Lots of great guest posting going on over at Simon Ogden’s The Next Stage theatre blog. (Simon is in Beijing for the Olympics.)
Today, Globe and Mail national theatre critic J. Kelly Nestruck (what does the “J” stand for anyway?) steps up with Hello Vancouver:
“Given the vastness of our country, is there even such a thing as Canadian theatre? Or are there only provincial and city-based theatre scenes: British Columbian theatre, Quebec theatre, Toronto theatre… Canada doesn’t even have an institutional ‘national theatre’ like Britain does. (Though if we did, I’d like to see one modeled after Scotland’s peripatetic one.)
“And yet it does feel like there’s a national conversation about theatre going on, now more than ever, thanks to the ever-expanding swarm of blogs devoted to my favourite art form.”
Check out the full post, here.