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Posted: Tuesday March 23, 2010

James Reaney

James Reaney was born in 1926 near Stratford, Ontario. Reaney taught at the University of Manitoba and the University of Western Ontario for a total of forty years. He received his doctorate with Northrop Frye. Talonbooks published his plays Colours in the Dark (1969) and Listen to the Wind (1972). In 1975, The St. Nicholas Hotel: the Donnellys Part II won a Chalmers Award. Reaney received the Order of Canada in 1976. Reaney was married to poet Collen Thibaudeau, and had two children. He passed away in June 2008.

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Listen to the Wind

Keeps reminding us that the way through our world of sickness and breakdown is play.
— Profiles in Canadian Drama

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QUOTES OF NOTE

Colours in the Dark

Both funny and touching…intriguingly original in its conception.
— Quill & Quire

Listen to the Wind
James Reaney
Drama

Colours in the Dark
James Reaney
Drama

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