Alan Filewod
- Affiliation: University of Guelph
Alan Filewod is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph and a recognized authority on Canada’s theatre history. He has been involved in political theatre for over thirty years.
Books by Alan Filewod
Committing Theatre
Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada
Alan Filewod
Committing Theatre offers the first full-length historical study of political intervention theatre and theatrical spectatorship in English Canada. Building on twenty years of research and engagement in the field, this book’s historical narrative frames close-up examples of how theatre artists have intervened in and engaged with political struggle from the mid-19th century to the present. Lumber-camp mock trials, Mayday parades and street protests, the Workers Theatre Movement, agitprop… (more information)