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Continue reading →: The cat has the right idea
It’s been nearly two weeks that I’ve been sick with this cold, now down to a low-grade congestion and headache these days. And I’m ever wary of slipping back to feeling total crap, as I did last Tuesday and again on Saturday. I’ve been running myself ragged with social engagements,…
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Originally posted on News and Views: Picture this: It’s noon on Sunday and already the green-tinged line-ups of all creeds and colour have started outside Toronto’s many Irish pubs; some are already heaving to the rafters. The St Patrick’s Day parade has barely even started but the drinking has, en…
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Continue reading →: More fine plays in progress – New Ideas Week Two program
Another series of fine works in progress at Alumnae Theatre Company’s New Ideas Festival (NIF) Week Two program this week. The Deepest Trench (Chloë Whitehorn, dir. by Justen Bennett) is a sharp-humoured three-hander, an “almost love story” featuring a brother (Ryan, Ryan Bainbridge), sister (Kate, Stephanie Barone) and sister’s BFF…
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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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