Here’s a quick link to an interesting post at Mr. Excitement News on script submission guidelines for smaller theatre companies. Check it out here. Further questions:Do most small theatre companies have firm script submission guidelines? What works? What doesn’t? Any tips? UPDATE:More further questions:What works for playwrights? How do you prefer to send your scripts […]
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George Hunka’s 95 sentences about theatre
George Hunka over at Superfluities started this great project back in March ’07 . . . and finished it a couple of days ago. A sampling: 20. In taking into the theatre the languages of mass culture, of advertising and marketing, we prove we have fallen in love with our screens. 30. The language of […]
ontarioartist.ca
We’ve just learned of a new provincial government website for Ontario-based artists: “[The Ontario government has] created this website to provide information about a range of programs and services specific to the needs of artists in all disciplines. “This site provides links to important information on how you can get grants. It can help you […]
If you happen to be in NYC . . .
“Produces the most pork. Predicts the presidential nominees.” IOWA 08 “Once every four years, Americans turn to Iowa – our thirtieth most populous state and the birthplace of John Wayne – for the earliest indication of who the nation’s presidential candidates will be. But who are these Iowans, who export pigs and tractors and influence […]
A people without narrative
“The narratives of the world are numberless. Narrative is first and foremost a prodigious variety of genres, themselves distributed amongst different substances – as though any material were fit to receive man’s stories. Able to be carried by articulated language, spoken or written, fixed or moving images, gestures, and the ordered mixture of all these […]
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Notice: Butoh classes in Toronto
Photo by Yukiko Onley. The Thistle Project’s Matthew Romantini is hosting butoh classes starting this Thursday, July 12: “Butoh is a serene and brutal post-WWII aesthetic originating in Japan that redefines time and space by rejecting premeditated outward forms and tapping into imagery drawn from the subconscious. For those of you who saw Gorey Story, […]
Honest Ed: friend to Toronto theatre
Ed Mirvish: 1914-2007. Read the Globe and Mail’s story here. (Photo from The Globe and Mail.)
Dora Award winners
Awesome to be nominated, awesome to win . . . here are the winners in the Independent theatre category for the 2007 Dora Awards: New Play or New MusicalBruce Alcock, Kate Alton, Rafael Barreto Rivera, Nichol, Paul Dutton, Steve MacCaffrey and Ross Manson – The Four Horsemen Project ProductionThe Four Horsemen Project – Volcano in […]
Cooking Fire Theatre Festival is in full effect
The Cooking Fire Theatre Festival is a week-long performance extravaganza celebrating theatre, food and public space in Toronto’s Dufferin Grove Park. Using the park’s celebrated community bake ovens, the festival combines each evening’s performance with an affordable organic meal made with fresh, local, organic ingredients. This year’s festivals hosts companies from Toronto, Halifax, Chicago and […]
A defense of the elitist theatre critic
“Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas: I cannot serve the cause of friendliness when I am trying to serve the cause of theatre by being as passionate, subjective and truthfull as I can be. “Criticism is, by definition, one of the most elitist activities extant. It is highly presumptuous to sit in judgment – to […]
On theatre and politics
If one were so inclined, that person might command their mouse to click upon this link to Matthew Freeman’s theatre blog and marvel at the mountainous hilarity of his prose. One would not be dissapointed, wethinks: “People in the theatre are pretentious snobs who write by candlelight, even though the rest of us are using […]
Build Your Own Theatre – Part One
A propositionby Michael Wheeler One of the great laments of the Toronto indie theatre artist involves our chronic lack of performance space. For a city of 2.48 milion people, there are just six or seven rentable theatre spaces, many of which must be reserved more than a year in advance – and only after you […]