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Perkyns, Richard, 1932-2008
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Richard John Hardy Perkyns (1932- ) was a professor and drama specialist in the English department at Saint Mary's University (1968-1998). He directed and performed in a number of plays for the Saint Mary's University Drama Society, the Theatre Arts Guild, and Pier One Theatre, and was also a founding member of the Halifax Independent Theatre (1978). Born in England, Perkyns married Dorothy Perkyns. He graduated with a PhD from London University in 1968 and moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, the same year. Richard Perkyns published numerous articles on theatre in scholarly journals including Canadian Drama and Theatre History in Canada . He is the author of The Neptune Story: Twenty-Five Years in the Life of a Leading Canadian Theatre (1989) and editor of two others, Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 (1984) and Introduction to Literature: British, American, Canadian (1981).