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	Literary Encyclopedia: Pollock, Sharon
		Sharon Pollock is a modern Canadian playwright with thirteen published plays that have been produced across Canada as well as in the United States, England, Japan, Australia, and Europe.
		Pollock is one of Canada’s leading English-language playwrights, celebrated for her excellent writing, challenging themes, and innovative dramatic structures.
		Pollock was born Mary Sharon Chalmers in 1936 in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3593 (945 words)

	SEE Magazine: December 2, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sharon Pollock, the strikingly unpretentious grande dame of Canadian playwrights, is performing with the graduating class of the U of A’s drama school in her own play, Moving Pictures, a study of Canadian Nell Shipman, one of Hollywood’s forgotten ingénues from its silent film era.
		Although Pollock explicitly denies ever having had a nationalist agenda, she is part of the generation that came of age in the 1970s that established "Canadian" playwrighting.
		Pollock has divided Shipman into three characters–Helen, her youngest self just embarking on an acting career; Nell, the actress at the height of her creative and financial powers; and Shipman, the now-obscure, former actress, near the end of her life–to explore a life’s devotion to art, flying in the teeth of financial considerations.
	www.seemagazine.com /Issues/2004/1202/cover.htm (1541 words)

	Sharon Pollock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sharon Pollock (born April 19, 1936) is a Canadian playwright who lives in Calgary, Alberta.
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	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Sharon_Pollock.html (316 words)

	The Herald, Sharon, Pa., Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2002: Local news for Mercer County and the Shenango Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pollock was born Sept. 15, 1919, in New Castle to William L. Reed and Myrtle A. Zeigler Reed.
		Pollock was formerly a member of Oakland Avenue United Methodist Church in Sharon, where she sang in the Sanctuary Choir, and was nursery superintendent for 20 years.
		Pollock was preceded in death by her parents; and three sisters, Gladys Schwartz, Helen Walthour and Harriet Waddington.
	www.sharon-herald.com /localnews/hed/0209/hed092702.html (1310 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Pollock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pollock, a rookie defenseman brought up from the minors to add punch to the Blues' power play, has played his way into a third game and will be at Murray...
		Gordon Pollock QC claimed that they "shut their eyes and turned away" from the fraudulent activities at BCCI as he opened an £850m damages action against the...
		Dale Pollock, the dean of the School of Filmmaking and the executive director of the festival, said that the selection of Birkas was a no-brainer.
	www.nametraq.org /Jan04/P/Pollock.shtml (2591 words)

	JesusJournal.com - "Super-Groupie" Is Now Prison Chaplain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Jozy Pollock, the middle-aged “super-groupie” who once traveled on private jets with Elton John and other celebrities before her dramatic conversion, is now serving in prison ministry, she is the first Protestant female chaplain in L.A. history.
		Pollock had a series of contacts with actress Sharon Tate, after meeting her in Italy while her husband was filming a movie.
		Sharon says, ‘When are you coming over to the house?’ She said, ‘Try to come this weekend because Roman’s still in Europe and I’ll probably be on my own.’” Tate was married to director Roman Polanski, who was in London at the time.
	www.jesusjournal.com /articles/publish/article_232.html (1604 words)

	Kerby News Monthly Feature Article - May 2000 Archive 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sharon Pollock may not have become one of Canada's premier playwrights if she hadn't been so frustrated by the lack of a Canadian voice in radio plays and theatre across the country during the mid 1960s.
		Pollock is pleased with the "increased openness to freedom of expression" she's seen in theatre over the past 20 years.
		Pollock's new play, End Game - a mystery that recently completed its inaugural run at Calgary's Theatre Junction - is based on the unsolved death of a Vancouver nanny in 1924.
	www.kerbynews.com /2000FeatureArticles/May00Centre2.html (416 words)

	Folio: Playwright treads boards with students \| December 10, 2004
		Sharon Pollock is clearly an artist whose reputation precedes her.
		Shipman's internal conflict is embodied in characters representing three stages of her life - the youthful optimist, the thriving professional in mid-life who is blind to everything but her work, and the older woman facing the end of her life and asking if it was all worth it.
		Pollock says reworking the play with Studio Theatre's cast was a vital part of the rehearsal process.
	www.ualberta.ca /~publicas/folio/42/08/04.html (685 words)

	Ironic Images: Sharon Pollock’s Stratford Productions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pollock’s convictions that “the power of metaphor and a shared cultural literacy make almost anything possible,” and that “theatre is at its most powerful when it is least literal” (Nothof 179), were realized through the imaginative interpretation of text by designers and technicians at Stratford.
		John Ferguson’s set for Sharon Pollock’s One Tiger to a Hill, was constructed at the Avon Theatre of the Stratford Festival in 1990 with a cross-hatching of bars and grills that confined prison authorities and inmates in the same murderous space.
		Pollock tracks the social and personal conflicts and misunderstandings, the multiple levels of tragic irony and the divergent perspectives on legalized violence.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/ctr/114/114_Nothof.html (3061 words)

	Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia
		Playwright/actor/director born Mary Sharon Chalmers in Fredericton, New Brunswick, April 19, 1936.
		Her childhood in a deeply dysfunctional family (and the depression, alcoholism and suicide of her mother) are dealt with, to some extent, in her autobiographical work Doc.
		Pollock has a straightforward style and her ideas, and her way of expressing them (In her writing and in public), are direct.
	www.canadiantheatre.com /dict.pl?term=Sharon+Pollock (647 words)

	Vue Weekly : Articles
		Pollock sets out to illustrate this thesis through the story of Canadian film pioneer Nell Shipman, a second-rate juvenile vaudeville performer who got involved in filmmaking during the movie industry’s rough-and-tumble early years back in the mid-teens.
		It might have been interesting to have seen Pollock really exploit the ironic contrast between Shipman’s onscreen persona as a strong woman who often saved the lives of her male co-stars, and her offscreen inability to save her second husband Bert from suicidal despair.
		Instead, Pollock’s complicated structure keeps getting in the way of the interesting woman her script is actually about—battling Shipman’s story instead of serving it.
	www.vueweekly.com /articles/default.aspx?i=1143 (726 words)

	NeWest Press: Sharon Pollock Bio
		Born in 1936 in Fredricton, New Brunswick, Sharon Pollock has written over a dozen published stage plays.
		Pollock has taught at the University of Alberta, led the playwright’s colony of Banff Centre for the Arts, and was the artistic director at Theatre Calgary and Theatre New Brunswick.
		Pollock now lives in Calgary where she has been the Playwright in Residence at Theatre Junction since 1999, where she premiered her three latest plays, "Moving Pictures," "End Dreams," and "Angels’ Trumpet."
	www.newestpress.com /bios/pollock.html (98 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Müller, Anja: Sharon Pollok’s Walsh- An Exercise in Historiographic Metafiction.
		Sharon Pollock’s Wals - An Exercise in Historiographic Metafiction [1]
		In her play Pollock focuses on the emotional involvement and moral and spiritual decline of Walsh, who cannot come to terms with his responsibility in the fate of Sitting Bull.
	archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de /sum/84/sum84-9.html (6047 words)

	How Passionate Are You?: An Interview with Sharon Pollock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sharon Pollock (left) interviewed by Sherrill Grace in a keynote session at the Celebrating Canadian Plays and Playwrights conference.
		One was from a remark in an essay that Sharon wrote in 1982 and that has been reprinted recently by Don Rubin: “For me the theatre is a way of knowing reality and at its core is a single vision: the playwright’s”; (Pollock, “Canada’s” 390).
		Sharon Pollock is one of Canada’s leading playwrights and the winner of two Governor General’s Awards for Drama.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/ctr/114/114_Grace.html (5490 words)

	Distinguished Visitor Sharon Pollock - Department of Drama - University of Alberta
		Sharon Pollock, one of Canada's most distinguished playwrights, at her desk.
		Pollock’s play Moving Pictures sketches with bold strokes, a portrait of the silent film star Nell Shipman - an artist whose thirst for creative independence could not be quenched within the confines of the movie studio system.
		Pollock’s portrayal of Nell Shipman will offer unique insights into her play, her views on art and of Sharon Pollock herself,” says Selman.
	www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca /drama/news.cfm?story=31229 (340 words)

	FFWD Weekly - April 1, 2004
		But Pollock never lost her acting chops, as she proved back when she was running the Garry Theatre in the 1990s, where she occasionally took on a major role and always turned in a strong performance.
		Pollock plays the meddlesome Miss Tracey, who she describes as "a rather pushy, bombastic older woman – of course – who tries to rule the roost.
		Pollock wasn’t actually looking to tread the boards again, but director Gail Hanrahan approached her to appear in Greenfingers and she jumped at the chance.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2004/0401/the4.htm (808 words)

	NeWest Press: Blood Relations and Other Plays
		This brand new edition features the plays that established Sharon Pollock as a major Canadian playwright and gained her many accolades, among them, the first ever Governor General’s award for drama for "Blood Relations" in 1981.
		Her characters are the oppressed, from the spinster Lizzie Borden in the title play, "Blood Relations," to the prisoners of "One Tiger to a Hill," to Leah, "chosen" daughter/mistress of rum runner Mr.
		Big in "Whiskey Six Cadenza." In "Generations," she uses a regional setting of a prairie farm kitchen to examine the tensions and affections of a family, and their relationship to "The Land." Pollock’s skillfully driven action and keen ear for dialect make for a satisfying read for drama- and fiction-lovers alike.
	www.newestpress.com /books/bloodrel.html (147 words)

