Oral Histories Gallery

Below you will find an Exhibition of Oral History Interviews created by our Co-Investigators, Collaborators, and Contributors, with representative interviews with arts workers and audience members. Our goal is to provide as wide a range of interviews as we can, from as wide a range of performance practice as we can, to give a better indication of our project goals, and to provide models that might be used for future interviews.  Here are interviews with those who created performances, and those who observed them; with those who were onstage, backstage, in the wings and in the office before, during and after a performance; with those in modes of performance that had no stage at all; with those who created and observed as many kinds of performance as we can find, from as many perspectives and cultures as possible. 

See our Public Resources page for a statement of purpose for our project, and for information meant to assist researchers and practitioners in their own work on the rich history of performance in Canada.  The instructions and advice on that page has resulted in this Gallery.