A Space of their Own: Women Solo Performance in English Canadian Theatre

The period from the 1980s witnessed a steady rise in the production of solo performance by women artists in English Canadian Theatre. Rita Fraticelli’s report on “The Status of Women in Canadian Theatre” catapulted this change. Active organisational work by women and various theatre movements addressed this disparity in representation and worked to revamp the Canadian theatrical space. The limited number of performers, and comparatively fewer financial requirements popularised solo performance among women artists. The research proposes that solo performance produced a creative space for women artists in English Canadian theatre by transcending the existing theatrical space to form new spaces of inclusion and representation.

Faculty Supervisor:

Marlis Schweitzer

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University of Kerala

Discipline:

Sociology

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Entertainment and Media; Education; Indigenous Affairs

University:

York University

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