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Sharon Pollock

SHARON POLLOCK  (1936 - )

 Nationality:    Canadian
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 "It's all make believe, isn't it?" - Marilyn Monroe         And Out Goes You?         Blood Relations         Chautauqua Spelt E-N-E-R-G-Y         Compulsory Option, A         Death In The Family         Doc         End Dream         Fair Liberty's Call         Generations         Getting it Straight         Great Drag Race or Smoked, Choked and Croak, The         Happy Prince, The         Hon/Harold         Kabloona Talk         Komagata Maru Incident, The         Lesson In Swizzlery, A         Mail Vs Female         Making of Warriors , The         Mother Love         My Name Is Lisbeth         New Canadians         No! No! No!         One Tiger To A Hill         Passage         Prairie Dragons         Rose And The Nightingale, The         Saucy Jack         Star-Child, The         Superstition Throu' The Ages         Tracings: The Fraser Story         Walsh         Whiskey Six         Wreck Of The National Line Car, The         Wudjesay?

"It's all make believe, isn't it?" - Marilyn Monroe

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Blizzard Publishing, Canada, 1994   -

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And Out Goes You?

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Playhouse, Vancouver    1975

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Genre:
Comedy

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Blood Relations

Sharon Pollock
Lizzie Borden is driven to desperation by family pressure and the ambiguous complexities unfold as Lizzie's actress friend helps act out the crucial scenes with Lizzie's directions

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aka My Name Is Lisbeth

1st Produced:
Douglas College, New Westminster, B.C    1976

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1st Published:
in "Blood Relations and Other Plays",NeWest Press, Edmonton, 1981   978-1896300641

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Chautauqua Spelt E-N-E-R-G-Y

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Compulsory Option, A

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aka No! No! No!

1st Produced:
New play centre, Vancouver    1972

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Department of Culture, Youth and Recreation, Edmonton, 1970   -

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Comedy

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Death In The Family

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Contained in: "Sharon Pollock Collected Works volume Three" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2008   -

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Drama

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Doc

Synopsis:
Catherine returns home to visit her aging father, a doctor revered and honoured by his community. She confronts, through a series of flashbacks, her thwarted need for his love and her late mother's decline into alcoholism, finally realizing that it is time for a reconciliation with her father

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Playwrights, Toronto, 1986   -

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End Dream

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Contained in: "Sharon Pollock Three Plays" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2000   -

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Drama

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Fair Liberty's Call

Sharon Pollock
1785. A loyalist family, trapped by Rebel forces, must decide which among their number should be offered for execution.

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1st Produced:
Ontario    1993

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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press, 1998   978-1896300641

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Play/Drama

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Male:  5            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Generations

Synopsis:
The attitudes of three generations towards the family homestead are examined in this naturalistic evocation of a prairie farm kitchen in the 1980's.

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1st Produced:
Calgary    1980

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1st Published:
in "Blood Relations and Other Plays",NeWest Press, Edmonton, 1981   -

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Getting it Straight

Sharon Pollock
Speaking from a place where sanity and insanity are shuffled like a deck of cards, Eme is determined to play her hand. "Pollock negotiated an invisible, shuddering tightrope."  Winnipeg Free Press

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Red Deer College Press, 1992
Contained in: "A Voice Of Her Own" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2003   978-0887546624

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Genre:
Drama One Act

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Great Drag Race or Smoked, Choked and Croak, The

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1st Produced:
Christmas Seal Society of British Columbia    1974

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Genre:
children's mellerdramer" Youth Audience

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Happy Prince, The

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from story by Oscar Wilde

1st Produced:
Playhouse Theatre School, Vancouver    1974

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Hon/Harold

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Unproduced    -

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Genre:
vignette for the stage

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Kabloona Talk

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Contained in: "The Alberta Advantage" published by Playwrights Canada Press 2008   978-0887547836

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Komagata Maru Incident, The

Synopsis:
about Canadian racism Indian immigrants are refused permission to land in Canada, true story from 1914

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1st Produced:
Vancouver Playhouse, New Company    1976

