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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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Continue reading →: Quote of the week: Aug 1, 2016
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
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Continue reading →: Quote of the week – July 25, 2016
You may have noticed that I recently did a Page overhaul, removing some pages from this blog in an effort to streamline content. After removing the Quotes page, I thought it would be fun to share a weekly quote in its place. So here goes – the first quote of…
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Continue reading →: To breed or not to breed? Choices, identity & divisions in reflective, funny Rattled
Brouillon Productions examines the spectrum of women’s choices and attitudes towards motherhood in Claire Holland’s Rattled, directed by Holland and currently running at the Tarragon Theatre Extraspace. BFFs Lena (Ximena Huizi) and Paige (Nessya Dayan) can count on each other for everything, calling or texting each other every day with…
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Continue reading →: Hamilton Fringe preview (ish): Sinners & saints in Sister Annunciata’s Secret
During Toronto Fringe this past week, I bumped into Nonnie Griffin at the Tarragon, where I learned that she’s taking her solo show Sister Annunciata’s Secret (which premiered almost six years ago at The Annex Theatre) to Hamilton Fringe for a run at the Staircase Café Theatre Main Space. The…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Out of the echoes of pain and loss comes a beautiful noise in the powerful, moving Echoes – A New Musical
Writer/director Andrew Seok “wanted to write a musical about war and its effect on families and relationships” – and he’s done just that, to great effect with Chaos & Light’s production of Echoes – A New Musical, running at Toronto Fringe at Jeanne Lamon Hall in Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church,…
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Continue reading →: Toronto Fringe: Coming out in 1977 in the funny, touching Out
Big Bappis is out and proud at Toronto Fringe, with its production of Greg Campbell’s one-man show Out, directed by Clinton Walker and running at the Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse. A coming out origin story, based largely on Campbell’s own experience as a teen in Montreal, we follow 17-year-old Glen…
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