Abstract
John Murrell is one of Canada’s most established and widely-produced playwrights. During his career he has worked as playwright-in-residence at Alberta Theatre Projects and Theatre Calgary, as an Associate Director of the Stratford Festival, Head of the Banff Playwrights Colony, and as Head of the Canada Council’s Theatre Section. His plays are frequently produced in Canada, the United States and Europe. They include Power in the Blood (winner of the Clifford E. Lee playwriting competition in 1975), A Great Noise, A Great Light, Waiting for the Parade, Memoir (which ran in Paris for three years), Farther West (Chalmers Award, 1986), New World, October, and Democracy. His most recent play, Far Away Nearby, premièred last April at the Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska. His translations (including Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, The Master Builder, Oedipus Rex, Mandragola and Divorçons) have also been widely produced.
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