Hamlet by Harry Venning - 1989, Week 14
Author: Simon Ogden
New Video Listing: Metamorphoses
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Loving the hate: seeing the benefit in backlash
While we're on the topic of backlash, there's a play that has made the 'best of fest' at the just-wrapped Winnipeg Fringe (click here for reviews) that's got people talking about how we as artists handle negative response to our work. Keir Cutler is a seasoned Fringe writer and performer, whose last work Teaching As… Continue reading Loving the hate: seeing the benefit in backlash
Muxin’ things up a bit
Just wanted to point out that The Next Stage now features a soundtrack that you can activate from the sidebar. Through the wonders of Muxtape we bring you a fresh new selection every week of the tunes we're listening to for inspiration, carefully engineered to perfectly accompany each section of the blog that you're reading… Continue reading Muxin’ things up a bit
Highlights from today’s Canadian theatrosphere
Hot day on the Great White North theatre blog tundra today (it's...alive!), a day worthy of a round-up. Check out these great posts: Pitch-hitting blogger Evan Webber over at Chris Dupuis' Time and Space sums up his TO Fringe experience. Heading into the festival with a mission to determine the answer to the question "what… Continue reading Highlights from today’s Canadian theatrosphere
Looking to the next generation for the survival of theatre
Further to the post the other day on his question "what have you done to save theatre today", Travis from Midnight Honesty at Noon dropped this link in the comments, please give it a read. (Great man, that Travis Bedard, and if you're not reading MH@N you should be.) It's a letter sent to Mike… Continue reading Looking to the next generation for the survival of theatre
This One Goes to Eleven: Sebastien Archibald
Sebastien is a playwright/actor/director straight outta the theatre program at UVic, and is spinning his BA in theatre into his own company; ITSAZOO, where he resides as one of their four artistic directors. His well-received play Grimm Tales, a site-specific contemporizing of the works of the Brothers Grimm, is running in Victoria now and hits… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Sebastien Archibald
“What have you done to save theatre today?”
Responding to a recent Theatre is Territory question about asking questions, Austin theatre artist and blogger Travis Bedard poses an essential one of his own, and states: We want to do Our Thing and be done. We want to be specialists in a shrinking anachronistic craft. We don't get the choice to not be evangelists.… Continue reading “What have you done to save theatre today?”
Summerworks – sexin’ up Toronto theatre
Check out this ad for Toronto's Summerworks indie theatre festival. It will make you happy. It did for me, anyway...
Hamlet
Hamlet by Harry Venning - Week 6, 1989
Towards a sticky theatre
I got myself into a spirited debate the other day. Nadine is an ensemble member in my company who works with us here in Vancouver but actually lives in New York, and she's great to debate with because she has an East Coast defiance and a stubborness that rivals my own, so she can toss… Continue reading Towards a sticky theatre
New Video Listing – Grimm Tales
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Talking Point
...good writing cannot redeem bad acting the way great acting can redeem mediocre writing. Karl Miller - Against a National Theatre
Female directors wanted for Women at Play(s) 4
Previously on The Next Stage... ...we posted about the scarcity of female theatrists working in the Canadian stage industry, alongside a call for playwrights for Marianne Sawchuk's Women at Play(s) 4. That production is moving into their next stage, and Marianne has now put out a call for women directors...know any? Are one? Read on...… Continue reading Female directors wanted for Women at Play(s) 4
This One Goes to Eleven: Andrew Templeton
Andrew is a man on a mission. A mission similar to mine, actually, he is a theatre artist who thinks that he needs to do more than just make plays to increase the visibility and popularity of our art form. A Jessie-nominated playwright (for outstanding original script for Portia, My Love), who has seen his… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Andrew Templeton
Simon Ogden 