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834:(2008, "just in time for the Beijing Games"), his critically acclaimed epic novel spanning thousands of years. Rotenberg wrote it as three novels, and counts them as such, but Penguin decided to publish it in one volume. At about 800,000 words, it is one of the longest novels ever published; Rotenberg said he received complaints from readers that it was "too heavy for them to carry around". The success of
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I was a professional theatre director ... with two
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has way more to do with the success or failure of the evening than the third violinist has to do with the success or failure of a
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British, American, and more recently, Scandinavian novelists. David Rotenberg believes Canadians have had time to avoid mistakes other crime and
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British companies that were training actors who could cross between stage and screen. Eight years later, the CFC announced the creation of a new actor's conservatory to train and market future stars of screen and stage, the first of its kind in Canada, as well as a separate international
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I've been asked for years to write a book about the unique way that I teach acting. But every time I've sat down at my computer I've wanted to write fiction, not a how-to book, so instead I've integrated my knowledge of acting teaching into my novels. Geoffrey Hyland in two of the five
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for the big city, but the subject matter was not understood by the Chinese: "They didn't comprehend it at all ... When the set designs arrived, there were Indians with head dresses and war paint." Despite such cultural differences and working in a completely foreign language, the production was
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There had been almost no serious intellectual thought given to how the form actually works. And actors had bought into the mediocrity that had been fed to them. Actors had actually agreed to call what they do a craft rather than an art. But surely an actor who plays Laertes in a production of
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same time protecting their fragile egos with his humour - and his acuity as a teacher. One of his students, having worked with Rotenberg for six years, often travelling home from Los Angeles to take his classes, said Rotenberg is "great at making us see our strengths and weaknesses."
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and assumed that they would be discussing a sixth Zhong Fong novel, but Davidar had other ideas: "They wanted me to do for Shanghai what James Clavell had done for Hong Kong." The end result was
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co-production training program, the Canada-U.K. Script Incubation Program, designed to foster cross-Atlantic collaboration between script writers with support from the
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