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In this case the Church's hostility again forced Maugard to discontinue the venture after a few years. Unfortunately, these foundations were laid at a precarious time for live theatre - just as its most serious competitor, cinema, began to make its appearance. Satirical revues, monologues and burlesque prevailed, interspersed with populist melodramas of little aesthetic quality, such as Aurore l'enfant martyre by L.
Rollin, which would continue to attract huge audiences for 30 years. Burlesque the word has quite different associations in French, based mainly on humorous monologue and improvisational sketches, depending far less on chorus lines than the American version, and rarely including striptease was the dominant stage form from until its eclipse by television in the s. Although opposition by the Catholic Church to the public performance of theatre had always been one of the principal obstacles to its development in French Canada, it was, paradoxically, generally the clergy who, by their encouragement of drama as a pedagogic tool, had also inculcated the knowledge and appreciation of dramatic forms that are prerequisite to the success of a public stage.
Legault's contribution is more enduring because of his formation of a small company of dedicated amateurs, the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent, and his success in restoring to drama its freshness and magic. He and his group set out to free the stage, to poeticize, refine and Christianize it. The most important role of Legault and d'Auteuil was that of inspiring and training future leaders in the renewal of stage arts in French Canada: By the time they disbanded in , the Compagnons had succeeded in forming a large, sensitive and demanding audience capable of appreciating genuine professional skills and talent.
Since then, despite frequent financial difficulties, the number of summer theatres has grown, numbering in the 70s today. All of this promising renewal was taking place just as television, a formidable competitor to live theatre, was inaugurated by Radio-Canada As with radio in the s, television's influence has been pervasive - and sometimes nefarious - but in overcoming the basic problem of demographic dispersal it has enabled playwrights, actors, designers and directors to earn a living through the performing arts, thus contributing significantly to the health of French Canada's stage arts as a whole.
Their conjoined influence has profoundly affected the development of theatre through their diverse strategies of subsidizing theatrical companies. While there has been an impressive increase in the number of these companies, sometimes at the expense of quality, a theatre "establishment" has tended to receive most of the funding.
Many of these were short-lived, but others survived long enough, in one form or another, to exert an influence still tangible today: In the s there also developed a phenomenon now known as "Alternative Theatre," largely in opposition to what was perceived by many as a growing theatre "establishment" that threatened originality and improvisation.
Yet another product of the artistic effervescence of the s was the Centre d'Essai des Auteurs Dramatiques, a loose organization of young theatre professionals established in whose activities continue to prove catalytic today.
Initially the CEAD served as another mouthpiece for the discordant voices of those opposed to the directions that established theatre appeared to be taking, their opposition expressing itself most noticeably in an attack upon the traditional supremacy of the dramaturgic text and of the iniquitous "star system" that militated against young actors.
Most of these are still active today, providing rich fare that no longer relies on watered-down theatre for adults, but instead based on children's own values and experiences, on a universe recognizably their own, without the patronizing condescension that too often permeated early offerings. Vaguely inspired by Shakespeare, it is a vast, sprawling, bloody saga presented in a carnivalesque atmosphere and depicting the fictional life of an antihero, King Richard, and his various enemies. Another interesting phenomenon has been the Ligue Nationale d'Improvisation. Spectacularly successful on stage and TV, its "matches" spoof National Hockey League games, with uniformed teams and referees and an improvisational format that recalls both commedia dell'arte and American vaudeville.
Elsewhere, artistic directors at other major theatres have turned to more universal human concerns and more and more frequently to established international authors. He has since been invited to direct major productions of Shakespeare in London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo 5 plays in the latter, 2 in French and 3 in Japanese , of Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle and Schoenberg's Erwartung for the Canadian Opera Company, of Strindberg's classic A Dream Play in Stockholm in , as well as his own transdisciplinary, multilingual spectacles in Ottawa, Toronto, Edinburgh, London and elsewhere.
Yet for the theatre, the s and s have also been characterized by persistent financial problems arising from years of curtailed support from public granting agencies and a generally depressed urban economy. Most observers agree that there are far too many companies competing in a market that has expanded very slowly there are at present about professional and at least amateur companies operating in the province , and that some reduction is inevitable, given current economic conditions.
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Perhaps the best symptom of its healthy state is its current openness to texts and troupes from other cultures, remarkable in the season, when plays by Strindberg, Goldoni, Schnitzler, Chekhov, Ionesco and Shakespeare there were 2 translated versions of Macbeth running concurrently in March and others share the spotlight with troupes from Israel, Argentina and elsewhere.
Choice of texts ranged from "expurgated" classics to plays written by clerics in France for college theatre, but there are references as well to works written specifically for these occasions by members of the faculty, such as the verse drama Subercase by French-born Alexandre Braud, performed at Ste-Anne in Less didactic and more militant were the works of another priest, James Branch, the first native Acadian dramatist whose works have survived.
