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 t...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Theatre research in Canada 1989-04, Vol.10 (1), p.43-64
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