	Blood Relations Summary & Essays - Sharon Pollock
		This was not the play's first appearance on stage, however, as Sharon Pollock often extensively revises her plays, even after the first couple of productions.
		Pollock's work appears to be "more involved with studies of oppression in general and political processes in particular than...
		A published version of it, released in 1981, won her the Governor General's Award, the first time such an award was made for a piece of dramatic literature.
	www.enotes.com /blood-relations (391 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nothof points towards the deliberate ambiguity in Pollock's limning of her characters--"No one is wholly innocent or completely powerless"--and we as readers/viewers feel that ambiguity so keenly that we might indeed at times wish for more clarity, more symmetry in the characterizations.
		Characters align themselves on the familiar Pollock axis of idealistic/opportunistic but here with more serious consequences as the lives of prisoners, guards, and hostages are at stake.
		As we read we want to care about the question of reform--is it possible and, if so, through what agents?--and yet the characters who flesh out these questions are difficult to connect with, for although they divulge information about themselves freely, they never surprise us.
	www.canlit.ca /reviews/unassigned/5915_hengen.html (801 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pollock’s answer suggests that if Lizzie murdered, it was an attempt to preserve what little remained of her integrity, identity, or sense of self.
		Much in the way that Lizzie uses the Actress to tell her story, Pollock uses Lizzie (and, by extension, the Actress) to give not only a personalized but also universal account of a woman struggling to retain a sense of self, in a world where women are essentially cast as other.
		Pollock’s dramatic treatment of historical subject is rendered with a contemporary message: society’s restrictive treatment of women results in lives characterized by limitation and impossibility.
	www.bsu.edu /web/bloodrelations/eBook/jones_commentary.html (523 words)

	Anne F. Nothof, editor. Sharon Pollock: Essays on Her Works by Rosalind Kerr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Pollock's feminism also concerns Sharon Stratton, who examines how the restrictions on female subjectivity are brilliantly explored through the metadramatic role-playing of Lizzie by the Actress.
		Historical issues are treated in Heidi J. Holder's demonstration of Pollock's destruction of national heroes in Walsh and The Komatagu Maru Incident as she reveals both the betrayals perpetrated by and the final entrapments of Walsh and Hopkinson inside the power structures they serve.
		Holder's ambiguity in not connecting Pollock's devices with a political agenda is somewhat offset by Anne F. Nothof's analysis of the Canadian obsession with imposing both personal and political borders in Walsh and Komagatu Maru; the tragic implications of maintaining them are, as she shows, just as destructively at work in Fair Liberty's Call.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/711/nothof67.html (570 words)

	APN \| Sharon Pollock
		Pollock’s stage plays are produced throughout Canada and abroad.
		Previously, Pollock was Head of the Playwrights Colony at The Banff Centre of Fine Arts and was the Associate Artistic Director of the Manitoba Theatre Centre, the Stratford Festival Theatre, and Theatre Calgary.
		The characters, trapped by the storm as well as by a distraught and increasingly violent Gillie, must confront and expose the truth of births, deaths and disappearances if they are to alleviate the pain of guilt and misunderstandings.
	www.albertaplaywrights.com /catalogue/s_pollock.html (2663 words)

	Star playwright to tread Studio Theatre boards - Department of Drama - University of Alberta
		(Dec 1, 2004) - Sharon Pollock is clearly an artist whose reputation precedes her.
		Shipman’s internal conflict is embodied in characters representing three stages of her life – the youthful optimist, the thriving professional in mid-life who is blind to everything but her work, and the older woman facing the end of her life and asking if it was all worth it.
		It plays at the Timms Centre for the Arts; all performances are at 8 p.m., except for one matinee show on Dec. 9 at 12:30 p.m.
	www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca /drama/news.cfm?story=32089 (738 words)

	Saucy Jack at the Theatre & Company, Kitchener
		I’m not sure I would have gotten the same message out of Sharon Pollock’s 1993 play, Saucy Jack, now in only its second professional performance at the Theatre & Company in Kitchener.
		Pollock, much-laurelled playwright of such gripping historical dramas as Fair Liberty’s Call (Stratford, 1993), has extensively researched the circumstances, autopsies, and suspicions surrounding the infamous Jack the Ripper murders in 1888, and woven a plausible, but confusing, tale of a possible encounter after the fact.
		It only remained for Ms Pollock to give it an oportunistic feminist twist, a twist not needed, and not appreciated.
	www.stage-door.org /reviews/tc-saucy.htm (389 words)

	Pollock Sharon - playwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		To search for published plays by Sharon Pollock click on one of the bookstore links above.
		You will be shown all Plays in print by Sharon Pollock.
		Speaking from a place where sanity and insanity are shuffled like a deck of cards, Eme is determined to play her hand.
	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsP/PollockSharon.htm (385 words)

	Move Over Neil Simon, There is a New Doc on the Block
		In what may be merely an amusing coincidence, or perhaps an omen of impending ascendancy of Doc Williamson's literary star, Doc used to work occasionally with Canada's premier playwright, Sharon Pollock.
		Sharon is also, coincidentally, now well known as "Doc", herself.
		Sharon had become friendly with Doc Williamson while he was attending the University of Calgary Drama Department.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2003/10/emw84534.htm (1277 words)

	Pollock mail - Welcome to RITE! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fractal analysis of Pollock’s drip paintings Release from
		Accles and Pollock provide quality tube forming and manipulation including presswork, machining and assembly with excellent e-mail: m.edwards@accles.co.uk.
		Hutch Pollock and Bruce Wilson are co-principal investigators on a grant, funded by the Pew Charitable Trust Foundation,
	pollock-mail.yourinfoworld.com (179 words)

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