bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Glacial Isostatic Adjustment modelling of the mid-Holocene sea-level highstand of Singapore and Southeast Asia
Authors: Li Tanghua , Tan Fangyi , Chua Stephen , Khan Nicole , Shaw Timothy , Majewski Jędrzej , Meltzner Aron , Switzer Adam , Wu Patrick , Horton Benjamin
Published: June 2023

The mid-Holocene sea-level highstand refers to the development of higher-than-present relative sea levels (RSLs) in far-field regions between 7,000 and 4,000 years ago because of equatorial ocean syphoning and continental levering. The timing, magnitude and spatial variability of the highstand are uncertain and the highstand parameterization in Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) modelling is understudied. Here, we use the RSL records of Southeast Asia to investigate the sensitivity of the mid-Holocene highstand properties to ice and Earth model parameters, including lithospheric thickness, mantle viscosity (both 1D and 3D), and deglaciation history of Antarctica and global ice sheets. We found that the Earth model variation only affects the magnitude of the mid-Holocene highstand unless low upper mantle viscosity is used. The timing of the highstand moves towards present and there is an absence of the highstand if upper mantle viscosity is <4.0 ×1019 Pa s or ≤1.0 ×1019 Pa s, respectively. Ice model variation changes both the timing and magnitude of the mid-Holocene highstand. Delaying the ice-equivalent sea level will shift the timing of the highstand later and result in a lower highstand magnitude. We produced a mid-Holocene highstand “treasure map” that considers topography change and accommodation space to guide future RSL data collection efforts in Southeast Asia. The highstand “treasure map” indicates the northern east coast and central west coast of Malay-Thai Peninsula, east coast of Sumatra, north coast of Java, and southwest coast of Borneo are very likely (90% probability) to preserve mid-Holocene RSL data.
Episodic Future Thinking, Anticipatory Pleasure, and Executive Functioning in Adolescents with Major Depression
Authors: Lakshmi Pooja , Kishore M. Thomas , Roopesh B. N. , Jacob Preeti , Rusanov Danielle , Hallford David John
Published: June 2023

While impairments in future thinking are well established in adults with psychiatric disorders, this is not so much the case for adolescents, among whom memory specificity, but not future thinking, impairments have been observed. This study examined autobiographical thinking and its correlation with a range of cognitive functioning tasks among 57 adolescents (M age = 15.8, SD = 1.1, range 13-17) with or with current major depressive disorder. Significant differences between the groups were found for memory specificity and anticipatory pleasure, and a trend, but not significant, difference for future thinking specificity. Some differences in cognitive functioning, particularly executive functioning, were found, which correlated with specificity. Controlling for cognitive functioning scores did not substantially change any observed group differences on specificity or anticipatory pleasure. These findings suggest that adolescents experiencing a major depressive episode may display similar, but less pronounced, impairments in future thinking than in adults. Further, executive functioning abilities correlated with specificity, but did not clearly account for the effects of depression on specificity.
Investigating hair cues as a mechanism underlying Black women’s intersectional invisibility
Authors: Lei Ryan F , Cohen Aaron , Hudson Sa-kiera Tiarra Jolynn , Wong Peony Beronica
Published: June 2023

Children psychologically exclude Black women from their representations of women, but the mechanisms underlying this marginalization remain unclear. Across two studies (N=129; 49 boys, 78 girls, 2 gender unreported; 79 White, 27 Black, 6 Latinx, 5 Asian, 12 unreported), the present work tests hair texture as one possible perceptual mechanism by which this might occur. In both studies, children gender-categorized Black, White, and Asian men and women using Mousetracker (Freeman & Ambady, 2010). Children were slower and had more complex patterns in categorizing Black women when they had textured hair (Study 1A), but not when they had straight hair (Study 1B). Implications for the development of gender as a social category are discussed.
Great Expectations: Anticipating a Reminder Influences Prospective Memory Encoding and Unaided Retrieval
Authors: Peper Philip , Ball Hunter
Published: June 2023

The current study tested the idea that expecting a reminder reduces unaided prospective memory (PM) retrieval by reducing encoding effort (i.e., encoding effort hypothesis) and over-reliance on reminders reduces internal memory ability (i.e., use-it-or-lose-it hypothesis). To test this idea, participants completed four PM task blocks. Two reminder conditions had reminders for the first three blocks, but not on the fourth. Critically, the non-expecting reminder condition was told they would not have a reminder prior to encoding targets in the fourth block, while the expecting reminder condition was told they would have a reminder. A no reminder control never had a reminder. The encoding effort hypothesis was supported by showing that expecting a reminder in the fourth block reduced unaided PM retrieval and retrospective memory target recognition (Experiments 1 and 2), while deep processing at encoding negated these effects (Experiment 3). The use-it-or-lose-it hypothesis was not supported, as memory in the fourth block was similar between the non-expecting reminder and no reminder conditions. Our results suggest expecting a reminder reduces encoding effort, which negatively impacts PM when reminders are unavailable. We propose the PM Effort Monitoring and Control Framework to describe how experiencing the effectiveness of retrieval with reminders with low effort (blocks 1-3) leads to a less effortful encoding strategy when they expect another reminder during a subsequent PM task (block 4).
Формирование читательской компетенции школьников на материале цифровых текстов: практические рекомендации
Authors: Krivenko Olga , Vybornova Anna
Published: June 2023

