1) What the fuck is going on? I’m floating in that odd place in finishing a draft of a new play where one is at once giddily joyous and bone-crunchingly despondent. In other words, same old same old. 2) How has your creative process changed since you graduated from theatre school in 1986? It’s easier […]
Category: 10 questions
10 questions: Jennifer Norton
Photo by Shawn McPherson. 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 […]
10 questions: Frances Shakov
STAF staff (L-R): Erica Reuter, Jackie McApline, Frances Shakov, Felicia Bana. 1) What the fuck is going on?We ask ourselves this on a daily (actually, hourly) basis. We love our clients and we love the work we do – but it is demanding and everyone wants something right now, damn it. Can’t they bloody well […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
10 questions: David Tompa
David Tompa (L) and Glen McDonald (R). 1) What the fuck is going on? My allergies are starting to get really get bad now, the heat has moved up the chart from “stifling” to “oppressive”, I fell of a bike and ripped up my shoulder and banged up my right hand, and I’m playing a […]
10 questions: Greatest hits – Volume III
David Cote 1) What the fuck is going on?Workwise, constant theatergoing and writing – that’s my job. I edit the theater section of Time Out New York (TONY), assigning reviewers and reporters and trying to review two or three shows a week myself. What I can’t fit into the Lilliputian space our magazine allots for […]
10 questions: Oonagh Duncan
1) What the fuck is going on?Well, on a global scale, I suppose global warming. Much more importantly, my company, Oyster Productions, is about to open its inaugural production; a documentary play called Talk Thirty To Me. It’s an example of verbatim theatre, which means that every word in the play was said in ‘real […]
Theatre is dead; long live theatre
In the third in his series of follow-ups to our recent interview with him, University of North Carolina theatre professor Scott Walters has elaborated on this question: What the fuck is going on? His expanded answer explores Terry Schiavo and the theatre coma – plus notes on what it means to be a communitarian in […]
10 questions: Bridget MacIntosh
1) What the fuck is going on? Somewhere along the way I thought that moving to a new apartment the same weekend as the Fringe load-in was a good idea . . . 2) How has the Fringe of Toronto Theatre Festival changed since you started working with it? Definitely more artists are aware of […]
Red-state theatre
In the second in his series of follow-ups to our recent interview with him (and some of the heated discussion the followed elsewhere), University of North Carolina theatre professor Scott Walters has elaborated on this question: Do you think conservative, right-wing politics are somehow fundamentally at odds with the arts community? In expanding his argument, […]
10 questions: Stephen O’Connell
Bluemouth Inc. L-R Stephen O’Connell, Richard Windeyer, Lucy Simic, Sabrina Reeves. 1) What the fuck is going on? It’s great to be back in Toronto. We are only here for three more days and then it’s back to the grind of the Big Apple – serving up steak and fries to a “bridge and tunnel” […]
The New York City problem?
In what he’s said will be the first in a series of follow-ups to our recent interview with him (and some of the comments that followed), University of North Carolina theatre professor Scott Walters has elaborated on the “centralization of theatre” issue. In this post, he argues that the centralization of American theatre is sapping […]