Behind The Scenes At Ontario’s Theatres
- Buddies In Bad Times Theatre was notified that the Rhubarb Festival would not receive project funding from Canadian Heritage’s Building Communities Through Art and Heritage program. Most troubling, there was no clear indication of why they did not meet the criteria for funding
- The writing team (composer Scott Christian, lyricist Wade Bogert-O’Brien, book writer Kevin Shea) of A Misfortune, premiering next month at the Toronto Fringe Festival’s Next Stage Festival, shared a playlist of the music that inspired their writing on Acting Up Stage Company’s Musical Notes
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| All The Ladies by Sasha Kleinplatz from Buddies In Bad Times' Rhubarb Festival 2013 |
Conversation Starters
- Jacob Zimmer argued on Minor Expletives & Better Questions that the Buddies’ Rhubarb Festival news was a case of “community” and “engagement” being turned against art outside the mainstream, and asks a question nobody seems to know how to answer
- “Our job is not to give people what they want but what they need”—is it a false and unhelpful comparison as argued by Nina Simon on Museum 2.0? Or does it require clear distinctions as argued by Diane Ragsdale on Jumper?
- In Edmonton, the Theatre Network production of Colleen Murphy’s new play Pig Girl inspired by the serial murders in British Columbia of sex workers (mostly native women), triggered a significant debate on race, voice, respect, and artistic freedom—and the morality of storytelling
- Holger Syme wonders on dispositio if we have a problem with actor training in Canada?
TO Toasts
- Congratulations to all of the recipients of the Capital Critics Circle Awards, including John P. Kelly (Talent Bank member and director of best professional theatre production November from Seven-Thirty Productions), Ottawa Little Theatre (Best community theatre production for Steel Magnolias), Rona Waddington (past Shaw Intern Director and winner of best director—professional for St. Lawrence Shakespeare Festival’s Hamlet) and Joan Sullivan Eady (past Festival best director and winner of best director—community for OLT’s All My Sons)
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