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Continue reading →: Epic good times & kick-ass adventure in Sex T-Rex’s World Tour II: Callaghan! & SwordPlay
I think we can all safely say that last night’s opening of Sex T-Rex’s World Tour II production of Callaghan! and the Wings of the Butterfly and SwordPlay: A Play of Swords was the sweatiest fun Sex T-Rex show yet. At Unit 102 Theatre for a two-night run before heading…
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Continue reading →: The Hogtown Experience is the bee’s knees!
Better late to the party than never – I finally got out to see the Hogtown Experience at Campbell House Museum last night. And what a party it was! Written by Drew Carnwath and Sam Rosenthal, and directed by Rosenthal, assisted by Nicola Pantin, the Hogtown Experience is an immersive,…
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Continue reading →: Quote of the week: Aug 15, 2016
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. – Martin Luther King Jr.
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Caught in a web of deceit & love in the exquisite, heartbreaking Mr. Shi & His Lover
I caught the closing performance of Mr. Shi and His Lover, a Macau Experimental Theatre/Music Picnic contemporary Chinese music theatre co-production, a special SummerWorks presentation at the Theatre Centre Mainspace. Inspired by the real-life love affair between a Chinese opera singer turned spy and a French diplomat, the show is…
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Continue reading →: Quote of the week: Aug 8, 2016
In this world there are only two tragedies; one is not getting what one wants, the other is getting it. – Oscar Wilde
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: A young Ghanaian girl’s magical world of stories & dreams of life in America in charming, moving Osia
Emerging playwright Jijo Quayson and director Brad Fraser premiere Quayson’s first play Osia, running in the Factory Theatre Mainspace for SummerWorks, with Fraser’s direction assisted by Spencer Schunk, and dramaturgical support from Djanet Sears, Fraser and Andrea Donaldson. Set in present-day Ghana, Harmosia (Nicole Nwokolo) and her Mama (Chemika Bennett-Heath)…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Post-nuclear disaster bravery, vision quest & hope in the powerful, moving, resonant Bleeders
d’bi.young anitafrika and Watah Theatre wrap the Orisha Trilogy’s epic exploration of the Black diaspora, divinity and the environment with Bleeders, a dub opera running in the Theatre Centre Mainspace as part of SummerWorks. Part One of the Trilogy, Esu Crossing the Middle Passage, speaks to the past; Part Two,…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: A personal & scholarly look at naked women throughout history in bold, brave & moving Naked Ladies
When Thea Fitz-James does a theatre piece about naked women throughout history, she goes all in, performing naked in her multimedia solo show Naked Ladies, directed by Zoë Erwin-Longstaff and running at the Drake Underground during SummerWorks. Using projection (moving and still images) and scholarly research, as well as…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Debating feminism & privilege in provocative, sharply funny Don’t Talk to Me Like I’m Your Wife
Traitorous whore spy? Feminist? Sexually liberated opportunist? The gloriously notorious Mata Hari gets look through 21st century eyes in Call Me Scotty Production’s premiere of Andrea Scott’s Don’t Talk to Me Like I’m Your Wife, directed by Andrew Lamb and opening last night in the Theatre Centre Mainspace as part…
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