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The Canadian Theatre Review features thought-provoking plays and articles on current issues and tren CTR is available in print and online.

The Canadian Theatre Review features thought-provoking plays and articles on current issues and trends in Canadian theatre. CTR provides the Canadian theatre community with in-depth feature articles, manifestos, slideshows, videos, design portfolios, photo essays, and other documents that reflect the challenging forms that theatre takes in the contemporary Canadian arts scene.

17/06/2024

“Audiences bring all kinds of skills and knowledge, but they arrive at each specific performance experience mostly unawares. And so, a key area of attention for participatory creators and scholars is to think about how these valued but uncertain collaborators entering into relation are to be guided and cared for.”

Guest editors Mariah Horner and Jenn Stephenson reflect on the meaning of participatory theatre in the introductory article for the latest issue of Canadian Theatre Review, themed “Participation.”

In CTR 197, Sammie Gough and Laurel Green (Yarrow Collective) explore creative acts of public gardening; Signy Lynch interrogates the role of discomfort in political participatory theatre; Keren Zaointz analyzes the Ottawa trucker convoy as an instance of participatory political violence; and more.

Explore CTR 197 online: bit.ly/CTR197

03/04/2024

In 2020, Jacob Pittini and Mariah Horner attended Zuppa Theatre Co.’s Vista20, an app-guided theatre piece featuring testimonials on the COVID-19 pandemic. They wrote about the experience, and the role of liveness and embodiment in theatre, for a CTR article titled ““On Being a Walking Body: Dramaturgies of Participatory Pandemic Theatre.”

Now on the UTP blog, Jacob Pittini reflects on the article as a time capsule of participatory theatre during the pandemic. The original article is Free to Read until April 8 alongside the blog.

Read “Still Walking: Memories of Participatory Pandemic Theatre”: bit.ly/CTRblog-JP

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11/03/2024

In CTR 191, Susan Fraiman offers a feminist reading of HGTV’s home-buying and renovation shows, asserting that a series such as House Hunters challenges traditional gender hierarchies by promoting the importance of domestic life to both male and female viewers alike.

On the UTP Blog, Fraiman draws connections between studying House Hunters and her work as an Austen scholar. Fraiman’s original CTR article is until March 18th: bit.ly/CTR191c

Read “A Feminist Take on Home-Centred Reality Shows” on the UTP Blog: bit.ly/SF-CTR

04/03/2024

March is Women’s History Month! In celebration, Journals - University of Toronto Press has made a selection of articles on women’s history Free to Read until the end of the month, including Laine Zisman Newman’s contribution to CTR 163:

“Absent, Invisible, and Incoherent: Archiving Q***r Women’s Performance Futurities”

Read the article online: bit.ly/UTP-WHM24

09/01/2024

“When we leave the theatre having had a powerful affective response to an image, what are we to do with it?”

In Canadian Theater Review Volume 192: Ethics and Socially Engaged Theatre, Theo Ioannou examined how theatre holds the power to foster solidarity through affect with an interpretation of Orestes in Mosul.

On the UTP blog, Ioannou expands on her research and how empathy can change the way we exist in the world.

Read “A Few Thoughts on the Theatre of Solidarity” online: bit.ly/CTRblog1

Theo Ioannou’s article “‘How Could We Not Go to Mosul?’: Empathy, Anagnorisis, and the Politics of Recognition in Orestes in Mosul” is until January 14: bit.ly/CTR192l

09/06/2023

Celebrate Volume 192 of Canadian Theatre Review with us this Saturday on Zoom! We will also be joined by Theatre Research in Canada to celebrate the launch of their Volume 43, Issue 1 and Volume 44, Issue 1!

CTR Editor-in-Cheif Heather Davis-Fisch, guest editors Taiwo Afolabi and Yasmine Kandil, along with TRIC contributors Lib Spry, Annie Smith, Heunjung Lee, Jody H. Cripps, Dider Morelli, and Charlie Peters will all be at this launch.

Join on Zoom here: https://bit.ly/3X0HDgH

19/04/2023

We’re celebrating the launch of CTR 193 Casting and Race at the (Re)casting Shakespeare in Canada Symposium!

When: Sunday, April 30, 5pm
Where: Joseph G. Green Theatre, York University

Join editorial team members Mariló Nuñez, Jamie Robinson, and Marlis Schweitzer for this in-person and livestreamed event, part of a two-day program of critical conversations about casting in Canadian theatre.

Click here to register and browse the rest of the schedule: bit.ly/CTR193Launch

Read CTR 193 Casting and Race: bit.ly/CTR193

03/04/2023

“Radical empathy goes a long way in shifting the culture of casting within the Canadian theatre industry. Empathy helps us understand different cultures and different ways of living. Empathy helps actors understand what it’s like to play an unsavoury, vile, heinous character and make them a compelling, three-dimensional human being with goals, flaws, and everything in between.”

