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
A little advance Fringe buzz…
While we on the left coast wait patiently for the official announcement of our 2008 Fringe line-up, the festival circuit has already bugun to wend its way westward. I thought we could check out the chatter on what shows got noticed by the local internet mavens in the towns that have already folded their Fringes.… Continue reading A little advance Fringe buzz…
New Video Listing – The Back Kitchen Release Party
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Fundraiser Alert! Get Your Ride Washed by a Shameless Hussy…
Vancouver-based company Shameless Hussy are holding a car wash to raise money for their upcoming tours...swing by if you're in the Arbutus area. I'm sure they'd be happy to give your bike a wash if you want to roll that over too...
This One Goes to Eleven: Christine Willes
Christine has been a professional actor since 1976, and now holds the positions of Department Head and Artistic Director at the William Davis Centre for Actors Study (which recently merged with Vanarts, Vancouver's institute of media arts). She has just started work on her next directorial effort: Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, a contemporizing of several of… Continue reading This One Goes to Eleven: Christine Willes
Simon Ogden 