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Playwrights, Toronto, 1978   -

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Genre:
Long 1 Act

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Lesson In Swizzlery, A

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1st Produced:
Caravan Theatre, New Westminster, British Columbia    1974

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Mail Vs Female

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Genre:
comedy One Act

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Making of Warriors , The

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

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Mother Love

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Unproduced    -

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Genre:
vignette for the stage

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My Name Is Lisbeth

Synopsis:
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aka Blood Relations

1st Produced:
Douglas College, New Westminster, B.C    1976

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1st Published:
in "Blood Relations and Other Plays",NeWest Press, Edmonton, 1981   -

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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New Canadians

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1st Produced:
Playhouse Holiday, Vancouver    1973

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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No! No! No!

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One Tiger To A Hill

Sharon Pollock
A compelling and compassionate examination of the complexities confronting both warden and inmate.

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1st Produced:
Citadel Theatre, Edmonton    1980

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1st Published:
in "Blood Relations and Other Plays",NeWest Press, Edmonton, 1981   978-1896300641

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Genre:
Full Length Play/Drama

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Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Passage

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Unproduced    -

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Genre:
long 1 Act

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Prairie Dragons

Synopsis:
Two teenaged heroines face prejudice that denies them equal opportunities to succeed. Their story is told by a dragon  a prairie dragon, brought by Chinese immigrants, that can bring good fortune to those who are true to themselves and their vision.

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Red Deer College Press, 1989   -

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Genre:
Drama One Act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Rose And The Nightingale, The

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from story by Oscar Wilde

1st Produced:
Playhouse Theatre School, Vancouver    1974

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Saucy Jack

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Talon Books, Vancouver, BC,    -

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Star-Child, The

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from story by Oscar Wilde

1st Produced:
Playhouse Theatre School, Vancouver    1974

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Superstition Throu' The Ages

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1st Produced:
Playhouse Holiday, Vancouver    1973

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Genre:
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Tracings: The Fraser Story

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written with Others

1st Produced:
Theatre Network, Edmonton    1977

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Genre:
Collective Work

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Walsh

Sharon Pollock
The relationship between Superintendent Walsh of the North West Mounted Police and Sitting Bull. After the Little Big Horn Sitting Bull had fled to Canada

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1st Produced:
Theatre Calgary    1973

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1st Published:
New Play Centre, Vancouver, 1972
Talon Books (revised edition) 1994   978-0889222151

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Genre:
Historical drama

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Male:  11            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Whiskey Six

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Calgary    1983

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Contained in: "NeWest Plays By Women" published by NeWest Press 1987   -

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Wreck Of The National Line Car, The

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Wudjesay?

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1st Produced:
Playhouse Holiday, Vancouver    1974

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Genre:
Childrens Youth Audience

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Apart from very popular and world touring productions, many performing arts events are largely forgotten about in a matter of months. Traces may remain in various collections, but few collecting agencies, such as libraries, catalogue each flyer or program individually. Hence, unless one knows that an event took place at a certain time in a certain place, tracking down such an event as part of a research project is often a matter of chance. Where research needs to be carried out on high profile and well-documented productions only, this is not a problem. However, both the historian and the analyst will attest that the cultural, political, or sociological context in which a performing arts event takes place is also of major importance, as are the other events that took place in close proximity, either in place or time. A good overview of such productions provides us with a 'social document' that can greatly enhance cultural studies in ways that extend far beyond the narrow confines of theatre history. For instance, data such as this can be used to monitor the health of communities, particularly when used in association with data obtained from other social science disciplines. When one researches a particular playwright one might want to know about all the productions of plays by that author; if one wants to investigate what choices a particular audience had over a period of history and compare this to, say, an ethnic breakdown of the population, one would need to know broadly all the events that took place during that time. If one wanted to do a statistical analysis on the shift in popularity of a genre over one or more generations, it is important to have knowledge of most of the relevant major and minor performance events that took place. In this context, issues of aesthetic quality and the professionalism of a production - which will of course have an impact on such studies - are not the determining factors when deciding to include or exclude events, since all events are the raw material for such research.