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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Early Stages: Theatre in Ontario 1800 - 1914

Early Stages: Theatre in Ontario 1800 - 1914

Saddlemyer, Anne

Paperback

Series: Heritage

Canadian HistoryTheater History

ISBN10: 0802067794
ISBN13: 9780802067791
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 1 1990
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.38
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A circus, a production of Shakespeare, an evening of song and ventriloquism, a performance by a 'learned pig' - all of these offered an evening's entertainment to the citizens of early nineteenth-century Upper Canada. Although the population in 1800 was only 90,000, a wide range of entertainers performed in towns across the province: touring companies, variety and animal acts, and theatrical troupes, professional and amateur, some home-grown and based in the garrisons, others from Montreal, New York, and London. By the end of the century, some 250 touring groups were on the road across Ontario, from Ottawa to Rat Portage (now Kenora). The lively theatre tradition of that century would extend into the next, beyond the appointment in 1913 of Ontario's first official censor, until the outbreak the following year of the First World War.

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