A Public Lecture with Professor Gordon McCall
16 June 2008 Bustin' Loose: How Canadian Theatre Found its Voice
Distinguished Canadian theatre director Gordon McCall will deliver a lively presentation on how Canada found its voice as a theatre nation. While providing an overview of Canadian plays and key artists, Professor McCall will point to how Canadians uncovered a collective consciousness while shedding a colonial mentality.
Gordon McCall is Currently Associate Professor of Theatre and Head of the Directing program at Purdue University, Gordon hails from Canada where he was recognized as a major contributor to the creation, development and dissemination of a Canadian theatrical voice on the national and international stage. For the past thirty years he has worked as a director, actor, playwright, screenwriter, educator, producer, and artistic director across Canada, in New York City, Washington, D.C., Dublin, Ireland, and Melbourne. He is the founding or first Artistic Director of several Canadian theatres: Vancouver's Touchstone Theatre, Saskatoon's Shakespeare On The Saskatchewan Festival and Winnipeg's Prairie Theatre Exchange. He is also a past Artistic Director of Saskatoon's Twenty-Fifth Street Theatre and the Sudbury Theatre Centre. His directing work includes the much toured and internationally acclaimed bilingual (English/French) production of Romeo & Juliette with Robert Lepage (1990), the award-winning English-language World Premiere of Michel Tremblay's For The Pleasure of Seeing Her Again (1990) which received its European premiere with an all-Irish cast at The Abbey Theatre in Dublin, Ireland (2002), the Centaur Theatre’s world-premiere, record-breaking production of Mambo Italiano by Montreal playwright Steve Galluccio (2002-03), and the English-language premiere of the Quebec play Cheech by François Létourneau at the Melbourne Theatre Company (2005).
Sponsored by the Centre for Drama and Theatre Studies and the School of English, Communication and Performance Studies, Monash University
- 6:00-7:30 pm Monday 16th June 2008
- Monash Conference Centre, Level 7, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne
- Enquiries to ron.gallagher@arts.monash.edu.au