Erin Shields, award-winning playwright, actor, and educator, joins Lisa Dickson and her cohost, Jessica Riddell, to talk about the impact of theatre, the work of adaptation, the conversations between the past and the present, and imagination in the classroom.

Music Credits:

Intro/Outro: “Somewhere Nice” by John Bartmann

“No Cadillac” by Loyalty Freak Music

“Week Thirty-Six” by Ben von Wildenhaus

(CC BY Creative Commons License)

Links for Erin Shields's works:

“Here We Are” (read by Erin Shields) https://www.crowstheatre.com/whats-on/view-all/here-we-are

Paradise Lost (Book), Playwrights Canada Press https://www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/P/Paradise-Lost2

Paradise Lost, Stratford Festival https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/WhatsOn/PlaysAndEvents/Production/Paradise-Lost

If We Were Birds (Book), Playwrights Canada Press https://www.playwrightscanada.com/Books/I/If-We-Were-Birds

Erin’s Book Recommendations:

Toni Morrison, Beloved, Penguin/Random House Press https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/117647/beloved-by-toni-morrison-introduction-by-a-s-byatt/9780307264886

Virginia Woolf, The Waves Free e-book: https://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/woolfv-thewaves/woolfv-thewaves-00-h.html

Hardcopy, Penguin/Random House Press: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/538974/the-waves-by-virginia-woolf/9780241372081