Canadian Drama and Performance in the UK: Featuring Quebec and a Canon
Bibliographic record
Abstract
According to Todd Marciniak, Cultural Industries Officer responsible for the performing arts in the Cultural Relations office at the Canadian High Commission, London, there is now three times as much production of Canadian drama and performance in Britain - by both British and Canadian companies - as there was ten years ago.2 Regularly visiting Canadian companies include theatre companies Ex Machina and One Yellow Rabbit, the circuses Cirque du Soleil and Cirque Eloize, dance companies La La La Human Steps and O Vertigo and children’s theatre companies Les Deux Mondes and Théâtre Sans Fil. British theatres that produce or host Canadian work regularly include the Traverse, Edinburgh; the Tramway and the Tron Theatre, Glasgow; the Royal Exchange, Manchester; and in London the Royal National Theatre, the Bush Theatre, the Battersea Arts Centre, Riverside Studios and the Finborough Theatre. Festivals that Canadian companies regularly participate in include the Edinburgh International Festival, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Glasgow Dance Festival, New Moves, the Belfast Festival and BITE, the Barbican International Theatre Event in London. Writers whose plays are often produced in Britain include Michel Tremblay, Brad Fraser, Judith Thompson and George F. Walker.3
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 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".