Slapping People, ACTRA Meetings, and Dog Shit
At one point, I was sleeping with so many actresses that they used to just hold ACTRA meetings in my bedroom.
At one point, I was sleeping with so many actresses that they used to just hold ACTRA meetings in my bedroom.
“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.
If the Freedom Convoy has answered one question for every Canadian, I think it’s this: whatever happened to that dumb kid in my class?
If waving a Fuck Trudeau flag is a legit way to get a meeting with him, I’m gonna start waving my Fuck Scorsese flag wherever I go and keep my fingers crossed.
If Canadian Theatre were to say, “it’s not you, it’s me,” it would be true. But has that line ever actually made anyone feel better?
“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?”
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.
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.
Justine Abigail Yu interviews Alison Wong on the creation and artistic significance of ‘nowhen,’ part of Canadian Stage’s Dream in High Park programming.
If we can understand the world in terms of intersectionality, can we not achieve great things through that lens, as opposed to thinking, we have to be inclusive – because inclusive of what and for whom?
We are thrilled to introduce you to the newest Artistic Directors who will be joining Canada’s arts leadership in 2021!
This year’s recipient for the Nathan Cohen Award for Excellence in Critical Writing: Outstanding Emerging Critic is Robyn Grant-Moran!
We all have demons inside of us. We all have those monstrous thoughts, but what is it about our circumstances that allows us to act on them?
“It may be over a hundred years ago when The Cherry Orchard was written and first performed, but there is nothing about it that is passé.”
My feelings about oatmeal are pretty simple. If I am not camping or in prison, I’m not fucking eating it.
Our stories aren’t confined to one stage, one month, or one nation—whether that of our current home, or the lands our roots reach back to.