news | Wednesday April 28, 2010

Joan MacLeod Charms at Kogawa House

Joan MacLeod and Nancy Lee at Joy Kogowa House

Nancy Lee and Joan MacLeod gave an intimate gathering a heady taste of salon life on April 19 as part of the Writing for Social Change series at the Historic Joy Kogawa House. Nancy and Joan conversed about Joan’s start as a dramaturge and the key role that the Banff workshops have played her career. The development of Joan’s plays was explored and then conversation opened up to include those gathered in the small space as the process of writing for the stage was explored.

Joan then gave a wonderful reading from her work showing why she was able to appear in her own work early in her career despite her misgivings about herself as an actress. The evening came to end with the participants departing effused with a warm glow. The success of the venue and the evening will help Kogawa House build its writer-in-residence program.