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Volume 3 Number 2 / Fall 1982

Bears and Beavers: Canadian Stage Productions of Russian Plays

Submitted
May 13, 2008
Published
1982-06-06

Abstract

The author presents a survey and statistical analysis of English and French-language productions of Russian plays in Canada. Although the first production was He Who Gets Slapped by Leonid Andreev, Chekhov came to dominate the repertoire, followed by Turgenev, Gor'kii and Gogol. There were, however, some remarkable experiments with plays such as Roar China! and Erdman's The Suicide. Un survol et analyse statistique des mise-en-scènes canadiennes de pièces russes en anglais ou français. Quoique la première pièce russe presentée au Canada fusse He Who Gets Slapped de Leonid Andreev, Chekhov a ensuite dominé le répertoire canadien, suivi de Turgenev, Gor'kii et Gogol. On note, cependant, quelque mises-en scène experimentales marquantes telles que Roar China! et The Suicide de Erdman.