Last week, Factory Theatre premiered its production of Salt-Water Moon by David French, directed by Ravi Jain, starring Kawa Ada and Mayko Nguyen and featuring live music by Toronto singer-songwriter Ania Soul. READ MORE
In Review: Salt-Water Moon
Last week, Factory Theatre premiered its production of Salt-Water Moon by David French, directed by Ravi Jain, starring Kawa Ada and Mayko Nguyen and featuring live music by Toronto singer-songwriter Ania Soul. READ MORE
“There is one thing we know attracts Trickster: fear.” Native Earth Performing Arts is currently presenting Huff written and performed by the award-winning Cree playwright Cliff Cardinal. The darkly comic, fantastical and heart-wrenching one-man play explores the lives of Indigenous youth battling addiction, and systemic injustices while dreaming of a better life. READ MORE
As an official commission of Panamania, Why Not Theatre had the world premiere of Gimme Shelter this week. With an international Pan Am Games audience watching, the show sheds light on the issue of rising sea levels and climate change, and the idea of stewardship inspired by the ancient text The Mahabharata. READ MORE
Paolozzapedia and Mahmoud are part of the Riser Project, which gives small theatre companies the opportunity to share resources, whether they be technical, mentorship or otherwise, to bolster their new works. READ MORE
Last Friday, I was listening to CBC Radio 1’s show Q. The host of the show did an interview with the members of The Old Trout Puppet Workshop & Friends from Alberta. They are former university classmates, who got together to form this puppet workshop. Their efforts have realised The Famous Puppet Death Scenes, which showed at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts last week.
I was intrigued by their description of their puppet show. They explained how they created several characters to depict various ways of dying. What an interesting topic for a puppet show Ghomeshi commented. The puppet creators agreed. They stated that they wanted to provide people a different way to deal with the topic of death. It is easier to accept even the most gruesome death when the individual who dies is a puppet. In that sense, they make a good point. READ MORE
