Actor Training in Canada: An Appeal for Change
Our current massive industry shakedown presents an opportunity—and a responsibility—to revisit and challenge the practices and bedrock values of professional training in this country.
When Blind Casting Isn’t Enough
“From the moment I decided I wanted to act in the fifth grade until my graduation from theatre school twelve years later, I never had the opportunity to play a character that was written for someone who looks like me.”
10 Reasons Two Actors Wouldn’t Survive the 1600s
Actors Ghazal Azarbad and Paolo Santalucia each give five reasons they wouldn’t have survived the 1600s.
Teenagers from This Year’s Paprika Festival on What They Want to See More of on Toronto Stages
Six young artists involved in the Paprika Festival tell us what kind of theatre they want to see more of.
The Problem With “The Show Must Go On”
When I reflect on the number of artists I know who suffer from mental health issues, and the unique stressors that come with our profession, the resources available to us and the awareness we have about public services feel meagre and insufficient.
Disability, Represented
I cannot deny being moved by some of those performances, but that doesn’t minimize the reality of appropriation.
7 Things You Might Become in Love
I’ll never be finished learning about love because it isn’t one sole feeling; it is complex, capable of carrying contradiction.
Empowered or Objectified? Women, Sex, and The ’94 Club
How much of what we do as sexual beings is dictated by what society around us expects us to do?
Forever Emerging
If my art has plateaued—if I have plateaued, if I never become professional—how do I move forward?
The Case for Accepting Unsolicited Scripts
That my play was even considered by a theatre I had no prior relationship with now seems like a tremendous luxury.
Digital Playgrounds
I always planned for my coding and artistic work to stay separate. Coding would feed my bank account, while art would feed my soul. But, surprisingly, coding has influenced my art. It’s opening doors to worlds I never imagined entering.
The Five Most Essential Canadian Punk Bands
Punk is a weird genre. Borne out of bored kids. Borne out of angry kids. Borne out of art schools and shopping malls. Borne out of class wars and suburban skate parks.
Making Words Sing
Our world overflows with songs. Many of us live our lives with songs pumping into our ears; we walk, run, drive, fly, work, play, and love to songs.
Lessons from the Mountain
You’d think it would be easy to at least see your destination on a mountain: your aim is to get to the top. But a lot of mountains have false peaks. Quite often, people will hike for hours to something they think is the top, only to discover that the true peak is higher.
A Deceptive Dinner
The reality is that the turkey is actually chicken.
Oka, Ipperwash, Caledonia, Standing Rock
I was thirteen, living with a Mohawk mom who had somehow taken on my stepfather’s racist opinions, and Canada had just shot an unarmed protester. I changed then.