Drama
Rick Salutin has an interest in drama and performing arts. His first play, Fanshen, unpublished, was adapted from William Hinton’s book Fanshen and was produced by Toronto Workshop Productions. The Adventures of an Immigrant shows that he is concerned about poverty and other hardships in Western Society. His unpublished Maria was a drama on CBC television about a woman fighting to put factory workers in the union. His first published play was 1837: The Farmers’ Revolt about the revolt led by William Lyon Mackenzie. This play was created at Theatre Passe Muraille and produced on CBC television in 1975. 1837 won the Chalmers award for best Canadian play in 1977. His most successful play, Les Canadiens (1977), helped written by goaltender Ken Dryden, won him the Chalmer Outstanding Play award. Rick Salutin helped found The Guild of Canadian Playwrights and in 1978 became chairman. Another play he wrote is “Joey” (1981).
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Famous quotes containing the word drama:
“Life’s so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where there’s freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That’s why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who’s Who.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“My faith is the grand drama of my life. I’m a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colours for those who see none.”
—Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
“In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self- respect.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)