All posts by Wayne Leung

Wayne Leung (1981-2019) Wayne was the Managing Editor of Mooney on Theatre from 2012 - 2019 and will be sorely missed. His death from an apparent heart attack was a loss not just to Mooney on Theatre, but also to the Toronto Theatre Community at large. You can read our publisher Megan Mooney's tribute to him here here. Wayne was a writer, editor and corporate communications professional who was thrilled to be a part of the Mooney on Theatre team. Wayne loved theatre ever since his aunt brought him to a production of Les Misérables at the tender age of ten . . . despite the fact that, at that age, the show’s plot was practically indiscernible and the battle scenes scared the bejeezus out of him. Wayne’s current list of likes ran the gamut from opera, ballet and Shakespeare to Broadway musicals, circus and Fringe theatre. Outside of the theatre Wayne’s interests included travel, technology and food.

A Song for Tomorrow (New Harlem Productions & Eventual Ashes) 2012 SummerWorks Review

A Song for Tomorrow, playing as part of the 2012 SummerWorks Performance Festival, is playwright Christina Wong’s ode to her parents as well as a look at the immigrant experience.

The play opens on an old Chinese-Canadian couple, Ping (Jeff Yung) and May (Jasmine Chen). They bicker, argue, accuse each other of being “cold hearted” and can barely stand to be in the same room together.  Continue reading A Song for Tomorrow (New Harlem Productions & Eventual Ashes) 2012 SummerWorks Review →

Dutchman (lemonTree creations) 2012 SummerWorks Review

In 2008 after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States of America, commentators openly asked whether we had entered the era of a post-racial America. While we’re still far from being a post-racial society we have made huge strides since the 1960s when Dutchman, lemonTree creations’ SummerWorks play is set.

Dutchman is a site-specific production which takes place in an actual city bus parked in a back lot just off Ossington avenue and in case you’re wondering, this is definitely not Camp Schecky. Continue reading Dutchman (lemonTree creations) 2012 SummerWorks Review →

A Thousand Words (UnSpun Theatre) 2012 SummerWorks Review

There’s a phrase in popular internet parlance, often uttered incredulously in response to an outlandish statement, “Pics or it didn’t happen.” The phrase implies that photographic evidence must be produced to verify a claim. It’s the web-age equivalent of “seeing is believing.”

UnSpun Theatre and writer/director Chris Hanratty explore this concept against the backdrop of the war in Afghanistan in their SummerWorks play A Thousand Words. Continue reading A Thousand Words (UnSpun Theatre) 2012 SummerWorks Review →