At Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre. Click through for more info and box office.
On discourse and narration
A theatre blog’s first birthday
Wow. Has it really been a year since we started this blog? Yes. Yes it has. My, how time flies. It flies so far away. If there is anything that’s become clear during the first year of this exercise in cultural cartography it’s that we’ve only just scratched the surface of what we can learn […]
A wake up call for the West
Vancouver-based playwright and theatre blogger Simon Ogden has thrown down an inspiring call to action for the “latent theatre town” he calls home: “. . . we keep plugging away, show after show, using the same marketing tactics and theatres and programs and street cards and posters and fundraisers . . . and theatre doesn’t […]
Ontario’s referendum
On Wednesday, October 10, (in addition to the provincial election) Ontarians are being asked to vote on the following question: Which electoral system should Ontario use to elect members to the provincial legislature? The existing electoral system (First-Past-the-Post)? The alternative electoral system proposed by the Citizens’ Assembly (Mixed Member Proportional)? Click here for more info […]
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 […]
Supashiza
Our good friends at Supashiza have just released a new video, Deutsche Musickschiessen. Still not sure where these guys are from or what it all means, but giddy up – it’s weird. Enjoy!
Theatre link love
Today’s episode of Theatre link love features five (somewhat) mainstream news outlets and their valuable coverage of Canadian theatre. CBC.ca has a great national theatre page, as does the online-only canoe.ca. For more local coverage, there’s The Toronto Star, which, in addition to its focus on Toronto theatre, also reports on some national and provincial […]
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 […]
Now playing: The Prince of Hamlet
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Marcel Marceau: 1923-2007
Theatre education series
U.S. theatre professors Scott Walters and Tom Loughlin recently put their heads together to produce a great five-part blog post series on the state of theatre education in America. One of the arguments that emerges from these posts is the idea that theatre education has lost the ability to critically evaluate its own process – […]
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 […]
The Fort at York
Opens in Toronto this Thursday, September 20.Click here for more info and here to buy tickets.
A chainsaw killer’s message of compassion
OK. This is not strictly theatre-related, but NYC-based playwright James Comtois is doing a wonderful series of short essays on seminal horror films at his Jamespeak blog. So far, he’s covered John Carpenter’s 1979 slasher classic Halloween, George Romero’s 1978 zombie touchstone Dawn of the Dead, and Tobe Hooper’s 1974 buzz-kill The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. […]