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	About Us
		Festivals are intended as a learning experience for participants and audience alike.
		All member groups are eligible to enter the festivals; they must have been in operation and a paid up member at least three months before the festival opens.
		Once a year during the Spring Play festival, funds permitting, a draw is held for a half scholarship to a Theatre Ontario summer course of their choice.
	members.aol.com /yodler1/aboutus.htm (410 words)

	Theorizing New Play Development in Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The play was a great success – it won the Drama Trophy at the competition that year (Lee 69); in order to achieve such a success, Major Devine and his collaborators must have considered some notion of what their play should be – aesthetically, practically – in the course of their discussion.
		The particular conceit they devised in order to gain entry into the festival came out of the play itself – a Genet knock-off must surely be international enough for an international theatre festival – but it also came out of an established relationship between the director and playwright.
		Festivals – notably the many Fringes across the country – serve an enormous role in the development of new plays, today as in the days of the Earl Grey Competition, or, indeed, the Dominion Drama Festival.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/ctr/115/115_Tihanyi.html (2439 words)

	Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
		The First DDF was held in Ottawa in April 1933 on Shakespeare’s birthday, with companies from eight provinces presenting one-act plays and excerpts from full-length plays.
		Among the actors who gained theatre experience in the DDF competitions were Robertson Davies, William Hutt, and Frances Hyland, John Colicos, Kate Reid, Douglas Rain, Amelia Hall, Gratien Gelinas, and Andre Brassard.
		The DDF also played a role in the construction of a national identity and a national theatre, through its insistence on retaining a bilingual mandate.
	www.canadiantheatre.com /dict.pl?term=Dominion+Drama+Festival (498 words)

	Recorded memory of theatre life in Nova Scotia - Post War Cooperative and Community Theatre Movements
		The general trend throughout the postwar period was for actors to join together to form their own professional theatre companies, while others worked to foster the growth of indigenous theatre, which they saw as creating work opportunities for themselves in a country where no native professional theatre had existed in over a decade.
		He worked as a Drama Advisor, Continuing Education Division, Nova Scotia Department of Education and later as head of the Arts Unit of the Department of Education until his retirement in 1972.
		With professional companies such as The Dartmouth Drama Club, which formed in 1954, this era saw the arrival of cooperative theatre and environmental theatre movements, where collaborative groups or collectives began to shape their creative output through observation of their local communities.
	nstp.ucis.dal.ca /zouppa_5332.html (483 words)

	Davies, Robertson William (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		While editing this paper 1940-55, and when he was publisher 1955-65, Davies published 18 books, produced several of his own plays and wrote numerous articles for various journals.
		Davies found his metier neither in drama nor in occasional humorous essays, but in fiction.
		During the 1950s, he played a major role in launching the STRATFORD FESTIVAL, serving on the board of governors and publishing with director Sir Tyrone GUTHRIE three books about the Festival's early years (1953-55).
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0002151 (813 words)

	Horton Journal of Canadian History
		The society accredited with being "a breeding ground for many of the artists who laid the foundation for the modern Canadian theatre" is the Dominion Drama Festival (1932-1978).
		This bilingual festival was founded by Lord Blessborogh, as a competition for the region’s finest actors, directors, writers, designers, and so on.
		The style of a collective is highly developmental in its nature and still used today in drama classes, workshops and festivals around the country.
	www.angelfire.com /ns2/hjch2001/Gardiner.htm (1631 words)

	Concordia University Archives Private Fonds and Collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Quebec Drama Federation is Quebec’s umbrella association for English-language theatre.
		The Federation is an outgrowth of the former Quebec Drama Festival, which was created in 1972 with the collapse of the Dominion Drama Festival.
		In 1981 a new festival was initiated, and in 1989 the organization changed its name to Quebec Drama Federation.
	archives3.concordia.ca /Privatefonds/P164.html (264 words)

