Ken Brand
Ken Brand is a Canadian playwright from Winnipeg, Manitoba.[1] One of the significant figures in the emergence of LGBTQ theatre in Canada in the 1990s,[1] he is most noted for his play The Bathhouse Suite,[2] which appears in the Sky Gilbert-edited anthology Perfectly Abnormal: Seven Gay Plays alongside plays by Harry Rintoul, Shawn Postoff, Christian Lloyd, Greg MacArthur, Greg Kearney and Michael Achtman.[3]
His other plays include Benchmarks[1] and Burying Michael.[4]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Sumi, Glenn (March 14, 1998). "Gay theatre scores big with its target audience: Canada's homosexual community is large, rich and self-aware—and playwrights are cashing in on it. Who cares if the critics don't always approve?". The Globe and Mail.
- ↑ Crew, Robert (March 14, 1996). "Love amid the lust in bathhouse". Toronto Star.
- ↑ Gilbert, Sky, ed. (2006). Perfectly abnormal: seven gay plays (1st ed.). Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press. ISBN 978-0-88754-852-9.
- ↑ Taylor, Kate (January 20, 2001). "Comedy well buried in bland play". The Globe and Mail.
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