Actor/Director Hume Baugh (The Girl in the Picture Tries to Hang Up the Phone, Child Hood) wasn’t happy to see photographers while leaving this house on Toronto’s trendy Queen Street East.
Eric Peterson (Necessary Angel’s Half Life, TV’s Corner Gas) and Caroline Gillis (Tarragon’s How It Works, da da kamera’s A Beautiful View) outside the Capitol Event Theatre before Necessary Angel’s 3 Plays/1 Day Gala. (Thanks to Daniel MacIvor for the photo.)
Elsa Perez (right), Artistic Director of the Théâtre Bilingue de Montreal (TBM), was seen out celebrating a friend’s birthday at the Trattoria Piatto Pieno in Montreal’s Little Italy.
Celebrity fight director Joe Bostick (Dirty Dancing, A Nanking Winter) and Derrick Chua (left) co-producer of Studio 180’s Stuff Happens seen chatting it up and the opening night party of A Nanking Winter.
Courtenay Stevens – who played the Architect/Sailor in CanStage’s The Overcoat – was spotted chatting on his cellphone outside Bread & Circus theatre bar in Toronto’s Kensington Market.
Word on the street is that he’s remounting his production of Lawrence & Holloman at this edgy, downtown theatre in early April.
Thanks to everyone who came out to Praxis Theatre’s fundraiser this past weekend. We’ve got more photos from the event than we know what to do with. Check some of them out here.
Next steps
Here’s the new idea:
How do you do this?1) What the piece is and in general terms how you would stage it.I will look over all submissions with our TD, let people know what we think is feasible and a good idea.
2) Who the artists involved are with short bios.
3) What the technical requirements would be (remember, we don’t have much).
4) Why you think you can draw an audience.
Please join us for aPlease join us for aWhite. A baby sings the highest and lowest audible notes simultaneously for one minute.(in Basque) This perpetual-motion machine is calculating π.
Lights fade down. The baby hovers next to an operating Rube Goldberg machine.
Time.This is my pet wolf. (petting him) I’m the only one who can do this. (roughhousing with him) I rescued him from hunters so he’s completely loyal to me.
The baby whistles. A wolf appears.
The wolf sits stage-right.This is my pet crow. I found it on the ground one day. I set its wing and nursed it back to health. Now it refuses to leave me.
Time.
A crow lands on the baby’s shoulder.
The crow caws and flies to the wolf’s head.Does anyone have someone they’d like me to murder?
Time.(to the audience member who pointed) It’s lucky you know Basque. It’s a pretty tough language.
An audience member points at another audience member, whom the baby kills. Fleeing. Mass panic.
Order restores.
One million Grade 8 students enter. A disco-ball lowers. Alphaville’s “Forever Young” plays. The students pair off and slow-dance.I’m glad I got to see that.
“Forever Young” ends. Everyone has their first kiss, falls in love, and exits.
Time.He’ll be fine as long as he doesn’t surface. Blue whales can hold their breath a pretty long time.
The upstage curtain ignites and burns, revealing a blue whale swimming in an aquarium beyond. The water catches fire. The flames shine through the aquarium, filling the theatre.
Time.Does anyone have any questions? I can speak any language.
The Basque-speaking audience member explains this. The baby fields questions in various languages. The answers are true. Tears. Laughter.Intermission.
The machine dings and starts to spit ticker-tape.
House lights. A sustained recording of a rabbit screaming.
Rabbit screaming ends. Audience returns. The theatre is filled with ticker-tape. The water still burns. House lights out.Here’s what happens when you die:
Darkness. A PowerPoint presentation plays across the aquarium.
Lights up. The baby reads out π from the ticker-tape.
The crow eats the wolf.
Inside the aquarium, the blue whale begins to thrash…
Time slows down.
Coming this Thursday, February 7, Praxis Theatre is thrilled to present a world wide web exclusive: a brand new short dramatic work by Canadian playwright Brendan Gall.
Please join Praxis Theatre for the next entry in our series of original play readings. This month, we are pleased to present Taylor Sutherland’s The Sand Factory.WHAT: Reading of Taylor Sutherland’s The Sand FactoryAll are welcome. For more information, please contact Laura Nordin.
WHEN: Monday, February 4 @ 8 pm
WHERE: The Concord Café – 937 Bloor St. West
(Just West of Ossington subway station on the south side)
CAST: Shaun McComb, Greta Papageorgiu, Ross McKie, Justin Friesen, Cayle Chernin.
Best/Before Theatre is reading Natalia Goodwin’s There You Go And Here You Are – directed and dramaturged by Cole J. Alvis.
1) What does Montreal mean to you?
Yuste then hailed a cab.
The series concludes:95) Where are the new forms of theatre that give way to exciting changes and that shock and titillate?
96) Are we simply recycling bad ideas?
97) The heart of exploring what one bottles up and censors.
98) Theatre is stymied by the fact that it is an insider’s game that rewards connections over merit.
99) Theatre ought to get its game face on, as there is a lot of competition for entertainment dollars.
100) Nobody is going to give you a medal for being poor.
101) Theatre is being comfortable with asking those uncomfortable questions.
The series continues:90) Theatre is the medium that requires the most cooperation and the most conflict.
91) Movies are better than theatre because they can reach a wider audience.
92) Theatre is better than movies because each show only happens once.
93) Think about it.
94) Is it possible to understand theatre that’s performed in a language I don’t speak?
Graeme Gerrard takes to Toronto's gay village in drag to promote his new play.
Going Back In & Getting Dragged Out opens in less than two weeks. We’ve resumed rehearsals since our holiday break to the expected hazards of the occasional forgotten line, but the cast has really gelled in terms of chemistry.
In order to promote the play, my assistant director, Cody Rus, and I hit the gay village this weekend to spread the word in drag.
For more opportunities to win, tune in to Proud FM (103.9) afternoons on the week of January 7th for a chance to win your tickets to the Factory Studio performances of Going Back In & Getting Dragged Out.
In the mean time there still is the matter of getting the play on its feet.
The series continues:85) The best theater happens unplanned.
86) True theatre experience: I clenched my fists and alternated between wanting to fall asleep and wanting to scream.
87) Theatre is not now, nor has it ever been, in trouble.
88) The tingle in my arm hair when theatre transcends the gap between performer and spectator – to be truly challenged and truly included even for a split second.
89) You have to want to make the other person feel good.
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