bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
The Role of Offloading Intentions on Future-Oriented Thinking
Authors: Dupre Connor , Peper Philip , Ball Hunter
Published: June 2023

Offloading (e.g., using Google calendar reminders) has been shown to improve prospective memory (PM). One unstudied aspect of PM offloading is whether having reminders reduces our future-oriented thinking about PM intentions in contexts in which the intention cannot be fulfilled. In the current study, participants were given two blocks of an ongoing lexical decision task. Prior to beginning the task, participants formed an intention to make a special response to PM targets only in block 2. Participants in the reminder condition had the PM intention displayed at the top of the screen in block 2, whereas those in the no-reminder condition did not. To assess activation of the intention out of context, PM lures (Experiment 1) or thought probes (Experiments 2 and 3) were presented in block 1. Results showed that reminders improved PM performance in block 2 but did not reduce lure interference or PM-related thoughts in block 1. These findings suggest that offloaded memory representations remain as activated and accessible as non-offloaded representations outside the context in which intentions can be fulfilled.
Perceptual-Motor Training for Mathematical Ability In Preadolescent Children: A Systematic Review of Intervention Studies
Authors: Gabriel George
Published: June 2023

A small but growing number of intervention studies have investigated the use of perceptual-motor training as a means to improve mathematical abilities in preadolescent children. These studies presuppose the existence of specific causal links between perceptual-motor and mathematical abilities which are not shared more broadly by other abilities (e.g. spatial abilities). Although recent observational studies have identified correlations between perceptual-motor and mathematical abilities in preadolescent children, it remains unclear whether the observed relationships are causal. Before further educational interventions are developed which depend upon the supposed causal links, it is important to determine whether a specific causal relationship between perceptual-motor training and improvements in mathematical abilities actually exists. To contribute to this goal, the present paper describes a systematic review of cross-sectional intervention studies, summarising the current state of evidence both for and against the existence of the hypothesised causal links.Weak evidence was found to support the existence of causal links between fine-motor abilities and mathematical abilities involving recognition of magnitude and quantity. The reliability of these findings is called into question by limitations in the available data. These limitations are discussed in the context of a range of plausible cognitive mechanisms by which the hypothesised links between abilities may arise. Suggestions are made for more theoretically-driven research which may be better suited to determining whether there are unique causal links between perceptual-motor training and mathematical abilities in preadolescent children.
Finally free from the interpreter’s gaze? Uncovering the hidden labor of gaze work for deaf consumers of interpreter services
Authors: De Meulder Maartje , Stone Christopher
Published: June 2023

In this paper we explore how the pandemic-induced shift to remote video-mediated interpreting has uncovered the hidden labor of gaze work that deaf consumers have been obliged to engage in. We specifically focus on one group of deaf consumers of interpreter services: deaf academics. We consider the invisibility of gaze work prior to the proliferation of remote video-mediated interpreting and discuss where the backchanneling expectation is coming from. While gaze work forms part of wider calculated consumer labor historically, this is something that deaf consumers seem now more resistant to engage in. In part this can be attributed to sensory overload and the need to manage multimodal resources. But it is also about exercising choices. We highlight the need for sign language interpreters to be educated in more specific ways with respect to gaze behaviors. It is evident that deaf consumers want interpreters to provide solutions to ensure that interpreter-mediated access is something that provides access, without the problematic addition of consumer labor.
“Conversing” with Qualitative Data: Enhancing Qualitative Research through Large Language Models (LLMs)
Authors: Hayes Adam
Published: June 2023

In this paper, I explore the transformative potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT in the realm of qualitative research, particularly in the social sciences. These generative AI models, trained on extensive textual data, have the unique ability to "understand," generate, and manipulate human-like text, offering unprecedented opportunities for data analysis and interpretation. I argue that LLMs, with this capacity, can significantly enhance the depth and efficiency of qualitative analysis. They can quickly identify patterns, themes, and sentiments in the data, providing a level of nuance that can be challenging to achieve with manual coding. Furthermore, their ability to generate human-like text can be used to simulate social interactions, create engaging presentations of research findings, and even "converse" with the data in a natural and flexible way. Indeed a central contribution of this paper lies in exploring this novel concept of "asking questions of" or "conversing with" text-based data, which opens up new avenues for qualitative research and analysis. This interactive capability of LLMs provides a transformative approach to topic coding and content analysis, allowing researchers to pose complex, nuanced questions to their data and receive responses in natural language. Ethical considerations and limitations are also discussed.
A Chip-On-Board LED Thermoelectrical modeling using Spice language
Authors: Chávez-Campos Gerardo Marx , Chávez-Campos Luis Ulises
Published: June 2023

The model implementation consists of electrical and thermal characterization of an SSL system due to the lack of information provided by the Chip-LED supplier. The small signal model is developed on the Spice language by coupling the electrical and thermal domains. Eventually, the model is validated against experimental data. The model followed the polarization curves as a function of the number of Chips, while the temperature estimated has a small error close to 2%.
Evaluating How Tenure Security in Disaster Management Depends on Land Governance Based on Indonesian Case Study
Authors: Pinuji Sukmo , De Vries Walter Timo
Published: June 2023

