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'Nothing Sacred' is a play by Canadian playwright George F. Walker, written as a stage adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's 1862 novel 'Fathers and Sons'."Refracting Russia Through the Present". 'Newsday', October 23, 1992.
The play received its first production at Toronto, Ontario's CentreStage in the 1987-88 season, under the direction of Bill Glassco."Riley finds gold after Chasing Rainbows". 'Toronto Star', January 8, 1988. The original cast included Michael Riley as Arkady, Robert Bockstael as Bazarov, David Fox as Nikolai, Richard Monette as Pavel, Peter Blais as Viktor, Diane D'Aquila as Anna and Beverley Cooper as Fedosya."Walker on the wild side". 'Toronto Star', January 15, 1988.
The play was published in book form by Coach House Press in 1988. It won the Governor General's Award for English-language drama at the 1988 Governor General's Awards,Mark Abley, "Younger generation comes through in Governor General's Awards". 'Montreal Gazette', March 4, 1989. the 1988 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play,Ray Conlogue, "Walker's Nothing Sacred collects four Dora awards". 'The Globe and Mail', June 15, 1988. and the 1989 Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award."Chalmers award winners announced". 'The Globe and Mail', January 31, 1989. The production also won Dora Mavor Moore Awards for Outstanding Production (Bill Glassco), Outstanding Costume Design (Mary Kerr) and Outstanding Set Design (Kerr). It had garnered nine Dora nominations overall, including acting nods for Riley, D'Aquila and Blais."CentreStage play tops Dora Award nominees". 'Toronto Star', May 11, 1988. Page C1.
It was also one of Walker's most widely produced plays in the United States,[http://articles.latimes.com/1988-10-16/entertainment/ca-6588_1_broadway-play-publishing "Regional Theater Finds a Winner : 'Nothing Sacred' Is the Play of the Year Although It's Never Received the Broadway Stamp of Approval"]. 'Los Angeles Times', October 16, 1988. with productions in Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. in the 1988-89 season alone. The Los Angeles production, at the Mark Taper Forum, included Tom Hulce in its cast; a 1992 production at the Atlantic Theater Company in New York City included Larry Bryggman.
A revival of the play was staged at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre in 1994, with its cast including Eric Peterson, Sonja Smits, Michael Hogan, Michael McManus, Peter Blais and Patrick Gallagher."At the Winter Garden, another George Walker smash". 'The Globe and Mail', November 15, 1994. This production was later filmed as a television movie, which aired on CBC Television in 1995 with virtually the same cast.Greg Quill, "CBC fails in its attempt to bring stage drama to TV". 'Toronto Star', December 29, 1995.
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