Faculty (Alphabetical) --- Faculty (by Research Interest)
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Dr. Christopher Johnson
Professor Emeritus
Email: Christopher.Johnson@umanitoba.ca
Education: PhD (Leeds), MA (British Columbia), BA (British Columbia)
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Recent Courses:
- Acting and Directing
- Canadian drama
- Dark Comedy
- Stage Comedy
- Stage Tragedy
- Theatre History
- Bertolt Brecht
- Edward Albee
- Commedia dell’arte
- Collective Creation
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Areas of Specialization:
Canadian drama and theatre; George F. Walker; dark comedy; contemporary English language theatre; stage directing; new play development
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Other Interests / Recent Undertakings:
- Gave paper on Walker’s This Is Wonderland at the Cultural Memory and North American Drama conference at the University of Brussels.
- Co–directed Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead with Prof. Margaret Groome for Stoppardfest 2007.
- Collecting and making masks.
- Gardening.
- Cycling.
- Canadian history.
- Belong to the Manitoba Association of Playwrights and the Association for Canadian Theatre Research.
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