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Play by George F. Walker
Nothing Sacred is a play by
Canadian playwright
George F. Walker, written as a stage adaptation of
Ivan Turgenev's 1862 novel
Fathers and Sons.
[1]
The play received its first production at
Toronto,
Ontario's
CentreStage, in January 1988
[2] under the direction of
Bill Glassco.
[3] The original cast included
Michael Riley as Arkady,
Robert Bockstael as Bazarov,
David Fox as Nikolai,
Richard Monette as Pavel,
Peter Blais as Viktor,
Diane D'Aquila as Anna and
Beverley Cooper as Fedosya.
[4]
The play was published in book form by
Coach House Press in 1988. It won the
Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the
1988 Governor General's Awards,
[5] the 1988
Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play,
[6] and the 1989
Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award.
[7] The production also won
Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Production (Bill Glassco), Outstanding Costume Design (Mary Kerr) and Outstanding Set Design (Kerr).
[6] It had garnered nine Dora nominations overall, including acting nods for Riley, D'Aquila and Blais.
[8]
It was also one of Walker's most widely produced plays in the
United States,
[9] with productions in
Los Angeles,
Chicago,
Seattle,
San Francisco and
Washington, D.C. in the 1988-89 season alone.
[9] The Los Angeles production at the
Mark Taper Forum included
Tom Hulce in its cast;
[9] a 1992 production at the
Atlantic Theater Company in
New York City included
Larry Bryggman.
[1]
A revival of the play was staged at Toronto's
Winter Garden Theatre in 1994, with its cast including
Eric Peterson,
Sonja Smits,
Michael Hogan,
Michael McManus,
Peter Blais and
Patrick Gallagher.
[10] The later production was later filmed as a
television movie, which aired on
CBC Television in 1995 with virtually the same cast.
[11]
References
- ^
a
b "Refracting Russia Through the Present".
Newsday, October 23, 1992.
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^ "Bill Glassco Collection (1966-1988) Inventory", Toronto Public Library Digital Library Services, 2014
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^ "Riley finds gold after Chasing Rainbows".
Toronto Star, January 8, 1988.
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^ "Walker on the wild side".
Toronto Star, January 15, 1988.
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^
Mark Abley, "Younger generation comes through in Governor General's Awards".
Montreal Gazette, March 4, 1989.
- ^
a
b Ray Conlogue, "Walker's Nothing Sacred collects four Dora awards".
The Globe and Mail, June 15, 1988.
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^ "Chalmers award winners announced".
The Globe and Mail, January 31, 1989.
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^ "CentreStage play tops Dora Award nominees".
Toronto Star, May 11, 1988. Page C1.
- ^
a
b
c
"Regional Theater Finds a Winner : 'Nothing Sacred' Is the Play of the Year Although It's Never Received the Broadway Stamp of Approval".
Los Angeles Times, October 16, 1988.
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^ "At the Winter Garden, another George Walker smash".
The Globe and Mail, November 15, 1994.
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^ Greg Quill, "CBC fails in its attempt to bring stage drama to TV".
Toronto Star, December 29, 1995.
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Joan MacLeod, Amigo's Blue Guitar (1991)
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John Mighton,
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Guillermo Verdecchia, Fronteras Americanas (1993)
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Jason Sherman, Three in the Back, Two in the Head (1995)
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Colleen Wagner, The Monument (1996)
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Ian Ross, fareWel (1997)
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Djanet Sears,
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Michael Healey,
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Timothy Findley,
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Kent Stetson, The Harps of God (2001)
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Kevin Kerr, Unity (1918) (2002)
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Vern Thiessen,
Einstein's Gift (2003)
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Morris Panych,
Girl in the Goldfish Bowl (2004)
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John Mighton, Half Life (2005)
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Daniel MacIvor, I Still Love You (2006)
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Colleen Murphy, The December Man (2007)
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Catherine Banks, Bone Cage (2008)
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Kevin Loring, Where the Blood Mixes (2009)
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Robert Chafe, Afterimage (2010)
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Erin Shields, If We Were Birds (2011)
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Catherine Banks, It Is Solved by Walking (2012)
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Nicolas Billon, Fault Lines: Three Plays (2013)
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Jordan Tannahill, Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays (2014)
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David Yee, carried away on the crest of a wave (2015)
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Colleen Murphy,
Pig Girl (2016)
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Hiro Kanagawa, Indian Arm (2017)
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Jordan Tannahill, Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom (2018)
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Amanda Parris, Other Side of the Game (2019)
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