Three Canadian theatre research organizations, three mandates, three links: Theatre Museum Canada“Our objectives are: To collect and preserve artifacts to illustrate, interpret and make known the history of theatre in Canada; To produce outstanding and innovative programs and exhibitions; To use the highest ethical standards in all aspects of museum operations; To raise the resources […]
How to build an empire – a Boy Scout’s guide
Now playing at the 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival. Click here for more info on this show.
June round-up
A few selections from our June posts: Celebrity theatre – Terrence Bryant Intimate performance is overrated Lumi-not-go Dora Award nominees – independent theatre Theatre cat is back! We advertise your Fringe show – free! Blogging about theatre blogging Dufferin Grove is the pinnacle of Western civilization The future of the Canadian Stage Critical lockout Crybabyism […]
Domestic
Now playing at the 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival. Click here for more info on this show.
10 questions: Shaun McComb
1) What the fuck is going on?“What the fuck is with the Yorkshire dialect?” is what I want to know. It is as hard to pin down . . . I am cramming at the moment trying to get my mouth around this dialect for my first rehearsal of The Secret Garden on Tuesday. I […]
Bluebeard
Now playing at the 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival. Click here for more information on this show.
A moratorium on Shakespeare
From Lyn Gardner at the Guardian UK theatre blog, Should Shakespeare be barred?: “Shakespeare is our cultural medicine, often nasty but we swallow it all the same because like cod liver oil we think it must be good for us.” “As the US critic Gordon Rogoff so succinctly put it: ‘Shakespeare is feared by the […]
The Shift
Now playing at the 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival. Click here for more information on this show.
Dora award winners
Awesome to be nominated, awesome to win . . . here are the winners in the Independent theatre category for the 2008 Dora Awards: Outstanding new playAnusree Roy – Pyaasa Outstanding productionWaiting for Godot – Modern Times Stage CompanyOutstanding directionSoheil Parsa – Waiting for Godot Outstanding performance by a maleNicco Lorenzo Garcia – People PowerOutstanding […]
A case for criticism
Toronto theater blogger Chris Dupuis weighs in on the role of the critic, here.
10 questions: Nina Lee Aquino
1) What the fuck is going on?It’s the 5th annual Potluck Festival. The only festival in Canada that’s dedicated to developing works by Asian-Canadian playwrights. 2) How have you developed as an Artistic Director during your time with fu-GEN Asian Canadian Theatre?I became bossier. 3) Are there any themes that are common to the work […]
Careerism versus artistic integrity
Is it okay for a theatre artist to be more interested in building their career than making good art?
The definitive list of Canadian theatre blogs
The project: assemble a definitive list of Canadian theatre blogs.Our criteria: to be included on this list, the blog must have posted at least once within the past 30 days; the blog must identify as Canadian; and it must be primarily focused on theatre. And in the interest of keeping things independent, blogs that are […]
We advertise your Fringe show – free!
Sounds impossible – and slightly suspect – we know. But here’s what we’re thinking: Send us a digital version of your 2008 Toronto Fringe Festival postcard or poster, and we’ll post it here on our blog, sometime between now and the end of the festival. Simple. We get to learn more about your show, look […]
Crybabyism
cry.ba.by.ism – noun 1. the belief that these are “tough times” and that the solution is smaller, blander shows. 2. Artistic Direction in accordance with this belief. Source: Anonymous – 2008.