Theatre continued to survive in Acadian colleges throughout the s and s, with little evolution visible before the bicentennial of the Deportation, which caused a flurry of dramatic activity in Moncton, now considered Acadia's cultural capital. Maillet is now recognized as Acadia's outstanding writer, particularly after she was awarded France's prestigious Prix Goncourt in The first theatre was constructed under the auspices of the Oblate order in , and theatrical activity has continued since then with little interruption.
But if the national capital region has long been the principal focus of Franco-Ontarian theatre, it has not been the only one: Theatre in Manitoba began in the s, again under the auspices of the teaching clergy, in this case the Grey Nuns in their boarding school at St-Boniface. In the s there also developed a phenomenon now known as "Alternative Theatre," largely in opposition to what was perceived by many as a growing theatre "establishment" that threatened originality and improvisation.
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Yet another product of the artistic effervescence of the s was the Centre d'Essai des Auteurs Dramatiques, a loose organization of young theatre professionals established in whose activities continue to prove catalytic today. Initially the CEAD served as another mouthpiece for the discordant voices of those opposed to the directions that established theatre appeared to be taking, their opposition expressing itself most noticeably in an attack upon the traditional supremacy of the dramaturgic text and of the iniquitous "star system" that militated against young actors.
Most of these are still active today, providing rich fare that no longer relies on watered-down theatre for adults, but instead based on children's own values and experiences, on a universe recognizably their own, without the patronizing condescension that too often permeated early offerings. Vaguely inspired by Shakespeare, it is a vast, sprawling, bloody saga presented in a carnivalesque atmosphere and depicting the fictional life of an antihero, King Richard, and his various enemies.
Another interesting phenomenon has been the Ligue Nationale d'Improvisation. Spectacularly successful on stage and TV, its "matches" spoof National Hockey League games, with uniformed teams and referees and an improvisational format that recalls both commedia dell'arte and American vaudeville. Elsewhere, artistic directors at other major theatres have turned to more universal human concerns and more and more frequently to established international authors.
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He has since been invited to direct major productions of Shakespeare in London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo 5 plays in the latter, 2 in French and 3 in Japanese , of Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle and Schoenberg's Erwartung for the Canadian Opera Company, of Strindberg's classic A Dream Play in Stockholm in , as well as his own transdisciplinary, multilingual spectacles in Ottawa, Toronto, Edinburgh, London and elsewhere.
Yet for the theatre, the s and s have also been characterized by persistent financial problems arising from years of curtailed support from public granting agencies and a generally depressed urban economy. Most observers agree that there are far too many companies competing in a market that has expanded very slowly there are at present about professional and at least amateur companies operating in the province , and that some reduction is inevitable, given current economic conditions.
Perhaps the best symptom of its healthy state is its current openness to texts and troupes from other cultures, remarkable in the season, when plays by Strindberg, Goldoni, Schnitzler, Chekhov, Ionesco and Shakespeare there were 2 translated versions of Macbeth running concurrently in March and others share the spotlight with troupes from Israel, Argentina and elsewhere.
Choice of texts ranged from "expurgated" classics to plays written by clerics in France for college theatre, but there are references as well to works written specifically for these occasions by members of the faculty, such as the verse drama Subercase by French-born Alexandre Braud, performed at Ste-Anne in Less didactic and more militant were the works of another priest, James Branch, the first native Acadian dramatist whose works have survived. Theatre continued to survive in Acadian colleges throughout the s and s, with little evolution visible before the bicentennial of the Deportation, which caused a flurry of dramatic activity in Moncton, now considered Acadia's cultural capital.
Maillet is now recognized as Acadia's outstanding writer, particularly after she was awarded France's prestigious Prix Goncourt in The first theatre was constructed under the auspices of the Oblate order in , and theatrical activity has continued since then with little interruption. But if the national capital region has long been the principal focus of Franco-Ontarian theatre, it has not been the only one: Theatre in Manitoba began in the s, again under the auspices of the teaching clergy, in this case the Grey Nuns in their boarding school at St-Boniface.
Many of the plays performed in educational institutions were written by members of the local clergy, in particular by Sister Malvina Collette. As the population grew and the school system with it, amateur theatre became a central part of local cultural activity. The formation of amateur theatrical societies independent of schools was the next step, as enthusiastic local troupes sprang up in every settlement during the golden age of An impressive number of plays has been composed in Manitoba, although relatively few have as yet been published.
Theatre has been the most visible and most vigorous of Manitoba's cultural manifestations in French to date. Archives des lettres canadiennes, vol 5: Plant, eds, Bibliography of Theatre History in Canada: The Beginnings Through ; E. Gobin, Le Fou et ses doubles ; J.
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