Ken Brand

Ken Brand is a Canadian playwright from Winnipeg, Manitoba.[1] One of the significant figures in the emergence of LGBT theatre in Canada in the 1990s,[1] he is most noted for his play The Bathhouse Suite,[2] which appears in the Sky Gilbert-edited anthology Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays alongside plays by Harry Rintoul, Shawn Postoff, Christian Lloyd, Greg MacArthur, Greg Kearney and Michael Achtman.[3]

His other plays included Benchmarks[1] and Burying Michael.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Glenn Sumi, "Gay theatre scores big with its target audience: Canada's homosexual community is large, rich and self-aware -- and playwrights are cashing in on it. Who cares if the critics don't always approve?" The Globe and Mail, March 14, 1998.
  2. ^ Robert Crew, "Love amid the lust in bathhouse". Toronto Star, March 14, 1996.
  3. ^ Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays. Playwrights Canada Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0887548529.
  4. ^ Kate Taylor, "Comedy well buried in bland play". The Globe and Mail, January 20, 2001.


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