Tamara
One of the earliest immersive, mobile audience theatre works.
Production Credits
Written by: John Krizanc Directed by: Richard Rose Cast: Roger A. McKeen, Ian Black, Ramiro Puerta, Patricia Nember, Frank Canino, Shelley Thompson, Denise Naples, Angelo Pedari, Maggie Huculak and Mary Hawkins Production History
Premiered at Strachan House (Toronto, Ontario) May 1981. The show subsequently toured for extended runs in both New York (1987-1992) and Los Angeles (1984-1993).
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Press
“‘Tamara’ From The Ground Floor Up,” The New York Times, 29 November 1987, nytimes.com/1987/11/29/theater/tamara-from-the-ground-floor-up.html
Articles
John Krizanc, Tamara: The Story You Experience From Room to Room (Stoddart, 1989)
Ric Knowles, “Reading Material: Transfers, Remounts, and the Production of Meaning in Contemporary Toronto Drama and Theatre,” Essays on Canadian Writing 51/52 (Winter 93/Spring 94): 258–95.
Richard Plant, “The Deconstruction of Pleasure: John Krizanc’s Tamara, Richard Rose and the Necessary Angel Theatre Company,” unpublished essay, subsequently translated and published as “Die dekonstruktion des vergnugens: John Krizanc’s Tamara, Richard Rose, und die Necessary Angel Theatre Company,” Das Englisch-Kanadische Drama, edited by Albert-Rainer Glaap (Schwann, 1992): 257–68.
Viviana Comensoli, “Environmental Theatre,” Canadian Literature 128 (Spring 1991): 153-154.
Elinor Fuchs, The Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater after Modernism (Indiana UP, 1996).
Jon Kaplan, “Tamara Takes Off,” Canadian Theatre Review 44 (Fall 1985): 135-138.
Ric Knowles, “Reading Material: Transfers, Remounts, and the Production of Meaning in Contemporary Toronto Drama and Theatre,” Essays on Canadian Writing 51/52 (Winter 93/Spring 94): 258–95.
Richard Plant, “The Deconstruction of Pleasure: John Krizanc’s Tamara, Richard Rose and the Necessary Angel Theatre Company,” unpublished essay, subsequently translated and published as “Die dekonstruktion des vergnugens: John Krizanc’s Tamara, Richard Rose, und die Necessary Angel Theatre Company,” Das Englisch-Kanadische Drama, edited by Albert-Rainer Glaap (Schwann, 1992): 257–68.
Viviana Comensoli, “Environmental Theatre,” Canadian Literature 128 (Spring 1991): 153-154.
Elinor Fuchs, The Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater after Modernism (Indiana UP, 1996).
Jon Kaplan, “Tamara Takes Off,” Canadian Theatre Review 44 (Fall 1985): 135-138.