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- Title
Growing Opportunities: Theatre Thrives in Rural Saskatchewan.
- Authors
Powell, M. E.
- Abstract
Saskatchewan rural communities provide fertile ground professional theatre. Professional theatres in small communities thrive by embracing a unique mandate, such as the commitment to produce new Saskatchewan and established Canadian plays at Dancing Sky Theatre in Meacham, 67 kilometres east of Saskatoon. Some have combined theatre with other arts, such as the combination theatre, tea room, and art gallery at Rosthern's Station Arts Centre, located in the former CN railway depot. Ken Mitchell's Burning Sun Theatre in Moose Jaw is known for historical drama and epics of frontier culture, such as Spirits of the Trail (2009) or The Medicine Line (2007). Of the many communities with amateur theatres, the Battleford Community Players have committed to producing short new Saskatchewan plays in cabaret formats and dessert-theatre festivals. In these and other examples, Saskatchewan rural theatres provide models for communities across the country.
- Subjects
SASKATCHEWAN; THEATER; HISTORICAL drama; AMATEUR theater; LITTLE theater movement
- Publication
Canadian Theatre Review, 2013, Issue 154, p11
- ISSN
0315-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/CTR.154.003