Canadian Theatre and Memorializing: Memorializing and counter-memorializing in The Death of General Wolfe, Angélique and Sled
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The representational power that the Stratford Festival holds in the history of contemporary Canadian theatre cannot be overestimated. Stratford has long been a monument of (and to) theatre in Canada, partly because of the distinctive architectural design of the Festival Theatre, and partly – perhaps more likely – because of its manufactured story of origin.1 In Performing Canada: The Nation Enacted in the Imagined Theatre, Alan Filewod explains how Stratford came to be “the template which ... governed the dominant model of professional theatre structures in Canada” (56) and Canadian theatre itself. This monumentalization is all the more interesting given that, for Filewod, Stratford has actually “contributed little to the overall development of theatre in Canada” (57) beyond a location for symbolic value. It does, however, provide the basis for a useful oppositionality: Canadian theatre – developed to some extent in the shadow of Stratford – now casts shadows itself. This paper focuses on three plays that open dialogues with monumental images of the nation: The Death of General Wolfe by Brian Quirt, Angélique by Lorena Gale and Sled by Judith Thompson.
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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 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.061 | 0.036 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.012 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 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".