The Unexpected Impact of Expectation in Citadel Theatre’s The Fiancée
My expectations are high. It almost feels unfair. Just as my fellow patrons expect me to be some sort of fancy theatre critic, I sit in a fancy theatre and I expect a fancy show.
Finding the Familiar in Die-Nasty’s The Stroganoffs
The building shakes. The whole audience has joined in, one joyful scream in a darkened theatre. This. This is familiar.
Microdosing Normalcy: The Bittersweet Return Home to Hadestown on Broadway
To return to a Canada still starved of this normalcy feels wrong; acrid; frustrating. When I get back to Toronto (or, let’s be real, North York), I’ll simply have to tell my friends and colleagues about the magic of a packed theatre, rows and rows of masks, applause, closeness. They won’t get to feel it themselves for a few months yet, it seems
A Wild Ride Home with Jason Kenney’s Hot Boy Summer
We aren’t laughing about the events of the past two years. We aren’t even laughing at Jason Kenney himself. We’re simply laughing together.
How to Return Home: Dear Evan Hansen at TIFF
In my heart there is anger; sadness; grief for my more naïve self. Because after Dear Evan Hansen, I do not feel as if I’ve been found, as the film’s tagline so bravely promised I would be. I feel instead as if I’ve been left behind to atrophy in the Music Box Theatre some five hundred miles away, a nineteen-year-old ghost in an echoing auditorium.
When the Playwright Goes Prose: In Conversation with Jordan Tannahill
The Listeners is not a cult narrative, or a Stephen King-wannabe, or a Lolita aftershock — Tannahill’s second novel is a triumph all its own, posing urgent (and at times beautiful) questions against a distressing context of disinformation.
How to Return Home: Blindness by Simon Stephens
As in-person Toronto theatre slowly re-opens, Intermission’s Editors will be sharing personal reflections on the realities of being back in the theatre. These are not criticisms or reviews. They are not blog posts. They are memories of being caught in the middle of a theatre renaissance. They are an archive. They are history.
Inside the Triumph of the 2021 Toronto Fringe
“We’re coming back. We’re coming back stronger.”
Theatre Passe Muraille Asks: “How Do We Connect”?
A figure dancing across a historic building. A multi-sensory experience to navigate within your own home. Theatre Passe Muraille presents two unconventional, collaborative pieces that ask audiences, “How do we connect”?
Tips for Making Better Zoom Theatre: Part 2, The Nitty Gritty
We’ve been privileged enough to witness the birth of a brand-new artform: live digital performance. This art form can only grow and improve as the digital tools to share it grow more powerful.
Tips for Making Better Zoom Theatre: Part 1, The Big Picture
I want to be clear here: I’m not trying to echo that theatre-bro you went to school with who kept posting about how Shakespeare wrote 31 plays and 80 sonnets during the plague of London.
How ‘The Show That Changed My Life’ Revived My Optimism
Watching The Show That Changed My Life reminds me that theatre is what we make it.
Looping You In: Theatre and the Magical World of ADR
This first experience taught me that theatre and ADR shared some vital purposes: storytelling, character expression and crucial believability in conveying dialogue.
Captioning the Stream: Accessibility and Inclusion in Zoom Theatre
Equity and access – the questions we keep asking during this time of remote theatre.
Equity and access – the ongoing puzzle Canadian theatre en masse has been unable to solve.
Essential Work
The live performance of Quiver seems a distant memory, a relic of the less suffocating weeks of COVID-19 restrictions. Almost like a miracle, Quiver was performed in the brief moment of time when it was possible.
At the Tip of the Point of a Sword
Whether a dashing sword fight or full-out pummel, fight scenes often occur at pivotal moments in the script, revealing characters at their most primal, emotionally heightened states.