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The Masks of Judith Thompson
by Ric Knowles
The story of Judith Thompson’s coming
to writing through a mask class at the National Theatre School of Canada
is well known. It is told on the first page of the first article in
this volume, based on Thompson’s earliest extended interview, and
it has been retold frequently since. But masks are much more than the
route through which Thompson discovered herself as a writer. They are
her way of writing, as she turns her back on her own public persona
and dons the masks of each of her characters in order to discover what
they have to say and their richly various ways of saying it.
The articles, interviews, and panels
published here provide insight into individual plays, and reading them
against the plays that she was writing at their various times of first
publication provides flashes of insight that can light up dark corners
of the work.
—from the introduction
by Ric Knowles
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