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This paper considers the state of theater in Canada and Winnipeg prior to the creation of the Manitoba Theater Center in 1958, looking at the goals of the Massey Commission in promoting the development of a Canadian culture. It also looks at the intentions of Theater 77 and the Winnipeg Little Theater in their merger to become the Manitoba Theater Center. The main body of the analysis is concerned with the mandate of the Manitoba Theater Center. Finally, consideration is also given to an additional fourth goal introduced later in the Center's history that was concerned with encouraging the production of Canadian plays.
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Introduction
Setting the Scene: The State of Theatre in Canada and Winnipeg and the Establishment of the Manitoba Theatre Centre
Goal A
Goal B
Goal C
Goal D
The Legacy and Prospects for the Centre as it Entered the 1980s

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"Canadian theater, in the 1950s, consisted mostly of amateur societies, with professional theater only really finding a niche in Toronto. The Massey Commission Report of 1951 was concerned with the state of Canadian culture and its tendency to import art from other cultural centers, such as New York and London. The Massey Commission's Report outlined steps to create a government body that would grant funds to art programmes to promote a national culture. Such a concern had been similarly expressed by other major figures in Canadian theater, some of whom had suggested that if the state of the theater were to improve, it would require a national theater that would tour the country with several permanent provincial theater buildings to house professional productions (Massey 55). "

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