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 […]
Workshop notice: Theatre de complicite in Toronto
The folks at Theatre de complicite are putting on a workshop here in Toronto toward the end of July. They’ve asked us to post notice of said event. Here it is: Click through to see a full-sized version of the flyer, and for contact and application information.
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” […]
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 […]