В статье рассматриваются способы формирования навыков работы с цифровыми текстами у современных российских школьников. Процесс цифрового чтения существенно отличается от чтения печатных текстов. Феноменообразующие признаки цифрового текста, такие как гипертекстуальность, мультимодальность и интерактивность, не только расширяют дидактический потенциал учебного текста за счет возможности передавать информацию в разных форматах, но и могут создавать дополнительную когнитивную нагрузку для неопытных читателей. Цифровое чтение характеризуется просмотровостью и преобладанием стратегии поиска нужной информации по ключевым словами. Читатель цифрового текста становится его соавтором и самостоятельно выбирает путь чтения в зависимости от читательской задачи, быстро просматривая текст и принимая решения, по каким гиперссылкамм переходить и с какими интерактивными элементами взаимодействовать. Очевидно, что цифровые тексты преобладают в коммуникативных практиках современных школьников и задачей педагогов становится обучение эффективному взаимодействию с учебными материалами в цифровом формате. Наиболее важным шагом здесь является формирования стратегий глубокого чтения, при этом знания о стратегиях глубокого чтения цифровых текстов должно строиться на тех же принципах, которые применяются при обучении глубокому чтению на материале печатных текстов, и учитывать специфику цифровой среды. Кроме того, для эффективного взаимодействия с цифровыми текстами важно обучать школьников осознанному чтению, которое проявляется в использовании читателем метакогнитивных стратегий чтения, таких как предварительная оценка текста с помощью положения бегунка справа от текста; оценка ценности фрагментов текста, скрытых под внутритекстовыми и внешними ссылками; поиск по ключевым словам с помощью сочетания клавиш Ctrl+F и др.
Longitudinal Associations Between Attachment Representations Coded in the Adult Attachment Interview in Late Adolescence and Perceptions of Romantic Relationship Adjustment in Adulthood
Authors: Dagan Or , Nivison Marissa D , Bleil Maria E. , Booth-LaForce Cathryn , Waters Theodore , Roisman Glenn I.
Published: June 2023

One of Mary Main’s crowning scientific contributions was the introduction of the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; Main et al., 1985), which for decades has allowed developmental psychologists to assess core premises of attachment theory regarding adult functioning. One such premise is that the quality of early care shapes the development of later mental representations that influence the quality of relationships with close others, including adult romantic partners. Though the traditional coding system for the AAI focuses on the coherence of discourse during the AAI (AAIcoh), increasingly, researchers have operationalized AAI derived attachment representations as reflecting individual differences in secure base script knowledge (AAIsbs)—the degree to which individuals show awareness of the temporal-causal schema that summarizes the basic features of seeking and receiving effective support from caregivers when in distress. In a series of pre-registered analyses, we used AAI transcripts recently re-coded for AAIsbs and leveraged a new follow-up assessment of the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development cohort around age 30 years (N = 479 currently partnered participants who had previously been administered the AAI) to assess and compare the links between AAI derived coding measures in late adolescence and self-reported romantic relationship quality in adulthood. Higher AAIsbs predicted better dyadic adjustment scores in adulthood, above and beyond AAIcoh, AAI secure (versus insecure) classifications, sociodemographic and cognitive functioning covariates. Findings extend previous evidence pointing to the predictive significance of AAIsbs for multiple adult functioning domains.
De-centering Neuronormativity is an Imperative in Humanistic Psychotherapy: Towards a Neurodiversity-Informed, Person-Centered Approach
Authors: Bolton Matthew J.
Published: June 2023

Here, I bring attention to some of the ways psychotherapists operate within a neuronormative frame–how they use power structures and relational instrumentality to subjugate and oppress those of differing neurological backgrounds, relegating rather than elevating neurodivergent individuals. I call on humanistic therapists to consciously de-center this neuronormativity through heightened psychotherapeutic relationality, knowing-about, and introspection. I also offer a model of neurodivergent needs which therapists might use to better understand and support their clients.
Studying individual differences in language comprehension: The challenges of item-level variability and well-matched control conditions
Authors: Blott Lena Maria , Gowenlock Anna , Kievit Rogier , Nation Kate , Rodd Jennifer M
Published: June 2023

