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Répertoire du CEAD:
Répertoire 1994 du CEAD (en français) peut être trouvé à notre site http://globale.net/~cead. Le Catalogue Quebec Plays in Translation dans sa nouvelle version 1998 y sera aussi sous peu. Une banque de données interrogeable sera greffée à ce site au cours de l'année. Une annexe-maison au Répertoire 1994 comportant plus de 200 autres résumés de pièces, avec de courts extraits, est déjà disponible (5$+ 2,50$ pour l'envoi). Pour votre information, moyennant des frais d'inscription de 50$ pour une année (25$ pour les étudiants à temps plein), tout Canadien peut emprunter les textes non publiés disponibles au centre de documentation du CEAD (près de 3000 textes) ou acheter par la poste les pièces publiées. Nous avons la plupart du temps les traductions anglaises des textes québécois. Pour de plus amples renseignements, contacter Daniel Gauthier, Responsable du centre de documentation.

Playwrights Union Publications:
The Playwrights Union of Canada has two publications for sale related to the Canadian Theatre Conference held in Saskatoon last May. The Proceedings ($3.00) contain a number of reports and excerpts of speeches given at the Conference, including those by Maude Barlow, Robert Wallace, Philip Silver, and Guy Vanderhaege. The articles raise many issues important to all of us. Theatre Memoirs($9.25) is a very special chapbook put together especially for the Conference. It is a collection of 15 "warm ruminations around the last half-century or so of (English) Canadian theatre." Included here, to name a few, are pieces by Sharon Pollock, Joy Coghill, Margaret Hollingsworth, Urjo Kareda & Dennis Foon. I was fascinated by the wide variety of observations, opinions and "memoires." There are things to move you and things to think about. To top it all off is Ric Knowles' "Just the High Points? A Canadian Theatre Chronology" which takes us in snapshots from before 1606 to May 1998. To order your copies, contact PUC at 54 Wolseley St., 2nd Flr, Toronto, ON, M5T 1A5 or visit their website at http://www.puc.ca.

Textual Studies in Canada announces"Critical Performance/s in Canada: Monographs" We invite extended articles (100-150 pages) which examine issues of performance in Canadian textual studies. Performance may include the "performed" in the humanities and social sciences, in the arts, and in contemporary theory. We plan to publish one book per year over the next several years devoted to the exploration of performance, particularly as it informs critical practice within a Canadian context. Please submit manuscripts to the series editors, James Hoffman and Katherine Sutherland c/o Textual Studies in Canada, English and Modern Languages, University College of the Cariboo, PO Box 3010, Kamloops, B.C., V2C 5N3.

Vous et Robert Lepage, le 19 novembre prochain!!!
Soyez une des 200 personnes à assister à l'avant-première de NO, le dernier film de Robert Lepage. Une soirée bénéfice pour la Nouvelle-Scène, le 19 novembre 1998, à 19h30 au Théâtre du Musée canadien des civilisations (MCC). Au programme: 19h30 Présentation du film par Robert Lepage et Anne-Marie Cadieux, comedienne principale. 20h00 Projection du film. 22h00 Réception. Entrée - 1 billet - 75,00$ (reçu pour fins d'impôt de 65,00$), 2 billets ou plus - 60,00$/billet (reçu pour fins d'impôt de 50,00$/billet)

NO, un film produit par In Extremis Image et distribué par Alliance Vivafilms. INFORMATIONS - La Nouvelle Scène - 613.232.4010

The Theatre Museum in London, England,
is currently hosting a special exhibition entitled, ‘'Exploding Tradition" which includes a celebration of Tanya Moiseiwitsch's career. There is a lot on her Stratford, Ontario years and excellent coverage of her magnificent work. It will be on for the next year (until June 1999), so interested Canadians will have lots of time to see it. Heather McCallum

The 1999 Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition
This competition is made possible by a generous bequest to the Queen's University Drama Department by the late Herman Voaden of Toronto, playwright and lifelong champion of Canadian culture. It is dedicated to his memory and to his love of creativity and innovation in new Canadian playwriting. In keeping with the competition mandate to discover new Canadian plays, entry is restricted to plays which have not had a professional production or been accepted for professional production as of the submission deadline. The Award First prize $3000 Second prize $2000 Third prize $1000 In addition, the first and second prize winning plays will be offered a one-week workshop and public reading by a professional director and cast, in affiliation with the Thousand Islands Playhouse of Gananoque, Ontario. The two authors will be playwrights-in-residence for the rehearsal and reading period.

Submissions must be accompanied by a signed entry form. These, as well as detailed information on rules, criteria, and procedures are available from the Department of Drama, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6 or through our internet site at http://www.queensu.ca/drama or by phoning 613-545-2104.

International Playwriting Competition 2000: Plays for a New Millenium
As part of the international celebrations for the new millenium The Committee for a New Millenium is holding a playwriting competition for plays in the English language. The winning playwright will receive $20,000 US. The final details of the award are currently being finalized. We hope to increase the sum offered. Scripts should be sent as a file attachment and preferably formatted in Microsoft Word, Mac, or Word Perfect. Please specify the word processing programme you have used in a covering e-mail that includes your name and address. Submitted plays should be full-length. Submission is open to writers living anywhere in the world. Only original plays will be accepted. Plays should be received no later than October 1, 1999. The winning playwright will be announced early in the New Millenium (2000) on the web site: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Booth/1303/

Please submit scripts by e-mail to the following address: plays2000@geocities.com

Indigenous Theatre School in Toronto The Centre for Indigenous Theatre
announces that this fall will see the opening classes of the first Indigneous Theatre School in Toronto.Under Artistic Director Carol Greyeyes, Traditional Cultural Director Lee Maracle, and actor/choreographer Michael Greyeyes, among others, the programme will develop contemporary performance art from a distinctively Aboriginal cultural foundation. The curriculum will integrate training in the areas of acting, voice, and movement with Native cultural classes in dance, song, and oral history. The Fall teaching session will culminate in the premiere of a new dance piece by Michael Greyeyes (Songs), and a new one-act play by renowned playwright Daniel David Moses, commissioned for the Indigenous Theatre School.

Aboriginal Playhouse The Centre for Indigenous Theatre
is pleased to announce the opening of the Aboriginal PlayHouse, a new distribution house and central repository for Aboriginal plays at no cost to the playwight. The PlayHouse will also distribute plays requested by theatre companies for production or suggest works that fit themes of interest to a producing company. The Centre of Indigenous Theatre invites all Aboriginal playwrights, both professional and first-timers, to send any production-ready work to: Aboriginal PlayHouse The Centre for Indigenous Theatre 260-401 Richmond St. W. Toronto, ON M5V 1X3 For more information contact Robert K. Scott at (416) 506- 9436 or at cit@interlog.com

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