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.
Eating With Lola; a play with puppets at Toronto’s Glad Day Bookshop & benefit for Brave New Girls
The first thing that caught my eye about Sulong Theatre’s Eating With Lola when I saw the event listing was that it was “directed by The Puppetmongers’ Ann Powell.” I like puppets.
I also saw that it is a benefit run for an organization called Brave New Girls which helps queer women recover from trauma. I found no real information on what the story was about, but puppets-plus-good-cause was enough to raise my interest. Continue reading Review: Eating With Lola (Sulong Theatre)→
Exciting new Toronto theatre with Tarragon’s socially relevant and well-realized This Is War
This Is War, playing in the Tarragon Extra Space, is about Canadian forces in Afghanistan and is loosely based on a true incident that involved the Afghan National Forces as well as the Taliban. The show is structured around the media interviewing the soldiers after their return home about the incident, with most of the story told in flashbacks, but the military action itself is secondary to the interpersonal drama between the characters. While the incident is true, this drama is obviously fictional and is and meant to portray the incredibly high stress of life in such conditions, and the incredibly high stakes that decisions made under such stress can have. Continue reading Review: This Is War (Tarragon)→
