Toronto weather seems to be improving these days. That means, more reasons to get out and enjoy the local theatre and performance scene.
Below I list a few performances that I am aiming to attend and hope you do too over the next couple of weeks. Some great options for an evening or weekend outing.
Take Rimbaud
Howland Company & Buddies
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Four poets, a sloppy love triangle, an unfinished art film, and an electric oven. A performance poem traversing the worlds of Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Sylvia Plath, Sappho, and post-art school malaise, Take Rimbaud flirts with creation, revolution, and violence at the end of the world.
bol, brown boy, bol
by Nawaaz Makhani
Native Earth’s Aki Studio
bol, brown boy, bol is a cheeky, heartfelt solo show about Nawaaz Makhani’s journey of reclaiming his voice and cultural inheritance through learning tabla, a northern Indian percussion instrument.
Bealtaine Theatre Festival
Various Artists
The Canada Ireland Foundation (CIF) brings the second annual Bealtaine Theatre Festival to Toronto. I have put a preview of the festival together. Read more about it here.
Tadrak’s Tales
by Lore Keepers
Red Sandcastle Theatre
Tadrak’s Tales is a choose your own adventure experience, with key choices made by you, the customer. A harrowing fantasy fable with treason, murder, monsters, fate and more. No two tellings will be the same!
Trigger/content warnings: profanity, murder, death, dismemberment, bad jokes, fart humour.
Mark of A Woman
by Chisato Minamimura
Theatre Passe Muraille
Mark of A Woman explores tattooing culture and confronts the invisible marks society places on women’s bodies; the expectations, judgments, and constraints that define womanhood across cultures and generations. Through a fusion of Visual Vernacular, ASL, digital animation, kinetic projection and Woojer™ technology, Chisato draws on her own experiences to explore how gender is inscribed onto our bodies from birth.
Angle Mort (Blindside)
by Stéphanie Morin-Robert
Théâtre français de Toronto
Diagnosed with a malignant retinal tumor at the age of two, Stéphanie Morin-Robert had to have her left eye removed and now lives with an ocular prosthesis. In a candid, energetic, and humorous autobiographical account, she recounts her childhood in Northern Ontario. A show about resilience and the joy of living.
Primary Trust
by Crow’s Theatre & the Grand Theatre
Crow’s Theatre
Primary Trust tells the story of Kenneth, who has lived a safe and comfortable life alone, working at a local bookshop. When the shop suddenly closes, however, Kenneth is forced to confront the fears and unspoken grief that have held him down.
