Alan Filewood. Performing Canada: The Nation Enacted in the Imagined Theatre
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In his unassuming, modestly presented (8'x10', paperback) monograph, Performing Canada: The Nation Enacted in the Imagined Theatre, Alan Filewod overcomes the challenging incongruities between postmodern theory and the particularities of Canadian theatre history with an argument that is imaginative yet convincing and rigorous yet elegantly styled. Despite its brevity, Performing Canada is a history of Canadian theatre from Marc Lescabot's The Theatre of Neptune in New France in 1606 to Garth Drabinsky's controversial production of Show Boat in Toronto in 1993, with reflective essays on the 19th century history dramas of Charles Mair and Sarah Anne Curzon, on Vincent Massey and the establishment of the epitome of the high-brow mainstream in Canada, the Stratford Festival, in 1953, and on "alternative" theatre as exemplified by Chris Brookes' Mummers Troupe in the 1970's in Newfoundland and their production of They Club Seals, Don't They?
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.016 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.021 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".