Translating experimental tasks that were designed to investigate differences between conditions at the group-level into valid and reliable instruments to measure individual differences in cognitive skills is challenging (Hedge et al., 2018; Rouder et al., 2019; Rouder & Haaf, 2019). For psycholinguists, the additional complexities associated with selecting or constructing language stimuli, and the need for appropriate well-matched baseline conditions make this endeavour particularly complex. In a typical experiment, a process-of-interest (e.g. ambiguity resolution) is targeted by contrasting performance in an experimental condition with performance with a well-matched control condition. In many cases, careful between-condition matching precludes the same participant from encountering all stimulus items. Unfortunately, solutions that work for group-level research (e.g. constructing counterbalanced experiment versions) are inappropriate for individual-differences designs. As a case study, we report an ambiguity resolution experiment that illustrates the steps that researchers can take to address this issue and assess whether their measurement instrument is both valid and reliable. On the basis of our findings, we caution against the widespread approach of using datasets from group-level studies to also answer important questions about individual differences.
Bayesian method in psychology: a bibliometric analysis
Authors: Jevremov Tanja , Pajić Dejan
Published: June 2023

The research presented in this article was aimed to explore knowledge domain related to the application of Bayesian method in psychological research. The analysis was based on metadata from 7.054 Bayesian-related psychological articles published from 1962 till 2023 and indexed in Scopus. Trends in publishing Bayesian-related articles were analyzed for different psychology subfields and estimated by the number of published Bayesian articles and their proportions within the total number of articles for each subfield in each particular year. Main research topics were analyzed using the visualization of keywords co-occurrence, and journal co-citation network. Results revealed general increasing trend in publishing Bayesian-related articles in psychology, but also illustrated differences among the subfields both in the pace of growth and relative diversity of research themes. Cognitive and experimental psychology and neurosciences stand out with a high proportion and steep increase of articles related to Bayesian method. Accordingly, most of the psychological research outside of cognitive psychology that use Bayesian method are also very saturated by topics related to cognitive processes. Statistical and methodological issues are well represented, mainly in the form of discussing Bayesian statistics in psychology as an alternative to classical statistics, but also as a method to promote open science principles, having the potential to overcome replication crisis and improve transparency of psychological research. The content of the more recent papers indicate that Bayesian networks have emerged as a useful method to explore psychopathological phenomena, while Bayesian modelling is becoming popular in developmental and educational psychology.
The autism worldview dilemma: to normalise or not to normalise, that is the question
Authors: Chown Nicholas , Murphy Shona , Suckle Elsa
Published: June 2023

For many years in the field of autism, the actions, skills and responses of autistic people were often described as abnormal, maladjusted or deficient. The goal of many interventions was, and still is, to teach autistic children and adults to behave like their non-autistic peers as evidenced in approaches designed to teach (neurotypical) social skills, (neurotypical) communication and in programmes designed to modify behaviour to make autistics appear neurotypical. This approach – which sees autistic behaviour as aberrant and without purpose and thus aims to remove this behaviour – is described as normalisation. We challenge this view from a neurodiversity-affirmative perspective, querying the assumed lack of purpose in autistic behaviour as well as examining the impact on autistics of the deliberate removal of autistic behaviour. However, there are other perspectives on autism and no definitive understanding of autism. Our view is not one held by all autistic people let alone everyone else. We call this the autism worldview dilemma and make recommendations for UK autism legislation to ensure that parents and carers understand when an intervention is aimed at normalising their young person.
Should the risk of social desirability bias in survey studies be assessed at the level of each pro-environmental behaviour?
Authors: Zhu Oscar Yuheng , Greene Danyelle , Dolnicar Sara
Published: June 2023

Social desirability bias is the tendency of individuals to over-report behaviours that are viewed favourably by society, such as environmentally sustainable behaviours. The currently prevalent approach of managing social desirability bias in survey studies is to include a set of additional survey questions to determine a survey respondent’s trait level social desirability bias, which can also be used as a correction factor. Yet, the pooled correlation between trait level social desirability and self-reported pro-environmental behaviours is weak. Our study challenges the currently dominant approach, proposing instead an alternative approach, which relies on a behaviour-specific (rather than personspecific) indicator reflecting social evaluation about the behaviour and embarrassment associated with admitting to displaying the behaviour. The analysis of associations between person-specific and behaviour-specific social desirability bias indicators and 11 self-reported behaviours suggest that the behaviour-specific approach more accurately captures socially desirable responses in self-report survey studies investigating pro-environmental behaviour.
Kolejny przejaw fenomenu kodyfikacji prawa prywatnego międzynarodowego w Ameryce Łacińskiej – urugwajska Ustawa Ogólna o Prawie Prywatnym Międzynarodowym n°19.920 z 17 listopada 2020 r. Zagadnienia wybrane
Authors: Twardoch Paulina , Klyta Wojciech
Published: June 2023

The article deals with the new Uruguayan act on private international law, i.e. the General Act on Private International Law n° 19.920 of the 17th of November 2020. The authors aim to analyse and assess its solutions, especially in the areas of matrimonial property relations, succession and legal entities, taking into account historical and comparative perspectives. The study presents the origins of the Act, its structure, main characteristics and ideas, and essential novelties introduced thereby. As for matrimonial property relations and succession, the authors focus on the question of the applicable law, while as for legal entities, also on the notion of the recognition of their legal personality. Within the comparative remarks, new Uruguayan provisions are explained against the background of Argentinian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Cuban, Dominican, Panamanian, Paraguayan, Peruvian and Venezuelan rules, as well as international multilateral conventions and European Union regulations.
Odrzucenie spadku w świetle wyroku TSUE z 2 czerwca 2022 r. (C-617/20)
Authors: Pazdan Jadwiga
Published: June 2023

