An Environmental Engagement with Theatre and Life: An Interview with Richard Rose
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Abstract
Swiftly upon graduating from York University, Richard Rose founded Necessary Angel Theatre Company in 1978. Under his energetic and ambitious direction, the company developed and produced many original works, including notable adaptations of novels, environmentally staged in locations around Toronto. In 1983, Rose directed Censored in St. Paul’s church, based on Mikhail Bulgakov’s A Cabal of Hypocrites; in 1989, he staged Michael Ondaatje’s Coming through Slaughter at the Silver Dollar bar. In 2002, Rose left Necessary Angel to become artistic director at the Tarragon Theatre, an institution with an established history of new-play development, thanks to his predecessor, Urjo Kareda. Rose was the best candidate to replace Kareda because his vision as a director came from his dramaturgical insight into the development of new work using unique forms of text, music, character and space. Arguably, Rose’s best work at the Tarragon or at the Stratford Festival, where he regularly directs, comes from his sensuous and intelligent engagement with environments. In the following interview, he discusses the dramaturgical dimension of environment in his directing; in particular, he addresses Necessary Angel’s two most successful environmental productions, Tamara and Newhouse, and the effect these works have had on his approach to theatre.
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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 | 0.008 | 0.009 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.019 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".