Guernica Editions

David Bateman (Editor)

Compulsive Acts explores the films, plays and personality of prolific playwright, novelist, filmmaker and poet Sky Gilbert through the eyes of a handful of the people who have observed his work closely over the past two decades -- as audience members and arts workers. Actors, academics, performance artists, journalists, filmmakers, playwrights, poets and his partner of many years tackle his immense output with a queer eye for the intricacies of a unique and astute aesthetic vision -- a vision that has placed him securely within Canadian Theatre history as an iconic and consistently provocative dramatic force to be reckoned with.

Gilbert masters and re-masters the “dramedy” over and over in his plays, never stooping so low as to suggest that he would allow a stabilized version of Oedipus to wander through one of his works and end up in some contemporary version of Colonus.

Links

• Sky Gilbert's Compulsive Acts
• Sky Gilbert Web