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Continue reading →: New Ideas Festival 2013: the writer/director teams!
Originally posted on The Alumnae Theatre Company's Blog: Amendment to Nov 27 post: the play Dinner Date by Jessica Moss (Week One) has been replaced by Suzanne Gauthier’s Still Waters. (If you attended the Write Now! event on Oct 21, you might recall this charming piece. See post at http://alumnaetheatre.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/write-now-2012-running-water/)…
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Continue reading →: Soul stories take centre stage @ SoulOTheatre workshop showcase
I had the honour of being invited to Red Sandcastle Theatre last night to attend the one night only performance of SoulOTheatre’s recent workshop participants, who embarked on a 10-week journey to mine their souls and life stories to create their own one-person show and perform it in front of…
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Continue reading →: “The Drowning Girls” Talkback, Nov 25
Originally posted on The Alumnae Theatre Company's Blog: Following yesterday’s matinee performance, about half of the almost-sold-out audience opted to stay for a 25-minute Talkback with director Taryn Jorgenson and the cast of The Drowning Girls. “The Drowning Girls” director Taryn Jorgenson gives the Talkback audience the historical facts behind…
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Continue reading →: “The Drowning Girls”: opening night & after
Originally posted on The Alumnae Theatre Company's Blog: Saturday night (Nov 17) was the opening of The Drowning Girls, and as you read in the re-blogged post from Life With More Cowbell, the show was a thing of beauty. Margaret (Emily Opal Smith), Alice (Jennifer Neales) and Bessie (Tennille Read)…
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Continue reading →: Personal, political & passionate – Frida & Diego exhibit @ the AGO
Was very happy to finally get out to see the Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) yesterday with my pal Kira Callahan. It was a beautiful fall Sunday afternoon and as the bold autumn colours waned outdoors, equally bold and vibrant…
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Continue reading →: Revelation & redemption – The Drowning Girls
When we enter the theatre, the three women are already onstage, splayed out in the semi-darkness in the three bathtubs. Drowned. The bathtubs emerge from jagged-toothed holes in the ground, yawned forth like coffins – each with a blank foot stone facing downstage. Vines snake around the shower plumbing above…
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Continue reading →: Blog roll & site page housekeeping
Hey all – you may have noticed that the list of organizations on the Home page blog roll has gotten quite a bit shorter. It has. But fear not, dear readers. I’m still lovin’ these local Toronto theatres and musicians/music acts – and those folks can be found, along with…
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