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Judith Thompson
Judith Thompson is the author
of The Crackwalker, White Biting Dog, I Am Yours,
Lion in the Streets, Sled, Perfect Pie, Habitat,
Capture Me, Enoch Arden and My Pyramids. She has written
two feature films “Lost and Delirious” and “Perfect Pie” as
well as television movies and radio drama. Her work has enjoyed great
success internationally.
Judith has been won the Governor
General’s Literary Award for two of her books, White Biting Dog
and The Other Side of the Dark. In 2006 she was invested as an
Officer in the Order of Canada. In 2007 she was awarded the prestigious
Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts.
She is professor of drama at
the University of Guelph, and currently lives with her husband and five
children in Toronto.
“When I wrote my first
play, The Crackwalker, I gave each of the characters a monologue,
framing the play – and they were all audience addresses.
“Who are they talking to?” the actors would ask, in frustration.
And I could only reply “the audience.” I hated the idea of a phony
set-up with a social worker, or a psychiatrist, or someone in the
“listening” professions – to justify a long monologue; never explain,
the monologue is part of a long theatrical tradition, it is direct,
it is intimate. And there is no looking away from it, we must go on
the journey of the monologue with the character, even if he or she is
breathing fire that burns the air we breathe.”
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