Adapting Gertrude Stein to the Stage
Tuesday, June 15, 2021 at 5:00-6:30pm
*Zoom details are below
In this talk, Anna Chatterton will speak to the process of making the 2018 Governor General's Literary Award-nominated play, Gertrude and Alice (co-written with Evalyn Parry and devised with director Karin Randoja). The play used a combination of Gertrude Stein's and Alice B.Toklas's writing as well as original text in the tone of these writer's voices. Anna will also discuss her experience of adapting novels, short stories and opera libretti to the stage, as well as her experience of working as an artist during the pandemic.
Anna Chatterton is a two-time finalist for the Governor General鈥檚 Literary Award for Drama. Her plays have been produced by The Shaw Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Theatre Passe Muraille, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Theatre Centre, Nightwood Theatre and CBC Podcast/PlayMe, among others. Other achievements include: a Toronto Theatre Critics Award; a City of Hamilton Theatre Award; the Gilded Hammer National Achievement Award; named a Top Ten Theatre Artist by NOW Magazine; a finalist for the Hamilton Literary Award in Fiction, and nominated for five Dora Mavor Moore Awards, winning one. Anna has been playwright in residence at Tarragon Theatre, Nightwood Theatre, Tapestry Opera and the National School of Canada. She has her MFA in Creative Writing from University of Guelph and teaches at Humber and Sheridan College.
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