Carol Bolt

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

Life

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

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

The most famous play by Carol Bolts was to be the thriller One Night Stand , which was filmed in 1978 . Her other plays involve exploring specific Canadian motives and political issues, such as Buffalo Jump (a portrayal of Canada during the Great Depression and Depression of the 1930s). In Pauline (1973) she was concerned with portraying the life of the Mohawk poet Pauline Johnson . The socially critical drama Red Emma, ​​Queen of the Anarchists (1974), set in New York City in the 1890s, celebrated Emma Goldman's ardent feminism and was adapted as an opera to the program by the Canadian Opera Company in 1996. Her last play was Famous , which was produced for the stage in 1997. In addition to her various plays for adults, Bolt also wrote various children's theater pieces that combined music and pantomime , such as My Best Friend Is Twelve Feet High (1972), Cyclone Jack (1972), Maurice (1975) and Finding Bumble (1975). Cyclone Jack also revolved around an Indian hero: Tom Longboat , the legendary runner from the Onondaga tribe who won the Boston Marathon .

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

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

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

Works

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

Awards

  • Chalmers Award, 1989, for Icetime

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Theater Community Saddened at the loss of Playwright, Carol Bolt. Playwrights Union of Canada. November 28, 2000.
  2. ^ Frank Davey: When TISH Happens - 2011 ISBN 978-1-55022-958-5 ; Ders .: Tish Nos. 1-19 - 1975 ISBN 0-88922-077-8
  3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0093329/
  4. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076499/
  5. ^ Canadian Theater Encyclopedia Biography
  6. ↑ Carol Bolt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Bolt, Carol
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnson, Carol (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian playwright and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 25, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2000
Place of death Toronto , Ontario , Canada