	The Homeroom - School and Community Drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		School and Community Drama was established as a subsection of the Adult Education Division of the Department of Education in April 1936.
		The objectives of the branch were not simply to promote drama at the school and community level.
		The branch was involved with the Dominion Drama Festival, and was instrumental in the introduction of drama as an elective course in high schools.
	www.mala.bc.ca /Homeroom/Content/Topics/Programs/Drama.htm (375 words)

	Shakespeare in Canada: page 5
		Coinciding with this development was, in the 1930s, the creation of the Dominion Drama Festival (DDF), the first truly national theatre, created by another Governor General, the Earl of Bessborough, with representatives of amateur drama groups from across Canada.
		Of central importance to the development of radio drama as well as to Canadian theatre as a whole was the report of the Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters, and Sciences, better known as the Massey Commission (1949-1951), named after its co-chair, Vincent Massey, later Governor General of Canada.
		Even though the Festival was founded by a British director, Sir Tyrone Guthrie, at the initiative of Tom Patterson (a Stratford businessman), and used British stars, it was hailed as the iconic achievement of Canadian cultural nationhood.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/Criticism/shakespearein/canada5.html (1019 words)

	Quebec Drama Federation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Quebec Drama Festival was founded in 1972 as a result of the vacuum created by the collapse of the Dominion Drama Festival.
		In spring of 1975, QDF produced two annual festivals: a fall community festival and a spring festival of one-act Canadian plays.
		This first “Colloque” resulted in the creation of a standing committee, who prepared and circulated a brief on the situation to all levels of government, helping QDF to receive funds to hire its first full-time Executive Director in 1987.
	www.quebecdrama.org /TFabout.html (506 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Joudry, Patricia
		She wrote over 300 plays, of which approximately 250 were scripted for radio in Canada and the U.S. At a time when few works by female playwrights were produced, Joudry’s comedies and dramas on stage, radio and television criticized the often stifling nature of marriage, child education, religious teachings, social conventions and mindless consumerism.
		In the realistic drama, a pathologically possessive husband threatens and destroys everything (including their child) in an attempt to exert total control over his wife Louise.
		Eventually she herself dies, and he screams over her body: “She’s mine!” The play was televised by Associated Rediffusion, England, and CBC Vancouver in 1959 and by the CBS Television Network, in New York and Australia in 1960 and 1961.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5319 (1861 words)

	Harley Granville Barker Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		As dramatist, director, producer and actor, he helped to set a new course for modern drama.
		Later in life, as a leading theatre scholar, he contributed significantly to modern critical thought with his monumental Prefaces to Shakespeare (6 vols, 1927-47), and to the promotion of government subsidy for the arts with A National Theatre: Scheme and Estimates (1907; revised 1930).
		Twice he visited Canada for theatrical purposes: adjudicating the Dominion Drama Festival in Ottawa in 1936, and lecturing on Shakespeare at the University of Toronto in 1942.
	www.geh.org /link/sn/barkerbio.html (490 words)

	Voaden - (F0440) - S00131 - Associations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Governors of the Dominion Drama Festival, 1954-1955; 1956-1957 (Voaden DDF Governor 1952-1957); June 3, 1954 letter to Voaden re his re-appointment as Governor.
		Dominion Drama Festival minutes of the Annual General Court of Governors, May 14, 1954.
		DDF Programme, National Festival, May 1956; 1956 correspondence.
	info.library.yorku.ca /depts/asc/Finding_aids/Voaden_webpage/S00131.htm (8347 words)

	About Us at Lakeshore Players
		This play was later entered in the Dominion Drama Festival where the group received the D.D.E Backstage Efficiency Award, as well as several Honorable Mentions.
		It has also participated in other activities such as community summer theatre, Cable TV and TV Drama Festival shows, as well as producing Experimental Theatre and Café Theatre, which has proved so popular that it has become a regular summer feature.
		In 1969, Lakeshore Players was officially incorporated as a non-profit organisation and in 1974 we entered into a reciprocal agreement with the City of Dorval, whereby we became part of the Dorval Civic Theatre.
	www.lakeshoreplayersdorval.org /history.htm (491 words)

