| Adaptor 1 |
Graves, Warren
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| Date of First
Production |
1974 |
| Title |
Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again or The Taming of the Sioux |
| Alternate Title |
The Taming of the Sioux |
| Director |
Warren Graves |
| Place of First
Production |
Citadel Theatre, Edmonton, AB |
| Production
Company |
Walterdale Theatre Associates |
| Series Festival
Title |
Tenth Annual Klondike Days Melodrama |
| Technical
Design/Direction |
Design: Phil Switzer |
| Cast/Performers |
Nellie Hogan: Nancie Methuen
Lulu: Troy Sprenke
Mitzi: Edith Tusor
Daft William: Bob McManus
Walter Dale: Don Biamonte
Rose Dale: Glenys Berry
Millicent Dale: Patty B. McDonald
Kenneth Haigh-Fortescue: Patrick Spelliscy
Cramden Twinge: John River
Eddy Nelson: Len Crowther
Chief Shaking Spear: Richard Davidson
Running Dear: Donna Shandro
Assorted Gentlemen, Ladies, and Musicians:
Sandy Shandis
Barbara MacMillan
Jim Watt
Sharon Jonzon
Joan Milroy
Carol Steinbring
Joe Smith
Ken Jackson
Desmond Kucy
Rusty Maher
Gerald O'Donnell
Miro Mistrie
Elaine Christenson
Bill Thorsell |
| Publishing
and Multimedia |
*Graves, Warren. Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again or The Taming of the Sioux. Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare.
[Link1].
*Graves, Warren. Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again or The Taming of the Sioux. First Edition. Toronto: Playwrights Co-Op, 1975. |
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http://www2.uoguelph.ca/dfischli/a_shaking.cfm
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| Secondary
Materials |
*Fischlin, Daniel. "Nation and/as Adaptation: Shakespeare, Canada, Authenticity." Shakespeare in Canada: 'a world elsewhere'?. Eds. Diana Brydon and Irena Makaryk. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. 313-338.
*"Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again By Warren Graves." Playwright's Guild of Canada. 28 Aug. 2003.
[Link1].
*Portman, Jamie. "West Coast playwright still roots for amateurs." The Calgary Herald 27 Dec. 1984: C1. |
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http://www.puc.ca/cgi-bin/puc/catalogue.cgi?function=play_details&Plays_uid=333
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| Adaptor 1
Biography |
"Born in London England in 1933 [on Feb. 5], Warren Graves moved to Calgary in 1964 and has subsequently become well-known throughout Alberta as actor, writer, director, stand-up comic and public speaker.
He has been associated with numerous CBC educational television productions and documentary films, dealing with Canadian social, historical and legislative issues. Of these, several have won Ohio State Awards, and one was awarded the Jury Prize at Osaka, Japan. The Establishment gained Graves an ACTRA Best Writer nomination in 1974.
Former Artistic Director of the Walterdale Playhouse and current Membership Chairman, Graves has been an active force in community theatre for a number of years. His first stage play, Yes, Dear, has been published by Samuel French and won the Edmonton Journal Literary Award in 1968. The Mumberley Inheritance, published by Playwrights Co-op, has proved very popular with community theatres across Canada.
A former Clerk-Assistant of the Alberta Legislative Assembly from 1967-1975, Warren Graves is currently employed as Writer/Producer by the Alberta Communications Corporation. He lives in Edmonton, and is married with three children" (qtd. from Graves, Warren Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again or The Taming of the Sioux. back cover).
The following was written by Warren Graves for the CASP.
"As I approach my 71st. birthday, I am grateful for the many wonderful experiences I have had in the world of theatre as a Playwright, Actor and Director. I have written fourteen plays, all of them produced, and most of them subsequently published.
I am also glad to see that I have stuck closely to the Greek masks of laughter and tears throughout and am an unabashed writer of love stories.
"Also throughout I have managed to stay married to the same lady for 46 years and, between us, we have successfully raised three children who have, in turn, produced four remarkable grandchildren. This is probably as close to having the best of all possible worlds as one can get.
"As far as contemporary theatre is concerned, I realize that I am totally ‘out of date’ as a Playwright, and I accept this with the sad relief that it brings. I feel I understand today’s world rather well, and – for me anyway – it contains nothing that I would want to write about.
“'I was born at the right time to have a wonderful life, and I shall leave not a moment too soon.' - Katherine Hepburn." |
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| Adaptor 1
Bibliography |
*Graves, Warren. "Warren Graves." CASP Archive. 31 Jan. 2004.
*"Warren Graves." Young Alberta Book Society. 28 Aug. 2003.
http://www.yabs.ab.ca/artist_display.php.
*"Warren Graves." Playwright's Union of Canada. 28 Aug. 2003.
http://www.puc.ca/cgi-bin/puc/catalogue.cgi?function=detail&Authors_uid=136.
*"Warren Graves." Canadian Theatre. 28 Aug. 2003.
http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Warren%20Graves. |
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http://www.yabs.ab.ca/artist_display.php
http://www.puc.ca/cgi-bin/puc/catalogue.cgi?function=detail&Authors_uid=136
http://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Warren%20Graves
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| Synopsis |
"Set in the old West at the turn of the century, this is a melodrama about a Bard of the Plains whose plays bear a striking resemblance to those of you-know-who" (qtd. from 28 Aug. 2003. http://www.puc.ca/cgi-bin/puc/catalogue.cgi?function=play_details&Plays_uid=333). |
| Keywords |
Aboriginal/First Nations
Canadian History
Professional |
| Adaptation
of |
The Taming of the Shrew |
| Entry Last Updated |
11Dec03 1:16PM |
