Racism at the birth of Rock n’ Roll, The Ballad of the Young Offender plays at Sidemart’s Theatrical Grocery in Toronto
Crow’s Theatre‘s desire to be the central hub for theatre in the East End is off to a great start. They’re opening a new space in 2016 and to introduce themselves and make their presence known to the Leslieville/Riverdale area, they’ve launched The East End Performance Crawl — a series of site specific solo performances running the stretch of Queen Street East from Broadview to Greenwood on now until Sunday, June 1.
Part of the Crawl is the zany and eye-opening show The Ballad of the Young Offender which features Kyle Gatehouse as blues connoisseur and rock music historian Johnny Hyacinth. His story is of the legendary (but fictional) bluesman Sonny St. You and his trial for inciting rebellion in young people during that critical time when electricity met folk music to create Rock n’ Roll.
There’s a Lot to Love in A Baker’s Dozen, at the Toronto Fesival of Clowns
Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub. Except in this case, the Baker was found dead, his husband the Butcher is on trial, and the Candlestick Maker is another complicated layer.
In Baker’s Dozen, Adam Francis Proulx transforms one puppet into the twelve members of the jury. These are the individuals who must decide the Butcher’s fate, and we as the audience are let into their thoughts while the court case unfolds. They struggle with the mystery of Baker’s death, their own personal problems, a flawed judicial system, their fellow jurors, their attention spans, their intolerance of people unlike themselves, and so forth.
Love and Human Remains is dark, scandalous, and scintillating, playing at Unit 102 Theatre in Toronto
Dark, dense and more delicious than a 7-layer black forest cake, Love & Human Remains is now onstage at Unit 102 Theatre in Toronto. An amazing collective of artists known as Witchboy Theatre came together to mount this acclaimed play. Written by Canadian Brad Fraser, Love & Human Remains was named one of the top 10 plays of the year by TIME magazine when it debuted in 1989. Missing this particular production would be like missing a weekend at the cottage after a 10-month long Edmonton winter. Continue reading Review: Love & Human Remains (Witchboy Theatre)→
I doubt it’s news to anybody that there’s a ton of condos being built all over town. That’s why I was so happy to hear that Crow’s Theatre was bucking the condo trend by creating a new space in Leslieville, slated to open in 2016. As a hello to the neighbourhood, they’re running a theatre festival called the East End Performance Crawl.
It’s a series of shows taking place in found spaces (that is, not inside theatres) while they’re waiting for their new home to open. They’ve got a lot of cool shows participating in the festival. Some of them are listed below, but there’s a lot more on their website. Some shows are free, some are only $15 – they even have a 5 shows for $50 offer! So come out to support the East End Performance Crawl, and see some Cheap Theatre!
Dark humour brings an edge to traditional yoga in Through the Gaze of a Navel part of the East End Performance Crawl
There are people who love doing yoga. There are people who hate doing yoga. Then, there are people (like me) who like doing it occasionally, but can’t quite buy into the spirituality and ritual nature of the whole practice. Sure, I’ll give the stretch my best shot, but my inner cynic never quite shuts up. Find my inner light? Yeah, I’ll get right on that.
Through The Gaze of a Navel is a “performance in the form of a yoga class”, taking place as part of the East End Performance Crawl. And instead of asking you to hide your cynical feelings about the process, the instructor/performer, Emilia Symington Fedy, goes ahead and expresses them for you. Throughout the hour-long show/class, Symington Fedy parodies the rituals that we follow to find inner peace, both inside and outside the yoga studio.