Tenure security is a critical variable in disaster management, yet is dependent on the rules and regulations of a country with regards to land ownership and use. This study draws on three disasters that occurred in Indonesia as case studies: the tsunami in Aceh in 2004, the Sidoarjo mudflow in 2006, and the tidal flood and permanent inundation in Kabupaten Demak, reported in 1997. Using literature review approach, we compare the government responses in these examples and evaluate how they affected tenure security in each case, and presented it qualitatively. We discovered that there were different responses in terms of the declaration of a national disaster, Central Government support, the presence of a responsible agency, and how the government threatened it as a 'pure natural disaster' or a 'human-induced disaster.' We conclude that the Central Government plays an important role in ensuring tenure security during a disaster in terms of supporting laws and regulations, but the Local Government is also critical in the implementation process in land right reconstruction. Furthermore, for destroyed or lost land due to a disaster, the regulations on disaster management should distinguish between the root and cause of the disaster to ensure land rights protection and justice for the victims.
Analisis Performa Redundancy Link Menggunakan Metode Spanning Tree Protocol Dan Per VLAN Spanning Tree
Authors: Firmansyah Firmansyah , Alfian Armawan Sandi Tommi , Fauzi Ahmad , Septian Anwar Rian
Published: June 2023

Redundansi jaringan sangat penting untuk memastikan ketersediaan internet dalam jaringan komputer. Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) dan Per VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST) adalah dua metode yang dapat memberikan redundansi pada infrastruktur jaringan. Pada penelitian ini membandingkan kinerja kedua metode tersebut dalam menyediakan link redundansi dalam infrastruktur jaringan. Perbandingan didasarkan pada waktu konvergensi, penyeimbangan beban lalu lintas, dan kinerja jaringan secara keseluruhan. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa PVST memberikan waktu konvergensi yang lebih cepat dibandingkan dengan STP, PVST juga menyediakan penyeimbangan muatan lalu lintas yang lebih baik, memastikan bahwa lalu lintas jaringan didistribusikan secara merata di seluruh tautan yang redundan. Namun, PVST memerlukan lebih banyak upaya konfigurasi dan pengelolaan karena kebutuhan untuk mengonfigurasi STP untuk setiap VLAN. Di sisi lain, STP lebih mudah dikonfigurasi dan dikelola, tetapi dapat mengakibatkan waktu konvergensi yang lebih lambat dan penyeimbangan muatan traffic yang tidak merata.
Penerapan Algoritma C4.5 Untuk Prediksi Penggunaan Layanan Jasa Laundry Orchardz Hotel Pontianak
Authors: Munir Misbahul , Marcelina Vivit , Kurniawati Ika , Radiyah Ummu
Published: June 2023

Abstrak  - Orchardz Hotel adalah perusahaan yang menyediakan pelayanan jasa penginapan. Salah satu fasilitas yang disediakan Orchardz Hotel Pontianak adalah layanan jasa laundry. Adanya fasilitas laundry, membuat para tamu tidak perlu lagi merasa repot untuk memikirkan masalah baju kotor selama menginap. Pilihan metode pencucian beragam mulai dari laundry biasa, press dan dry cleaning. Layanan laundry hanya dikhususkan bagi tamu, sehingga tidak tersedia bagi umum, linen attendant menawarkan ke tamu-tamu dengan cara mengetuk pintu kamar, namun banyaknya kamar yang tersedia dan terisi pada Orchardz Hotel sering kali tidak selesai dikunjungi karena keterbatasan waktu. Oleh karena itu Penerapan prediksi layanan jasa laundry perlu diimplementasikan sehingga proses penawaran ini dapat dilakukan secara akurat terhadap perkiraan tamu yang memiliki nilai prediksi tertinggi dan menjadikan waktu penawaran jasa menjadi lebih cepat karena mengetahui tamu mana saja yang menjadi perioritas. Maka penelitian ini mengimplementasikan algoritma C4.5 untuk mengklasifikasikan dan memprediksi tamu mana saja yang memiliki nilai accuracy tertinggi sehingga dapat diprioritaskan untuk dikunjungi kamar tamunya. Hasil dari implementasi menghasilkan nilai confusion matrix dengan nilai Accuracy 83,61% dan nilai AUC sebesar 0,527 serta atribut dengan bobot tertinggi adalah Gender (Jenis Kelamin) dan Floor (Lantai Kamar) dengan masing-masing nilai 0,397 untuk gender dan 0,391 untuk floor. Kata Kunci : C4.5, data mining, klasifikasi, prediksi Abstract - Orchardz Hotel is an accommodation company or business entity that provides lodging services. One of the facilities provided by Orchardz Hotel Pontianak is a laundry service. The existence of laundry facilities, makes guests no longer need to feel bothered to think about the problem of dirty clothes during their stay. The choice of washing methods varies from regular laundry, press and dry cleaning. Laundry service is only reserved for guests who stay, so it is not available to the public, the linen attendant offers to guests by knocking on the room door, but the number of rooms available and filled at Orchardz Hotel are often not completed due to time constraints. Therefore, the application of laundry service predictions needs to be implemented so that the bidding process can be carried out accurately on the estimated guests who have the highest predictive value and make the service offer time faster because it knows which guests are the priority, so this study implements the C4.5 algorithm. 5 to classify and predict which guests have the highest accuracy values so that they can be prioritized for their guest rooms to visit. The results of the implementation produce a confusion matrix value with an Accuracy value of 83.61%, and AUC value of  0.527 and the attributes with the highest weights are Gender and Floor  with each value of 0.397 for gender and 0.391 for floor. Keywords : C4.5, classification, data mining, prediction
Pharmacological aspects of Borago officinalis (Borage): A review article
Authors: Ruaa Mohammed Ibrahim  , Dhuha Abdul Saheb Alshammaa
Published: June 2023

