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2019-02-01
SSHRC Awarded IDG 2019: In August 2018, a statue of Canada's first prime minister, John A. McDonald was unceremoniously hoisted from Victoria, BC's city hall steps, wrapped in foam and trucked away to a storage facility. City council was responding to concerns from Indigenous community members...
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2017-01-01
Couture, Selena, Dick, Alexander
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's last play, an adaptation of August Von Kotzebue's Die Spanier set in Peru and first performed in 1799, was one of the most popular of the entire century. Set during the Spanish Conquest of Peru, Pizarro dramatized English fears of invasion by Revolutionary France, but...
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2018-04-25
Couture, Selena, Davis-Fisch, Heather
This article is an introduction to an issue of Canadian Theatre Review dedicated to the topic of commemoration. This issue was assembled in late summer and early autumn 2017 as the majority of “celebrations” of Canada’s sesquicentennial just concluded. Canada’s 150th anniversary has been...