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
- ^ 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.
- ^ Robert Crew, "Love amid the lust in bathhouse". Toronto Star, March 14, 1996.
- ^ Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays. Playwrights Canada Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0887548529.
- ^ Kate Taylor, "Comedy well buried in bland play". The Globe and Mail, January 20, 2001.
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