It’s been a while since last I posted. Yes, I know. Blogs are always forgotten. I would be sorry if I thought that I had offended anyone, but I’m not so self-centered to think that anyone cared that I haven’t felt the need to wax philosophically as of late. Once again, I find myself at the Thousand Islands Playhouse this …
On Community, Shakespeare, and Bugspray
In the past month, I have seen four outdoor productions of Shakespeare. The crazier thing is that only one of them was in Toronto. I also saw a non-Shakespeare outdoor production, and a site-specific wandering production (in an abandoned storefront). [Sidebar: I’ve also seen a bunch of stuff at the Thousand Islands Playhouse (since I work here) but that’s not really …
Comedy Tonight
I had to take a bit of a hiatus from this playreading adventure. Despite my best efforts, when you work at a theatre and part of your job is reading plays, it can be difficult to read additional plays on top of that without real motivation. (Read: this motivation is even harder to come by when you live on the …
Our Appetite for the Imagined
This summer, I’ve set myself a goal to read a new play every week. In particular, I’m reading a new Canadian play every week. And I’m hoping to get more done than that. Our country has a great, albeit short, history of creating and publishing new work, producing it once or twice, and then leaving it on a shelf. While …
Best Friends, New Voices and the Paprika Festival
I work for the Paprika Festival as the Artistic Producer. Essentially that means that the buck stops with me, but it is fed by conversations and consensus with a brilliant executive team. The Paprika Festival is Canada’s only independent theatre festival dedicated to promoting and producing the work of young and emerging artists, primarily those who are 21 and under. …
Why I Love Musicals: A Not-So-Guilty Pleasure
This is a blog post that I wrote for Theatre Passe Muraille this week, so I decided to share it here as well: The first professional show that I ever saw was The Phantom of the Opera. Frankly, this is true for most children of my age bracket from Eastern Ontario. If your choir didn’t take a trip to the …