Hot Thespian Action!: Ten Premiere Plays from Walterdale Playhouse

In Hot Thespian Action! Robin Whittaker argues that new plays can thrive in amateur theatres, which have freedoms unavailable to professionalized companies. And he proves it with ten relevant, engaging playscripts originally produced by one of Canada’s longest-running theatres, Edmonton’s acclaimed Walterdale Theatre Associates. This collection challenges notions that amateur theatre is solely a phenomenon of the pre-professional past. In this, the first North American anthology in eighty years, Whittaker makes an important contribution to Canadian theatre studies. Plays by: Brad Fraser, Mary Glenfield, Warren Graves, Gordon Pengilly, Barbara Sapergia & Geoffrey Ursell, Trevor Schmidt, Jonathan Seinen, Scott Sharplin, Mark Stubbings, and Wilfred Watson.Hot Thespian Action!: Ten Premiere Plays from Walterdale Playhouse is written by Robin C. Whittaker and published by AU Press. ISBNs for Hot Thespian Action! are 9781897425275, 1897425279 and the print ISBNs are 9781897425268, 1897425260.