Abstract:

Borago officinalis is highly interesting amongst nutritional and medical source relate to its high composition of some useful phytochemical compound. It is great plants with bright blue star-shaped flowers present in most world regions and usually known as borage. The Borago phytochemical analysis showed the presence of alkaloids, tannins, flavonoids, phenolic acids, essential oil, vitamins and others. Borage is cultivated all over the world and used in traditional medicine as a demulcent, diuretic, emollient, tonic, expectorant, for the treatment of coughs, inflammation and swelling, and other diseases. In herbal medicine, Borage seed oil (BSO) has been utilized for many progres­sive illnesses as a treatment agent. The BSO compounds include p-simen-8-L, ?-caryophyllene, sesquiterpenes, monoterpenes, alpha-linoleic, gammalinoleic and linoleic acid. BSO is famed to be the richest vegetable origin of gamma (?)-linoleic acid (GLA). Borage officinalis possess different pharmacological properties including antinociceptive, antioxidant, radioprotective, memory improving, hepatoprotective, antinflammatory, and analgesic effects.
Role of Fasting Mimicking Diet in Farnesoid x Receptor for Suppressing Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition, Cell Cycle Progression, and Viability of Prostate Cancer Cells
Authors: Wrood Salim  , Sameh Arif Inam , Talib Al-sudani Basma
Published: June 2023

The systemic and resistant nature of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancers (mCRPC) renders it largely incurable even after intensive multimodal therapy. Proliferation, survival, and epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) are three fundamental events that are deeply linked to carcinogenesis.  Hence, it is necessary to find a new combination of several therapies, targeting those vital mechanisms without causing side effects. Significant research works have shown differential low expression of the metabolic Farnesoid X receptor (FXR) in primary and metastatic prostate cancer suggesting their importance in prostate pathogenesis. Obticholic acid (INT 747), a potent FXR agonist is widely used in primary biliary cholangitis, and Fasting mimicking Diet (FMD) both were drastically showed effects on different cancer progression. We hypothesized that FXR and FMD may inhibit proliferation and the metastatic phenotype in PC-3 prostate cancer cells. Analyses of the cell viability, cell cycle, migration, and matrigel invasion assays were performed to elucidate how INT 747 and /or FMD functions in prostate cancer. In this study, INT 747 treatment caused apoptotic morphological changes and significantly reduced the survival of PC-3 cells incubated in normal mediums.  Furthermore, we showed that the combination of the INT 747 and FMD was much more harmful to cancer cells than the treatment with INT 747 or FMD alone. Moreover, our study showed that INT 747 either alone or combined with FMD robustly induced cell cycle arrest at the S phase. Interestingly, the combination treatment on PC-3 cells not only showed several lines of evidence of apoptotic cells death but also inhibited carcinogenic potential as evaluated by impairment of spheroid formation capacity and delayed wound healing and matrigel invasion. At the cellular level, FXR activation resulted in down-regulation of procaspase -3, vimentin, and MMP9, which triggers apoptotic cell death, cell cycle arrest, and switch from mesenchymal to an epithelial phenotype. Collectively, FXR activation alone markedly decreases, and when combined with FMD abrogates the survival and carcinogenic potential of metastatic prostate cancer cells.
The Possible Protective Effect of Cinnamic Acid on Ovalbumin-Induced Asthma in Mice
Authors: AL-Saffar Haidar , Munaf H. Zalzala
Published: June 2023

Asthma is a chronic respiratory disorder in which immunological and structural cells play a role. The limits of conventional medicines necessitate the development of innovative therapeutic techniques for asthma. In the present study, we investigated the possible protective effect of cinnamic acid (CA) on ovalbumin-induced asthma in a mouse model. Sixty albino male mice BALB/c type weighing (20-30) grams were chosen at random and divided into five groups each one contains 12 animal: Group I: PBS/liquid paraffin control. Group II: asthma model group. Group III: cinnamic acid control group; mice received cinnamic acid (50 mg/kg) in liquid paraffin orally by gavage. Group IV: asthma model / group of (25 mg / kg) cinnamic acid; mice received (25 mg/kg) in liquid paraffin orally by gavage. Group V:  asthma/ (50 mg/kg) cinnamic acid group; mice received cinnamic acid (50 mg/kg) in liquid paraffin orally by gavage. The experiment continued for 14 days. On day 15, broncho-alveolar lavage fluid, blood and lung tissue was collected. Total cell count, tissue TNF- α, IL -33, and serum IgE increased considerably after sensitization to ovalbumin (OVA), while GSH levels decreased significantly. On the other hand, administration of cinnamic acid in (25mg and 50mg/kg) has significantly decreased total WBC count, tissue TNF- α, IL -33, and serum IgE results, and a significant increase on GSH results. These findings suggest that cinnamic acid has a protective effect against OVA-induced allergic asthma in mice, possibly through its antioxidant activity and inhibitory activity on some proliferative modulating enzymes.
Preparation and in Vitro Evaluation for Different Types of Ondansetron Hydrochloride Transdermal Patches
Authors: Abd allatif Karima , Jameela Ali Hasian
Published: June 2023

