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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.
942 _2z
_cBK