	UNB Archives & Special Collections-Inventory to the Alvin J. Shaw fonds-Series 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Recipients include the UNB Drama Society, individual members of the Drama Society and Alvin Shaw.
		Some of the trophies were received at the Regional drama festival while others were recognition from the UNB Drama Society itself.
		Some of the trophies were given annually, with a new winner's name inscribed each year, while others were unique.
	www.lib.unb.ca /archives/shaw/ser4.html (305 words)

	Chris Wiggins - Biography
		This peaked his interest and he would listen to CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) radio dramas to learn more, since he believed that the best actors were found on radio.
		After winning a Best Actor award (Henry Osborne Challenge Trophy) for stage performance in 1955 at the Dominion Drama Festival, Chris was advised to head east to Toronto.
		In Toronto, he performed on the stage with the Museum Theatre and Crest Theatre and from 1959-1960, he was a member of the Acting Company with the Stratford Festival Company in the town of Stratford, Ontario, located 1 1/2 hours west of Toronto.
	chriswigginsonline.8k.com /bio.html (1073 words)

	Student Directed One-Act Festival opens on 10th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Old Dominion University Theatre will present Harold Pinter's "The Revue Sketches" and Thornton Wilder's "Pullman Car Hiawatha" April 10-19 for the Student Directed One-Act Festival.
		"The Revue Sketches" combines eight vignettes for a night of intrigue and dark drama and reflects Pinter's penchant for plunging his audience into deep anticipation with abrupt transitions and surprises.
		Tickets are $8 general admission, $7 for Old Dominion faculty and $5 for students.
	www.odu.edu /ao/instadv/archive/issue16/studentdirect.htm (85 words)

	Saskatchewan Arts Board - Showcase - A Tribute to our Pioneers
		Mary Ellen Burgess was recognized across Canada as an outstanding drama director and adjudicator.
		She served as Governor and executive member of the Dominion Drama Festival for 10 years and was an executive member of Regina Little Theatre for 23 years.
		She reshaped high school in the province by initiating drama competitions in the late 1930's, helping add drama to the curriculum, and establishing province-wide drama festivals.
	www.artsboard.sk.ca /Tribute/tribute_burgess.shtml (181 words)

	hawkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The 1950 Dominion Drama Festival and Its Aftermath: The Fight for Calgary's Theatre Future
		The most important historical example of "top-down" was the Dominion Drama Festival, established by the Governor General of Canada.
		This alignment delayed for more than two decades the establishment of the first professional theatre in Calgary, which in any case continued for some time to reflect a national rather than a local character.
	www.umoncton.ca /facarts/anglais/actr/news/23-1/hawkins.htm (176 words)

	A Selected Chronology of Italian Canadian Theatre in Toronto from 1950 to the Present (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		However, the Italian Institute of Culture and other sponsors brought a series of Italian “imported” theatre to Toronto through Italian festivals, such as Italy on Stage in 1987, Italy in Canada in 1990–91 and Welcome Italia in 1997.
		These festivals, in addition to their theatre component, brought a taste of Italy to Italian immigrants and a non-immigrant Italian perspective to Toronto.
		Rosa Fracassa is a PhD student at the Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto, and teaches at George Brown College.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/ctr/104/104_Fracassa.html (1373 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		She was Domino's resident archivist and archivist for the Eastern Ontario Drama League.
		Above: A memorial to Pat placed on the Domino stage for the celebration of her life held March 5 - featuring her picture and the smock in which she painted countless sets.
		Right: John F. Brook, president of the Dominion Drama Festival (standing) with Gordon Robertson and Pat Beharriell at the opening of Domino's old home at 8 Princess st. in 1964.
	post.queensu.ca /~oosthuiz/domino/divers_arc_4.htm (419 words)

