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Author: Ian Mackenzie
10 questions: 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 the […]
“Vancouver has too many cheerleading critics . . .”
The good people over at The Next Stage theatre blog have conducted and posted a wonderful interview with Vancouver-based theatre critic Colin Thomas (Georgia Straight). There’s even a choice piece of Toronto bashing as told to Colin by Daniel MacIvor: “Daniel MacIvor told me once that he likes premiering work in Vancouver because audiences here […]
Wallace Shawn finishes the play it took him 10 years to write
Inconceivable! Shawn’s new play Grasses of a Thousand Colors is finally finished. Read the American Theatre interview with him here. And then Time Out New York theatre critic David Cote reflects on the news here.
10 questions remixed: Anger
Ryan McMahon 1) How much of your work is informed by a sense of anger?All of it. Every last consonant and mother-fucking vowel bleeds anger. Every shitty fucking sound cue and half-assed piece of shit lighting change in my shows are chosen while very angry. All the fucking posters and handbills and shitty little websites […]
What should we talk about now?
Any suggestions?
Marshall McLuhan has a good idea
The medium is to the message as theatre is to ______________.
March round-up
A few selections from our March posts: Free arts marketing book! 10 questions: Greatest hits – Volume V A little piece of Toronto theatre history Tarragon Theatre announces new season What is theatre good for? The value of theatre? Wow! Has evil triumphed in our time? Free theatre Public Relations guide Performance artists Tanya Mars […]
10 questions: Tyrone Benskin
1) What the fuck is going on?Lots of stuff is happening right now. We are in preproduction for our Mainstage show, which has a Toronto connection: d’bi young’s blood.claat. It opens on the 26th of March. We also have our Fall and Spring Discovery readings, which are part of a new play reading initiative we’ve […]
Icelandic theatre?
Time Out New York theatre critic David Cote has posted a sneak peak of his upcoming feature for Theatre magazine – a piece on Iceland’s burgeoning theatre scene. A sample: “So the country is stable, affluent and educated. There is a healthy theatergoing culture, but a self-sustaining experimental scene still needs to be nurtured. Iceland […]
Performance artist Tanya Mars wins Governor General’s Award
Tanya Mars is awesome – and now she’s been awarded the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. Read the story in today’s Toronto Star, here.
Free theatre Public Relations guide
Back in 2003, the good folks at Theatre Ontario put together a 31-page Public Relations manual called: For Immediate Release: A Step-by-Step Guide For Theatre Publicists.Lots of great insight contained within, and a valuable resource for any independent theatre company. Download the PDF here.
Out and about
Actor/Director Hume Baugh (The Girl in the Picture Tries to Hang Up the Phone, Child Hood) wasn’t happy to see photographers while leaving this house on Toronto’s trendy Queen Street East. His production of All’s Well That Ends Well opens March 26, 2008 at Alchemy Theatre. Spotted any hot theatre talent out and aboutin your […]
Has evil triumphed in our time?
In our recent interview with her, Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch brought up the following five questions: Has evil triumphed in our time? What form will the revolution take? To what degree are we responsible for the other people in our society? Is nationality still the locus of identity? Does art have to be a formal […]
10 questions: Hannah Moscovitch
1) What the fuck is going on?I’m writing a lot. 2) Why do you write plays?Oh I don’t fucking know. 3) Do you tend to feel satisfied with your final drafts, or do you obsess over what could have been better?I’m always engaged in refining my work. I’m holding off on publishing one of my […]