This research aims to develop transdermal patches of Ondansetron hydrochloride (OSH) with different types of polymers, ethyl cellulose and, polyvinyl pyrrolidone k30 in a ratio (3:0.5,3:1,3:2,2:1,1:1) with propylene glycol 20%w/w as a plasticizer. Prepared transdermal patches were evaluated for physical properties. The compatibility between the drug and excipients was studied by Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), where there is no interaction between the drug and polymers. From the statistical study, there is a statistical difference between all the prepared formulations p<0.05. In-vitro Release study of transdermal patches was performed by using a paddle over the disc. The release profile of OSH followed Korsmeyer - Peppas Model in P2, P4 formulations and, Higuchi Model in P1, P3, P5 formulations. The best formulation P6 carrying EC:PVP in ratio1:1 released 96.47% of ondansetron hydrochloride during 12 h. The release profile of P6 followed the Higuchi model and correlation coefficient  (r2 = 0.9815)
Clinical significance of Osteoprotegerin, Vitamin D, Obestatin and some biochemical variables in Kidney failure Patients
Authors: Hamadameen Hazhar , Akam Jassim Mustafa  , Parween Abdulsamad Ismail
Published: June 2023

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is described as an abnormalities of renal function, existing for a long period of time. By reason of the early grades of Chronic kidney disease can be experiences no symptoms, its premature identification is strenuous. initial stage CRD can cause various complications, such as anemia, matabolyic disorders of bone mineral. The study was done to assess the effect the chronic renal disease stage on the Osteoprotegerin, 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D, Obestatin levels and some biochemical parameters in patients not undertaken dialysis therapy. In this case-control study fifty-five patients with Kidney failure and fourty healthy people were examined. Circulating concentrations of Osteoprotegerin, 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D and Obestatin were estimated by ELIZA technique, serum urea, uric acid, total protein and total calciumu were estimated enzymatically using spectrophotometer.

Serum concentration of Osteoprotegerin, Obestatin, renal function markers in patients group were higher (328.3±41.68 pg/mL; 15.52±4.28pg/mL; 183.2±10.35 mg/dL; 8.88±0.54 mg/dL; 6.57±0.22 mg/dL) respectively in comparison to the control group (172.6±55.48 pg/mL; 11.64±3.26 pg/mL; 33.45±1.08 mg/dL; 0.95±0.03 mg/dL; 4.35±0.22 mg/dL) respectively. Vitamin D, Total Calcium and Total Proteins level in patients group were lower(24.49±2.53 ng/mL; 8.06±0.18 mg/dL; 6.49±0.12 g/dL) respectively as compared to controls (57.11±12.39 ng/mL; 10.15±0.23 mg/dL; 6.82±0.10 g/dL) respectively. The current study reveals that circulating levels of Osteoprotegerin Obestatin are remarkably linked with the existence of renal failure, the current data identify a high prevalence deficiency and insufficiency of 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D in patients with moderate and severe Chronic nephropathy.
“When My Cue Comes, Call Me”: Christopher Gaze – Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach
Authors: Forst Graham
Published: June 2023

Vancouver’s popular summer Shakespeare repertory company Bard on the Beach was founded in 1990 by the English actor Christopher Gaze. By the end of its tenth year in 1999, it will have presented twenty different productions of Shakespeare plays to over a quarter of a million Vancouver theatregoers. Productions are characteristically traditional, in period costume and “non-conceptual,” which reflects both Gaze’s own philosophy and the perceived taste of the “broad-spectrum audience: not your typical Old Vic habitués,” in Gaze’s own words.
The Unnatural and Accidental Women
Authors: Clements Marie
Published: June 2023

This is a play based on a true murder case in Vancouver which resulted in the deaths of at least ten women and many more “mystery” deaths of women in the Hastings Street area, unofficially referred to as “Skid Row.” All the women were found dead with a blood alcohol reading far beyond normal human consumption, and all of them were last seen with a Gilbert Paul Jordon, a local barber who frequented the local bars preying primarily on middle-aged Native women. The coroner’s report for many of the women found “no evidence of violence or suspicion of foul play” and listed the cause of death as “unnatural and accidental” (“Death by Alcohol,” Vancouver Sun 22 Oct. 1988).
Auditioning for the Role of a Lifetime: Performing Self-Translation at the American Immigration and Naturalization Service
Authors: Mackay Ellen
Published: June 2023

For all the rhapsodic invocations of Lady Liberty’s welcoming torch – and they are legion – it takes only a cursory glimpse around the Ellis Island Museum to conclude that the process of American immigration at the turn of the twentieth century was a tortuous and torturous one. Once steerage passengers made it off the boats, they had to parade past an audience of Public Health Service officers, who would screen them for symptoms of disease and disability. One such officer, known as the “eye man,” would flip their eyelids inside out with a hooked instrument to check for signs of trachoma and conjunctivitis. Another would vigilantly screen for abnormalities in gait, posture and skin condition. To weed out those considered mentally incompetent, a series of identificatory and (sometimes) mathematical questions were asked to immigrants who seemed, in the words of a surgeon and Public Health official, “inattentive and stupid-looking” (Mullan). If the candidate responded poorly to these questions, the examiner would chalk her shoulder with an X, causing her to be diverted into the “mental room” and, possibly, returned to the boat.’
Taking Revenge on Wagner
Authors: Wex Michael
Published: June 2023

