John Coulter (playwright)

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

Life

He graduated from the 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.^[1] They had two daughters, including actress Clare Coulter.^[2]

His papers are held at McMaster University.^[3]

Works

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.)^[4]
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 librettos

Transit Through Venus, 1942
Deirdre of the Sorrows, 1946

References

^ William H. New, ed. (2002). Encyclopedia of literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-0761-2.
^ Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia: Article on John Coulter
^ McMaster University Archives Archived 2011-07-03 at the Wayback Machine
^ Reingard M. Nischik, ed. (2008). History of literature in Canada: English-Canadian and French-Canadian. Camden House. ISBN 978-1-57113-359-5.

External links

"John Coulter", Literary Encyclopedia
"John Coulter", doollee
John Coulter entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
"John Coulter fonds - Search Research Collections". McMaster University Library. William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections. Retrieved 17 July 2019.

[1] William H. New, ed. (2002). Encyclopedia of literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-0761-2.

[2] Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia: Article on John Coulter

[3] McMaster University Archives Archived 2011-07-03 at the Wayback Machine

[4] Reingard M. Nischik, ed. (2008). History of literature in Canada: English-Canadian and French-Canadian. Camden House. ISBN 978-1-57113-359-5.

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