Harry Rintoul
Harry Rintoul (December 9, 1956 - January 14, 2002) was a Canadian playwright and theatre director. He was best known for his 1990 play Brave Hearts,[1] which was noted as one of the first significant gay-themed plays in Canadian theatre history to address gay themes in a rural setting outside of the traditional gay urban meccas of Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal.[2]
Early life
[edit]Born in Canmore, Alberta, Rintoul moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba in childhood. As a young adult he moved to Regina, Saskatchewan for a time, during which he began writing Brave Hearts,[3] but then moved back to Winnipeg and founded Theatre Projects Manitoba. He met the woman he'd marry in Winnipeg, and they moved to rural Manitoba and had a daughter before he died.
Career
[edit]The first production of Brave Hearts was staged by Buddies in Bad Times in Toronto, where it was a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Outstanding New Play, Small Theatre Division in 1991.[4] In 1992 Brave Hearts was included in Making Out, the first significant anthology of gay-themed Canadian plays, alongside works by David Demchuk, Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, Colin Thomas and Ken Garnhum;[5] in 2006, it appeared in the anthology Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays, alongside plays by Greg Kearney, Shawn Postoff, Christian Lloyd, Greg MacArthur, Ken Brand and Michael Achtman.[6]
Rintoul's other plays included Life and Times, Refugees,[7] Montana,[8] Jack of Hearts, Between Then and Now, The Convergence of Luke[9] and Lake Nowhere.
Harry S. Rintoul Memorial Award
[edit]Following his death in 2002, the Manitoba Association of Playwrights established an annual Harry S. Rintoul Memorial Award, presented to the year's best play by a Manitoba writer at the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "A brave play and production". Kingston Whig-Standard, January 23, 1992.
- ^ "Gay play act of courage". Calgary Herald, September 27, 1994.
- ^ "Threshold begins new series". Kingston Whig-Standard, January 21, 1992.
- ^ "Music and sex dominate Doras". Toronto Star, May 15, 1991.
- ^ "Book symbolizes gays' advances". The Globe and Mail, June 4, 1992.
- ^ Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays. Playwrights Canada Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0887548529.
- ^ "Tough play proves potent ticket: Insight and emotion await at Men's Fest". Vancouver Sun, August 13, 1994.
- ^ "Western fringe". Winnipeg Free Press, July 23, 2006.
- ^ "Shields festival opens stage doors". Winnipeg Free Press, May 24, 2007.
- ^ The Harry S. Rintoul Memorial Award, Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival. http://www.winnipegfringe.com/PerformerArea/The-Harry-Rintoul-Award.aspx
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