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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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Continue reading →: 2025And we’ve turned the page to another new year. We can celebrate, love and feel joy while acknowledging the pain and suffering in our community, our country and our world. Here’s to a 2025 of hope, peace and kindness. And good trouble and light to push back the darkness. Coming…
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