The jurisdiction provided for in Article 13 of Regulation 650/2012 is ancillary to the jurisdiction regulated in Articles 4—11 of the Regulation. It covers only the declarations described in this provision. Their content is determined by the law applicable to succession. Jurisdiction under Article 13, on the other hand, does not cover the consequences of the silence of a candidate for an heir. The effects of the waiver of the succession are assessed according to the provisions of the law applicable to succession even if the waiver occurred within the jurisdiction of Article 13 of the Regulation. In the case before the CJEU, the Bremen court of succession held that since it had not been served with the original document containing the waiver of the succession with an official translation into German within the deadline set by the law application to succession (Section 1944(3) BGB), there had been no effective waiver of the succession. Responding to the preliminary questions of the German court of second instance, the CJEU correctly stated that in the case of waiver of the succession in the state, in which the waiving heir has his or her habitual residence, it is sufficient to comply with the form requirements provided for by the law of the state in which that declaration is made, without a necessity to comply with the requirements of the lex successionis. On the basis of legis processualis, the German court of succession could have requested that translation into German of the documents drawn up in Dutch is submitted. On the same basis, it could also have demanded the submission of the originals of the above documents. However, it incorrectly held that these acts must be completed within the time limit for waiver of succession provided for in the legis successionis. It is also clear that the failure of the heir waiving the succession to comply with the instruction contained in the last sentence of recital 32 of the Regulation (paragraph 74) regarding the obligation to give notice of waiver, does not render the waiver invalid. It seems desirable in future, however, to explicitly include in the Regulation the obligation to notify the court of succession of the waiver, in the country of habitual residence of the waiving heir.
Pemilihan Kurir yang Memperoleh Rewards Courier of the Month dalam Sistem Pendukung Keputusan Menggunakan Metode SMART
Authors: Meilani Budanis Dwi , Aditya Mohammad Rizky
Published: June 2023

PT RAJAWALI JAYA EKSPRES merupakan salah satu perusahaan yang  bergerak di bidang ekspedisi jasa pengiriman yang terbaik secara pelayanan dan proses pengiriman. Dalam penyeleksian kurir terbaik yang akan mendapatkan Rewards Courier Of The Month, maka banyak kriteria yang harus dinilai oleh HRD PT RAJAWALI JAYA EKSPRES, berdasarkan kriteria dan intelegency kurir. Untuk membantu proses penyeleksian kurir ini agar berjalan obyektif, maka dalam penelitian ini dibangun sebuah sistem yang dapat mempermudah HRD dan Koordinator dalam penyeleksian kurir terbaik yang sesuai dengan kriteria yang diinginkan. Metode yang digunakan dalam Sistem Pendukung Keputusan ini metode Simple Multi Attribute Rating Technique (SMART). Data kurir yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kurir yang tergabung dalam PT RAJAWALI JAYA EKSPRES, dengan periode data mulai tahun 2020 sampai 2021.Berdasarkan pengujian yang dilakukan sebanyak 30 kali uji coba dengan membandingkan hasil rekomendasi sistem dengan hasil rekomendasi Koordinator, maka diperoleh tingkat akurasi sebesar 80%. Sehingga dapat disimpulkan bahwa sistem pendukung keputusan pemilihan kurir berdasarkan kriteria dan intelegency terbaik pada PT RAJAWALI JAYA EKSPRES telah dapat berjalan dengan baik dan dapat membantu pihak perusahaan dalam menyeleksi kurir terbaiknya.
Analisis Sentimen Terhadap Video Ulasan Produk Menggunakan Metode Support Vector Machine Dengan Sequential Minimal Optimization
Authors: Subarkah Mohammad Aji , Rahmawati Wenny Mistarika , Wardhana Septiyawan Rosetya , Hapsari Rinci Kembang
Published: June 2023

The popularity of video as a medium for reviewing a product today has created interest and dependence on other users to look for video recommendations before buying the desired effect. Youtube social media is one of the media that has product reviews in the form of videos. The use of sentiment analysis can predict the tendency of someone's video review to have a positive or negative opinion which can be done by processing the video review into text form first using speech recognition. In this study, thoughts that have been in the form of text will be followed by the process of tokenizing, weighting and classification by applying the Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm model using Sequential Minimal Optimization (SMO) optimization. Based on the results of this study, it shows that the accuracy, recall, precision and f-measure values will increase with the increasing number of terms tested, while the C value variable in the enhanced SMO cannot be retrieved because the resulting accuracy value fluctuates. The test results with term 300 and C 1.5 get the highest value: accuracy 89.91%, recall 89.12%, precision 94.97% and f-measure 91.05.
A Cross-Sectional Survey of Iraqi Herbalist Practicing in the Middle Euphrates Area with a Recognition of their Knowledge, Practice and Attitude(Conference Paper )#
Authors: Humadi Suhad , Hassan Saif M. , Ahjel Salam W.
Published: June 2023

