Spoken Art
Spoken Art is a Canadian dramatic anthology series, which premiered in 1995 on Bravo!. Initially airing one new episode per month, but later becoming more frequent, the series presented Canadian actors performing literary or theatrical works, such as short stories, monologues or short one-act plays.
Episodes
Known episodes of the series included:- Claude Gai performing Michel Tremblay's "La Duchesse de Langeais", about an aging drag queen
- Linda Griffiths performing her own "A Game of Inches"
- Peter Boretski performing Lesléa Newman's "A Letter to Harvey Milk", about an elderly Jewish man recalling his youth friendship with the assassinated Harvey Milk
- James Kidnie performing Brian Fawcett's "The Balance of Nature"
- John Neville performing Richard Teleky's "Some of the Old Good Feelings"
- Ellen-Ray Hennessy performing Glen Sorestad's "One Last Look in the Mirror"
- Gordon Pinsent performing Ernest Buckler's "The Clumsy One"
- Patricia Hamilton performing Gertrude Story's "Swan Song"
- Michael Healey performing his own "Kicked"
- Nicholas Campbell and Geordie Johnson performing Barbara Gowdy's "The Two-Headed Man"
- Don Harron performing Guy Vanderhaeghe's "King Walsh"
- Jayne Eastwood performing Caroline Woodward's "Summer Wages"
- Yanna McIntosh performing Neil Bissoondath's "Dancing"
- Karen Robinson in "Midnight at the Comedy Barn"
- Earl Pastko performing Barry Callaghan's "The Cohen in Cowan"
Awards