Hi
Everyone:
It's
been a busy fall at Gailey Road. Here are the events and projects we've
been working on since our last blog in July 2012.
August
2012
Margot
Huycke and I
attended the 2012 Women Playwrights’ International Conference in Stockholm,
Sweden where we promoted Gailey Road's new online journal Women in Theatre and
I presented a seminar on research-informed theatre with playwrights Beverley
Cooper (author of Innocence Lost which will be performed at the
Centaur Theatre in Montreal in January and February 2013) and Sally
Stubbs, the new Women's Caucus Chair for Playwrights Guild of Canada.
The next WPI Conference will be in South Africa in July 2015.
September
2012
At the
beginning of the month Gailey Road published the second issue of its new
online journal Women in Theatre (WiT).
The theme of the issue was the status of women in theatre and the sponsor of
the issue was Playwrights Press Canada. Women in Theatre can be
downloaded for free from: http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wit/index
Two
weeks later, on September 15, 2012, we launched the Discussion
Guides to my plays Harriet’s House and Ana’s Shadow (which
we were working on last summer) at the 10 Years of Inqueeries Conference.
The conference was held at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education,
University of Toronto. Helen Kennedy from EGALE and about 60
educators attended the conference and the launch. Both Discussion Guides
as well as the scripts can be downloaded for free from: www.gaileyroad.com
October-November
2012
In
October and November the original cast from Harriet's House reunited to
digitally record their performance Harriet’s House and a reading of
the play's sequel Ana’s Shadow. Harriet's House director Jocelyn
Wickett and film director Pamela Snell co-directed
the recording session with the support of production manager Misha
Gallagher. Rebecca Applebaum who has played Ana in both
plays performed all three songs composed for Ana's Shadow by Chantelle
Pike and Hannah Dean. The recordings will be edited this winter and
Gailey Road is planning a screening of both recordings sometime next spring.
Later
in October, we held the first Women Writing Letters of the season A Letter
to God featuring
Rabbi
Elyse Goldstein
Kate
Dickson
Michelle
Sutherland
Jasmin
Zine
In
November Jocelyn Wickett and Amy Gullage, who led the
12-member team that designed the two discussion guides for Harriet's House and
Ana's Shadow, graduated with their MA and PhD degrees from the
University of Toronto.
Jocelyn's
MA thesis is called Queering for Social Change: An Arts-Based
Autoethnographic Study of the Role of Drama in Creating a Transformative
Practice With At-Risk Youth.
Amy's
PhD thesis, which used a research methodology she calls "embedded
performed ethnography" is named Teaching with the Flesh:
Examining Discourses of Fitness and their Implication in Teachers’ Professional
and Personal Lives.
December
2012
Earlier
this month Gailey Road published the third issue of Women in Theatre (WiT).
The theme of the issue was women, politics and theatre and the sponsors of the
issue were Canadian Theatre Review and Scirocco Press. This latest
issue of Women in Theatre can be downloaded for free
from: http://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/wit/index
Looking
Forward to January 2013
From
January to April 2013, I will be offering a graduate research methodology
course called Performed Ethnography and Research-Informed Theatre
at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
The course is filled to capacity which bodes well for offering it again
next year.
On
Sunday January 20, 2013 Gailey Road will be hosting the second Women Letters
Event of the season, A Letter to My 12-Year Old Self, featuring:
Maria
Meindl (fiction writer)
Karleen
Pendleton (memoirist)
Hailee
Morrow (screenwriter)
Michele
Coleman (theatre artist)
Sarah
J. Roebuck (poet)
Talia
Zajac (historical fiction writer)
Have a
wonderful holiday season and a happy, healthy new year.
All
the best,
Tara
Goldstein
