Blood Relations & Other Plays (Prairie Play)
Born in 1936 in Fredricton, New Brunswick, Sharon Pollock has written over a dozen published stage plays. She moved to Alberta in 1966 and has been a major figure in Prairie and Canadian theatre ever since. Pollock has taught at the University of Alberta, led the playwright<’>s colony of Banff Centre for the Arts, and was the artistic director at Theatre Calgary and Theatre New Brunswick. Pollock now lives in Calgary where she has been the Playwright in Residence at Theatre Junction since 1999, where she premiered her three latest plays, <">Moving Pictures,<"> <">End Dreams,<"> and <">Angels<’> Trumpet.<">ANNE NOTHOF, editor, is a professor of English at Athabasca University in Alberta, and has published extensively on Canadian and British drama in such journals as Modern Drama, Essays in Theatre, Studies in Canadian Literature and Australian Canadian Studies. She has presented papers at university conferences in many Canadian cities, and in Russia, Israel, the United States, and Mexico.For twelve years, she co<->produced and hosted weekly program, <">Theatre of the Air<">, on CKUA Radio Network, which featured plays from Greek to modern times <—> including new productions of Alberta plays for radio.