Michael Cook

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Michael Cook
Born	13 February 1933(1933-02-13) Fulham, London, England
Died	1 July 1994 (aged 61) St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Occupation	Theatre reviewer and playwright
Writing period	1971 - 1991

Michael Cook (13 February 1933 – 1 July 1994) was a playwright.

Born in Fulham, London, England, Cook settled in Newfoundland, Canada, in 1965 after serving several years in the British Army, mostly in Asia.

Most of Cook's work, including his best-known plays, Jacob's Wake and The Head, Guts and Soundbone Dance, is set in Newfoundland, which provides a sometimes realistic and sometimes richly symbolic backdrop for his poetic rendering of lives in continual conflict with the natural elements.

He fathered twelve children over the course of his life (eight in England before moving to Canada, two children with his second wife, Janis, and two more with his third, Madonna).

He also retained a residence in Stratford, Ontario. He became ill on a trip to his summer home on Random Island, and died in St Johns.

[edit] Plays

• Tiln, 1971.
• Colour The Flesh the Colour of Dust, 1972.
• The Head, Guts and Sound Bone Dance, 1973.
• Jacob's Wake, 1974.
• Quiller, 1975.
• Therese's Creed, 1976.
• The Fisherman's Revenge, 1976. (children's play)
• On The Rim of the Curve, 1977.
• The Gayden Chronicles, 1980.

[edit] Works about Michael Cook

• Craig Walker, "Michael Cook: Elegy, Allegory and Eschatology," The Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.

[edit] External links

• Biography at Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage

Persondata
NAME	Cook, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Theatre reviewer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH	1933-2-13
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fulham, London, England
DATE OF DEATH	1994-7-1
PLACE OF DEATH	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador