{{Short description|Canadian playwright (1941–2000)}} {{Infobox writer | name = Carol Bolt | birth_name = | image = | birth_date = {{birth date|1941|8|25}} | birth_place = Winnipeg, Manitoba | death_date = {{death date and age|2000|11|28|1941|8|25}} | death_place = Toronto, Ontario | occupation = playwright | period = 1970s–1990s | nationality = Canadian | notableworks = ''One Night Stand'', ''Buffalo Jump'' | spouse = | website = }} '''Carol Bolt''' (August 25, 1941 – November 28, 2000)<ref>[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/carol-bolt "Carol Bolt"]. ''The Canadian Encyclopedia''.</ref> was a Canadian playwright. She was a founding member and, for several years, president of the Playwrights Union of Canada.

==Career== Bolt's play ''Buffalo Jump'', an examination of Canada during the depression era of the 1930s, was performed at Theatre Passe Muraille in 1972.<ref name="Zimmerman1994">{{cite book|author=Cynthia Zimmerman|title=Playwriting Women: Female Voices in English Canada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hhDhp4TEBJoC&pg=PA29|date=September 1994|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-0-88924-258-6|page=29}}</ref>

Bolt's best known play, the thriller ''One Night Stand'', was first performed in 1977,<ref>[https://www.thewhig.com/2016/02/25/a-one-night-stand-to-forget "A "One Night Stand" to forget"]. by Peter Hendra, ''Kingston Whig-Standard'', February 25, 2016</ref> and was turned into a made-for-television film by Allan King in 1978; the film won several awards,<ref>[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/allan-kings-documentaries-spoke-to-the-human-condition/article1198999/ "Allan King's documentaries spoke to the human condition"]. ''The Globe and Mail'', Sandra Martin, June 15, 2009</ref> and received mixed reviews. <ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1982/04/29/movies/film-one-night-stand-romance-cum-thriller.html "FILM: 'ONE NIGHT STAND,' ROMANCE-CUM-THRILLER"]. ''New York Times'', Apr 29, 1982. Janet Maslin</ref><ref name="Loiselle2003">{{cite book|author=André Loiselle|title=Stage-Bound: Feature Film Adaptations of Canadian and QuŽbŽcois Drama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2TmI3QnCuC0C&pg=PA142|date=16 October 2003|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-7146-4|page=142}}</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/42371823/ "Thriller that fails to thrill not totally beyond redemption"]. ''The Ottawa Journal'', Ottawa, Canada. February 21, 1980, Page 32</ref> Her play ''Red Emma'', told the story of radical anarchist Emma Goldman. Her last play was ''Famous'', produced on stage in 1997, based on the real-life story of criminals Paul Bernardo and Karla Holmolka.<ref>[https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/tric/article/view/7019/8078 "VIOLENT WOMEN: THE BERNARDO/HOMOLKA CASE IN FAMOUS BY CAROL BOLT AND PAUL'S CASE BY LYNN CROSBIE"]. Shelley Scott. ''Theatre Research in Canada'', Volume 22 Number 1 / Spring 2001</ref>

For television, Bolt's writing credits include one of the seven hour long productions of ''Jack London's Tales of the Klondike'' (''In A Far Country'': starring Scott Hylands and Robert Carradine); two episodes of the animated children's series ''The Raccoons'', and a single episode of ''Fraggle Rock''.

Bolt died of complications due to liver cancer on November 28, 2000, in Toronto, Ontario.<ref>[https://theeyeopener.com/2001/01/playwright-befriended-writers-and-students/ "Playwright befriended writers and students"]. ''The Eye Opener'', January 17, 2001. By Kevin Ritchie</ref> Following her death, the Canadian Authors Association renamed its CAA Award for Drama to the Carol Bolt Award in her memory; the award is now administered by the Playwrights Guild of Canada.

==Works== ;Plays * ''Buffalo Jump'' (1972) * ''My Best Friend Is Twelve Feet High'' (1972) * ''Cyclone Jack'' (1972) * ''Gabe'' (1973) * ''Pauline'' (1973) * ''Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists'' (1974) * ''Shelter'' (1975) * ''Maurice'' (1975) * ''Finding Bumble'' (1975) * ''One Night Stand'' (1977) * ''Desperados'' (1977) * ''Escape Entertainment'' (1981) * ''Love or Money'' (1981) * ''Famous'' (1997)

;Books * ''Drama in the Classroom'' (1986)

== Archives == There is a Carol Bolt fond at Library and Archives Canada.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Carol Bolt finding aid at Library and Archives Canada|url=https://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000162.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331054327/http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000162.pdf|archive-date=2010-03-31|access-date=July 13, 2020|website=}}</ref> The archival reference number is R4602, former archival reference number MG31-D89.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Carol Bolt fond description at Library and Archives Canada|url=https://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&rec_nbr=99716&lang=eng&rec_nbr_list=99716,103495,192814,106896,107129|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713174156/https://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&rec_nbr=99716&lang=eng&rec_nbr_list=99716,103495,192814,106896,107129 |archive-date=2020-07-13 |access-date=July 13, 2020|website=}}</ref> The fond covers the date range 1961 to 2000. It consists of 12.82 meters of textual records, 100 photographs and other media.

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==External links== *[https://www.canadiantheatre.com/dict.pl?term=Carol%20Bolt Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia Biography] *[http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=99716&lang=eng Carol Bolt fonds (R4602)] at Library and Archives Canada

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