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Continue reading →: Word & song of the year: 2026Photo by Mike Labrum on Unsplash Hey, all. It’s been a while, I know. Lots to navigate and manage, including a big hole in holiday gatherings, and working through mourning and grieving for Sean. Those of you who are regular visitors know that I like to set a word and…
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Continue reading →: Laura Piccinin’s big solo adventure in GOLaura Piccinin. Photo by Greg Carruthers. Wednesday, October 15 to Sunday, October 19, 2025: Laura Piccinin, winner of Just for Laughs’ Outstanding English Comedy Award — and creator of the critically acclaimed Queer stand-up comedy LESBIHONEST — brings GO, a new and exciting piece of storytelling theatre, to Theatre Passe…
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Continue reading →: Celebrating The Sankofa Trilogy’s 20th anniversaryFrom September 23 to October 12, 2025, d’bi.young anitafrika presents a virtuosic three-week repertory production celebrating the 20th anniversary of the critically acclaimed Sankofa Trilogy, a Watah Theatre production featuring the plays blood.claat, benu and word! sound! powah! at The Theatre Centre. Starring d’bi.young anitafrika, this production of The Sankofa…
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Continue reading →: Alumnae Theatre presents: Public EnemyAlumnae Theatre opens their 2025-26 season with Public Enemy by Olivier Choinière, transadapted by Bobby Theodore and directed by Marcio Beauclair – running from September 24 to October 5, 2025 in the Mainstage Theatre. Total society collapse – served with dinner Public Enemy is a blistering, rowdy take on the…
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Continue reading →: The Elephant Girls returns to Toronto & Ottawa for 10th Anniversary runsMargo MacDonald in The Elephant Girls. Photo by Allan Mackey. Parry Riposte Productions celebrates the 10th anniversary of Margo MacDonald’s award-winning sold-out hit solo show The Elephant Girls, directed by Mary Ellis, with performances in Toronto (September 10 – 14) and Ottawa (November 13 – 16). The true story of…
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Continue reading →: In memoriam: Sean McKimThis is one of my favourite photos of Sean. I have it printed and framed, and it sits on my bookshelf. I’ve posted several of these on the blog over the years. But I never thought I’d be posting one about my youngest sibling Sean, who died suddenly in a…
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Continue reading →: Kindness & joyBack from Alumnae Theatre Age of Arousal acting adventures and thought it would be worth posting this again, with a few additional thoughts to start off. There’s a great line in the movie Shadowlands: “We read to know we are not alone”. And I like to think that those of…
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Continue reading →: Age of Arousal playlistOne of the things that has kept me sane when all those onstage moments of love, desire, heartbreak and loss bleed into real life – sparking memories, reflection and self-assessment (if you haven’t already, take a look at my last post and you’ll see what I mean) – has been…
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Continue reading →: Essay: Being Mary Barfoot
Heading into the final month of rehearsals for Alumnae Theatre’s upcoming production of Age of Arousal, by Linda Griffiths – wildly inspired by The Odd Women, by George Gissing – I’m struck by the myriad insights, emotions and questions that have emerged as I explore playing a woman of my…
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Continue reading →: Word & song of the year: 2025
While I was participating in a meditation practice during a recent Mindfulness Ambassador Program Alumni gathering over Zoom, my word – and song – for 2025 came to me. I looked back in the blog and I’ve used this word before, in 2022: Kindness. And, for the first time since…
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