Revolt/Compassion: Six Scripts for Contemporary Performance
Apr 2019 · Guernica Editions
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Revolt/Compassion: Six Scripts for Contemporary Performance, gathers together six important works by Michael Springate: Historical Bliss, Dog and Crow, The Consolation of Philosophy, Freeport Texas, Kareena, and Kut: Shock and Awe. Written and produced over a twenty-five year period, they capture an expansive range of interests and influences, and reflect the artistic interdisciplinarity which has been a defining feature of his career. Dr. Erin Hurley, in her ground-breaking introduction, writes: Consciously crafted, precise in their diction, and allusive in their references, these plays ask for the reader's collaboration ? Their poetry ? the considered arrangement of the words, the shape of the text on the page, the accretion of meaning across the play, its solicitation of the reader's increased awareness ? activates the senses without necessarily dictating where they should take me or what I should make of them. At the same time, the ideas unfolded require a different vantage, a theoretical engage
Revolt/Compassion: Six Scripts for Contemporary Performance, gathers together six important works by Michael Springate: Historical Bliss, Dog and Crow, The Consolation of Philosophy, Freeport Texas, Kareena, and Kut: Shock and Awe. Written and produced over a twenty-five year period, they capture...
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Michael Springate enjoys writing as a life-long discipline calling for independent research and reflection. He is the author of the novel The Beautiful West & The Beloved of God (Guernica Editions, 2014), translated and published as L'engrenage des Apparences (Les éditions Sémaphore 2017). A selection of his produced scripts will soon be published as Revolt/Compassion: Six Scripts for Contemporary Performance (Guernica Editions, 2019). He wrote the screenplay for Carolyn Combs? debut feature, Acts of Imagination (2006), as well as for her current film, Bella Ciao!, which will premiere in November, 2018. Michael is a past Artistic Director of Playwrights Workshop Montreal, Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg, Factory Theatre in Toronto, and Dramaturg and Artistic Associate with Full Circle: First Nations Performance, in Vancouver. He has taught acting, directing, and play development at both Simon Fraser and Concordia Universities.
Michael Springate enjoys writing as a life-long discipline calling for independent research and reflection. He is the author of the novel The Beautiful West & The Beloved of God (Guernica Editions, 2014), translated and published as L'engrenage des Apparences (Les éditions Sémaphore 2017). A sele...
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