Homeward Bound (play)

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Homeward Bound is a 1991 Canadian play drama by Elliott Hayes. It was originally commissioned and produced by the Stratford Festival. [1] [2] [3]

Novelist Margaret Atwood wrote about the play: "Elliott Hayes has fashioned a brisk, intricate, deranging and tightly strung play...[his] art is a funhouse mirror, and what we see in it are fragments of ourselves, distorted, grotesque even, but recognizable.". [4] [5]

Canadian journalist and theatre artist Richard Ouzounian wrote in 2004 that Homeward Bound "remains one of the greatest plays that anybody has written in this country in my lifetime". [6]

The play has also been translated into French by Jean-Marc Dalpé and Robert Marinier, as Tout va pour le mieux. [7]

Productions

The play has been produced numerous times since its Stratford debut. Notable productions include:

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References

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  2. ↑ Donnelly, Pat (30 July 2010). "Stratford Festival's David William Mourned". Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "Homeward Bound (1991) production credits". Stratford Festival Archives. Retrieved 2019-06-02.
  4. ↑ "Homeward Bound". Dramaticpublishing.com. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  5. ↑ Hayes, Elliott (6 February 1992). "Homeward Bound". Dramatic Publishing. Retrieved 6 February 2019– via Google Books.
  6. ↑ Richard Ouzounian (28 February 2004). "No one has come by to rival Elliott Hayes". Toronto Star. p. H13.
  7. ↑ Pat Donnelly, "All going well for Homeward Bound; Trail-blazing English Canadian comedy a hit with francophones"]. Montreal Gazette , November 26, 1994.
  8. ↑ "Author Profile - Elliott Hayes". Dramaticpublishing.com. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  9. ↑ Wagner, Vit (8 January 1994), "Writer Homeward Bound after trip through grief", The Toronto Star, p. J4
  10. ↑ Shaw, Stephanie (1 October 1992). "Generations/Homeward Bound". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  11. ↑ Kirchhoff, H.J. (15 January 1994), "All in the family", The Globe and Mail, p. C4
  12. ↑ "Homeward Bound · Homeward Bound · Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Archives". Archives.royalmtc.ca. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  13. ↑ "Stratford Director Revitalizes Ottawa's National Arts Centre". Playbill.com. 8 May 1998. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  14. ↑ "Production History - Grand Theatre London". Grandtheatre.com. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  15. ↑ "UWO Gazette - Volume 92, Issue 81". Usc.uwo.ca. Archived from the original on 16 December 2004. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
  16. ↑ "Neptune Theatre Production History". Neptunetheatre.com. Archived from the original on 8 June 2017. Retrieved 24 November 2020.
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