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The Great Election The Great Election, a political satire based on Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, had its world premiere at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, recently. Adapted and directed by John Stark, the play is now available in video format, and will soon be aired on Bravo and PBS. The Great Election was originally set in a small town in Ontario, Canada at the turn of the century. Stark has transposed the piece to modern day Pahrump, Nevada, and as Rich Borowy, the critic for Google Website points out, "the politics then were just as controlled and slanted as they are today: the perfect political play, with plenty of comic bite and wit." John Stark, the producer-writer, has had several projects funded by Canadian government sources, including his one-man-show An Evening with Stephen Leacock, seen on PBS, CBC, BBC, and airing on the Bravo Network in February, 2004. RCA has made an album of the performance. Mr. Stark has also staged plays in Canada, the U.S. and London, including his world premiere translations of The Family Glembay by Croation Nobel prize nominee Miroslav Krleza. In London and Los Angeles, he produced and directed Chekhov and Maria by Jovanka Bach, The Balkan Trilogy, which was nominated for a Pen West Award, and more recently O'Neill's Ghosts. His book version of An Evening with Stephen Leacock has just been published in Canada The stage version of The Great Election is now available to other theatres. For information, please contact John Stark Productions. |
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A four minute clip from The Great Election can be viewed here. (You must have RealPlayer installed in order to see the video. You can download the RealPlayer free of charge at www.real.com) |
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