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 […]
Author: Ian Mackenzie
11 questions: Ian Mackenzie
Praxis Theatre’s Director of Marketing and resident “10 questions” asker had the tables turned on him recently – fielding a series of theatre-related questions from Vancouver-based playwright Simon Ogden. Click here to read the interview at Ogden’s The Next Stage theatre blog.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dora award nominees announced
Great news!The 2007 Dora Award nominations for Independent Theatre are in. Among the prestigious group of nominees are Chris Stanton, Bluemouth Inc., and The Thistle Project. Check out the full list of nominees here – a great selection from a strong group of contenders in the independent theatre category. Congratulations to all nominees and best […]
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, […]
Crate is site-specific at Luminato
Crate Productions is doing an “open rehearsal” of its site-specific Fort York piece this weekend at Toronto’s Fort York. Fort York: The PlayFriday, June 8 and Saturday, June 9, 2007.Toronto, Canada.(Each of the performance’s three sectionswill be presented simultaneously three times over.)@ 8:00pm, 8:30pm and 9:00pm.Come for one or stay for all three,you can see […]
The liberty of ignorance – Part One
Greg Kirk as Estragon in Bloody Theatre’s Waiting for Godot.All photos by Casey McNally. It starts at the beginningBy Greg Kirk There are a variety of ways to start doing theatre. For me, and Praxis Theatre’s Simon Rice, the most obvious was to pick a play and start working on it. This is neither the […]