John Coulter (playwright)

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Name John Coulter Ex-spouse Olive Clare Primrose Children Clare Coulter		Role Playwright
Died December 1, 1980, Toronto, Canada Books Sydenham and Forest Hill Past, Adventures on the Western, Norwood Past, The Trial of Louis Riel, Riel
Education University of Manchester

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John Coulter (12 February 1888, Belfast – 1 December 1980, Toronto) was an Irish Canadian playwright and broadcaster.

Life

He graduated from University of Manchester. He taught school in Belfast and Dublin until 1919. He moved to London in 1920, where he wrote for BBC radio. In 1924 he became editor of The Ulster Review, and in 1927, managing editor of The New Adelphi.

He moved to Toronto in 1936, where he wrote for CBC radio, and he married Olive Clare Primrose, a poet and short story writer. They had two daughters.

His papers are held at McMaster University.

Autobiography

In My Day: Memoirs, Willowdale, ON: Hounslow Press, 1980

Novels

Turf Smoke, Ryerson Press, 1945

Biography

Churchill, Ryerson Press, 1944

Plays

Conochar, Broadcast BBC, 1934

The Folks In Brickfield Street, Abbey Theatre, Dublin 1937

The House In The Quiet Glen, Margaret Eaton Hall, Toronto, 1937 (Awarded Best Canadian Play at the Dominion Drama Festival, 1938.)

Holy Manhattan, Arts and Letters Club, Toronto, 1940

Pigs, Hart House Theatre, 1940

Christmas Comes But Once A Year, Arts and Letters Club, Toronto 1942

Transit Through Fire, University of Toronto at Convocation Hall, 1942

Mr Oblomoff, 1946

The Drums Are Out, Abbey Theatre, Dublin 1948

Riel, New Play Society, Toronto, 1950

Sleep My Pretty One, rehearsed reading St James Theatre, London, 1951

Dierdre, Macmillan Theatre, Toronto, 1965

The Crime Of Louis Riel, Dominion Drama Festival, London, Ontario 1966

The Trial Of Louis Riel, Saskatchewan House, Regina, 1967

Riel: a play: in two parts, Cromlech Press, 1972

A Capful Of Pennies, Central Library Theatre, Toronto 1967

The drums are out: a play in three acts, De Paul University, 1971

While I Live, 1971

Francois Bigot: A Rediscovery in Dramatic Form of the Fall of Quebec, Hounslow Press, Toronto, 1978

Living Together, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto 1980

Mr Kean Of Drury Lane, 1980

Opera librettas

Transit Through Venus, 1942

Deirdre of the Sorrows, 1946

References

John Coulter (playwright) Wikipedia

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