"No, the Centre Should Be Invisible": Radical Revisioning of Chekhov in Floyd Favel Starr's <i>House of Sonya</i>
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Abstract
What I find intriguing when examining Aboriginal theatre is the complex relationship between the traditional and the contemporary in this modelling of Aboriginal identity on stage. At one end of the spectrum, "traditional" Aboriginal performance, involving ritual, orality, local histories, and cultural/spiritual information, has been understood by scholars and critics as either replicating or renewing traditions of performance specific to indigenous regions and cultures.' At the other end, "contemporary" Aboriginal performance, utilizing Western theatrical techniques and exploring more overtly political themes, has been viewed in relation to global examples of performance-as-resistance by other "threatened groups". Both local/traditional and international/ contemporary definitions of performance can serve to illuminate how Aboriginal theatre resists the dominant by pointing to local or international contexts for interpretative frames. Yet, these two frames — the local/traditional and the international/contemporary — are difficult to disentangle, and bifurcate clearly hybrid modes of Aboriginal performance. For myself, as a non-Aboriginal spectator, it remains a difficult task to frame such hybrid theatre so that both the local and international contexts are taken into account. This difficulty is made plain when one examines the 1997 play House of Sonya, an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya by Saskatchewan Cree playwright Floyd Favel Starr.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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".