Photo by Stu Wiber. 1) What the fuck is going on? Small Wooden Shoe has just opened Dedicated to the Revolutions, and I’m thinking quite a lot about that. And there’s a depression and so on. 2) What’s the big idea behind the ongoing Small Wooden Shoe series “Dedicated to the Revolutions”? We’re examining the […]
Category: 10 questions
10 questions: Gordon P. Firemark
1) What the fuck is going on?Everything, nothing, and all points between. The Theatre business in America has been booming . . . Broadway grosses have been hitting all-time highs, and new shows are coming out of Los Angeles, Toronto and numerous other cities. We’ll have to wait and see what happens with the current […]
10 questions: Steven Schipper
1) What the fuck is going on?We’re in deep prep for the 09-10 season. We like to have a penciled version done by Labour Day. We spend the next few months making countless changes toward a final version that comes with a balanced budget that goes to the Board for approval (the budget, not the […]
10 questions: Your Truly Theatre
Ranji David and Nandini Rao. 1) What the fuck is going on?Interactive Theatre by Yours Truly Theatre. Tired after a series of shows in a month. 2) What’s the best thing about the theatre scene in Bangalore, India?Formation of newer groups, newer formats, newer performance spaces, and newer audiences. 3) What kind of work does […]
10 questions: Greatest hits – Volume VII
Mike Daisey 1) What the fuck is going on?The wheels of time grind inexorably forward; our culture intensifies and multiplies, growing more complex as it fragments, while the corporatization of all things is the clear watchword of the age. We say what we say faster and make connections more quickly, but the time to make […]
10 questions: Leonard Jacobs
1) What the fuck is going on?Man, I’ve been hoping you’d ask me that question for just about forever. Doesn’t that make me pathetic? Yeah, that makes me pathetic, but I love your blog. What was the question? Oh, right—well, gearing up for the New York International Fringe Festival, actually. I’m reviewing 22 shows and […]
10 questions: Michelle Ramsay
Photo by Kelly Clipperton. 1) What the fuck is going on?Right now, I am in Australia coming off the Honouring Theatre tour with Native Earth Performing Arts. We were in Rotorua and Manukau, New Zealand as well as Perth, Australia. It’s a rough life. 2) What does it mean to you to win this year’s […]
10 questions: Rae Ellen Bodie
Photos by Keith Barker. 1) What the fuck is going on?The 2008 Fringe, that’s what! That and some bike-riding-sun-soaking-good-times now that the summer is actually here. 2) What has been your biggest creative challenge in preparing to act in GromKat’s production of Bluebeard at this year’s Toronto Fringe Festival?My own resistance. By its nature, Bluebeard […]
10 questions: Shaun McComb
1) What the fuck is going on?“What the fuck is with the Yorkshire dialect?” is what I want to know. It is as hard to pin down . . . I am cramming at the moment trying to get my mouth around this dialect for my first rehearsal of The Secret Garden on Tuesday. I […]
10 questions: Nina Lee Aquino
1) What the fuck is going on?It’s the 5th annual Potluck Festival. The only festival in Canada that’s dedicated to developing works by Asian-Canadian playwrights. 2) How have you developed as an Artistic Director during your time with fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre?I became bossier. 3) Are there any themes that are common to the work […]
10 questions: James Cade
1) What the fuck is going on?Don’t ask me, I’m just an actor. 2) How has UnSpun Theatre’s production of Minotaur developed since it was first performed at the 2006 Toronto Fringe Festival?Well, we had quite a few table sessions discussing the script before we headed into rehearsal. We laid the old script open to […]
10 questions: Michael Rubenfeld
1) What the fuck is going on?First Burma, and now the earthquake in China. Seems like the earth is trying to get rid of us humans. 2) Does your new play, My Fellow Creatures, arrive at any conclusions about “the nature of adult men who love children”?Conclusions? No. But it does ask the audience to […]
10 questions: Greatest hits – Volume VI
Mac RogersPhoto by Saundra Yaklin. 1) What the fuck is going on?We are witnessing the Schiavo-ization of theat – wait, wrong cue-card . . . Sorry, I’m goofing off because the question freaks me out. I don’t know what the fuck is going on. I want there to be one spot I can look at and see the […]
10 questions: Darren O’Donnell
Photo by Lisa Kannakko. 1) What the fuck is going on?Mammalian is going through a rapid transition and expansion. We started working with new producer Natalie De Vito last August and the way the company functions is evolving. Rather than producing discreet shows, where we bring a team together to work on something for a […]
10 questions: Cole J. Alvis
1) What the fuck is going on?I’m sitting in the Equity Showcase office logging some volunteer hours to subsidize rehearsal space here before this joint closes. Oh, and our new website is up. 2) How have you developed as an Artistic Director since starting (plural productions) in 2006?My initial impulse, coming out of theatre school, […]