek theatre, an altar for diongsus in the middle of the orchestra
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Thymele
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architectural wall which most likely contained doors and served as a backdrop or setting. provided exits and entrances
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Skene
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platform on wheels pushed onto the stage usually with corpses of people who died offstage
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Ekkyklema
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Greek theatre that creates intimacy between performers and audience. audience surrounds the stage on three sides
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Thrust
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audience faces the stage straight on.
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proscenium
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Audience surrounds stage on all sides
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Arena
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mans futile search for meaning, human situation is devoid of purpose
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Absurdism
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Known for Ex Machina theatre company. highly developed formal side where decorative elements become infused with meaning and emotion
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Robert Lepage
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Texan born, precise choreographed movement, known for his use of lighting
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Robert Wilson
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Canadian director known for site specific theatre and most importantly "No Exit" also known for electric company
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Kim Collier
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Fredricton Newbrunswick, most produced Canadian playwright. summer stock theatre fare.
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Norm Foster
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Quebecois playwright. Fairy tales in reality
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Carol Frechette
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Known for designing, music COSTUMES. Also Lion King
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Julie Taymor
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Afrika solo. re-examines ubringing in Canada combined with her personal discoveries in Africa.
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Djanet Sears
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Exploring Latin stereotypes in Canada, cultural dualism
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Guillermo Verdecchia
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Queer American performing artist, Glory Box. Combat homophobia in the US
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Tim Miller
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