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Aiming for balance: Toronto Workshop Productions artistic director Robert Rooney says unless a script has some social responsibility, there doesn't seem much point to it
Aiming for balance: Toronto Workshop Productions artistic director Robert Rooney says unless a script has some social responsibility, there doesn't seem much point to it

Aiming for balance: Toronto Workshop Productions artistic director Robert Rooney says unless a script has some social responsibility, there doesn't seem much point to it

Date3/27/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Aiming for balance: Toronto Workshop Productions artistic director Robert Rooney says unless a script has some social responsibility, there doesn't seem much point to it.
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    ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
    CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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    Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
    Object NumberTSPA_0077295F
    Preparing the script for their production of Mark Twain's Letters From the Earth, George Luscombe (left) and writer Jack Winter are keeping busy at Toronto Workshop Productions' theatre
    Preparing the script for their production of Mark Twain's Letters From the Earth, George Luscombe (left) and writer Jack Winter are keeping busy at Toronto Workshop Productions' theatre
    Luscombe, George, 1926-1999
    4/19/1973
    June Faulkner General Manager, George Luscombe, artistic director Toronto Workshop Productions
    June Faulkner General Manager, George Luscombe, artistic director Toronto Workshop Productions
    Luscombe, George, 1926-1999
    8/22/1977
    Robin Phillips, The director of the Stratford Festival is probably the best known contender for the job of artistic director of Toronto Arts Productions
    Robin Phillips, The director of the Stratford Festival is probably the best known contender for the job of artistic director of Toronto Arts Productions
    Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
    2/9/1977
    Co-star with Philip Akin in Toronto Workshop Productions' winning production of South African Athol Fugard's The Island, Henry Gomez gives the play it(...)
    Co-star with Philip Akin in Toronto Workshop Productions' winning production of South African Athol Fugard's The Island, Henry Gomez gives the play it(...)
    Bull, Ron
    3/7/1978
    Provocateur Athol Fugard is in town for production of his play The Island at Toronto Workshop Productions
    Provocateur Athol Fugard is in town for production of his play The Island at Toronto Workshop Productions
    Fugard, Athol, 1932-
    2/27/1978
    Shaw Festival rolls into town. The Shaw Festival's first Toronto season opens Oct. 29 at Toronto Workshop Productions, 12 Alexander St., with the Nort(...)
    Shaw Festival rolls into town. The Shaw Festival's first Toronto season opens Oct. 29 at Toronto Workshop Productions, 12 Alexander St., with the Nort(...)
    Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
    10/21/1986
    Len Peterson at work on the set of his new play, Women in the Attic, which opens tonight at Toronto Workshop Productions. Behind him are the show's two stars, Sylvia Lennick (right) and Peggy Graham
    Len Peterson at work on the set of his new play, Women in the Attic, which opens tonight at Toronto Workshop Productions. Behind him are the show's two stars, Sylvia Lennick (right) and Peggy Graham
    Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
    11/19/1975
    Bishop Meets Cast of Gentlemen Be Seated, during rehearsal of play soon to be staged by Toronto Workshop Productions
    Bishop Meets Cast of Gentlemen Be Seated, during rehearsal of play soon to be staged by Toronto Workshop Productions
    James, Norman
    1/1/1969
    George Luscombe rehearses members of Toronto Workshop Productions before they set off for a nine-week tour that will take them to theatres in England, Wales, and Netherlands and Belgium
    George Luscombe rehearses members of Toronto Workshop Productions before they set off for a nine-week tour that will take them to theatres in England, Wales, and Netherlands and Belgium
    Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
    4/28/1976
    Only female actor in the cast of Ten Lost Years, play about the Depression that returns to Toronto Workshop Productions on Thursday, Diane Douglass scored 14 out of 15 on our quiz
    Only female actor in the cast of Ten Lost Years, play about the Depression that returns to Toronto Workshop Productions on Thursday, Diane Douglass scored 14 out of 15 on our quiz
    Beaty, Keith
    3/24/1981
    Bikers hit the boards: Frank Moore makes macho menacing gestures toward Lynne Deragon in The Crackwalker, the sociological drama which opened last night at Toronto Workshop Productions
    Bikers hit the boards: Frank Moore makes macho menacing gestures toward Lynne Deragon in The Crackwalker, the sociological drama which opened last night at Toronto Workshop Productions
    Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
    4/2/1982
    George Luscombe: He founded Toronto Workshop Productions in a basement in 1959.
    George Luscombe: He founded Toronto Workshop Productions in a basement in 1959.
    Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
    5/6/1985