I couldn’t have said it better – audience etiquette

By Megan Mooney

This article by Kris Joseph makes my heart sing.  It says all the things I have been trying to say for ages, but in such a great clear way, with excellent examples.

Thank you to Kris Joseph (@krisjoseph)for this, and thank you to Simon Ogden (@thenextstagemag) for pointing me to the article.

So, to reiterate…

GO READ THIS ARTICLE

Here are some excerpts:

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Free tickets to Toronto Fringe 2009 – As You Puppet

This marks the first of many fringe-ticket give-aways in the the days to come.

Just leave a comment below (be sure to include your email address in the email address field so I can reach you – it won’t show up to people coming to the site) sometime before Tuesday night at midnight (or, Wednesday morning at midnight, depending on the wording you prefer) to be entered into a draw for tickets.

Many more contests to come, I encourage you to enter as many of them as you can, I’m not limiting it at all, but please, one entry per person per contest.

The prize is 2 free tickets to the July 2nd performance of Hank’s Toybox Theatre’s “As You Puppet” at the 2009 Toronto Fringe Festival.  

So, two free tickets for the performance on July 2nd at 4:50 at the Palmerston Library Theatre.

More information about As You Puppet:

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Bent – Theatre Engine at the Abrams Studio Theatre

By Henry Smith

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I’ll start by saying that I am a huge fan of Martin Sherman’s Bent.  I did not expect the Theatre Engine production of it, playing at the Abrams Studio Theatre, to live up to my expectations.  But I was happily surprised; great performances, from a great script, made for a great evening of theatre.

Set in late 30’s Germany, it tells the story of a gay man’s journey from non-stop party in Berlin to his enduring the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau.

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Loot – Soulpepper Theatre Company

By John Bourke
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For some reason, even though I’m a theatre geek of long standing, have a more than passing interest in British comedy and would like to think of myself as having a certain hedonistic streak,  I had never heard of Joe Orton before this week. This is a shame really, because in Soulpepper’s Loot, he really seems to hit all those things right on the button.