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Michael Healey

Arts & Culture, Film, Film Festivals, Hye's Picks

Hye’s Picks: Rendezvous With ...

Rendezvous with Madness (RWM) is the first and largest arts and mental health festival in the world. The 32nd edition of...

Film, Film Festivals, Film Previews, Film Reviews, Hye's Picks, Interviews

Spotlight: ‘THE LIGHT BEFORE ...

The Light Before the Sun is a raw, thought-provoking meditation on fame, mental health, and the limits of self-help, bro...

Comedy, Film, Film Previews, Hye's Picks

Hye’s Picks: Rez Comedy

The first all Indigenous and all Canadian stand-up comedy feature film Rez Comedy begins its theatrical this weekend in ...

Film, Film Festivals, Film Reviews

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Canadian Film Fest 2018: The Drawer Boy

March 20, 2018

Michael Healey’s play The Drawer Boy translates well to film under Arturo Perez Torres and Aviva Armour-Ostroff‘s direction. Torres and team take us back in time to Huron County, Ontario, 1972. Miles arrives at the farm and home of Angus and Morgan, two aging bachelor farmers. He stays with the two farmers in order to learn about farm life and write a play about it. Their lives are changed dramatically when Miles’ art imitates life, creating a very fine line between truth and fiction. READ MORE

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Post Show Talk: Theatre Passe Muraille’s The Drawer Boy

March 19, 2018

In the early 90’s, playwright Michael Healey riffed on the concept of Theatre Passe Muraille’s 1972 project The Farm Show – a devised performance that saw actors from the city interacting with farmers in rural Ontario to uncover the challenges of country life – as a starting point for an intriguing script of friendship and loss. As Theatre Passe Muraille celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, they have decided to remount Healey’s The Drawer Boy, currently on-stage until March 25th.