- Marcel Stewart, Artistic Director of b current and Artistic Associate with Spiderwebshow

In “The Scarcity Mindset Has a Death Grip on Casting,” Marcel Stewart dissects the antiquated process of casting through traditional auditions and argues that radical empathy has the potential to change Canadian theatre: bit.ly/CTR193f

30/03/2023

“What appears to be new today is both a collective willingness to change and artists’ refusal to allow dominant practices to remain unchallenged. To amplify this moment of transformation and engage discussions of casting practices as they intersect with race, culture, and ethnicity, we have invited a group of artists, scholars, and students to offer their insights.”

- “Introduction: Casting Calls/Calls for Change,” CTR 193

Explore CTR’s latest issue on Casting & Race to hear from artistic directors, researchers, actors, and playwrights on the state of casting in the Canadian theatre landscape and the transformative work being done to change the status-quo: bit.ly/CTR193

27/03/2023

March 27th is ! Immerse yourself in the world of theatre with CTR’s new issue on Casting & Race, where scholars reflect on the changing landscape of Canadian theatre and the ongoing conversations about equitable and diverse casting.

“After three years of the pandemic and the isolation it brought to many, many people now recognize the importance of connecting in person and in real time. World Theatre Day is an opportunity to mark the importance of theatre as a way of bringing individuals and communities together and the ways that theatre speaks to our fundamental need to share stories and connect with others.”

- Dr. Heather Davis-Fisch, Editor-in-Chief

Read CTR 193 on Casting & Race online today: bit.ly/CTR193

22/03/2023

Canadian Theatre Review is thrilled to welcome our new Editor-in-Chief Heather Davis-Fisch!

Heather Davis-Fisch is the author of Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition (Palgrave 2013), which was the recipient of the Ann Saddlemyer Award from the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. Her research on Canadian performance history has also appeared in Theatre Research in Canada, Performing Arts Resources, Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, and Canadian Theatre Review, as well as several edited collections. Heather is the editor of the essay collection Canadian Performance Histories and Historiographies and its complementary anthology of plays, Past Lives: Performing Canada’s Histories, both published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2017. She is the founding Director of the School of Creative Arts at the University of the Fraser Valley and an Associate Professor in Theatre.

Get to know Heather Davis-Fisch:

Read her editorial interview on the UTP Journals blog: bit.ly/CTRhdf2

Discover her answers to the Proust Questionnaire: bit.ly/CTRhdf1
UFV School of Creative Arts Journals - University of Toronto Press

10/03/2023

There’s still time to submit to CTR’s special issue on Black Canons, Futures and Freedoms! Send an abstract to the editors by March 15, 2023, for consideration.

Contributions may be imaginative in format (including, but not limited to: articles, panel discussions, email exchanges, manifestos) and should respond to one of three prompts offered by co-editors Dian Marie Bridge, Lisa Karen Cox, and Naila Keleta-Mae.

Visit our Call for Papers page to read the prompts and submit: https://bit.ly/CTRcfp-198

07/03/2023

Submit abstracts to CTR by March 15, 2023 for consideration in our upcoming special issue: Black Canons, Futures and Freedoms, co-edited by Dian Marie Bridge, Lisa Karen Cox, and Naila Keleta-Mae!

Abstracts for imaginative contribution forms are encouraged (possible formats include, but are not limited to: articles, panel discussions, email exchanges, multi-authored works, and manifestos). Contributions should respond to one of three prompts offered by the co-editors.

Visit the Call for Papers online for full details and submission guidelines: https://bit.ly/CTRcfp-198
Black And Free

03/03/2023

Canadian Theatre Review welcomes submissions of abstracts for an upcoming special issue on Black Canons, Futures and Freedoms, co-edited by Dian Marie Bridge, Lisa Karen Cox, and Naila Keleta-Mae.

Contributors are encouraged to be imaginative in the form their contribution takes. Possible contribution formats include, but are not limited to articles, panel discussions, email exchanges, multi-authored works, and manifestos, and contributions should respond to one of the following prompts from the co-editors:

Prompt 1: The 2000s saw Black Canadian theatre increasingly favour narratives that re-centred Blackness as a dominant perspective. Inspired by African-American writers' unapologetic depictions of Blackness, Canada’s canonical challenges to ideas of blackness as deficit emerge, inviting opportunity for unfiltered Black joy, rage, and being on stage. - Dian Marie Bridge

Prompt 2: As drivers of pop culture, what are the predictions of Black Canadian cultural performance workers for the future of performance? Often confused with African Americans, Black Canadians bring a distinctive lens to their work as varied lived experiences are uncovered from the white lens to add new dimensions and new pathways to performance. Black Canadian artists and scholars are invited to muse and dream upon the changed and expansive future of performance. - Lisa Karen Cox

Prompt 3: The pursuit of freedom has been a focus of Black life ever since the advent of the TransAtlantic slave trade in the 16th century when Europeans led the violent taking of Africans from their lands. Black artists in Canada have long used theatre, performance, and other artistic forms to advocate for freedom. - Naila Keleta-Mae

Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2023.

For full submission guidelines, visit our website: https://bit.ly/CTRcfp-198
Black And Free Dian Marie Bridge

19/01/2023

Join the Institute for Dance Studies on January 27th and 28th for a keynote lecture and workshop from disability activist and performance artist Petra Kuppers on Eco Soma methods!

For full event details, and to register, read more: https://bit.ly/IDSkeynote

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