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Sharon Pollock
Sharon Pollock is one of Canada’s
best-known women playwrights. Produced nationally and internationally,
author of a large and varied canon, she has had a long and illustrious
career in the theatre. From backstage to onstage, from front of house
to director’s chair, from actor to author, from teacher and mentor
to artistic director of venues both large and small, Sharon Pollock
remains an active, controversial and prolific participant in the Canadian
theatre scene.
A third volume of her collected
works is being compiled by editor Cynthia Zimmerman and will be available
soon from Playwrights Canada Press.
“[I]t might be a line,
it might be a moment, it might be a visual scene or something, but you
want [the audience] to have something that stays with them…. I want
them to be stimulated emotionally or intellectually. And when they leave,
I don’t want them to talk about the costumes or the lighting or any
of those aspects. I want them to talk about whatever has happened in
the play: the ideas, or the conflicts the characters had, or the choices
they made. I also want them to have a good time, of course, but essentially
I want them to leave with more than what they had when they entered
the theatre.”
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