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Continue reading →: Even more to see – Upstart Theatre’s The Seagull in Four Movements
Realized when I posted up and coming works yesterday that I forgot to mention another local theatre company’s (formed by a group of University of Windsor drama grads) upcoming production – and that’s Upstart Theatre’s new take on Chekhov’s The Seagull – The Seagull in Four Movements, opening tonight and…
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Originally posted on The Alumnae Theatre Company's Blog: Week One of the 25th anniversary New Ideas Festival wrapped on Sunday (March 10). Barely had the audience cleared out of the Studio after the Sunday matinee, when the Week Two groups started arriving for the tech times. The Festival is very…
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Continue reading →: So much fun coming up!
Thought I’d take a moment to post about some ongoing/upcoming arts events. Alumnae Theatre Company’s New Ideas Festival (NIF) continues this week with the Week Two program and reading (March 13-17), with Week Three program/reading running the week after (March 20-24). Quick note on Saturday’s Week One reading of Falling:…
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Originally posted on Cytopoetics Events: The team for The Beautiful and the Damned (Duncan Armstrong, Dianne Moore, Philip Cairns and Lizzie Violet) see themselves as “the enfant terrible of the spoken word/poetry scene” in Toronto. The show, held on the second Thursday of every month, wants “to be a little more edgy…
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Originally posted on TOpoet: A full, appreciative house was on hand for the launch of Lizzie Violet’s Cabaret Noir. The show started well before the figurative curtain went up with Mullet the Zombie clown going table to table to warm up (or was that alarm) people coming to see the…
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Originally posted on KAT LEONARD (Kat & The MP3): Oh, man!!! There is so much of the spreading of empowerment through art happening during WonderFest that I feel I can’t do it justice in prose! For fuller details on our experience, see our WonderWomenWorld blog! In a nutshell, Day 4…
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Continue reading →: New Ideas Fest opens with a very strong Week One program
Alumnae Theatre’s New Ideas Festival (NIF) turned 25 last night as it kicked off its opening night of three weeks of new, short plays in progress with its Week One program. NIF Week One includes a remount of Shirley Barrie’s Revelation, directed by its original director and NIF co-founder Molly…
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Continue reading →: Falling – final rehearsal
Our last rehearsal yesterday. Tweaking rhythm. Tone. Transitions. Falling is a work in progress – not sure what draft playwright Jamie Johnson is on – and it’s important to present it as best as we can so the work can continue. Constance (I’m playing her at age 48) is a…







