Getting Ready for Fringe 2022: In Conversation with Lucy Eveleigh
“This festival feels like a huge opportunity for us to figure out how we’re going to build back,” says Eveleigh.
Speaking Vibrations: In Conversation with Jo-Ann Bryan and Carmelle Cachero
If you go to a theatre, your aim is to take in, and enjoy what you’re watching, signed Bryan. It needs to be accessible for all of that.
“A Big Patchwork Blanket Stuck to the Skin”: In Conversation with Bâtardes ’ Chloé and Jade Barshee
No, she’s never been to Tibet, no, she doesn’t speak the language, yes, she’s from Quebec.
“Pearle Is My Superpower”: In Conversation with Justin Miller (AKA Pearle Harbour) and John Turner
“Audiences tend to focus on the loveable parts of Pearle. But there are deep and dark parts, too. I wanted to make her go through it,” says Justin Miller, creator of Pearle Harbour.
“Retribution without Apology”: In Conversation with Is God Is Assistant Director daniel jelani ellis
“The centre of this piece is not the pain and the suffering and the trauma. It’s the transformation of that: a full expression of rage.”
At the Confluence of Many Worlds: In Conversation with Crypto’s Guillaume Côté
“I’m not afraid of combining things that don’t always go together logically,” says Crypto creator Guillaume Côté.
Interdependent (And Published!) Magic: In Conversation with Jessica Watkin
This isn’t necessarily an anthology you can bring into a classroom to read together. It’s not Hamlet, and it’s not George F. Walker.
“Breaking, But Not With Age”: In Conversation with Crazy Smooth on In My Body at Canadian Stage
“The timeline of your body is different from the timeline of your spirit, and there’s a world where if everything is aligned right, certain rules don’t apply anymore,” says Yvon Soglo, AKA Crazy Smooth.
When the Playwright Goes Prose: In Conversation with Haley McGee
My process with solo shows involves sharing bits of text with audiences when I don’t really know where it’s going, or how it’s going to end. I’m pivoting myself to the responses from the audience — I sniff out where I want to go, and how I want to shape the piece. Through creating solo shows, I discovered how much I love this direct, unfettered relationship with an audience.
Unearthing the Joy in Black History: In Conversation with Luke Reece on 1851: Spirit and Voice
“I want audiences to see Black joy through these historical figures, and not just see the trauma,” says playwright Luke Reece.
Next Stage 2022: In Conversation with Nowadays Theatre’s Mohammad Yaghoubi
“Next Stage’s structured and positive approach has always inspired us to come back,” said Yaghoubi in an interview with Intermission.
Bringing Back the Backspace: In Conversation with Marjorie Chan and Charissa Wilcox
We wanted an opportunity for more flexible seating so you could have different configurations — we wanted technical upgrades and general upgrades also. Later we recognized the need in the community to have a dance-friendly space. So that’s a need that we’ve found and added. Like with any kind of process, I think we started with an idea and started to break that down. I think we’re still in that process.
‘Grappling with Permanence’: In Conversation with Lessons in Temperament
“It’s beautiful and strange, the permanence of it,” says Cushman of Lessons in Temperament. “Every time we chose a take, we had to be, like, ‘okay, that’s the way it is forever.’ We’ve really been grappling with permanence in relation to it.”
Into the Unknown: In Conversation with DLT’s Daniele Bartolini
“We need to re-establish a dialogue with our spectators. We need to establish a creative dialogue with them. The community of spectators and artists need to be together and have an exchange. It’s about bringing people outside, and making people safe, of course, but leading them to the threshold, to let go, to walk towards the unknown.”
Buddies in (Not-So-Bad) Times: In Conversation with Daniel Carter
“I mean… what does it actually look like to create work? To produce work? To move into a production? We’re constantly working with these finite resources — time, money, space — and so a lot of our internal reflection has been looking at how do we make this process of making and sharing art more human? More flexible, more adaptable to being a human?”
In Caw-nversation with Crow’s Theatre’s Chris Abraham and Sherrie Johnson
We sat down — over Zoom, of course — with Artistic Director Chris Abraham and Executive Director Sherrie Johnson to chat all things Crow’s: where the company’s been, where it is now, and where it’s heading as the world makes sense of yet another new normal.
