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	Panych, Morris
		Panych, Morris, playwright, director, actor (b at Calgary, Alta 30 June 1952).
		Although Panych is interested in the small and particular, he also repeatedly explores the large theme of death.
		Panych's settings are generally undefined and somewhere at The Ends of the Earth (1994, the title of the play that earned his first Governor General's Award).
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009775 (620 words)

	Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
		Playwright, actor, and director Morris Panych is a man for all seasons in Canadian theatre.
		Panych was born in 1952 in Calgary and grew up in Edmonton, Alberta.
		They typically set their interrogations of the meaning of life in culturally and nationally neutral locales, and they pose broad philosophical questions on human interaction and isolation, on the nature of good and evil, and on the relationship between fantasy and reality.
	www.canadiantheatre.com /dict.pl?term=Morris+Panych (1087 words)

	Lancette theatre14 Vigil - Lancette - Journal of the Arts
		Morris Panych is fast becoming one of this country's better known playwrights, aside from also being one of its more quirky directors.
		In Vigil, Panych proves to be a master of one-liners, which elicit laughs not just because of the choice of words, but because of the unexpected nature of the statements.
		In fact, Panych builds in several surprises into the second half of the Vigil, one of which is a bit macabre—shades of Hitchcock's Psycho—which make this tale of two discontents reach a quite natural and dare one say "happy" ending.
	www.lancetteer.ca /theatre14.htm (573 words)

	UBC Archives - Morris Panych - Description
		Morris Panych is an award winning Vancouver playwright, actor, and director.
		Born in Calgary in 1952, Panych received a diploma in Radio and Television Arts from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in 1973 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of British Columbia in 1977.
		2B WUT UR Panych was artistic director for Vancouver's Tamahnous Theatre from 1984 to 1986.
	www.library.ubc.ca /archives/u_arch/panych.html (337 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Arts: Exhibitionism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Panych uses death to define the relationship between Kemp and Grace, and it's through the subject of death that these characters ultimately develop a deep relationship.
		Panych provides plenty of clues, but when the revelation comes, it's as neat and surprising a twist as I've seen in any play.
		Panych writes in short, flout scenes, some no more than tableaux, and just before every flout he provides Kemp with a line than puts a nail in the thematic coffin.
	rachel.auschron.com /issues/dispatch/2002-09-13/arts_exhibitionism2.html (700 words)

	Speaking from the Pre-symbolic: Morris Panych and Wendy Gorling’s The Overcoat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Panych’s characters often have no names (Man, in 7 Stories), or names that are allusive or descriptive rather than personal (Gross, in Last Call), and are identified only by the performative utterances they embody.
		But in The Overcoat, Panych’s Akaky loses even this demeaning and symbolic name: he is simply “The Man,” and the implications spoken in Gogol’s hailing must be borne in the body of the actor, Peter Anderson.
		Panych’s refusal to name except in theatrical terms, in performative terms, gels with Gorling’s refusal to name except by transference of etymons (the earliest forms of words) from the body, her coining of character out of physical phonemes.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/ctr/108/108_Gilbert.html (4023 words)

	Eye - On Stage - 02.15.01 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Morris Panych's new one-act comedy has a great script, an engaging star (Randy Hughson) and, in Ken MacDonald's crumbling skewed-perspective playhouse of a one-room apartment, a set design that has award-winner written all over it.
		Given the number of soundtrack breaks and sound cues (there are several strong jokes for which the punchline is a sound effect), it also occurs to you that the sheer pleasure of looking at the set is meant to distract you from the fact that Earshot might be better as a radio play.
		Panych is too good a writer not to hold back a few surprise strokes for the end, but his stabs at a larger meaning for his protagonist's antic suffering boil down to a Beatles lyric: "All you need is love."
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_02.15.01/arts/onstage.html (1069 words)

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		As well as creating the work, Panych and MacDonald acted in the production which toured Canada in 1982 and was later developed into a CBC television special.
		Globe Theatre is thrilled to once again showcase Morris Panych's impressive writing and unique wit on the Main Stage, and to introduce audiences to the delightful music of Ken MacDonald.
		Morris is an accomplished director and actor, as well as playwright.
	www.globetheatrelive.com /20022003season/lastcallstudyguide.htm (2236 words)

	Harbourfront Centre: Media Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Morris Panych is a director, writer and actor based in Vancouver.
		Panych studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia and theatre at East 15, London, England.
		Panych has starred in over 50 theatrical productions as well as directing opera, music videos and a wide range of classic and contemporary plays.
	www.harbourfrontcentre.com /press/wstage2003_overcoat_bios.html (173 words)

	vancouverplays: Vancouver's arts and culture website providing theatre reviews and commentary
		This world premiere of Morris Panych’s new comedy offers a glimpse into a world where one person’s tedium is another person’s lifestyle.
		In 1995, Panych won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama for his play The Ends of the Earth, and another in 2004 for Girl in the Goldfish Bowl both of which premiered at the Granville Island Stage, in 1993 and 2002, respectively.
		Panych was born in 1952 and grew up in Edmonton.
	www.vancouverplays.com /theatre/previews_theatre/preview_dishwashers_2005.htm (337 words)

