Dorianne is a graduate of the Theatre and Drama Studies joint program between University of Toronto, Erindale campus and Sheridan College. She writes short stories, plays and screenplays and was delighted to be accepted into the 2010 Diaspora Dialogues program and also to have her short story accepted into the 2011 edition of TOK: Writing The New Toronto collection. She is also a regularly contributing writer on http://www.sexlifecanada.ca. You can follow her on twitter @headonist if you like tweets about cats, sex, food, queer stuff and lefty politics.
Theatre artist Katie Sly has returned from Vancouver to present their play Serenity Wild at the Summerworks Festival. Sly is a significant figure in the vanguard of exploring sex and sexuality onstage.
True Crime delves into the mind of a convicted murderer, on stage in Toronto
In True Crime, the current offering from Crow’s Theatre, Torquil Campbell delves into the dark side of his own psyche via his fascination with convicted murderer, kidnapper and impostor Christian Gerhartsreiter, aka Clark Rockefeller, among other aliases. Shifting between an impersonation of Gerhartsreiter and his first person narrative detailing the creation of the play, Campbell explores what compels them both to do the things they do. Continue reading Review: True Crime (Crow’s Theatre)→
Soulpepper presents Crawlspace, Karen Hines’ dark comedic play about homeownership in Toronto
If I ever had any regrets about my resignation to never own property, Karen Hines’ Crawlspace has effectively banished them. In her dark tale of home ownership in Toronto, playing at Soulpepper, Hines relates real estate horror that is all too true. Continue reading Review: Crawlspace (Soulpepper)→
Everything Is Great Again is funny, touching, and nuanced, and on stage in Toronto
The world is a bit of a mess these days. It always has been, but a couple of key events have made fighting the good fight feel even more exhausting. We’ve got to keep our fists up, but to do that sometimes we also need to laugh, and to cry, and to scream fruitlessly into the abyss. Everything Is Great Again,Second City‘s current Mainstage Revue, delivers catharsis on all of those levels. Continue reading Review: Everything Is Great Again (Second City)→
Elephant Girls is an entertaining, gender-bending piece of theatre, on stage in Toronto
In post war era London, an all female gang called the Forty Elephants were notorious for theft and extortion. Now Margo MacDonald, as both playwright and performer, brings them to life in in Elephant Girls, onstage at Red Sandcastle theatre as part of The Wilde Festival.
With intimidating poise and a sly script that balances between understated pathos and thrilling adventure, MacDonald’s show is sure to please anyone with an interest in history, queerness, or just an entertaining seventy minutes in the theatre. Continue reading Review: Elephant Girls (Red Sandcastle Theatre)→
Ghost Rings, part of the Luminato Festival in Toronto, is “whimsical” and “wonderfully wild”
In partnership with 
Soulpepper presents Wildfire a new play by Judith Hompson and Toronto’s RARE Theatre
True Crime delves into the mind of a convicted murderer, on stage in Toronto
If I ever had any regrets about my resignation to never own property, Karen Hines’ 
This unique take on the Chekhov classic is “polished” and “nuanced”, on stage in Toronto