Alumnae Theatre Company

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction: Alumnae Theatre Company, Alterity, and the Idea of Nonprofessionalizing Theatre

Part One: History and Programming

1. The University Years: Founding Daughters and Their Philanthropic Little Theatre (1918-1939)
2. Producing on the Homefront and in the Postwar Theatre Boom (1939-1957)
3. The Coach House Years and Intellectual Modernism (1957-1972)
4. The Firehall Years in Toronto's Expanding Theatre Ecology (1972-Present)

Part Two: Perspectives

5. A "Distinct Passage-Way": Theatre Spaces
6. "This is the Competitive Democracy of Amateur Drama": Festivals and Nationhood
7. "No Cause for Alarm": New Plays
8. "Pace-Setting and Ranging": A Nonprofessionalizing Theatre in the Professionalizing Era

Conclusions

Appendix 1 Selected Biographies of Alumnae's Early Women
Appendix 2: Alumnae's Production History Pre-firehall
Appendix 3: Alumnae Production History Firehall

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Works Cited
Index

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Alumnae Theatre Company; nonprofessionalizing theatre; amateur theatre; community theatre; Toronto theatre; women in theatre; feminist performance; Canadian theatre history; play development