High percentage of the Iraqi population profoundly rely on folk medicine to meet their health needs which makes their safety questionable. This study aims to evaluate Iraqi herbalists' knowledge and practice to ensure the public's safety.
This study was conducted in a cross-sectional design between October 2021 and March 2022, using a pretested questionnaire administered to Iraqi herbalists practicing in Middle Euphrates Area. Through face-to-face meetings, participants completed a multicomponent questionnaire comprising 15 items in four sections. The data obtained were analyzed using a statistical package for social sciences; Chi-square was used to correlate some variables, and P-values of <0.05 were considered significant.
 A total of 54 male herbalists from five Iraqi provinces joined this survey, the majority practicing in Kabala. Most herbalists had 10- 20 years of experience, and more than 50% had a university degree. Data showed that 72.2% of herbalists identify their herbal items using their own experience, and 35.2% use this experience as their sole source of knowledge. Only 35.1% use herbal books in conjugation with their experiences, and a few (1.9%( use multiple sources of information. Herbalists with more years of experience (79.6%( evaluate patient conditions properly, follow up (40.7%(, and refer patients to their physicians when needed (42.6%(. Although fifty percent of herbalists educate their patients regarding the storage condition of remedies, most of them refrain from writing the complete ingredients on their final product regardless of their experience. Results also showed that most herbalists do not have a record tracking adverse reaction.
Most Iraqi herbalists lack the proper system for prescribing and dispensing their remedies and adequately identifying the sold herbs. The study showed a variation in practice among herbalists using approaches based mainly on their experience.
Me and Matroni
Authors: Martin Alexis , Taylor Wanda Romer
Published: June 2023

Caution: Copyright 1998. This script is protected under the copyright laws of Canada and all other countries of the Copyright Union. Changes to the script are forbidden without the written consent of the author. Rights to produce, film or record in any medium, in any language, by any group, are retained by the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. For copyright information contact: Wanda Romer Taylor, c/o Agence Goodwin, 839, rue Sherbrooke Est, bureau 200, Montreal, QC H2L 1K6.
Intensive Summer: The Spirit of One Yellow Rabbit Multiplies
Authors: Burgess David
Published: June 2023

Denise Clarke describes her vision of the One Yellow Rabbit Summer Intensive as a “gathering of like-minded artists who are . . . given an opportunity to play and explore and create together without worrying about ticket sales or reviews.” Based on my experience of the third edition of the Intensive, held 28 June to 19 July in Calgary, this description is accurate, but hardly complete.
Theatre and Translation
Authors: Beauchamp Hélène , Knowles Ric
Published: June 2023

Among the contexts in which this issue is produced is the memory one of us has of growing up francophone in Ottawa, feeling the frustration of always having to translate in order to get on with the business of everyday life: the feeling, spoken in the epigraph above, of both speaking and being heard “in translation,” as a distant echo of “what’s inside.” But, in a sense, all human communication – the encoding and decoding of meanings – consists of acts of translation, of refracted echoes. And since such acts are performative, the topic of theatre and translation is potentially a very broad one, taking all human communication as its subject-including, as Ellen MacKay and Jeanne Klein demonstrate in this issue, various kinds of border crossing and code-switching both within and across linguistic divides, and various performances of identity. To a greater or lesser degree, moreover, all translation, between languages, peoples, cultures, species and codes – and even between individual people in intimate relationships who speak the same languages but remain proverbially “misunderstood” – is mistranslation. This, of course, is at the root of many conflicts in the home, the workplace and the world, ranging from divorces to disasters: brutal wars and intercultural conflicts that are all too familiar as the world sidles anxiously into the third millennium with no sign that the human capacity for brutality is on the decline. But, as Jacob Wren points out in this issue, translation as an inexact science is also at the root of all invention and creativity: mistranslation itself constitutes the frisson, friction and Assuring from which pleasure derives and from which emerges the possibility for social change. When translation happens within generous and congenial contexts such as those Don Druick describes in this issue at the Tadoussac residency, moreover, the possibility emerges of enlightened and mutually enriching exchange – and, through exchange, change.
Nights In This City: Mapping the Sublime in Lloydminster … by Bus, by Night
Authors: Houston Andrew
Published: June 2023

I lived and worked in Lloydminster for nearly three years. For those of you who are not long haul truckers or don’t work in the oil industry, Lloydminster is “Canada’s Border City,” straddling Saskatchewan and Alberta on the Yellowhead Highway. Although it is a city of nearly 20,000 people, for many in western Canada it is a place of brief respite, for coffee, gas and a rest on the six-hour drive between Saskatoon and Edmonton. My Border City experience amounted to more than a coffee break, although, not unlike many who live in Lloydminster, I lived there as a transient - I’d come from Ontario for the work.
I Just Wanna Jewify: The Yiddish Revenge on Wagner
Authors: Wex Michael
Published: June 2023

