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said, "It is not too much to say that Mr. Mitchell is a genius in the art of stage production. Thoroughly imbued with a sense of the importance of the theatrical art to the community (it is no exaggeration to say that he conceives of it as a form of religion), he is perfectly willing to place all
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announcement of the wedding described
Mitchell as "author, lecturer, theatrical director, theosophical leader and onetime newspaperman" and Taylor as a "well-known artist and sculptress." In 1929 they moved to New York City. Mavor Moore wrote, "Mitchell left for New York to teach and write about
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was his last Hart House production. After two seasons, and disagreements with the Board of
Syndics about concentrating on Canadian plays, he left. He spent two years on the west coast of Canada, then returned to Toronto, where for a while he taught scene design at the Ontario College of Art.
373:. There he developed a system of phonetic notation that allowed people to sing folk songs in other languages. He formed a seven-member singing group called The Consort (Jocelyn Taylor was a member) that sang songs in forty languages and dialects.
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Day, Moira (2015). "Treading the
Arduous Road to Eleusis, Nationalism, and Feminism in Early Post-World War I Canada: Roy Mitchell's 1920 The Trojan Women". In Bosher, Kathryn; Macintosh, Fiona; McConnell, Justine; Rankine, Patriche (eds.).
246:(in 1916). These productions, directed by Mitchell, "introduced skeptical Toronto audiences to the principles of theatrical modernism," and the Arts and Letters Players "became the foremost group in Toronto's amateur theatre."
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said his "connection with the
Theosophical Society made his name prominent throughout Canada." Theosophy was important in his theatre work, and this was reflected in productions such as
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on the monastic community." Scott
Duschene, who edited a critical edition of the book in 2020, wrote that "while imbued with the spirit of the little theatre movement in Canada,
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Badir, Patricia (Spring 2012). "'This little academe, still and contemplative in living art': Shakespeare, Modernism, and the Arts and
Letters Club of Toronto".
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Mitchell was born in
Michigan in 1884 to Canadian parents. The family returned to Canada in 1886 and moved to Toronto in 1889, where Mitchell attended
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1018:"An Impossible Ambition"?: Roy Mitchell's Creative Idealism and the Spiritual Nexus Between Theatre and Theosophy
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963:"A Golf Club for the Golden Age: English Canadian Theatre Historiography and the Strange Case of Roy Mitchell"
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in Canada and the United States. He was involved in the creation and was the first artistic director of the
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in 1908, and there formed the Arts and
Letters Players, which put on many shows at the club. The first was
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Theosophy and little theatre in Canada and the United States.
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987:"The Impossible Theatre: Roy Mitchell and The Chester Mysteries: Experience, Initiation and Brotherhood"
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said it "constructs a vision of the theatre that foreshadows, often in clairvoyant detail, the ideas of
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1020:(PhD thesis). University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.
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Mitchell wrote books and articles about theatre and Theosophy. Some of his articles appeared in
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his knowledge and experience at the disposal of other producers."
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Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada
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by Shakespeare, with music by Willan and set design by
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284:in 1916 to study and work in theatre, mostly in
521:Through Temple Doors: Studies in Occult Masonry
466:is equally steeped in the world of theosophy."
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1107:"Roy Mitchell: Active Backer of Stage Arts".
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380:, known then as the Banff School of Drama.
366:the theatre Canada was not yet ready for."
515:Theosophic Study and A White Lotus Address
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523:(Toronto: Blavatsky Institute, 1945)
517:(Toronto: Blavatsky Institute, 1945)
502:Creative Theatre: A Critical Edition
486:(Toronto: Blavatsky Institute, 1923)
378:Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
1140:"Roy Mitchell: Prophet in Our Past"
843:Day, Moira; Potts, Marilyn (1987).
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535:(Westwood, NJ: Kindle Press, 1969)
387:. He and Taylor had no children.
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477:Shakespeare for Community Players
421:Shakespeare for Community Players
396:Shakespeare for Community Players
383:Mitchell died on 27 July 1944 in
202:Arts and Letters Club of Toronto
153:who played an important role in
39:held at the Archives of Ontario.
1016:Kivisto, Mikko William (2009).
59:Fort Gratiot Township, Michigan
273:at Hart House and in his book
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1138:Usmiani, Renate (Fall 1987).
961:Duchesne, Scott (Fall 1997).
1233:University of Toronto alumni
423:(1919) has illustrations by
359:Church of St. Mary Magdalene
187:Harbord Collegiate Institute
1238:New York University faculty
1062:McBurney, Margaret (2007).
948:. Oxford University Press.
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1213:Canadian theatre directors
1170:Roy Mitchell fonds (F0368)
533:The Creative Spirit of Art
458:on the open space, and of
165:, and was an influence on
290:Greenwich Village Theatre
214:in 1911; others included
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1180:The Canadian Theosophist
1178:Mitchell's writings for
1113:. 1944-07-28. p. 5.
985:Duchesne, Scott (2006).
415:The Canadian Theosophist
249:Mitchell was an "ardent
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140:Jocelyn Taylor (1926– )
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191:University of Toronto
163:University of Toronto
147:Roy Matthews Mitchell
88:University of Toronto
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410:Theatre Arts Monthly
326:Love's Labour's Lost
151:theatre practitioner
527:Theosophy in Action
484:Theosophy in Action
427:. A review in the
385:Canaan, Connecticut
371:New York University
331:William Shakespeare
263:Theosophy in Action
232:Rabindranath Tagore
212:Maurice Maeterlinck
77:Canaan, Connecticut
1120:Toronto Daily Star
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425:J. E. H. MacDonald
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363:Toronto Daily Star
317:and set design by
297:Hart House Theatre
280:Mitchell moved to
267:Toronto Daily Star
224:The Workhouse Ward
216:The Shadowy Waters
159:Hart House Theatre
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23:Roy Mitchell
1208:1944 deaths
1203:1884 births
1091:(1): 68–71.
456:Peter Brook
440:Mavor Moore
323:June 1920:
251:Theosophist
220:W. B. Yeats
175:Mavor Moore
94:Occupations
1197:Categories
1154:2022-03-11
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899:References
831:Moore 1984
789:Badir 2012
777:Badir 2012
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100:Journalist
51:1884-02-04
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460:Grotowski
351:Cymbeline
339:Cymbeline
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181:Biography
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