In the winter of 1998, I received an e-mail from Heiko Lehmann, the Berlin half of Golus Story theatre Toronto Berlin, in which he told me that the galleys of his translation of my novel, Shlepping the Exile, had just arrived from the publisher. Apparently, the publisher had had some concerns about Lehmann’s accuracy and had hired a consultant to review the translation and make the necessary corrections. Lehmann was writing to tell me that the consultant (who was paid more to be consulted than Lehmann had been to do the translation) had decided that the jelly roll in “Jelly Roll Morton” was, at least in part, a plea for help from an uncomprehending Lehmann and had thus rushed into the breach and turned the composer of King Porter Stomp and “Originator of Jazz and Stomps, Victor Recording Artist, World’s Greatest Hot Tune Writer” into Himbeer-Roulade - God help us, Pigmeat Markham would have come out as Schweinenschnitzel - Himbeer-Roulade, Raspberry Turnover Morton. Lehmann still refuses to tell me what she did with such recondite colloquialisms as “talk white, Ikey” and “riddle me jerk-offs.”
The Squeegee Report
Authors: Diamond David
Published: June 2023

In 1998, when Headlines Theatre was producing The Dying Game, we came very dose to realizing an experiment with Legislative Theatre. Augusto Boal had initiated this process in Brazil while he was a Vereador (MLA) in the Legislative Assembly of the District of Rio de Janeiro. Many laws were passed in Brazil through this innovative technique. I decided that because the issues that we would be dealing with in Squeegee (issues of criminalization of youth in Vancouver) were obviously being affected by recent by-law enforcement by the current city council, it would be both valuable and very interesting to try to realize the experiment again.1
The Cabot Voyages (I viaggi di Caboto)
Authors: Ceolin Mark , Gaspari Anna
Published: June 2023

Working with the University of Toronto Italian Club for two years, playwright/director Mark Ceolin has attempted to bring plays written by Italian Canadians to the university stage. Although the Italian Club has produced theatrical entertainment for 150 years, it has generally concentrated on the production of Italian classics. In March of this year, Ceolin offered a play of his own creation to be translated into Italian and then performed by members of the University’s Italian Canadian community. The play was successfully presented in the Alumni Theatre in St. Michael’s College and ran from March 22 to 27. It proved to be popular with audiences and participants largely because it spoke to their experiences as children of Italian immigrants.
Canadian Drama and Performance in the UK: Featuring Quebec and a Canon
Authors: Harvie Jennifer
Published: June 2023

According to Todd Marciniak, Cultural Industries Officer responsible for the performing arts in the Cultural Relations office at the Canadian High Commission, London, there is now three times as much production of Canadian drama and performance in Britain - by both British and Canadian companies - as there was ten years ago.2 Regularly visiting Canadian companies include theatre companies Ex Machina and One Yellow Rabbit, the circuses Cirque du Soleil and Cirque Eloize, dance companies La La La Human Steps and O Vertigo and children’s theatre companies Les Deux Mondes and Théâtre Sans Fil. British theatres that produce or host Canadian work regularly include the Traverse, Edinburgh; the Tramway and the Tron Theatre, Glasgow; the Royal Exchange, Manchester; and in London the Royal National Theatre, the Bush Theatre, the Battersea Arts Centre, Riverside Studios and the Finborough Theatre. Festivals that Canadian companies regularly participate in include the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Glasgow Dance Festival, New Moves, the Belfast Festival and BITE, the Barbican International Theatre Event in London. Writers whose plays are often produced in Britain include Michel Tremblay, Brad Fraser, Judith Thompson and George F. Walker.3
Boom
Authors: Salverson Julie , Fraser Patti , Salverson Julie
Published: June 2023

Caution: Copyright Julie Salverson and Patti Fraser. This script is fully protected under the copyright laws of Canada and all countries of the Copyright Union. Changes to the script are forbidden without the written consent of the authors. Rights to produce, film or record in any medium, in any language, by any group, are retained by the authors. The moral right of the author s has been asserted. The script is available for amateur rights from the Canadian Red Cross, Ottawa. For rights information, contact Julie Salverson, c/o Playwrights Union of Canada, 53 Wolseley Street, Toronto, ON M5T 1A5.
Notes from a Maritime Kitchen Talk on Lighting: Leigh Ann Vardy in Conversation with Emmy Alcorn
Authors: Alcorn Emmy
Published: June 2023

Leigh Ann Vardy is a Halifax-based lighting designer who has created lighting for many Nova Scotia theatre companies, including Neptune, Eastern Front, Jest in Time, Mulgrave Road, the Atlantic Theatre Festival, Alive Theatre, Elsinore Theatre Company and Ships Company. Outside Nova Scotia, she lit shows at Great Canadian Theatre Company, Factory Theatre, the National Arts Centre (in co-production with Eastern Front) and the LSPU Hall in Newfoundland.
Creative Times Ahead?
Authors: DiCenzo Maria
Published: June 2023