Caution: Copyright Michael Wex 2000. This script is protected under the copyright laws of Canada and all other countries of the Copyright Union. Changes to the script are forbidden without the written consent of the author. Rights to produce, film or record in any medium, in any language, by any group, are retained by the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. For copyright information contact Michael Wex, 110 St Clair Ave. #804, Toronto ON M4V 1N4
Seven Drafts … Five Years … and Other Useless Data
Authors: Canino Frank
Published: June 2023

On the afternoon of Easter Sunday, 16 April 1911, Angelina Napolitano, a twenty-eight-year-old Italian mother of four, killed her husband with an axe as he lay asleep in the bedroom of the quarters they rented in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
Pamela Rabe: Nurturing a Trans-Pacific Career
Authors: Rhijn Judyvan
Published: June 2023

In many ways, Pamela Rabe’s career reads like a fairy tale: once upon a time, a tall, striking young actress was considering her options after graduating from the Vancouver Playhouse Acting School. She looked to the east, to Toronto; she looked to the south and the opportunities in the United States, but she saw no company to which to aspire. Suddenly, she fell in love with an Australian director. That isn’t the end, though, but the beginning of the “fairy tale” which led Pamela Rabe to forge her professional career in Australia.
Reaching Out: Soulpepper, Youth and the “Classics”
Authors: Wilson Ann
Published: June 2023

Soulpepper Theatre Company was created in 1998 with a mandate to produce “the classics.” Since its inception, the Company has been committed to youth by providing opportunities for them to train as theatre practitioners and programs to foster an interest in the classics amongst young audiences. Its 2000 season included the creation of the Soulpepper Young Company (directed by Diego Matamoros, Soulpepper’s Head of Training and Professional Development) and the continuation and expansion of programming under Soulpepper Youth Outreach (directed by Martha Burns). The outreach included three programs: Mentorship 2000 for aspiring theatre practitioners between the ages of fifteen and twenty; VIP Youth Come Free, through which Soulpepper provided 1,000 tickets to selected community groups working with inner city youth in Toronto, allowing them to attend productions; and Bring Your Parents to the Theatre, in which young people could purchase tickets for a main-stage production at a student rate of $25 and receive a full-priced ticket for free. The two aspects of Soulpepper’s mandate – to produce “the classics” and to mount an extensive outreach program – raise issues relating to the politics of theatre as a site for educating youth, particularly when the “classics” produced by Soulpepper have been drawn from the repertoire of Europe and the United States – as if Canada has not produced a work worthy of being deemed a classic.
When the Canvas Isn’t Blank:An Interview with Marsha Sibthorpe
Authors: Cooper John
Published: June 2023

Marsha Sibthorpe is one of Western Canada’s preeminent lighting designers and is currently celebrating her thirtieth year in the profession. She was resident lighting designer at the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver from 1971 to 1987, and since 1988 – while continuing to light many projects for the Arts Club – she has worked freelance across the country. Vancouver-based director John Cooper spoke to Marsha at the city’s Diva at the Met restaurant. The interview was transcribed by Patricia Tersigni.
Lights Up at the Registry Theatre
Authors: Rhijn Judy Van
Published: June 2023

The newest theatre space in southwestern Ontario proved a challenge for lighting designer Alex Kordics and leaseholders JM Drama. While many community theatre groups dream of having their own venue, financial constraints often leave them with lighting systems that limit the productions they can do. JM Drama and Kordics were determined not to make that mistake when they took over the old Registry Office in downtown Kitchener.
The Vic
Authors: Brodie Leanna
Published: June 2023

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Views & Reviews
Authors: Graham Catherine
Published: June 2023

According to Prime Minister Jean Chretien, arts groups in Canada are about to see the “biggest new investment in the arts in Canada that any government has made since the creation of the Canada Council more than forty years ago” (Address). “Views and Reviews” features a commentary on this May announcement by Maria DiCenzo, who has written in numerous places over the last few years about the influence of policy decisions by both governments and non-profit boards on the development of alternative forms of theatre. While DiCenzo is not in a position to speculate on the actual outcomes of this new spending, since regulations and concrete numbers will only become available around the time you are reading this issue of CTR, she does point to the potential long-term political implications of this change in the federal government’s discourse about the arts. Will it be a one-time media event, or a real change of direction in arts funding? As DiCenzo notes, only time will tell, but, as we go to press, the signs of a renewed interest in the creative work of a range of Canadian artists are positive.
Theatre in Québec: A Test Of Perseverance
Authors: Nguyen Bernard
Published: June 2023

For the first time in Quebec, a Chinese-born actress is making her way to the major leagues. Aimee Lee played Ling, the Asian maid, in the TV series Cauchemar d’amour, which screened on TVA last fall. Appearing on the TV screen is the ultimate goal for most French Canadian actors and actresses. Lee was so impressive in her debut that a local TV critic compared her to a feminine version of Kato, the famous servant in the Pink Panther films.
Marjorie Chan
Authors: Kim Gloria
Published: June 2023

