George Ryga
Canadian playwright
1932 – 1987

George Ryga, one of Canada's most prolific and powerful writers, was born in 1932 in Deep Creek, Alberta, of poor immigrant parents from the Ukraine.
At the age of 16 one of his teachers encouraged him to enter a creative writing competition run by the Banff School of the Arts. The work he submitted won and he got a scholarship for the school sponsored by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire. Unfortunately, his scholarship was revoked due to an anti-war poem he wrote.
Afterwards, he worked in radio but was also forced to leave this job because he made speeches about the trial of the Rosenbergs. He worked several jobs and meanwhile wrote a lot of poetry and prose. In 1962 his first play Indian was produced on television.
Ryga is a social commentator in most of his plays. His work drifted between clumsy messaging and vivid and thrilling theatricality.
During his career Ryga wrote about 190 plays, two cantatas,......

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