| Adaptor 1 |
Dafoe, Christopher
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| Date of First
Production |
1977, May 14 |
| Title |
The Frog Galliard |
| Director |
Jace vander Veen |
| Place of First
Production |
Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, BC |
| Production
Company |
New Play Centre |
| Cast/Performers |
Robert Greene: Tom Macbeath
Mab Isam: Diana Belshaw
Dr. Leechplate: David Petersen
Father Crozier: Brian Torpe
William Shakespeare: Kerry Shale
Jock McDougal: Simon Webb |
| Performance
History |
2002, June 21, 22, 28 & 29
Studio Leonard-Beauline, Mosaic Theatre, Ottawa |
| Publishing
and Multimedia |
*Dafoe, Christopher. The Frog Galliard. 1978. Toronto: Playwrights Co-op, 1979. |
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*Dafoe, Christopher. The Frog Galliard. 1978. Toronto: Playwrights Co-op, 1979.
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| Secondary
Materials |
*"The Frog Galliard." Ottawa Fringe Festival. Nd.
[Link1].
*Rev. of The Frog Galliard by Christopher Dafoe. Off the Record 7 (27 Jun. 2002): 3.
[Link2].
*Wagner, Anton, ed. The Brock Bibliography of Published Canadian Plays 1766-1978. Toronto: Playwrights Press, 1980.
*"Welcome to the Peace River Zone Theatre Festival." Nd.
[Link3]. |
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http://www.ottawafringe.com/records/MosaicTheatre.html
http://www.ottawafringe.com/PDF/june27otr.pdf
http://www.theatrebc.org/StageNorth/festival.htm
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| Adaptor 1
Biography |
Dafoe is the former editor of The Beaver: Canada's History Magazine |
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| Adaptor 1
Bibliography |
*Aquilina, Paula. "They're History? Former editor Christopher Dafoe thought he was leading The Beaver in the right direction..." Ryerson Review of Journalism (Spring 1998).
http://www.ryerson.ca/rrj/content/print/backissues/Beaver.html
*Hoffman, James. "Subverting Modernisms in British Columbia: Christopher Dafoe at the Vancouver Sun, 1968-1975." Establishing Our Boundaries: English-Canadian Theatre Criticism. Ed. Anton Wagner. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1999. 321-35.
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http://www.ryerson.ca/rrj/content/print/backissues/Beaver.html
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| Synopsis |
"An embittered Elizabethan poet who wants to die in peace is not amused when Shakespeare arrives to choreograph a magnificent death scene" (qtd. from Wagner 105). |
| Keywords |
Comedy
Professional
Shakespeare as a Character |
| Notes |
The Frog Galliard is the title of a famous piece of Elizabethan lute music by John Dowland (1563-1625-6). |
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| Adaptation
of |
Hamlet |
| Entry Last Updated |
10Dec03 11:47AM |
