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#CdnCult Times; Volume 3, Edition 5

Welcome to an issue of #CdnCult Times that deals primarily in images. Maybe a year ago I was in a Twitter conversation about the benefits of...

A hell of a time wrapping our brains around this

Designer Lindsay Anne Black presents an image-based representation of the creative process.

TO 2 LA

Actresses Melissa Hood and Kimberly-Sue Murray recently spent five days on the road, driving from Toronto, ON to Los Angeles, CA, stopping overnight in Chicago, IL, Omaha, NE, Glenwood Springs, CO, and Zion National Park, UT, before passing through Las Vegas and landing in the City of Angels.

Unmediated Creativity

One of the main reasons why I am here is because I get to do projects that would be unimaginable in a bigger city center: projects that I make with the locals, where we all work together to create something wild, fun and free. And it’s in those moments of unmediated creativity and fun, where my ideas for STO Union get formed, ideas which turn into projects that I am lucky enough to bring to audiences in Canada and abroad.

Saturday Night Lights

For close to two decades I thought Toronto was the centre of the universe. As a teenager growing up in the small and somewhat repressed city of Kitchener, I couldn’t wait to escape to the fantastic bohemian freedom of Toronto. I finally moved to the Big Smoke the summer of my twentieth year.

Hitting the Small Time or Living The Dream

Everything was pointing to a successful career as a theatre artist, an Actor with capitol A…so what was I doing this past Friday night, May 29, at the ripe age of 41?: Changing into my costume in the basement of an art gallery cum café in Invermere, a tiny town deep in the interior of BC, while a mere 15 patrons awaited the start of my show. How did I get here?

#CdnCult Times; Volume 3, Edition 4

Last week I attended Mammalian Diving Reflex's Promises to a Divided City at The Theatre Centre and was blown away. Performed by teenagers who live on the...

Mike Daisey achieves some praxis

Mike Daisey had a pretty significant impact on my theatre company for someone I have never met.

Could use some entertainment

For a while now I’ve been thinking and working from a question of finding “A populism I can stand behind.” These are hard days for populism – it’s getting called out for a lot. Specifically, a combination of the Fords (who are totally populist), Andrea Horwath’s campaign for the NDP and in “what’s wrong with Canadian theatre” conversations.

Towards a Dramaturgy of Resistance

In order to begin thinking about how to "revive" Canadian theatre, we must ask why we do it. In a world where theatre exists in the same capitalistic marketplace, and is a similar type of business venture as toy stores or restaurants, what is the theatre’s purpose? What has the theatre become in a world where anybody can choose theatre as their career and selling product?