Voaden's Critical Writing

 

School and Community DramaThe School 15,  No.10,  June 1927 pp. 962 - 64

A National Drama LeagueCanadian Forum 9 (Dec 1928) pp. 105 - 06

What Is Wrong With the Canadian Theatre?: A Survey of Our Little Theatre Movement in Relation to the New European Art of the Theatre” Toronto Globe June 22, 1929, p. 22

Government-Owned Theatres?: Proposed Chain of National Theatres Discussed by H. A. Voaden — Three-Counter-Proposals, Suggesting More Practical Ways of Dealing With Present Situation” Toronto Globe November 30, 1929, p. 12

PrefaceSix Canadian Plays Toronto: Copp Clark 1930 pp. v - ix

IntroductionSix Canadian Plays Toronto: Copp Clark 1930 pp. xv - xxiv

Producing Methods Defined: Realism and Its Modern Successors Explained and Contra-Distinguished — ‘Symphonic Expressionism’ as the Art of the Future” Toronto Globe April 16, 1932, p. 15

Canadian Plays and Experimental Stagecraft” Toronto Globe April 23, 1932, p. 18

Drama Festival Thoughts: A Canadian Director Urges the Importance of Recognizing Canadian Point of View, in the Adjudications — Competitors Should Not Be Restricted to ‘Realistic’ Methods Exclusively” Toronto Globe November 26, 1932

Author Describes Birth of His Idea: Earth Song to Be Presented Here This Evening” Sarnia Observer December 16, 1932

Creed for a New Theatre: ‘Symphonic Expressionism,’ a Composite Blending of All Theatral Arts, Explained in Detail as a Possible Stage Method for the Future” Toronto Globe December 17, 1932 <

New Methods in Teaching PoetryThe School  21, No.4, Dec 1932 pp. 330 - 36

‘The Emperor Jones’: Herman Voaden Shows How New York's Latest Grand Opera Sensation Needs Modern Producing Methods for Proper Stage Presentation” Toronto Globe February 4, 1933. p. 5

Toward Theatral Dance: Impressions of Modern Dance Tendencies in Four European Countries, as Recorded for The Globe by Herman Voaden” Toronto Globe June 17, 1933, p. 20

Chromatographic ArtSaturday Night  March 31, 1934

An Experiment in Teaching PoetryEnglish Journal  23 (April 1934) pp. 309 - 13

The Symphonic Theatre (Program note for Hill-Land. The Play Workshop, Central High School of Commerce, December 13 and 14, 1934.)
[Reprinted as “Toward a New Theatre,” Toronto Globe, December 8, 1934, p. 19]

Murder Pattern” Toronto Globe January 18, 1936, p. 15

Tchekov in the BronxNew Frontier Vol. 1, No. 1, April 1936. pp. 31-32

Murder in the Cathedral: Explanatory Comment on Unusually Important Dramatic Performance in Massey Hall Next Friday and Saturday” Toronto Globe October 24, 1936, p. 5

Theatre and LifeCanadian Forum Vol. 16, No. 191, December 1936. p. 34

Composite Theatral Art” Toronto Globe and Mail February 19, 1938, p. 25

Theatre Record, 1945Canadian Forum 25, No. 298, 1945 pp. 184 - 87
(also in: Stage Door 4, No. 3, Jan 1946)

The Theatre in Canada: A National TheatreTheatre Arts 30, No. 7 July 1946
pp. 389 - 91

The Arts and Recreation” [Toronto: Department of Education] Community Courier No. 5, January 1948. p. 14-17

The Poor Journey to their City” typed outline for a play, circa 1970

(Untitled Memoir and chronology) in Stage Voices ed. Geraldine Anthony Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1978 pp. 33-53

ForumTheatre History in Canada Vol. 2, No. 2, Fall 1981, pp. 156-58.

Lowrie Warrener: A Personal Record by Herman Voaden a rare unpublished July 1989 article by Herman Voaden on his early set designer Lowrie Warrener, a protegé of the Group of Seven.