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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Engaging, poignant & funny storytelling in Graceful Rebellions
Saw another engaging and entertaining solo show at SummerWorks last night: Shaista Latif’s Graceful Rebellions, directed by Evalyn Parry (who also has a show in the fest: To Live in the Age of Melting: The Idea of North 2.0). Playing across time, space and culture, Latif plays three Afghan women…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks: Brave, raw & moving story of incest survival in The Devil You Know
The L’Amoreaux Collegiate Institute production of The Devil You Know, written/directed by Wendy Krekeler is the Toronto Regional Showcase selection for a SummerWorks/Sears Ontario Drama Festival partnership. The show opened last night for a three-show run at the Scotiabank Studio Theatre in the Pia Bouman School for Ballet and Creative…
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Continue reading →: 2014 SummerWorks Preview – And Now The End
Originally posted on inthegreenroom: Interview by Brittany Kay What started out as a classroom project became something “much bigger than anyone could have ever conceived.” A team of five artists spent more than a year creating a dramatic musical that is sure to be a must-see at this year’s SummerWorks…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks preview: A magical, imaginative & entertaining piece of storytelling in Yarn
I spent a lovely evening at the Majlis Art Garden last night, for a preview performance of the SummerWorks production of Alex Eddington’s one-human show Yarn, directed by Tyler Seguin and Helen Juvonen. It’s a covered outdoor space with chairs set up in a semi-circle around a stage that sits…
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Continue reading →: Time lapse video of Lisa Anita Wegner Transformation @ STARDUST: Life on Jupiter? opening night
Hey all – A quick second post to follow up the slide show of Lisa Anita Wegner’s opening night of her STARDUST: Life on Jupiter? Transformation event at The Black Cat Gallery: Wegner’s time lapse video of the evening’s metamorphosis, including GoPro cam footage of stylist Wanda MacRae’s perspective.
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Continue reading →: Transformation, inspiration & glam rock in Lisa Anita Wegner’s STARDUST: Life on Jupiter? opening night
I dropped by The Black Cat Gallery (2186 Dundas Street West) last night for the Transformation at Lisa Anita Wegner’s opening of STARDUST: Life on Jupiter?, on until August 6 (no worries about what it says on the poster – I confirmed the date with Wegner). Described as a Transformation/…
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Continue reading →: SummerWorks is coming!
Hey theatre fans! Toronto Fringe may be over, but there’s more provocative, exciting theatre to come. SummerWorks 2014 opens a week from today! A juried festival, featuring theatre, dance, music and art works – often multi-media and multi-disciplinary in nature – SummerWorks is always an exciting arts/culture trip. SummerWorks runs…
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Continue reading →: A reminder to be present
These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has…
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Continue reading →: Some sympathy for the devils in StageWorks Toronto’s Assassins
“Attention must be paid!” This line from The Death of a Salesman is used as a major talking point by John Wilkes Booth in Assassins. Not able to achieve recognition by regular means, there are some people who will go to extreme measures to be noticed, undertaking the death of…







