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Dateline: 24th February, 2005
4Play Canada - Celebrating Canada's Playwrights Canada is home to some of the most exciting playwrights on the world theatre scene today and, with this in mind, representatives from the Canadian and British Theatre industry have joined forces to select four of the most exciting plays to emerge from Canada in the last five years. This cross-section of innovative work will be brought to The Old Vic Studio in March 2005 for a series of rehearsed readings with the aim of presenting what is currently an untapped seam of creative writing to a wider audience. In November 2004, the Canadian High Commission in London invited Canada's National Arts Centre to select thirteen plays that had been produced to critical acclaim in Canada within the last five years but were, as yet, unknown to British audiences. A reading committee of prominent Canadian theatre producers assembled the list and submitted it to a reading panel comprised of dramaturgs from some of the UK's foremost theatres. The British Reading Panel - consisting of representatives from The Stephen Joseph Theatre; The National Theatre Studio; The Traverse Theatre; The Royal Exchange Theatre; The Tron Theatre; The Old Vic Theatre; Theatre Genedlaethol Cymru; The Royal Court Theatre; The Royal Shakespeare Company - selected four of these new plays to be given rehearsed readings, directed by four distinguished UK?based directors. The selected plays are:
4Play Canada was made possible with support from The Canada Council for the Arts, the Department of Foreign Affairs Canada. The National Arts Centre Foundation would also like to acknowledge the generous leadership support of a private family in Ottawa, Canada, and the support of an anonymous donor in the U.K. To reserve a place for one or more of these playreadings please telephone 0207 258 6419 or email culture.London@international.gc.ca All readings take place in the Sam Morley Rehearsal Room at The Old Vic. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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