Donna Coates, ed. Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre.
Donna Coates, ed. Sharon Pollock: First Woman of Canadian Theatre.
Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2015. Pp. vii + 328. $34.95.
This volume begins with acknowledgments (vii) and an introduction
by the editor (1-12). The primary text includes the following essays:
Jerry Wasserman, " Walsh and the (De-)Construction of Canadian
Myth" (13-28); Shelley Scott, "Sharon Pollock and the Scene of
the Crime" (29-46); Jason Wiens, "Ownership and Stewardship in
Sharon Pollocks Generations" (47-64); Cynthia Zimmerman,
"Different Directions: Sharon Pollock's Doc" (65-82); Wes
D. Pearce, '"The art a seein' the multiple
realities': Fragmented Scenography in Sharon Pollock's
Plays" (83-106); Carmen Derkson, "Listening is Telling: Eddie
Roberts's Poetics of Repair in Sharon Pollock's Fair
Liberty's Call" (107-26); Kathy K. Y. Chung, "Loss and
Mourning in Sharon Pollock's Fair Liberty's Call (127-46);
Tanya Schaap, "Questions of Collective Responsibility in Sharon
Pollock's Man Out of Joint" (147-68); Donna Coates,
"Equal-Opportunity Torturers in Judith Thompson's Palace of
the End and Sharon Pollock's Man Out of Joint" (169-96);
Martin Morrow, "Sharon Pollock and the Garry Theatre
(1992-97)" (197-206); Jeton Neziraj, "Sharon Pollock in
Kosovo" (207-12); Sherrill Grace, "Biography and the
Archive" (213-36); Calgary Playing with Pollock Collective: Lindsay
Burns, Pamela Halstead, Grant Linneberg, and Laura Parken,
"Sharon's Tongue" (237-72). The text concludes with
"Pollock on Plays" (273-302), contributors (303-10), and an
index (311-28).