A few years back in an article on cultural funding, I speculated about the long-term implications of patterns of restructuring designed to force culture away from a welfare state model toward a market model (DiCenzo 253-64). This trend towards privatization was by no means new by the late 1990s, but a series of changes at the federal, provincial and municipal levels (particularly in Ontario) pointed to a significant redefinition of the financing, structure and function of arts funding bodies in Canada. Most disturbing was the growing move away from funding artists directly. Subsidies to creators were displaced by policies designed to encourage relationships between the private sector and arts organizations through measures such as tax incentives and matching schemes, effectively shifting the role of funding bodies to that of facilitators and high-profile fundraisers. What I wondered at the time was, to what extent can these kinds of developments make arts councils increasingly redundant in the long run, and would “new money” in the future be enough to restore and rebuild the cultural infrastructure?
Making Sense, Getting Through – “The Word’s Body”
Authors: Koltai Judith
Published: June 2023

During our work together, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, a Cree woman actor and singer, told me that the Cree’s original name for themselves is Nehiyaw (pronounced Nay-heeaow). She explained that the word means “exact speaker” and quickly added that this has nothing to do with using words correctly with grammatical or syntactical exactitude. To be an exact speaker is to fully commit to the experience you speak from, faithful of what is true for you, and certain of your trust in others to listen and receive you without having to demand attention. James Hillman described this certainty in his colleague Harry Corbin, who “spoke from within his speech, he was his words”(5). Arab scholars used the term “the certain body” when speaking of text.
Hey, Mr. Producer!
Authors: Chan Jennifer Kay
Published: June 2023

Derrick Chua is singing. In his trademark black-on-black outfit and horn-rimmed glasses, he has taken centre-stage accompanied only by a karaoke machine. “To all the girls I’ve loved before . . .” wafts throughout the Tranzac Club at the Fringe Festival, enthralling every play-goer, actor and technician in the room. He concludes to rapturous applause.
My First Opera
Authors: Nin Chan Ka
Published: June 2023

Before I began working on my first opera, Iron Road, I thought the task was not so different from setting text to music – something that I had already done several times before. I anticipated that it would take longer just because of the sheer volume of the texts. Now that I have completed the opera – ten years later – I can tell you that I obviously underestimated the job.
Perceiving Hommages at Toronto’s World Leaders: A Festival of Creative Genius: On the Role of Innovative Light-Based Scenography in Creating a Space for the Celebration of “Cultural Icons.”
Authors: Rewa Natalie
Published: June 2023

Toronto’s Harbourfront celebrated its first quarter-century with a five-week fete honouring fourteen “cultural icons.” Artists invited to the World Leaders: A Festival of Creative Genius included fashion and art designer Issey Miyake;1 Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté; designer and inventor Philippe Starck; architect Frank Gehry; writer and performer Lily Tomlin;2 composer, lyricist and dramatist Stephen Sondheim; filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci; visual artist Robert Rauschenberg; playwright, screenwriter and actor Harold Pinter; singer, songwriter, painter and poet Joni Mitchell; multimedia theatre and film director Robert Lepage; musician, composer and humanitarian Peter Gabriel; musician, arranger, writer, media producer and filmmaker Quincy Jones; and dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch. From 1 October to 6 November, in the Liberty Grand (the refurbished former casino) on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition, Harbourfront hosted fourteen special evenings. Each consisted of a dinner featuring the cuisine of a renowned Toronto chef, followed by an hommage. The two locales on each occasion were the restaurant of the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) and a neighbouring specially created space. One of the creative challenges confronting Harbourfront and the one with which this article is concerned, was the scénographie context for each hommage.
“Redescribing a World:”Towards a Theory of Shakespearean Adaptation in Canada
Authors: Burnett Linda
Published: June 2023

You’re foundering in the waters of a flood; the Mona Lisa and a babe float by. Which one of these two treasures do you save? I’ve saved the baby, and let the Mona drown – Or did the Author know that I’d be coming here, and leave a part for me to play?
The Spectre of Straight Shakespeare
Authors: Mackay Ellen
Published: June 2023

The constitutive Shakespeareanness of Canadian theatre is a fact little neglected by either its historians or its critics. Yet the imperial logic that brought about this cultural paradox, and that surfaces, for instance, in Tyrone Guthrie’s invention of Shakespeare as the prerequisite to a national stage, or in Michael Langham’s grumpy contention with the “unnerving assault of Canadian nationalism” while at the helm of the Stratford Festival (7), remains a beguiling topic of critical inquiry, particularly for its flagrant, unapologetic visibility. What is perhaps less conspicuous – or rather, what lies hidden in plain sight – is the degree to which this institutionalization of Shakespeare at the heart of Canadian theatrical culture has promoted, by Stratfordian repetition, straight and narrow gender roles. Even those few productions that have foregrounded national issues rather than the putatively universal appeal of young or dynastic love – Langham’s Anglo/Québécois Henry V, for instance, or the Lepage/McCall Romeo & Juliette – only illustrate the reflexiveness with which Shakespearean dramatizations of courtship and marriage have been tapped as allegories of reconciliation for Canada’s “two solitudes.”1 In other words, Canadian Shakespeare, when it acknowledges its local habitation, disseminates politics in terms and acts of heterosexual love.
Seeing Canada through Shakespeare
Authors: Brydon Diana , Makaryk Irena R. , Graham Catherine
Published: June 2023