	Adrian Waller: 'A Man For All Seasons'
		For three straight years, in fact (1966, 1967, and 1968) Adrian Waller took an amateur group to the Festival’s finals, picking up many awards for his actors and designers, and three best-director awards for himself.
		The plays he directed at the festival were Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace, one of his favourites, John Williams’ Can You Hear Niagara Falls?, and Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit.
		Waller's production of this searing drama was widely acclaimed, and in 1969 he was invited to stage it in the Stratford Festival Theater, Stratford, Ontario, with the same cast he had used at the DDF!
	www.webspawner.com /users/adrianwaller1 (516 words)

	IN MEMORIAM: Trevor Kevin Groves (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He won the Dominion Drama Festival Award for best supporting actor in 1950 for his performance in Ibsen’s Ghosts.
		He was also involved in performances with the Department of Drama.
		That knowledge of drama also helped make his lectures memorable occasions for his students.
	ucalgary.ca /UofC/events/unicomm/Gazette/Archives/Aug14-00/memory.htm (278 words)

	Drama Trophies - Top Drama Trophies Listings, Resources and Information. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Dominion Drama Festival (1932-39, 1947-78) was a co-lingual amateur theatre competition that bridged the 1930s collapse of foreign touring and the postwar emergence of Canada's professional THEATRE . On 29 Oct 1932, 60 theatre
		Skegness Playgoers are an Amateur Drama Group which have been running in Skegness, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, for over 60 years. We do plays, have a youth section and run a competitive Drama Festival judged by a member of the Guild of Drama Adjudicators.
		Roy is nervously pacing at what appears to be an airport terminal. Sue joins him and in the course of their conversation we discover they have died and are now on the outskirts of heaven waiting for their name to be called. Roy is counting on his duffel
	trophyfinder.com /dramatrophies (1681 words)

	Robertson Davies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He believed in a very existential philosophy of creating yourself through a series of actions, behaviors, or choices.
		Almost all of his drama and fiction are concerned with exploring the self.
		Sigmund Freud influenced the young Davies; Jung, however, seemed less reductive, more inclusive to the older Davies; and his work reflects this philosophical shift.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~hbrizee/robertsondavies.htm (821 words)

	grand theatre history london ontario canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In May of 1956 London Little Theatre, the amateur group that owned the Grand, returned from the Dominion Drama Festival in Sherbrooke, Quebec.
		With the help of his wife Robin, he mounted everything from the fl comedy of N. Simpson's One Way Pendulum to the intense drama of Peter Weiss' Marat Sade.
		Dearing had requested that all donations be made towards a new act curtain.
	www.dotydocs.com /Archives/grand/dearing.htm (583 words)

	Theatre Woodstock: 1963-1964 Season
		Now a resident of London, Ontario, she starred in L.L.T.'s production "I Am A Camera", A Dominion Drama Festival finalist.
		She is an honour graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and comes from a theatrical family.
		Her husband is also an accomplished director and actor.
	theatrewoodstock.com /63-64 (172 words)

	UofC: OnCampus Oct. 31/03: Degrees of achievement: honorary degrees awarded
		Pollock has twice won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama for her plays “Blood Relations” (1981) and “Doc” (1985).
		In 1988, her historical drama “Walsh” was produced by Theatre Calgary as a major part of the 1988 Cultural Olympics, held in conjunction with the Winter Games.
		Pollock has served as chair of the Advisory Arts Panel of the Canada Council, was an advisory committee member for the National Arts School, and was associate director of the Stratford Festival Theatre.
	www.ucalgary.ca /oncampus/weekly/oct31-03/hon-deg.html (922 words)

	Douglas Welch Design Associates - Architectural Lighting Design Team
		Welch has designed over 150 professional productions and has experience as a designer, production manager, teacher, technical director, property master, scenic artist, lighting technician, sound technician, actor and stage manager in professional theatre, dance and opera.
		He has received awards from the Canada Council, the Vancouver Theatre Alliance, the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Dominion Drama Festival for his theatre work and from the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America for international lighting design projects.
		Hamilton has an MFA in Theatre Design from the University of British Columbia and a Senior Diploma in Theatre Crafts and Design from the Banff Centre.
	www.d-w-d.com /r0800/dwd-ald-team-mr.htm (363 words)

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