Pygmalion with Craig Walker and Peter Aston

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Walker began his career in the theatre as an actor with the Stratford Festival, the Shaw Festival and the National Arts Centre of Canada and other companies. After returning to complete an M.A. in English and a Ph.D. in Drama at the University of Toronto, he was appointed to the Department of Drama at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where he is currently Professor of Drama. The Stratford Festival of Canada is a summer-long celebration of theatre. ... The Shaw Festival is a major Canadian theatre festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, the second largest repertory theatre company in North America. ... see National Arts Centre ... The University of Toronto (U of T), in Toronto, Ontario, is the largest university in Canada by student population. ... For other educational establishments called Queens, see Queens College and Queens University (disambiguation) Old Douglas Library doors Queens University, or simply Queens, is a coeducational, non-sectarian university located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, on the edge of Lake Ontario. ...

In 1997, Walker became the Artistic Director of Theatre Kingston, a company for which he has directed many productions including his own Finnegans Wake: a dream play (based on the novel by James Joyce), which played in both Kingston and Toronto in 2001, and Aeschylus’s The Oresteia, which was performed with Proteus, a satyr play Walker wrote himself to replace the one that had originally followed the trilogy but had been lost since the 5th century B.C.E. In 2002, Walker wrote the book, music and lyrics for Chantecler: a musical (based loosely on a verse play by Edmond Rostand). The Furies in Theatre Kingstons 2002 production of The Oresteia Theatre Kingston is a theatre company located in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish name Séamas Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ... Aeschylus This article is about the ancient Greek playwright. ... Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (April 1, 1868 - December 2, 1918), French poet and dramatist. ...

Works by Walker

• The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
• Finnegans Wake: a dream play (based on the novel by James Joyce). Produced by Theatre Kingston in 2001.
• Chantecler: a musical (book, music and lyrics; based on the play by Edmond Rostand). Produced by Theatre Kingston in 2002.
• Editor, with Jennifer Wise, The Broadview Anthology of Drama, Volumes One and Two. Broadview Press, 2003.
• Editor, with Jennifer Wise, The Concise Broadview Anthology of Drama. Broadview Press, 2005.

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External links

• Theatre Kingston
• Buried Astrolabe
• Broadview Anthology of Drama, Vol. I
• Broadview Anthology of Drama, Vol. II