The first time I met Marjorie Chan was a couple of years ago at a performance she was starring in at the Solar Stage. She and another actor, Peter van Gestel, were the sole actors in a couple of Tennessee Williams plays, Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen and This Property Is Condemned. I was there at her invitation to check out her work for a short film I was trying to make on a shoestring budget and a dream, and finding an Asian actress for the part was not an easy task. It was my first real film and it would be the first time that I had ever worked with actors. I was dealing with a subject – sexual violation – that required some delicacy and sensitivity, both on my part and on the part of the actor. The film was meant to be a visual film poem, without dialogue, and the storytelling needed to be conveyed in slight nuances – very much dependent on the actor and what she brought to it. I had never seen Marjorie perform before, and as the lights dimmed and the play started, I was elated to find that Marjorie could act. I was excited, and when I met her after the performance we agreed that the film would be something we could do together.
The Meeting
Authors: Chan Marty
Published: June 2023

Caution: Copyright Marty Chan. This script is protected under the copyright laws of Canada and all other countries of the copyright union. Changes to the script are forbidden without the written consent of the author. Rights to produce, film or record in any medium, in any language, by any group, are retained by the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. For copyright information contact: Marty Chan, 10539 75th St. NW, Edmonton, AB, T6A 2Z6.
Adapting the Bard: A Virtual Guide
Authors: Ailles Jennifer
Published: June 2023

Adaptations of Shakespeare’s works occur in a variety of locations, one of the primary being the theatrical festivals dedicated to the Bard. Situated across Canada, these festivals – from Bard on the Beach in Vancouver to the Shakespeare by the Sea Festival in St. John’s – provide a variety of audiences with access to live performances of versions of Shakespeare’s works. To keep up with and attract media-savvy audiences, the festivals have had to create web sites to help advertise their productions. These web sites range from simplistic, low-graphic virtual “posters” to highly detailed sites with animation and extensive menus linking to numerous sub-pages. These web sites, though, are not just advertisements for theatre. With common features such as links to merchandise, memberships, and local tourist attractions mixed in among company histories, play summaries, and production photos, the festival web sites go beyond advertising and raise questions about the role(s) of the Web in relation to the production and reception of Shakespearean adaptations in Canada. Specifically, the overall construction of the festival web sites, particularly their opening home pages, frame the image of each festival as a locus of more or less authentic “Shakespeare.” The sites, as a whole, stress that they are bringing the cultural capital of the Bard to their audiences. What the virtual ads do not always express, to the same degree, is the adaptive nature of the Shakespearean product on offer and that the Bard, even in a traditional staging, is never presented unmediated. Since it is impossible to recreate a Shakespearean text as it was originally presented, any performance of Shakespeare’s works, however slightly altered, is necessarily an adaptation.
Theatrical Adaptations of Shakespeare in Canada: A Working Bibliography
Authors: Fischlin Daniel
Published: June 2023

This bibliography represents a first attempt to document, in as comprehensive a manner as possible, theatrical adaptations of Shakespeare’s works in Canada. The list, far from complete and very much still in progress, has been produced by the Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare project housed at the University of Guelph, directed by myself and funded by a Premier’s Research Excellence Award (PREA) through the Ontario Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology. The award has permitted the project to establish itself as a significant archival research project in Canadian theatre and performance history. The bibliography began in 1998 as part of the background research for Adaptations of Shakespeare: A Critical Anthology of Plays From the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Routledge, 2000) co-edited by myself and Mark Fortier. As a result of work done on that project it became apparent that Shakespearean adaptation in a variety of national sites was not only a vastly understudied phenomenon but also a useful index of the myriad ways in which theatrical culture comments on issues of national identity formation. The latter topic is of especial importance to spaces in which colonial incursions (often heavily reliant on the transference of values imported by settler culture) have played an important role both in constructing a sense, however illusory, of coherent national identity and in critiquing the ways in which national identity formation (almost) always occurs at the expense of sustaining significant cultural differences.
An Eclectic Collection of Adaptations
Authors: Fischlin Daniel , Fortier Mark , Carson Christie
Published: June 2023

Creating collections of material that relate to Shakespeare in performance is a bit of an obsession of mine. This anthology of plays draws attention to many of the issues that I struggle with on a daily basis. My own work involves the creation of large databases of digital information for the study of performance history. This anthology also deals with the issues that arise when one looks at the question of what has gone on in the dialogue between Shakespeare’s plays and the theatre world at different periods in history. It is a fine collection of plays precisely because it raises more questions than it answers and sets out a challenge to others to create similar kinds of collections in the future. These are academic aims that I applaud, however; I do have some reservations regarding the execution of those aims and in particular the choices that have been made.
Passages on Passages: Some Reflections on the Creation of a Multimedia, Improvised, Jazz Opera
Authors: Stewart Jesse
Published: June 2023

In the summer of 1999, I was commissioned by the Guelph Jazz Festival to mount a large-scale work to be premiered at the 2000 edition of the Festival. The end result was Passages, a multi-media, improvised jazz opera that was premiered on 10 September, 2000 at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre in Guelph. The present paper is intended primarily as an account of the processes involved in the creation of Passages as well as a discussion of what I see as some of the issues and implications surrounding the creation of a multimedia, improvised, jazz opera.
Impro
Authors: Knowles Ric
Published: June 2023

