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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Bittersweet, heartbreaking & hopeful true story of mental illness in Bitter Medicine
What happens when your seemingly average, regular family is touched by mental illness and suicide? Bitter Medicine, a true story written by Clem Martini – based on the graphic novel of the same title by Martini and his brother Oliver – and directed for this SummerWorks production by Patrick Finn, gives…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Delightful, magical story time with Unintentionally Depressing Children’s Tales
This year’s SummerWorks has been full of opportunities to see and hear some imaginative, unique pieces of storytelling – and Erin Fleck’s Unintentionally Depressing Children’s Tales, directed by Maya Rabinovitch, is a brilliant example. A young man brings light to his darkened town. A very cranky pony named Heathcliff falls in…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Powerful, moving & darkly funny apocalyptic musical And Now, The End
A musical about an impending apocalypse by asteroid? Count me in! Ante Up Productions’ And Now, The End at SummerWorks – by writing team Victoria Hauser, Emily Nixon, Drew O’Hara, Zach Parkhurst and Jake Vanderham, with music, lyrics and music direction by Vanderham, and direction by Esther Jun – is just…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Installation & audience contribution leading up to performance of To Live in the Age of Melting: The Idea of North 2.0
It was a chillier than usual August night in Toronto last night – and I found myself purchasing hot chocolate and wishing I’d brought a jacket, which felt odd – but it was what it was. To be honest, I’ve really been enjoying this cooler summer. I had some time…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Captivating living collage of memory & restoration in Blindsided
Was back at the Scotiabank Studio Theatre at the Pia Bouman for more SummerWorks adventures last night, for a couple of things – but first, I’d like to talk about Fée Fatale’s production of Sabrina Reeves’ Blindsided, directed by Matt Holland, with film editing by Paolo Santos and video installation by Jacques…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Beautifully layered exploration of relationships, class, the struggle for order & mental illness in Complex
Bumped into actor Tim Walker at the Lower Ossington Theatre on the weekend and found out about Complex, written by Rebecca Applebaum and directed for SummerWorks by Christopher Stanton in partnership with the Koffler Centre of the Arts – and I’m really glad I did. Set in modern-day Toronto, the title makes multiple…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: New blood performs original piece in Transfusions
Was back at the Scotiabank Studio Theatre at Pia Bouman to see the AMY Project’s production Transfusions in the SummerWorks fest, co-directed by Maya Rabinovich (who also directed Unintentionally Depressing Children’s Tales for SummerWorks) and Lisa Codrington, with assistant director Chiamaka Gloria Ugwu. Transfusions is an original piece, the result…
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