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Mennonite Arts Weekend in Cincinnati, Feb 3-5
January 15, 2012Save if you register by January 15!
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Best of 2011 - Doug Reed wins acclaim in Madison, Wisconsin
January 7, 2012Author of “The Lamentable Tragedie of Scott Walker,” Doug Reed has been winning acclaim in Madison, Wisconsin for his witty Fakespearian comedy that played to sold out houses this fall. The Wisconsin State Journal recently named his play as a top event in 2011.
Here he talks about playwriting and community involvement in The Wisconsin State Journal.
Check out the review of "The Lamentable Tragedie of Scott Walker" by James Juhnke in the January 2012 issue of the JCMW.
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50 Years of Mennonite/s Writing in Canada
December 13, 2011Conrad Grebel University College Spring Lecture series.
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Boneyard, a novel by Stephen Beachy published
November 19, 2011Published in October, Boneyard by Stephen Beachy was recently reviewed in the San Francisco Weekly. A postmodern rendering of the Nickel Mines School shooting, told in the voice of a disturbed Amish boy named Jake Yoder, who is not actually Jake Yoder, Boneyard explores questions of narrative. When asked to describe his fiction, Beachy calls it a "collaboration." Beachy teaches in the MFA program at the University of San Francisco. His first novel The Whistling Song, was published by W. W. Norton in 1991. His second novel, Distortion, was republished in 2010 by Rebel Satori Press.
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VIMY, a play by Vern Thiessen, gets rave reviews
November 19, 2011VIMY, a play about six canadian soldiers in World War I, is being produced to acclaim in various places in Canada and around the world. The poetic drama is set in a hospital behind the front during the battle of Vimy Ridge and the soldiers represent a cross-section of Canadian culture. The Ottawa production at the National Arts Centre opened on November 11 and runs through December 11. The Firehall Arts Center production in Vancouver just ended on November 19, to rave reviews. The photo below is of the Firehall Arts Center production and was published in the Vancouver Courier.
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Updated Information for Mennonite/s Writing VI
November 16, 2011Mennonite/s Writing VI: Solos and Harmonies, March 29-April 1, 2012, Eastern Mennonite University
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Vern Thiessen, playwright, nominated for the Governor General's Award for Drama
October 22, 2011"The Governor General’s shortlist for English drama includes a playwright whose work is well-known to Edmonton audiences: Vern Thiessen, Winnipeg-born and currently New York-based. The author of Einstein’s Gift, Shakespeare’s Will and Vimy — all of which premièred at the Citadel — is nominated for Lenin’s Embalmers, a dark comedy inspired by the real-life story of two scientists charged by Stalin with the task of preserving the corpse of the leader of the Russian Revolution.
The play premièred at Ensemble Studio Theater in New York. The Canadian première of Lenin’s Embalmers was a 2010 co-production between Winnipeg’s Jewish Theatre and …
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Mennonite Arts Weekend February 3-5, Cincinnati, Ohio
October 2, 2011Dreams and Visions: Art and Prophetic Imagination, the 2012 Mennonite Arts Weekend, will take place February 3rd to 5th, 2012, in Cincinnati. Registration begins this summer.
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Reprise of The Lamentable Tragedie of Scott Walker
October 1, 2011The Lamentable Tragedie of Scott Walker written by Doug Reed, directed by Deanna Reed is coming back to the Bartell Theater in Madison, Wisconsin for two more weekends in November. The show that broke the "All time Broom Street Attendance record in recent history" is coming to the Bartel Evjue stage for seven additional performances. If you didn't get to see the first run or you'd like to see it again, get your tickets here:
Fri. Nov. 11, 8:00 pm
Sat. Nov. 12, 4:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Sun. Nov. 13, 2:00 pm
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Novel and Memoir by Miriam Toews reviewed in the New York Times Book Review
September 25, 2011Miriam Toews's new novel, Irma Voth, and her memoir, Swing Low, have both just been published in the USA. They are reviewed together in today's Sunday New York Times Book Review.
Irma Voth is based, in part, on Toews's experience acting in the 2007 film Silent Light directed by Carlos Reygadas, et in an Old Colony Mennonite Village. However, the character's family life is nothing like Toews's own.
Toews reveals aspects of her own life in her memoir, Swing Low, which focuses on the mental illness and suicide of her father, Mel Toews. Readers of …