1) What the fuck is going on?Not too fucking much, you? 2) How have you developed as an Artisitic Director since starting MooseGuts Theatre in 2003?I think my vision is very different than it was. I started the company five years ago, with the dream of producing ‘ground breaking spectacle theatre’ that featured Native performers, […]
Category: 10 questions
10 questions: Alison Croggon
1) What the fuck is going on? I’ve stopped for the year (it’s summer holidays here), so as far as I’m concerned, a wonderful lot of nothing. Except that I’m a bit obsessed with translating Beowulf. 2) What’s the best thing about being a theatre critic for The Australian newspaper? What’s brilliant is that it […]
10 questions remixed: Unifying theories – Part I
David Cote 1) Do you have any unifying theories about the artist-critic relationship?They are both in league against the idiot public and every form of authority – pope, president, CEO. They just don’t know it. Brendan Gall 2) Do you have any unifying theories when it comes to acting?I think good stage-acting is more like […]
10 questions: d’bi young anitafrika
1) What the fuck is going on? life in 3s. I turn 30 in december. I have a 3-year-old son. I have my 3rd book (rivers and other blackness between us) coming out before my birthday. finishing up a trilogy of plays (3 faces of mudgu sankofa – last play is a commission from soulpepper, […]
10 questions: Chris Abraham
1) What the fuck is going on?I have no idea, I’m too busy rehearsing. 2) Why is Crow’s Theatre’s upcoming play called Eternal Hydra?It is the title of a lost manuscript by a lesser known modernist named Gordias Carbunkle. 3) Does the play arrive at any conclusions about the nature of recorded human history?It does […]
10 questions: Allan Teichman
1) What the fuck is going on? Life. 2) How did you make the transition from being a Stage Manager at the Shaw Festival to being the President of the Canadian Actors’ Equity Association (CAEA)? I haven’t. I’m still a Stage Manager at the Shaw Festival. Being President is not a paid position in the […]
10 questions: David Oiye
1) What the fuck is going on?So much is going on that it’s hard to know where to begin. ArtHouse Cabaret just closed and in three days we’ve turned around the space to put up Hysteria, Canada’s largest multi-disciplinary festival of women’s work. Our Queer Youth Program is going gangbusters. And we’re reading Rhubarb submissions. […]
10 questions: Charles Nolte
1) What the fuck is going on? What the fuck is going on? Everything and nothing. The Royal Shakespeare from Stratford is in town giving us The Seagull and King Lear in repertory at the Guthrie. What the fuck does Trevor Nunn think he’s doing, casting Nina with a novice who plays Nina as a […]
10 questions: Adam Seelig
1) What the fuck is going on?Exactly.2) What is “poetic theatre”?Theatre that attempts to find clarity through ambiguity. Not verse theatre. Nor prose theatre or journalistic theatre. It is theatre that treats the text as a score, and treats the gap between actor and audience not as an obstacle to bypass, but as a medium […]
10 questions: Greatest hits – Volume IV
Jennifer Norton 1) What the fuck is going on?Well, as we choke on the ubiquity of war, pollution, crumbling social structures and global malaise I am preparing a solo show. How dandy! Here is the more polite, less misanthropic answer. I am finishing a master of fine arts program at The University of Guelph, then […]
10 questions: Philip Graeme
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
10 questions: Simon Ogden
1) What the fuck is going on?Oh, left work early to ride my bike to the farmers’ market to buy organic heirloom tomatoes and an amusing pinot on the way to the beach to smoke some hydro and debate olympic spending vs. the homeless “problem”. You know, Vancouvery shit. 2) What’s the current state of […]