	Tarragon Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is a play which Panych has said is a tribute to his father, "a homage to working people like my father.
		With trademark Panych wit, the play explores the bigger existential questions of coming to terms with one's own humility and limitations and also finding a path through life all in the context of this no exit environment.
		Morris Panych directs this fine cast and Ken MacDonald designs the set and costumes, Paul Mathieson designs lighting and Todd Charlton designs sound.
	www.tarragontheatre.com /whatson_press_2005-2006_doc03.php (548 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Playwright, actor and director Morris Panych has been described as “a man for all seasons in Canadian theatre.” He has appeared in over fifty theatre productions and in numerous television and film roles.
		Born in 1952 in Calgary, Panych grew up in Edmonton and currently resides in Vancouver.
		Panych’s plays are characterized by a deliciously dark humour, brimming with existential themes and “theatre of the absurd” style and sensibility.
	204.101.246.221 /site1/talon/authordetails.cfm?authorID=153 (327 words)

	Alibris: Morris Panych
		Panych's brilliant tale reminds us all that fear can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
		Morris Panych's brilliant new fl comedy is structured around what happens when an extremely self-centred and shallow person finds himself, through his own errors and inattentiveness, in a life and death situation with profound and far reaching consequences.
		As Morris Panych's latest comedy opens, we hear Iris, a precocious girl of ten, saying: "These are the last few days of my childhood." The death of her goldfish, Amal, she is sure, has been announced by the air-raid sirens during the day's school drill.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Morris_Panych (307 words)

	www.straight.com - print page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Panych is enjoying lunch--a grilled-chicken salad--as he takes a break from directing his newest play, The Dishwashers, which premieres at the Arts Club's Granville Island Stage on Wednesday (February 23) and runs till March 12.
		Panych has a restless, existential view of the world, however, and in The Dishwashers he wrestles with the conflict between acceptance of one's lot and the urge to change it.
		Panych sees what he describes as Zen and fascist faces to the idea of acceptance: "I can't really say, 'Work makes you free.' Because Nazis said it--outside Auschwitz.
	www.straight.com /Print_Page.cfm?id=8118 (628 words)

	Shaw Festival Theatre 2005 Season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Morris Panych returns to the Shaw Festival for his second season as the director of Bernard Shaw’s You Never Can Tell.
		A playwright, actor and director, Morris Panych has directed over fifty productions and written 20 plays, a number of which have been produced internationally.
		Panych's plays for young audiences - Cost of Living (1990), 2B WUT UR (1992), and Life Science (1993) were produced by Green Thumb Theatre, and have toured extensively.
	www.shawfest.com /about_05/company/panych_morris.php (634 words)

	Touchmark's Second Production (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When I first read Morris Panych's Vigil, I thought it was a darkly funny play about a lonely man trying to re-establish a connection with a long-lost aunt.
		...Panych's fl and richly funny comment on family and relationships, is an excellent choice to open this small but promising season.
		Panych skewers all of the real and societally imposed conventions of contemporary family expectations, probing the cause of the all too familiar emptiness in our lives.
	www.execulink.com /~dbeattie/vigil.htm (1459 words)

	Welcome to the North Shore News - On Line - Arts & Entertainment
		LESLIE Jones delivers a spellbinding performance in Morris Panych's Girl in the Goldfish Bowl.
		Girl in the Goldfish Bowl by Morris Panych at the Arts Club Granville Island Stage to April 27.
		Supporting the action is another great set from designer Ken MacDonald that manages to combine a sense of decay with a film noir feel that perfectly suits the occasional references to the world outside the goldfish bowl: the era of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
	www.nsnews.com /issues02/w042202/044302/artent/044302ae6.html (622 words)

	Aisle Say (Toronto): SWEENEY TODD
		Michael Fletcher is appropriately frightening and loathsome as Judge Turpin, but Panych stages his principal musical moment so badly that Fletcher effectively disappears from mind the moment he is offstage.
		Panych is wise to have avoided the finger pointing that Prince inflicted on the original production's closing, a final image that was both self-congratulatory and self-defeating.
		But by the final flout, Panych's lack of a point of view makes one wonder what first attracted him to this project.
	www.aislesay.com /ONT-SWEENEY.html (666 words)

	7 Stories
		Morris Panych's 7 Stories is the kind of play you just know began with the playwright waking up in the middle of the night with an inspiration.
		What the directors have to do, then, is to take Panych's plan and run with it: it's necessary to make the timing, the speed, and the comic force of the separate scenes into the whole point.
		Perhaps it would be asking too much to want Panych to have given us some characters or plot; and in their absence we can thank Stage Left for having given us what the script does offer: lots of laughs, and lots of reflection on what it is we're laughing about.
	www.stthomasu.ca /~hunt/reviews/7stories.htm (692 words)

