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In addition to traditional forms, Canada has a vibrant non-traditional theatre scene with notable experimental, fringe, and other alternative forms, the largest fringe festival in North America being the Edmonton International Fringe Festival. List of Canadian plays (A–F) List of Canadian plays (G–O) List of Canadian plays (P–Z)
This naval battle was one of the sets for Elkanah Settle's The Empress of Morocco (1673) at the theatre in Dorset Garden.. The Restoration spectacular was a type of theatre production of the late 17th-century Restoration period, defined by the amount of money, time, sets, and performers it required to be produced.
The Records of Early English Drama (REED) is a performance history research project, based at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.It was founded in 1976 by a group of international scholars interested in understanding “the native tradition of English playmaking that apparently flourished in late medieval provincial towns” [1] and formed the context for the development of the English ...
A periaktos (plural form periaktoi, from a Greek word meaning revolving) is a device used for displaying and rapidly changing theatre scenes. It was first mentioned in Plato 's Republic , in the story, "Allegory of a Cave" (c. 375 BCE), but its most intense use began in Renaissance theatre , as a result of the work of important theatrical ...
The Annapolis Basin in Nova Scotia served as the cradle for both French and English language theatre in Canada. [5] Théâtre de Neptune, performed in 1606, was the first European theatre production in North America. The tradition of English theatre in Canada also started at Annapolis Royal.
17th-century theatre managers (28 P) T. Theatres completed in the 17th century (31 C) Pages in category "17th-century theatre" The following 18 pages are in this ...
Years of the 17th century in Canada (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "17th century in Canada" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Jonson's play uses this fair as the setting for an unusually detailed and diverse panorama of early seventeenth-century London life. The one day of fair life represented in the play allows Jonson ample opportunity to not just conduct his plot, but also to depict the vivid life of the fair, from pickpockets and bullies to justices and slumming ...