Dora Mavor Moore: Before the New Play Society

When Dora Mavor Moore founded the New Play Society in Toronto in 1946, she was already close to sixty years old and had been working in the theatre as actress, director, producer and teacher for almost forty years. During those years, Canada had virtually no indigenous professional theatre; it was the amateur stage that kept Canadian theatre alive. Her work from 1906 to 1946 serves as evidence not only of what forms Canadian theatrical activity took, but also of what it meant to make one's living in the theatre then.