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100			_aRyan, Oscar _91
245			_aEight Men Speak : _ba Play in 6 Acts / _cOscar Ryan, Edward Cecil-Smith, Frenk Love, and Mildred Goldberg; edited and with an introduction by Alan Filewod.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aOttawa : _bUniversity of Ottawa Press, _c2013.
300			_ali, 110 p. : _bill., portraits ; _c21 cm.
440			_aCanadian Literature
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
500			_aAlso available in a digital format; check the OMNI catalogue.
505			_aCritical Introduction
505			_a1. Eight Men Speak in Historical Context
505			_a2. Authorship: Coalescent Dramaturgy
505			_a3. The Theatrical Modernism of Eight Men Speak
505			_a4. Reception
505			_aEight Men Speak
505			_aForeword
505			_aAct I
505			_aAct II
505			_aAct III
505			_aAct IV
505			_aAct V
505			_aAct VI
505			_aDossier: Documents, Reports and Reviews
505			_aExplanatory Notes
505			_aTextual Notes
505			_aWorks Cited
520			_a"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)
521			_aProficient readers. C1/C2 (CEFR)
600			_aBuck, Tim _d1891-1973 _xDrama.
600			_aRyan, Oscar _d1904-
650			_aCanadian drama _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650			_aPolitical plays, Canadian _vHistory and criticism.
650			_aC1/C2 (CEFR).
650			_aProficient learners.
700			_aCecil-Smith, Edward
700			_aLove, Frank
700			_aGoldberg, Mildred
856			_uhttps://press.uottawa.ca/en/9780776607962/eight-men-speak/ _zPublisher's Website.
856			_uhttps://ocul-uo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_UO/1lm0b9c/alma991004042839705161 _zCheck the uOttawa Library catalogue.
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