We’ve just learned of a new provincial government website for Ontario-based artists: “[The Ontario government has] created this website to provide information about a range of programs and services specific to the needs of artists in all disciplines. “This site provides links to important information on how you can get grants. It can help you […]
Month: July 2007
10 questions: Kate Cayley
1) What the fuck is going on?Ask me in ten years. I will have it all figured out by then. 2) What is it about the story of the Diggers that inspires you to tell their story in public parks?The way that the content of their story (a struggle for the right to own and […]
A piece of NY-centric bigotry?
This is why we love Scott Walters and his awesome Theatre Ideas blog. In his latest post, he calls bullshit on our previous post and the show it “apparently recommends”, Iowa 08. Click here for more great and interesting discussion led by one of America’s great theatre bloggers.
If you happen to be in NYC . . .
“Produces the most pork. Predicts the presidential nominees.” IOWA 08 “Once every four years, Americans turn to Iowa – our thirtieth most populous state and the birthplace of John Wayne – for the earliest indication of who the nation’s presidential candidates will be. But who are these Iowans, who export pigs and tractors and influence […]
A people without narrative
“The narratives of the world are numberless. Narrative is first and foremost a prodigious variety of genres, themselves distributed amongst different substances – as though any material were fit to receive man’s stories. Able to be carried by articulated language, spoken or written, fixed or moving images, gestures, and the ordered mixture of all these […]
10 questions: Matthew Romantini
1) What the fuck is going on?Well, I just returned from a week in Prague, followed by 24 hours in London. I went to Prague to attend the Quadrennial, which was totally fascinating, and I kept randomly running into people I knew. None of the picutres of any of the exhibits turned out, unfortunately. Good […]
What should we talk about now?
Any suggestions?
10 questions: Simon Rice
1) What the fuck is going on?Day Camps and Drunks in Moss Park, sunburns, futile attempts at avoiding temptation, sweat, potato chips, theories of vast conspiracies, too much coffee. 2) Why are you adapting Albert Camus’ classic existential novel, The Stranger, for the stage?Mostly, because I feel it offers a rich springboard for an ensemble […]
Dyad at the Fringe
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Notice: Butoh classes in Toronto
Photo by Yukiko Onley. The Thistle Project’s Matthew Romantini is hosting butoh classes starting this Thursday, July 12: “Butoh is a serene and brutal post-WWII aesthetic originating in Japan that redefines time and space by rejecting premeditated outward forms and tapping into imagery drawn from the subconscious. For those of you who saw Gorey Story, […]
Honest Ed: friend to Toronto theatre
Ed Mirvish: 1914-2007. Read the Globe and Mail’s story here. (Photo from The Globe and Mail.)
Dual of Ages at the Fringe
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Distruthed at the Fringe
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Moat & Castle at the Fringe
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10 questions: Itai Erdal
1) What the fuck is going on?Life is pretty good. Vancouver doesn’t get crazy hot like Toronto so summer is really nice. Everybody’s out on the streets and on the beaches, everybody’s taking their clothes off, every day there’s a new festival starting. BC is the place to be in the summertime. 2) What does […]