Italian-Canadian theatre in the spotlight of multiculturalism: <i>La Storia dell'Emigrante</i> (1979), a case study
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Abstract
The present article looks at Tony Nardi's La Storia dell'Emigrante (1979), which was the first theatre work by an Italian-Canadian playwright to win the Ontario Multicultural Theatre Festival as Best Original Canadian Play, in 1982. La Storia dell'Emigrante is first situated in the historical and biographical circumstances under which it was produced. A close reading of the play follows (with interpretations) which make clear its significance to both the playwright and the Italian-Canadian communities at the time. The case study approach allows in-depth exploration of a neglected area in Canadian theatre history in an attempt to contribute to a reformulation of the scholarly debate around multicultural theatre and multiculturalism. It ultimately suggests that the lack of critical attention to Italian-Canadian theatre, which mirrors the lack of attention to the Italian-Canadian community in the first place, is also rooted in an insufficient appreciation of specific aspects of Canadian history.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".