	ALTERED 'OVERCOAT'
		Morris Panych's and Wendy Gorling's adaptation of the 1846 Russian classic is a movement-based theater piece set to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich.
		In Gogol's original story, a routinely overlooked and ridiculed clerk in a government office finally has to replace his falling-apart overcoat with a new one despite the expense, and for one brief, shining moment it makes all the difference in his life.
		Panych explains further: "We broke the story down into scene elements and just assigned pieces of music that seemed like they might go with that particular scene.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/08/21/PKGOHE6N5U1.DTL (740 words)

	British Columbia Archival Information Network Display
		During the early 1990's Panych wrote a series of plays for young people, including The Cost of Living (1990), and 2B WUT UR (1991).
		Panych was artistic director for Vancouver's Tamahnous Theatre from 1984 to 1986.
		Panych has received Jessie awards for both acting in and directing the works of other playwrights, most notably for his direction of Sweeney Todd (2000).
	aabc.bc.ca /WWW.aabc.archbc/display.UBCARCH-650 (339 words)

	Vue Weekly : Articles
		He’s tried to hole himself up in his tiny, grubby apartment (a remarkable feat of forced-perspective illusion-making by set designer Ken MacDonald), but that hasn’t stopped the sounds of his neighbours’ maddeningly mundane lives from leaking through the walls and battering his eardrums.
		There’s such meat in him, such a freedom just to let things rip.” In fact, Doyle is the rare character that doesn’t just allow the actor playing him to yell at noisy audience members; it practically demands it.
		But Morris was insistent and said I had to keep using that kind of thing.
	www.vueweekly.com /articles/default.aspx?i=340 (583 words)

	Amazon.ca: Girl in the Goldfish Bowl: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Between this event and the play’s devastating ending, the audience is presented with Iris’s distorted perspective as she witnesses the disintegration of her parents’ marriage against the foreboding ambiance of the Cold War.
		Panych uses Iris’s magical thinking to explore how she understands the breakdown of the certainties that held her childhood together.
		Panych’s play, dedicated to his friend, the late Urjo Kareda (1944-2001), is a poignant depiction of how the imagination can help individuals transcend the vagaries of chance to see beyond the fishbowl distortions of their immediate surroundings to a larger, more promising world.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0889224811 (673 words)

	Vancouver - Home - The Dishwashers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Playwright Morris Panych offers a glimpse into the world of dishwashers in this quirky comedy.
		In this place of endless dishes, suds and despair, Morris Panych brings wit and humour to the quest for existential meaning.
		Morris has enjoyed great success at the Tarragon with such plays as 7 Stories, Vigil, The Ends of the Earth, Lawrence and Holloman, and Girl in the Goldfish Bowl which last year won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama.
	www.vancouverplus.ca /portal/profile.do?act=print&profileID=430927§ionID=89 (118 words)

	Alibris: Morris Panych
		Dramas that encourage adults to reflect on their past and young people to reflect on their future: Life Science, 2B WUT UR and Cost of Living.
		In a dizzying series of agonizingly introspective and hilarious examinations of characters in psychic extremis, beginning with 7 Stories and continuing with the Governor General's Award winning The Ends of the Earth and Vigil, Panych keeps his characters at the edge of the brink -- and his audiences at the edge of...
		For Iris there remain a few more days of life in a universe that is inherently ordered, where...
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Panych,Morris (307 words)

	NOW: Fishy Friendship, Sep 12 - 18, 2002
		Morris Panych mines Cold War neuroses in Girl In The Goldfish Bowl.
		With his quirky dialogue, twisted logic and absurdist-tinged plots, Panych is a master at provoking laughter along with unsettled feelings.
		Which brings Panych back to Girl In The Goldfish Bowl, whose central character, a precocious soon-to-be-11-year-old named Iris, loses confidence in her breaking-up parents and the world situation when her pet goldfish dies.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2002-09-12/stage_theatrefeature2.php (811 words)

	Faculty of Humanities News - 7 Stories
		The series brings together professors and over 30 students who earn academic credit for their work on the shows.
		by Morris Panych, directed by Amanda Wilson, is a fast-paced, sophisticated and hilarious play.
		Writer, director and actor Morris Panych has appeared in over 50 theatre productions and in numerous television and film roles.
	www.humanities.mcmaster.ca /~testweb/news/panych.html (157 words)

	TheatreBooks: Spotlight On...McHardy on MacIvor
		Playwright Morris Panych and his partner, designer Ken MacDonald, have been a vibrant part of the Canadian theatre community for twenty years.
		TheatreBooks sat down with Morris and Ken to talk about the show, new challenges, and the luxury of doing two different productions of the same play.
		Morris Panych: It's the story of a girl who brings a man home who she finds on the beach.
	www.theatrebooks.com /spotlight/panych_rachel.html (1427 words)

	Theatre at UBC Alumni - Governor General's Awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vancouver playwright Morris Panych has won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama for his comedy Girl in the Goldfish Bowl.
		Panych graduated from the UBC creative writing program in 1977.
		Morris Panych won the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama for The Ends of the Earth in 1994.
	www.theatre.ubc.ca /students/alumni_details/alumni_list_gg.htm (796 words)

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