Carol Bolt

Carol Bolt ( born August 25, 1941 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, † November 28, 2000 in Toronto, Ontario) was a Canadian playwright. She was a founding member and for several years president of the Association of Canadian playwright ( Playwrights Union of Canada).

Life

Carol Bolt was born on 25 August 1941 as Carol Johnson in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the daughter of a teacher and a miner and grew up in various mining towns of Canada. After studying at the University of British Columbia (Bachelor, 1961) it was next to the editorial team to Fred Wah, Frank Davey, George Bowering and Daphne Marlatt to the authors of the first hour, who published their works in the underground newsletter TISH.

In 1969 she married actor David Bolt. The couple had a son.

The most famous piece Carol Bolts should be state of the thriller One Night, which was filmed in 1978. Your other spectacles include the study especially Canadian motives and political issues, such as Buffalo Jump ( a representation of Canada at the time of the Great Depression and the Depression of the 1930s ). In Pauline (1973 ) she was the presentation of the life of the Mohawk poet Pauline Johnson. The socially critical drama Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists (1974 ), who played City of the 1890s in New York, celebrated the ardent feminist Emma Goldman and was adapted by the Canadian Opera Company in 1996 as an opera in the Schedule. Their last show was Famous, which was produced for the stage in 1997. In addition to its various pieces for adults Bolt also wrote various children's theater plays, music and mime in itself united as My Best Friend Is Twelve Feet High (1972 ), Cyclone Jack (1972 ), Maurice (1975 ) and Finding Bumble (1975). Here, Cyclone Jack also turned to an Indian hero: Tom Longboat, the legendary runner from the tribe of Onondaga, who won the Boston Marathon.

1977/78 she was made a Playwright -in-residence at the University of Toronto awarded.

For television, Bolt passages and Tales of the Klondike wrote two episodes of the children's animated series The Raccoons and a single episode of Fraggle Rock.

Carol Bolt died on 28 November 2000 from complications of cancer of her liver in Toronto, Ontario.

Works

  • Daganawida (1970)
  • Buffalo Jump (1972 )
  • My Best Friend Is Twelve Feet High (1972 )
  • Cyclone Jack (1972 )
  • Pauline (1973 )
  • Tangleflags (1973)
  • Shelter (1975)
  • Maurice ( 1975)
  • Finding Bumble (1975 )
  • Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists (1974 )
  • One Night Stand (1977 )
  • Escape Entertainment ( 1981)
  • Love or Money (1981 )
  • Icetime (1989)
  • Famous (1997)
  • Drama in the Classroom (1986 )

Awards

  • Chalmers Award, 1989, for Icetime
1978 in film Mohawk people Mime artist Onondaga people
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