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iPhoto caption: Kailin Brown in the Broadway National Tour of Chicago. Photo by Jeremy Daniel.
I’m not a woman, I just play one
“As a performer, my job is to play a character, and if that character is right for me it doesn’t matter what gender they are,” writes non-binary actor Kailin Brown. “What matters is that I can make a difference in someone’s life who can relate to the character, or to me as the actor.”
iPhoto caption: Images courtesy of Ottawa Fringe.
For Trip the Light Collective, Ottawa Fringe ‘is a sandbox of creativity’
“Fringe is really like a sandbox for creativity,” says the award-winning collective. “[We’re] seeing where we can go outside of the box. It’s stories we want to tell and it's stories that reflect our experience.”
iPhoto caption: Photo of Brendan Healy by Dahlia Katz.
In Canadian Stage’s latest project, Brendan Healy ponders his own queer inheritance
“So much of the conversation around AIDS is around absence and what we lost,” says Canadian Stage artistic director Brendan Healy. “But we haven’t lost everybody. There are survivors and there are people who are living with HIV, thriving. [The Inheritance] is a space for an audience, for a society, to just be with presence.”
REVIEW: Trace at Theatre Passe Muraille/ReDefine Arts
Sharp, personal, and deeply moving, Trace at Theatre Passe Muraille doesn’t quite fit under a single label. It’s a solo show, yes, but it’s a solo show featuring a large...