Praxis Theatre announces summer season

Praxis Theatre will present two new original works in the summer of 2009!

1) Tim Buck 2 @ The Toronto Fringe Festival

The first iteration of our original adaptation/exploration of the Progressive Arts Club's depression-era protest play, Eight Men Speak, will be presented at The Tranzac as part of The Fringe Club.

2) Underneath @ The SummerWorks Theatre Festival

Playwright and international security adviser Andrew Zadel, author of the award-winning Steel, returns to Praxis Theatre with his tale of UN forensic pathologists struggling to arrive at definitive answers in Kosovo.

Summerworks Performance Gallery 2009

Photo by Design Wallah licensed under Creative Commons

• What would you do in a completely empty hotel room or the hallway in between? 
  
• What is the importance of the audience to this piece? 
  
• Does the risk and imagination stretch beyond the physical confinements? 

Launched in 2008, The Performance Gallery (Inside the Box) was one of the SummerWorks Theatre Festival's many new initiatives. In its inaugural year, the gallery, which took place on the 2nd floor of the Gladstone Hotel, featured an eclectic group of artists offering everything from short plays to dance to performance art to improvised concerts. This year it returns to the Gladstone (Aug 6- 9 & Aug 13-16th) and is seeking site-specific but not necessarily site-themed pieces (7-10 minutes) in all performance mediums.

Click here to read the full application procedures.

SummerWorks picks

A press still for One Reed Theatre's (never underestimate) The Power at SummerWorks.

Today's the last day to catch some SummerWorks action. Does anyone have any recommendations? Funny SummerWorks stories? Top picks?

Sex and the Saudi

Publicity shot from the upcoming SummerWorks show, Sex and the Saudi.

How is this show not going to be awesome?