I've been thinking quite a bit about the future of our theatre lately (as have others, it seems). I'm thinking it's probably too late to turn my generation into a legion of demanding and critical theatre fans (my generation being that of Donkey Kong, Adidas bags and Frankie Goes to Hollywood), we're all pretty much… Continue reading If This is Our Youth, we’re in pretty good shape
Tag: future of theatre
Well, that was fun. What’s next?
And so the (finally) sunny West Coast bids a fond adieu to Mag North (or 'Canada's National Festival of Contemporary Canadian Theatre in English' for long. Canafestconcanatheng? Seriously guys, nothing snappier jumps to mind?). Traditionally with me the close of a run portends a short bout of postpartum, so I suppose I'll be dealing with… Continue reading Well, that was fun. What’s next?
Time Flies When You’re Having Fun
One Year In. Wow. It's been an entire year since The Next Stage made its first entrance. Glancing back over the first post from that day I'm pleased to realize that not much has changed with regards to my mission statement, and I have to say how proud I am to have discovered so many… Continue reading Time Flies When You’re Having Fun
Devoted and Disgruntled: A Journey Through “Open Space”.
Ian Mackenzie over at Theatre is Territory will occasionally drop a post entitled What should we talk about now?, a call to discourse that, in my opinion at least, neatly sums up the need we all have as theatre artists to develop a common language towards breaking down the barriers between us and our dream… Continue reading Devoted and Disgruntled: A Journey Through “Open Space”.
…any questions?
"The revolution in theatre needs to happen at the business end of the stick: an army of Arts Admin rebels so furious with the injustice of the current creaking theatre apparatus that they lead the march to a new model. A model that empowers artists to ask the kinds of questions we need artists to… Continue reading …any questions?
Simon Ogden 