| Adaptor 1 |
Sherman, Jason
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| Date of First
Production |
1993 |
| Title |
The Merchant of Showboat |
| Director |
Colin Taylor |
| Place of First
Production |
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto |
| Production
Company |
Tarragon Theatre |
| Series Festival
Title |
Spring Arts Fair? |
| Publishing
and Multimedia |
*Sherman, Jason. "The Merchant of Showboat." Instant Applause Volume II: Thirty Very Short Complete Plays. Winnipeg: Blizzard, 1996. 7-15. |
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*Sherman, Jason. "The Merchant of Showboat." Instant Applause Volume II: Thirty Very Short Complete Plays. Winnipeg: Blizzard, 1996. 7-15.
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| Secondary
Materials |
*Rose, Ben. "Sherman tackles heated subjects." Canadian Jewish News 35.12 (21 July 1994): 32. |
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| Adaptor 1
Biography |
"Jason Sherman (1962- ), playwright, was born in Montreal, Quebec, but has lived in Toronto since 1969. After graduating from the Creative Writing Program of York University in 1985, Sherman co-founded What Publishing with Kevin Connolly, which produced what, a literary magazine that he edited from 1985 to 1990. Before establishing himself as a dramatist, Sherman’s journalistic works such as reviews, essays, and interviews appeared in various publications, including The Globe and Mail, Canadian Theatre Review, and Theatrum. He edited two anthologies for Coach House Press: Canadian Brash (1991) and Solo (1993), and has been a playwright-in-residence at Tarragon Theatre since 1992. Sherman’s first professional productions were A Place Like Pamela (1991) and To Cry is Not So (1991), followed by The League of Nathans (1992, published in book form in 1996), which won a Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award (1993), and was nominated for the Governor General’s Award. Since then, Sherman has produced a series of plays: What the Russians Say (1993), Field (1993), The Merchant of Showboat (1993), Three in the Back, Two in the Head (1994, won a 1995 Governor General’s Award), Reading Hebron (1995, 1996, published in book form in 1997 and nominated for the Governor General’s Award), The Retreat (1996), None is Too Many (1997), Patience (1998), It’s All True (1999), and An Acre of Time (1999/2000)" (18 June 2002. qtd. from http://www.info.library.yorku.ca/depts/asc/Resource_Guides/guide_to_canlit/sherman-jason.htm). |
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http://www.info.library.yorku.ca/depts/asc/Resource_Guides/guide_to_canlit/sherman-jason.htm
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| Adaptor 1
Bibliography |
*Kirchhoff, H.J. "What Happened in the Beginning."Globe and Mail 31 Jan. 1991: C1.
*Nunns, Stephen. "Sherman's March: Canada's Premier Playwright Warily Eyes the South." American Theatre 17.4 (April 2000): 30-32, 55.
*Offman, Craig. "Everything's Relative: Playwright Jason Sherman's Flair For Seeing All the Tortured Sides of an Issue Is Earning Acclaim." Time [Canadian Edition] 153.4 (1999): 51.
*Posner, Michael. "The Many Stages of Jason Sherman's Success." The Globe and Mail 6 Jan. 1999: C2.
*Sherman, Jason. "Rejected: PS, let's do lunch [Exerpts from letters written between 1991 and 1997 to playwright Jason Sherman, winner of the governor-general's award for drama." This Magazine 31.2 (Spring 1997): 42-43.
*Wagner, Vit. "How Editor Was Scared into Writing Plays." Toronto Star 30 Dec. 1993: B3.
*"Jason Sherman." York University Archives. 28 June 2002.
http://www.info.library.yorku.ca/depts/asc/Resource_Guides/guide_to_canlit/sherman-jason.htm.
*"Jason Sherman." 4 Aug. 2001.
http://www.playwrightsworkshop.org/jasonbio.html.
*"Jason Sherman." Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia. 4 Aug. 2001.
http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Sherman%2C%20Jason.
*"Jason Sherman: Play Time." 4 Aug. 2001.
http://www.yorku.ca/ycom/profiles/current/dept/gprofile/gprofile2.htm.
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http://www.info.library.yorku.ca/depts/asc/Resource_Guides/guide_to_canlit/sherman-jason.htm
http://www.playwrightsworkshop.org/jasonbio.html
http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Sherman%2C%20Jason
http://www.yorku.ca/ycom/profiles/current/dept/gprofile/gprofile2.htm
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| Synopsis |
A Black Politician and a White businessman talk. |
| Keywords |
African-Canadian
Race/Ethnicity
Professional |
| Adaptation
of |
The Merchant Of Venice |
| Entry Last Updated |
16Dec03 1:32PM |
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