TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ryan, Oscar
AU  - Cecil-Smith, Edward
AU  - Love, Frank
AU  - Goldberg, Mildred 
TI  - Eight Men Speak: a Play in 6 Acts 
SN  - 9780776607962 (pbk)
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Ottawa
PB  - University of Ottawa Press
KW  - Buck, Tim
KW  - Ryan, Oscar
KW  - Canadian drama
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Political plays, Canadian
KW  - C1/C2 (CEFR)
KW  - Proficient learners
N1  - Includes bibliographical references.; Also available in a digital format; check the OMNI catalogue; Critical Introduction; 1. Eight Men Speak in Historical Context; 2. Authorship: Coalescent Dramaturgy; 3. The Theatrical Modernism of Eight Men Speak; 4. Reception; Eight Men Speak; Foreword; Act I; Act II; Act III; Act IV; Act V; Act VI; Dossier: Documents, Reports and Reviews; Explanatory Notes; Textual Notes; Works Cited; Proficient readers.
C1/C2 (CEFR)
N2  - "This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the Canadian Post Office. The play can be considered as one stage – the published text – of a meta-text that culminated in 1934 at Maple Leaf Gardens when the (then illegal) Communist Party of Canada celebrated the release of its leader, Tim Buck, from prison. Eight Men Speak had been written and staged on behalf of the campaign to free Buck by the Canadian Labour Defence League, the public advocacy group of the CPC. In its theatrical techniques, incorporating avant-garde expressionist staging, mass chant, agitprop and modernist dramaturgy, Eight Men Speak exemplified the vanguardist aesthetics of the Communist left in the years before the Popular Front. It is the first instance of the collective theatrical techniques that would become widespread in subsequent decades and formative in the development of modern Canadian drama. These include a decentred narrative, collaborative authorship and a refusal of dramaturgical linearity in favour of theatricalist demonstration. As such it is one of the most significant Canadian plays of the first half of the century, and, on the evidence of the surviving photograph of the mise-en-scene, one of the earliest examples of modernist staging in Canada." (Publisher's Website)
UR  - https://press.uottawa.ca/en/9780776607962/eight-men-speak/
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