Gailey Road: Research-Informed Theatre
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Gender | Female |
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Occupation | Playwright and Professor |
Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Introduction | Gailey Road Productions produces research-informed theatre on social issues that affect us all. Gailey Road was founded in January 2007 by Tara Goldstein, a playwright, producer and a Professor of education at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Tara's recent plays Harriet’s House and Ana's Shadow are about transnationally adopted children growing up in a LGBTQ family. The first play, Harriet's House, was produced by Gailey Road during the Toronto Pride Festival in July 2010. It has also been translated into Spanish and performed in Bogotá in 2013 and 2014. Ana's Shadow has been published in the anthology Zero Tolerance and Other Plays: Disrupting Xenophobia, Racism and Homophobia in Schools. In August 2015 Tara's latest play Castor and Sylvie about French feminist Simone de Beauvoir and her companion Sylvie Le Bon was a given a workshop production at the Toronto SummerWorks Festival. In February 2017 Tara will be performing a staged reading of Castor and Sylvie at the Lesbian Lives Conference in Brighton, England. |
Interests | Research informed theatre, verbatim theatre, feminist theatre, political theatre |
Favorite Movies | Favourite plays: Angels in America (Tony Kushner), East of Berlin (Hannah Moscovitch), Fires in the Mirror and Twilight, LA 1992 (Anna Deveare Smith), Scorched (Wajdi Mouawad), The Laramie Project (Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre), Beverley Cooper (Innocence Lost), Marcia Johnson (Courting Joanna). |
Favorite Music | Chantelle Pike and Hannah Dean (Eyes for Gertrude): www.myspace.com/eyesforgertrude. |
Favorite Books | Helpul books on research-informed theatre (including documentary theatre; verbatim theatre, ethnodrama, performed ethnography): Brown, Paul (Ed.) (2010) Verbatim: Staging Memory and Community. Strawberry Hill, New South Wales: Currency Press. Favorini, Antillio (Ed.) (1995). Voicings: Ten Plays and a Scenario from Documentary Theatre. New Jersey: Ecco Press. Goldstein, Tara. (2012) Staging Harriet’s House: Writing and Producing Research-Informed Theatre. New York: Peter Lang. Leavy, Patricia. (2008). Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice. New York: The Guilford Press. Saldaña, Johnny. (Ed.) (2011) Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press. |