‘Silicone Diaries’ on the syllabus at York U

The upcoming production of The Silicone Diaries at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre is going to be a required experience, a course text, for York University students in two third year courses. They are:

1.) AP/EN 3225 6.00 Canadian Women’s Theatre in English: A Survey of Canadian
Theatre/ Drama by Women from the 19th Century to the Present Fall/Winter

2.) AP/EN 3080 6.00 Theatre in Review Fall/Winter

Both classes are taught by Kym Bird.
From www.yorku.ca:

Bird, who teaches courses in English, Theatre and Women’s Studies, is the recipient of the Parents’ Association University-Wide Teaching Award, the Graduate Studies Dissertation Prize, Division of Humanities, “Excellence in Teaching” Award, all awarded in 1997. That same year, her dissertation was nominated for the Canada-wide dissertation prize and the Governor General’s Gold medal. The Association of Canadian Theatre Research presented the 2004 Ann Saddlemyer Award to Professor Bird for her book, Redressing the Past: The Politics of Early, English-Canadian Women’s Drama, 1880-1920, published in 2004 by McGill-Queen’s University Press.