Homeward Bound (play)
Homeward Bound is a 1991 Canadian play drama by Elliott Hayes. It was originally commissioned and produced by the Stratford Festival.[1][2][3]
Novelist Margaret Atwood wrote about the play: "Elliott Hayes has fashioned a brisk, intricate, deranging and tightly strung play...[his] art is a funhouse mirror, and what we see in it are fragments of ourselves, distorted, grotesque even, but recognizable.".[4][5]
Canadian journalist and theatre artist Richard Ouzounian wrote in 2004 that Homeward Bound "remains one of the greatest plays that anybody has written in this country in my lifetime".[6]
The play has also been translated into French by Jean-Marc Dalpé and Robert Marinier, as Tout va pour le mieux.[7]
Productions
[edit]The play has been produced numerous times since its Stratford debut. Notable productions include:
- Theatre Three, Dallas (1992)[8][9]
- Griffin Theatre Company, Illinois Theatre Center, Chicago (1992)[10]
- Canadian Stage, Toronto (1994)[11]
- Vancouver Playhouse (1995)
- Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg (1995)[12]
- National Arts Centre, Ottawa (1999)[13]
- Grand Theatre, London, Ontario (1999)[14][15]
- Neptune Theatre, Halifax (2001)[16]
- Citadel Theatre, Edmonton (2003)[17]
- Gateway Theatre, Vancouver (2005)[18]
- Western Gold Theatre, Vancouver (2017)[19]
References
[edit]- ^ "Past Productions : Our Production history". Stratfordfestival.ca. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ Donnelly, Pat (30 July 2010). "Stratford Festival's David William Mourned". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ "Homeward Bound (1991) production credits". Stratford Festival Archives. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
- ^ "Homeward Bound". Dramaticpublishing.com. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ Hayes, Elliott (6 February 1992). "Homeward Bound". Dramatic Publishing. Retrieved 6 February 2019 – via Google Books.
- ^ Richard Ouzounian (28 February 2004). "No one has come by to rival Elliott Hayes". Toronto Star. p. H13.
- ^ Pat Donnelly, "All going well for Homeward Bound; Trail-blazing English Canadian comedy a hit with francophones"]. Montreal Gazette, November 26, 1994.
- ^ "Author Profile - Elliott Hayes". Dramaticpublishing.com. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ Wagner, Vit (8 January 1994), "Writer Homeward Bound after trip through grief", The Toronto Star, p. J4
- ^ Shaw, Stephanie (1 October 1992). "Generations/Homeward Bound". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ Kirchhoff, H.J. (15 January 1994), "All in the family", The Globe and Mail, p. C4
- ^ "Homeward Bound · Homeward Bound · Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Archives". Archives.royalmtc.ca. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ "Stratford Director Revitalizes Ottawa's National Arts Centre". Playbill.com. 8 May 1998. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ "Production History - Grand Theatre London". Grandtheatre.com. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ "UWO Gazette - Volume 92, Issue 81". Usc.uwo.ca. Archived from the original on 16 December 2004. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ "Neptune Theatre Production History". Neptunetheatre.com. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
- ^ "Seasons Since 1965 - Citadel Theatre". Citadeltheatre.com. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ "Homeward Bound". Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly. 20 October 2005. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
- ^ "vancouverplays: Vancouver's arts and culture website providing theatre news, previews and reviews - Theatre Preview". Vancouverplays.com. Retrieved 6 February 2019.