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Articles

Volume 13 Numbers 1 and 2 / Spring and Fall 1992

Theatre, Navy and the Narrative of 'True Canadianism'

Submitted
May 13, 2008
Published
1992-01-01

Abstract

Canadian theatre history has tended to look at the theatre as a hermetically isolated cultural artifact with little concrete reference to other aspects of Canadian national life. This essay examines the development of the theatre as an index of post-colonial nationhood with reference to parallel developments in the Canadian Navy. L'histoire du théâtre canadien a toujours eu tendance à regarder le théâtre comme phénomène culturel isolé, sans rapport concret à d'autres aspects de la vie canadienne en général. Cet article examine l'évolution du théâtre comme indice de la maturation postcoloniale du pays, tout en la comparant avec des dévéloppements parallèles dans la Marine canadienne.