This Is Not An Exit
Written April 3, 2025
Losing sense who I was, who I am and who I will become
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Losing sense who I was, who I am and who I will become
READ MOREThe Future of Film Showcase (FOFS) marks its 13th year with another full program of works from emerging Canadian Filmmakers.
FOFS focuses on works from filmmakers at a crucial stage in their emergence as artists and storytellers, as well as elevating work by women, BIPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+, and other emerging creatives from traditionally marginalized communities.
READ MOREThe Fantasia International Film Festival celebrates its upcoming 30th edition with an electrifying program of screenings, workshops, and events.
Each year’s edition is focused on showcasing the most exciting examples of contemporary international genre cinema from every corner of the globe and hosts over 100 filmmakers each summer.
READ MOREVivien Endicott-Douglas is a Toronto based actor who came of age working in film, television and theatre.
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Canadian Stage celebrates 43 years of High Park performances with a production of one of Shakespeare’s most loved romantic comedies, Twelfth Night.
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The Toronto Fringe Festival is on its last weekend and it offers 123 choices of shows to choose from this year.
Due to day job commitments and other work, I have seen a limited number of shows this year. Nonetheless, my time at the Fringe has been quite rewarding. Below I share a few thoughts on the shows I have attended thus far.
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Guild Festival Theatre brings to life in a new production of Brontë: The World Without, fascinating story of the Brontë sisters’ pioneering literary careers in the 1800s.
Told over five days in the span of three years, the play explores what it meant to be an ambitious woman in the 19th century, and how similar it looks to the struggles women still face today.
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The Toronto Fringe Festival is Ontario’s largest performance festival with an eclectic mix of topics and themes.
This year, Toronto Fringe will host performances at traditional theatre spaces and pop-up venues spread out between Keele Street, Davenport Avenue, Pape Avenue, and Lake Ontario, with dramatic theatre, clown, dance, storytelling, sketch comedy, musicals, improv, puppets, and stand up, plus six KidsFest shows, and thirteen days of free community programming at the Festival Hub at Soulpepper.
Continuing my support of the festival by sharing Part 2 of My Picks of shows you can enjoy this year.
READ MOREThe 38th Annual Toronto Fringe Festival is currently underway. This year’s festival includes 123 shows in 27 venues across the city.
The Toronto Fringe is Ontario’s largest performance festival with an eclectic mix of topics and themes. As it’s become my custom, I am sharing Part 1 of My Picks of shows at this year’s Toronto Fringe.
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Making waves across the festival circuit, Street Smart: Lessons from a TV Icon is the debut feature documentary from director Ernie Bustamante. An Emmy-nominated television writer turned indie filmmaker, Bustamante centres his work on Latino/a characters, drawing from his own roots in the Arizona desert. The film offers a way overdue film portrait of Sonia Manzano, known to millions as “Maria” from Sesame Street.
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