Theatrical Nationhood in Radical Mobility: <i>The Farm Show</i> Futures and the Banner / Ground Zero Collaborations
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The ghosts of The Farm Show haunt Canadian theatre still, more than three decades after it established a template for collectively created intervention theatre by moving into a rural township, recording its meetings with local farmers and their families on audiotape and then turning those exchanges into a reflexive theatrical report that “bounces along one way or another and then it stops” (Theatre Passe Muraille 19). Most recently and famously, the making of The Farm Show has provided the narrative platform for Michael Healey’s wildly successful play The Drawer Boy, which since its premiere in 1999 has won the Governor General’s Award for Drama and has been produced in theatres across Canada, the United States, Great Britain and New Zealand. The Drawer Boy testifies to the formative impact of The Farm Show as a critical point at which our present idea of “Canadian theatre” emerged as a cultural practice. The line between the two plays tells a story of cultural growth, of radical youth constructing a theatre method that has since developed into a professional system capable of exporting its history in plays like The Drawer Boy. But there is another line that leads from The Farm Show into the present and that offers a more radical narrative. Following that line, we can see how one signal historical moment can produce two radically different theatrical futures, which speak to opposing understandings of the relationship of theatre culture to national presence.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.037 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".