Diana Brydon and Irena Makaryk’s Shakespeare in Canada is a book that anyone interested in Canadian theatre will surely want to own, whether they are interested in Shakespeare or not. This text, which CTR has reviewed in manuscript form, is not only a magisterial history of Shakespeare production in Canada, but a very engaging discussion of the history of Canadian theatre institutions and audiences in their evolution from eighteenth-century garrison entertainments to contemporary questionings of cultural colonialism and institutional policies.
Editorial
Authors: Wilson Ann
Published: June 2023

Urjo Kareda was a man whose passion for the performing arts defined his professional life. As the theatre critic for The Toronto Star, his enthusiasm for seeing new work and his ability to bring his intellectual prowess and affective response to his lucid discussions of the plays he reviewed, lent a critical voice that was crucial to the shaping of contemporary English-language theatre in Canada. Passion carried over to his criticism of opera and his contributions to CBC radio; among his various offerings was “Urjo’s Diary,” a weekly feature in which Urjo’s wry, astute comments were punctuated by the sound of a page being turned. As the Artistic Director of Tarragon Theatre, he redefined the role by focusing his efforts on working with playwrights to develop their work, rather than being a director. He read everything that was submitted, regardless of the source, and responded to each playwright who submitted work. He worked closely with the members of the Playwrights Unit at Tarragon, helping each to develop his or her craft. Urjo was committed, passionately, to the development of new work in Canadian theatre; his nurturing of new voices in the theatre has left a rich legacy of playwrights who, like Don Hannah, Joan Macleod, Jason Sherman and Judith Thompson became, in his life, established figures. Until his death, he was supporting the work of those whose careers are still in their early stages: Morwyn Brebner, Christine Buijs and Emma Roberts, to name but a few.
Wrestling with Regionalism in Atlantic Canada: The Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre
Authors: Barton Bruce
Published: June 2023

I will preface my discussion of the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre (PARC) with the following caveat. Although I spent over ten years of my adult life on Canada’s East Coast, and held extended residence in three out of four of the Atlantic provinces, I was acutely aware throughout that time of my C.F.A. status. “C.F.A.,” for those who have never visited Newfoundland, stands for “Come From Away.” The term is shortened to “From Away” in the Maritimes, but the condition – and the multiple attitudes it evokes – are, for all intents and purposes, the same. As a “From Away,” one is regularly reminded, in sometimes conspicuous but often subtle ways, of the depth of history, personal and cultural, from which one is not so much cut off as set safely at arm’s length. A “From Away” can experience the East Coast; but it is the experience of the visitor – and, if you’re lucky, the guest. And this, of course, also shapes the degree to which – and the ways in which – one can actually know the East Coast.
Getting Out of the Script Stack: An Introduction
Authors: Ditor Rachel
Published: June 2023

About three years ago I was having coffee with DD Kugler and mouthing off about play development and the chimera of The New Play Festival as the saviour of homeless plays. Not long into our discussion he leaned in and asked, “How do you think new plays get done?” Well. That was a good question; it stopped me mid-rant and kept me thinking for a few years.
Chronic by Linda Griffiths Directed by Simon Heath Factory Theatre, 2003
Authors: Houston Andrew
Published: June 2023

I am beginning this review with the words of cultural theorist, Slavoj Zizek, because in his articulation of the meeting of politics and the psyche, he admirably creates a framework for a discussion of Linda Griffiths’ play, Chronic. Griffiths’ play contains the potential for intriguing speculation about how a virus, as both an illness and a problem with your computer, can be considered a symptom, or a paradoxical element contained within our rational interaction with the world. As both our bodies and our computers are pushed to their utmost capability through a 7/24 routine, the point at which reason is embodied, both psycho-somatically and digitally, encounters its own unreason in the form of a virus. The virus is symptomatic in our contemporary culture because it exemplifies the paradox of our technological progress, digitally as well as biologically, and as Griffiths’ play seems to suggest, the best antidote is to embrace it.
Celebrating Canadian Plays and Playwrights
Authors: Knowles Ric
Published: June 2023

On a cool weekend in October 2002, a virtual who’s who of Canadian drama and theatre in English – scholars, actors, directors, dramaturgs and above all playwrights – gathered in Stratford, Ontario, to celebrate Canadian plays written primarily in English. This issue of Canadian Theatre Review is the first of two dedicated to the discussions and paper presentations that took place at that event, this one dedicated for the most part to history and to established writers and their works, the next (issue 115) to experimentation, new approaches and alternative voices. The Celebrating Canadian Plays and Playwrights Festival and Conference, the inspiration of playwright and director Paul Thompson and the Stratford Festival’s Education Manager, Pat Quigley, was organized as part of Stratford’s fiftieth anniversary celebrations by Quigley and her staff, Trish Cuthbertson and, especially, Melanie Kamphuis, working with Ted McGee of St. Jerome’s College, University of Waterloo, Angela Rebeiro, the Publisher of Playwrights Canada Press, and myself.
Getting Out of the Script Stack: Part Two
Authors: Ditor Rachel
Published: June 2023

The first thing you need to know is that Vancouver’s theatre scene is hot right now. Consensus is we’ve got ourselves a renaissance. There are companies and playwrights coming into their own, and their passion and inventive spirit is infectious. In fact, if you are interested in a discussion about play creation processes, get out here fast. The community as a whole is buzzing with the topic. New work is flourishing here and so is a spirit of collaboration and celebration.
Theatre changed my life
Authors: Cooper David
Published: June 2023

