Photo by Tony Hoffmann. 1) What the fuck is going on?Words, words, words . . . and more words. The next evolution of a rehearsal process that has been exhausting, exhilarating, fraught with discovery and failure. And now, as the ensemble bristles with the energy of the run, I can’t help thinking how wonderfully dangerous […]
Month: September 2007
Now playing: The Prince of Hamlet
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Marcel Marceau: 1923-2007
Theatre education series
U.S. theatre professors Scott Walters and Tom Loughlin recently put their heads together to produce a great five-part blog post series on the state of theatre education in America. One of the arguments that emerges from these posts is the idea that theatre education has lost the ability to critically evaluate its own process – […]
10 questions: Tara Beagan
Photo by Cameron Falkenhagen. 1) What the fuck is going on?Oh, it’s just that sometimes we fail to see our interconnectedness and that causes us to treat one another badly. Don’t worry – we’ll get better at it. 2) Does Crate Productions’ new site-specific play, The Fort at York, arrive at any conclusions about the […]
The Fort at York
Opens in Toronto this Thursday, September 20.Click here for more info and here to buy tickets.
A chainsaw killer’s message of compassion
OK. This is not strictly theatre-related, but NYC-based playwright James Comtois is doing a wonderful series of short essays on seminal horror films at his Jamespeak blog. So far, he’s covered John Carpenter’s 1979 slasher classic Halloween, George Romero’s 1978 zombie touchstone Dawn of the Dead, and Tobe Hooper’s 1974 buzz-kill The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. […]
10 questions: Joshua James
1) What the fuck is going on?I’ve been busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. It’s been a good summer. On the theatre front: I had a couple plays produced, Ambivalent n Miami and A Gay Thing in Indiana that got some nice reviews. Right now I’m co-creating a show with Bad Girl […]
What’s the difference between marketing and PR?
For a great take on the answer from someone who definitely knows her theatre stuff, check out Simon Ogden’s interview with Vancouver-based Public Relations specialist Ellie O’day.
Political theatre
1. 2. 3. 4. . . . because bananas ain’t got no bones.
10 questions: Laura Nordin
1) What the fuck is going on?Risk. At least that’s what I hope is going on right now. It’s exciting. 2) How do you feel about your time at the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training in Boston?Awesome. I wouldn’t change a thing. I am different because of my training there. My body, voice, confidence, knowledge […]
Re-membering the whole
“At its origin, theatre was an act of healing, of healing in the city. According to the action of fundamental, entropic forces, no city can avoid a fundamental process of fragmentation. But when the population assembles together, and a momentary healing reunites the larger body, in which each member, re-membered finds its place . . […]
Holy TAPA!
Back in early August (is the summer really over?) the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts (TAPA) launched a new blog. Here’s the blurb from its About page: “Welcome to the TAPA Blog, your online source of industry information . . . The TAPA Blog has been created as the next generation of the TAPA […]