Michael Cook (playwright)
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Michael Cook | |
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Born | Fulham, London, England |
14 February 1933
Died | 1 July 1994 St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada |
(aged 61)
Occupation | Theatre reviewer and playwright |
Period | 1971 - 1991 |
Michael Cook (14 February 1933 – 1 July 1994) was a Canadian playwright.
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Early life[edit]
Born in Fulham, London, England, Cook settled in Newfoundland, Canada, in 1965 after serving seven years in the British Army, mostly in Asia.[citation needed]
Career[edit]
Most of Cook's work, including his best-known plays, Jacob's Wake and The Head, Guts and Soundbone Dance, are set in Newfoundland, which provides a sometimes realistic and sometimes richly symbolic backdrop for his poetic rendering of lives in continual conflict with natural elements.[citation needed]
Personal life[edit]
Cook married three times, and fathered twelve children, including actor Sebastian Spence by his wife, Janis.[citation needed]
Cook retained a residence in Stratford, Ontario. While passing through St Johns on a trip to his summer home on Random Island, Cook became ill and died.[citation needed]
Plays[edit]
- Tiln, 1971.
- Colour The Flesh the Colour of Dust, 1972.
- The Head, Guts and Sound Bone Dance, 1973.
- Jacob's Wake, 1974.
- Quiller, 1975.
- Therese's Creed, 1976.
- The Fisherman's Revenge, 1976. (children's play)
- On The Rim of the Curve, 1977.
- The Gayden Chronicles, 1980.
Works about Michael Cook[edit]
- Craig Walker, "Michael Cook: Elegy, Allegory and Eschatology," The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.
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