Carol Bolt

Shelley Scott (University of Lethbridge)

Ed. by Glen Nichols, Mount Allison University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 25 Aug 1941
Died 28 Nov 2000
Activity 1970-2000

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Activities

Primary

Editor
Film/TV Script-writer/ Screenwriter
Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

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Carol Bolt was a Chalmers Award-winning playwright associated with the collective creation movement, a generation of English-Canadian theatre artists in the 1970s who rejected British and American imports in favour of new, nationalistic work. Her plays explored Canadian material with a political conscience. Her major works (

One Night Stand

Red Emma

Buffalo Jump

and

Cyclone Jack

) have been produced internationally in the USA, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Bolt was also active in theatre for young audiences and wrote for radio and television. She was a founding member of the Playwright's Co-op and influenced Canadian playwriting as a teacher and advocate.

Bolt was born Carol Johnson in Winnipeg, Manitoba on August 25, 1941. Her mother was a teacher and her father a miner and logger.

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Citation: Scott, Shelley. "Carol Bolt". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 January 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=476, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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