My most intensive experience as a listener to jazz extends from 1959 – the year of release of groundbreaking albums that included Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue, Charles Mingus’s Ah Um, and Ornette Coleman’s The Shape of Jazz to Come – to the period in my late teens and early twenties when Archie Shepp released Fire Music and Four for ’Trane, Albert Ayler released Bells and The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra appeared mysteriously in my collection (which also heavily featured albums by John Coltrane, especially the quartet with McCoy Tyner on piano, Elvin Jones on drums and Jimmy Garrison on bass). As I recall it, this was, among other things, a period in which improvisation was in different ways attempting to free itself from shaping structures such as chord changes, melodic lines, “modes” or even “notes” as such: as Albert Ayler famously remarked, “it’s not about notes any more, it’s about feelings.” In the wake of the civil rights and other liberatory social movements, as I remember it, jazz at this time was also, in some of its manifestations and particularly among black musicians, moving away from featured soloists toward increasing collaboration – or group improvisation, as on John Coltrane’s late albums, including the classic A Love Supreme, which consists of group improvisations around a basic four-note theme, extending over two sides of vinyl – one of the few non-classical “record” albums that actually benefited from the reformatting required by its re-release on CD.
Big Mama! — The Willie Mae Thornton Story
Authors: Audrei-Kairen
Published: June 2023

By Mama! – The Willie Mae Thornton Story was commissioned by Stage One, The Petro Canada Plays and was first produced at Lunchbox Theatre, Calgary in November 1999.
“It’s My Birthday Forever Now”: Urjo Kareda and Me
Authors: Thompson Judith
Published: June 2023

I am afraid to write about Urjo Kareda because to write about Urjo is to write about myself: I cannot pretend to be an impartial observer. He was as integral to my development as a playwright as my hands are to my body and as the limestone is to Kingston, the southern Ontario town I grew up in. I fear my own narcissism as I write about Urjo, because I can only see the man in terms of my own history: from a raw and reckless young actress/writer sitting in his famous office, overwhelmed by his presence and his breathtaking intellect to a still raw but somewhat more careful, more conscious middle-aged playwright who aches with grief and regret and even petty jealousy every time I conjure his voice or image in my mind.
The Language of Emotion: Urjo Kareda’s Opera Criticism
Authors: Kehler Grace
Published: June 2023

In the opera criticism of Urjo Kareda, a number of words recur that signal effective – and affecting – productions: “commitment,” “conviction,” “belief” and “emotion.” Such terms come as no surprise, for as even the most theoretical analysts of opera assert, identification and emotion tend to form the hallmarks of this genre and its audience relations. Recollecting her childhood laughter and adult tears in response to opera, Catherine Clément sums up a familiar assessment of a genre characterized by artifice:
Views & Reviews
Authors: Houston Andrew
Published: June 2023

As an introduction to the following View & Reviews, I want you to consider how we approach the past. The advantage of theatre history is that its object of inquiry is obviously an ephemeral phenomenon, and thereby it can neither be exhaustively known nor can it be precisely identified. Perhaps the same can be said of all historical phenomena; what if we view history as a kind of performance? It strikes me that this way of framing the past is useful because we must not only be concerned with objects and facts, but we must think carefully about our relationship to these things. If we begin to think of the past in terms of such relationships our sense of history becomes as vast and evocative as our relationship with a performance. Moreover, we gain access to an enlightened perspective on reality: that the Stratford Festival as an institution is as much a constructed performance as any show you will witness on its stages; that there are many performances around us, past and present, full of the hopes, dreams or political aspirations of the people presenting them.
Icycle: New Languages
Authors: Lynde Denyse
Published: June 2023

Artistic Fraud’s latest production, Icycle, continues this Newfoundland Theatre company’s mandate to develop new and innovative processes of production and performance. Since it was formed in 1994, Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland has produced, presented and/or toured several strikingly original productions, earning Artistic Director, Jillian Keiley, the John Hirsch Prize for emerging directors in 1998. Icycle clearly builds on Artistic Fraud’s earlier productions, Under Wraps, Cheats and Signals, but it also pushes the company in new directions with the use of a giant puppet and suspended xylophone bars. What has not changed, however, is the meticulous and inspired work of director Keiley and her special and complex approach to productions, self-termed, Kaleidography.
New Play Development
Authors: Han Sally , Johnson Lise Ann , Kugler D.D. , Thompson Paul , Palmer Alisa
Published: June 2023

This panel discussion took place on 18 October 2002 as part of the Celebrating Canadian Plays and Playwrights Conference at the Studio rehearsal hall in the Avon Theatre complex of the Stratford Festival. It was chaired by Alisa Palmer and featured Sally Han, Lise Ann Johnson, DD Kugler and Paul Thompson. The discussion was transcribed by Jesse Stewart and edited by Ric Knowles.