You Should Have Stayed Home is the dramatic true story of a detainee during Toronto’s G20 riots playing at the Aki Studio Theatre
You Should Have Stayed Home is Tommy Taylor’s true account of being kettled, arrested, held in inhumane conditions for nearly 24 hours, and then let go with no charges laid in Toronto’s 2010 G20 debacle. Thousands of others received the same or similar treatment, which is hard for us Canadians to reconcile with our view of our society and our laws. This makes it a very important story to tell.
Taylor is a likeable guy, which I think is a huge part of why this show works. It’s storytelling, rather than a play: hardly anything is acted out on stage, mostly Taylor just tells the audience what happened to him. And what happened isn’t always easy to parse. If it were fiction, the plot would make more sense. But this is a true story that takes place in the midst of the chaos of the G20, and by chaos I’m not talking about broken windows or burning cars. I’m talking about the incomprehensible decision-making that happened at the upper echelons of police and security that day. Continue reading Review: You Should Have Stayed Home (Praxis Theatre)→
Mooney on Theatre is giving away a pair of ticketsto a preview performance of Monkeyman Productions’ The Nefarious Bed & Breakfast, playing at Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace, 16 Ryerson Avenue on Friday, October 25.
To be entered into the draw for a pair of tickets just send an email to contests@mooneyontheatre.com with the subject line “Nefarious Contest” by 7:00PM on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013.
360 Screenings returns with their upcoming and highly anticipated Halloween event
It’s a night at the movies cranked up to a higher level – where the silver screen blends, blurs and extends, absorbs you in and now you’re part of the adventure. It’s an experience you’re likely not to have had before.
And you won’t know what it is until you get there.
Robert Gontier and Ned Loach, the founding duo behind 360 Screenings, have been keeping audiences entranced and guessing for over a year with their innovative movie screening and theatrical performance in one. With a rapidly growing fan base increasing solely through word of mouth and the power of social media, their screenings have become one of the go to events to look out for in the city.
Soulpepper Theatre presents Farther West, a play about a woman’s journey for freedom, now playing at Toronto’s Young Centre
John Murrell’s play, Farther West, the Soulpepper production which opened last night, was first performed in 1982. I always wonder if an older play will stand the test of time; Farther West does.
You certainly can’t help but notice the stage as you go to your seat – a woman and a man asleep together, both of them naked. That’s more 1982 than 2013, there doesn’t seem to be as much nudity and sex in plays now. In the ’70s and early ’80s there was often nudity that felt gratuitous and a lot of gratuitous sex too.
The Canadian Opera Company kicks off their new season with a star-studded gala fundraiser for OperaNat10n: A Night of Temptation inspired by the works of Mozart
Canadian Opera Company gala fundraiser Operanation, a melange of art forms and pleasures designed to draw guests close to the company (and part them from their contributions, to be sure) draws inspiration from the COC’s upcoming season in creating an annual event theme. Operanat10n: A Night of Temptation is inspired by Così fan tutte, a popular comedic opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, coming to the COC in 2014 in a new production directed by Atom Egoyan. Operanat10n: A Night of Temptation immerses guests in the classic story of seduction, duplicity and love as elements of the opera are translated into food, fashion, music and art.
