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Continue reading →: Heather Babcock: On Writing!
Originally posted on KAT LEONARD (Kat & The MP3): Heather Babcock is “writing to exhale,” and her new chapbook Of Being Underground and Moving Backwards has been published by DevilHousePress. You should really check it out! I asked Heather some questions on writing and she answered. Watch her lips move and…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Three strangers reach out for connection in a city on fire in quirky, dark, thoughtful The Tall Building
A city on fire. Coyotes, and other wild and domestic animals wander the streets as people flee the flames and smoke to seek refuge in a safe place, on higher ground. The city has run out of firefighters. The mayor is nowhere to be found and rumour has it that…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: A beautiful, bittersweet memory play featuring outstanding, powerful performances in Seams
Dress forms, a clothing rack, a large basin with wash board and soap, a pile of fabric, a work table. And off stage left, a chair. Old Frosya enters, the ghosts of her former co-workers standing on the catwalk on the upper level of the stage. And so the stage…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Turnabout is fair play as women’s sex & violence fantasies take centre stage in Beautiful Man
A puppet show within a play within a TV show within a movie. All very sexy. All very violent. All featuring powerful, strong women with beautiful men in the background. Yep, you read that right. This is the multidimensional storytelling the audience experiences in Groundwater Production’s Beautiful Man, written by Erin…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: A young woman’s journey through confusing, crazy times toward empowerment & love in The Emancipation of Ms. Lovely
“Today my heart broke,” said the seed, “it itched and ached, I was smashed to pieces.” “Ahh,” said the burning sun, “you were growing, to blossom you have to break.” – Ngozi Paul With today’s hand-held devices, and instant news and social media access, bad news travels even faster than…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: A compelling morality tale of modern-day slavery in Better Angels: A Parable
I first had the pleasure of seeing Andrea Scott’s Better Angels: A Parable in an early production at the 2014 New Ideas Festival, so I was excited to see how the piece had evolved for the SummerWorks production, directed by Nigel Shawn Williams and currently running at the Theatre Passe…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Hilarious, haunting & high-brow good times in An Evening in July
I first saw the Templeton Philharmonic earlier this year in their Toronto Fringe Next Stage Festival production of Unbridled and Unstable. Whip smart and funny, with a talent for vintage characterizations and dialect – it was love at first sight. The darlings of the Templeton Philharmonic are back, this time…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Big satirical fun with corporate branding & conspiracy in Tough Guy Mountain: a play
When I go to the Factory Theatre courtyard box office to pick up a program for the SummerWorks production of Tough Guy Mountain: a play, I’m directed to a stack of pink and white tri-fold brochures. Designed as an Intern Initiation Manual, the document includes illustrations of all of Tough…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Capturing the humanity & quirks of Toronto’s west end in Face Value: West
One woman. Six photographs. Limitless possibilities. Still black and white images of west end Toronto life come alive in a wonderful, collaborative work by actor Tracey Hoyt and photographer Kate Ashby, directed by Melody A. Johnson and Rick Roberts, in Dorothy Mae Productions’ Face Value: West – now running at…
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