Shirley Barrie

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Shirley Barrie
Born
Shirley Grace Barrie

(1945-09-30)September 30, 1945
Tillsonburg, Ontario
DiedApril 15, 2018(2018-04-15) (aged 72)
Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto
Website
www.shirleybarrie.ca

Shirley Barrie (1945–2018) was a Canadian writer. She was the co-founder of the Wakefield Tricycle Company and Tricycle Theatre. Her plays include Straight Stitching, Carrying the Calf, and Tripping Through Time.

Early life and education

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Barrie was born on September 30 in 1945 in Tillsonburg, Ontario.[1][2] She was a member of the University Alumnae Dramatic Club at the University of Toronto.[3] Barrie attended Western University in London, Ontario and Carleton University in Ottawa.[1] While at Carleton, Barrie co-founded a college theatre group called Sock 'n' Buskin with Ken Chubb, who she would later marry.[4]

Career

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In 1972, Barrie co-founded the Wakefield Tricycle Company in London, England with husband Ken Chubb.[2][4] They named the company in reference to medieval mystery plays and a pub in King's Cross. In 1980, the two set up the Tricycle Theatre, dropping Wakefield from the name, at Kilburn High Road.[5][6] Until 1984, Barrie was an associate director of Tricycle Theatre.[7]

After returning to Toronto, Barrie and Lib Spry founded Straight Stitching Productions in 1989.[2] Straight Stitching Productions produced Barrie's play Straight Stitching, about immigrant women working in the garment industry. The show featured songs by Arlene Mantle.[8] Straight Stitching went on to become a runner-up for the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award.[9] Straight Stitching Productions later produced Carrying the Calf, a play for children addressing violence against women from the perspective of young women attending a self-defense class.[2] Barrie was inspired to write the play after reading a Globe and Mail article that claimed that, "81% of Canadian female university students admit to having experienced psychological, sexual or physical abuse on a date".[10] Carrying the Calf won a Dora Mavor Moore Award for outstanding play for young audiences in 1992.[11]

Working with the Workman Theatre Project, a theatre company that integrates people with mental illness, Barrie created the play Tripping Through Time in 1993. In the show, audiences are immersed in a mental asylum and given diagnoses at random. The play dramatizes experiences at the Queen Street Mental Health Centre from 1850 to the present.[12]

Awards and nominations

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Year Award Category Work Result Ref.
1990 Floyd S. Chalmers Award n/a Straight Stitching Nominated [9]
1992 Dora Mavor Moore Awards Outstanding play for young audiences (small theatre) Carrying the Calf Won [11]
2015 NOW Magazine’s People's Choice Awards Best Toronto Playwright n/a Nominated [7]
2015 Tom Hendry Awards PGC Lifetime Award n/a Won [13]

Works

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Plays:

  • The Adventures of Super Granny and the Kid[2]
  • Beautiful Lady, Tell Me...
  • Brigid Bonfast: Space Scientist
  • Choices
  • The Girl in the Flower Basket
  • In the Midst of Death
  • Topsy Turvy[2]
  • Straight Stitching[9]
  • Shusha And The Story Snatcher[14]
  • Riders Of The Sea[14]
  • Jack Sheppard's Back[14]
  • Carrying the Calf[15][10]
  • What if...?[2]
  • Two Tonic[16]
  • The Pear is Ripe[17]
  • Revelation[18]
  • Reflections
  • Riders of the Sea
  • Sonjo & the Thundergod
  • Hansel and Gretel[2]
  • Beautiful Lady, Tell Me...[2]
  • Tripping Through Time[12]
  • Measure Of The World[19]
  • Queen Marie[20]
  • I Am Marguerite[21]
  • Marguerite de Roberval

As editor:

  • Prepare to Embark: Six Theatrical Voyages for Young Adults[22]

Personal life

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Barrie was married to Ken Chubb. The two returned from London to live in Canada in 1985.[23] They had two children. Barrie died at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto on April 15, 2018.[1]

References

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