I was sidetracked into theatre photography twenty-five years ago when I was taking time off from studying architecture at the University of Toronto. I was always interested in the marquee photos outside a theatre, with pictures of the actors in performance, and wondered who took those shots. When I visited the west coast I approached the Vancouver Playhouse to see if they needed any photos taken and was snapped up by Gloria Latham, the head of the children’s theatre division. I found myself in a world of talented people who welcomed me to document their shows despite my lack of training.
How can I make this moment as big and real as it appears on stage?
Authors: tiedemann Cylla
Published: June 2023

There is always an underlying question in my mind when I photograph the performing arts: How can I make this moment as big and real as it appears on stage? Having only one moment of choice, a symbolic representation of the whole, what angle will I take?
The Asylum of the Universe (A Fool’s Ode to History)
Authors: Chai Camyar , Witvoet Marguerite , Tait James Fagan , Coward Mara
Published: June 2023

Caution: Copyright Camyar Chai. 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 performance rights, contact the author at 474 East 37th Ave., Vancouver BC, V5W 1E9. Phone: 604.875.1475. E-mail: chai@telus.net
Views & Reviews
Authors: Houston Andrew
Published: June 2023

While devoting some thought to the relationship between theatre and photography, it struck me that recent examples of each artistic expression can be compared by the way each brings about a crisis in representation. For example, consider how both theatre and photography strive for a kind of presence that can only be achieved through the absence that we know to be the condition of representation: the referent, or the world represented on stage or captured on paper, can only exist in each medium as an absence; the magic of representation makes us believe this absence is really a presence.
The Premier of Sally Clark’s WANTED
Authors: Whittaker Robin
Published: June 2023

It has been seven years since the last professional premiere of a Sally Clark play.1 Since then, she has directed Wasps (Vancouver Little Theatre, 1997), acted in her unpublished play The Widow Judith (University of Toronto’s Glenn Morris Theatre, 1998) and in Judith Thompson’s Perfect Pie (Nakai Theatre, 2001), taught playwriting classes and dramaturged at Nakai Theatre, and written an unpublished novel titled The Luck of the Spinozas. Known for their large casts, numerous scenes, twisted endings and unsettling dark humour, Clark’s plays have always received strong responses. The 2003 premier of WANTED at Whitehorse’s Nakai Theatre where Sally Clark has been playwright-in-residence during the past two years, represents a significant and successful departure from her usual aesthetic.
Editorial
Authors: Cooper Michael , Lane Harry
Published: June 2023

This issue of Canadian Theatre Review has evolved into one that differs radically from the norm, in terms of content and organization. A possibility for us was to assemble a typical theme-oriented issue, in which mostly academically-situated authors would probe various aspects of theatre photography (its history, uses, aesthetics, and theoretical problematics, etc.), but this seemed to run the risk of sidelining the actual work of photographic artists in favour of critical comment on their work. Performing arts photography should be regarded as a crucial part of the whole production, because it can influence the ways in which we preconceive how a performance will interest us.
Towards a Poetics of Popular Theatre
Authors: Little Edward
Published: June 2023

John Murrell has said that the role of all art is to ask the difficult questions (1). This is as true for the questions that the work of art poses for its audience, as it is for the questions artists must continually ask themselves about their creative practice. For popular theatre, the difficult questions remain stalled in a binary, either/or conception of art and social action. This is a road well travelled; yet, when we attempt to discuss our work with our mainstream colleagues, we get bogged down in muddy debates, in which aesthetic accomplishment and social efficacy are characterized as competing, or mutually exclusive. Sociocultural intervention is, in essence, the inspiring story or content of the work we wish to produce. As popular theatre workers, we are engaged in popular education. I believe we must revisit the question of primacy, to ask, How does our aesthetic expression realize both artistic and social goals? This leads to two additional questions: How do we want artistic accomplishment in popular theatre to be evaluated? And who is defining “art” and social action?
Strategic Narratives: The Embodiment of Minority Discourses in Biographical Performance
Authors: Sajnani Nisha
Published: June 2023

This brief introduction of the participants in this project is entirely reductive, but it does serve the purpose of acquainting the reader with the participants involved as well as provide certain qualifiers necessary to the overall project.
Wild Theatre:The History of One Yellow Rabbit
Authors: Bracht Kathryn
Published: June 2023

Freelance journalist and theatre critic Martin Morrow is clearly excited about rabbits – not just any rabbit of course – specifically those crazy, creative Rabbits who are the subject of his first book, Wild Theatre: The History of One Yellow Rabbit. Well travelled nationally and internationally, this eclectic and dynamic theatre company from Calgary, Alberta has been one of Western Canada’s best-kept secrets, and as Morrow says in his acknowledgements, it was high time someone wrote a book about them. Written with a fresh, journalistic eye, Wild Theatre chronicles the twenty-year history of One Yellow Rabbit (OYR), by investigating the work and aesthetic influences of the artists who originated and who still form the company today. In order to write the book, Morrow was given full access to the members of OYR and to the company files and photos. For the most part, Morrow’s book has a relaxed chronological structure, with “flashbacks” provided to explore OYR’s touring history, and finishes with a meditation on the company’s future.