Articles by Stephanie
Last, last, last Friday was a DRAG
- Review
Accompanied by local favourites Rowena Whey, Tyffanie Morgan, Lilith Cain, Mimi Osa, and Rane St. Cloud, Rowena Whey presents: Icesis Couture marks the headliner’s return to Kingston as Canada’s next Drag superstar. But take everything you learned from Drag Race and throw it out the window. The hit reality competition television show is an incredibly popular point of contact for Drag culture at large, but don’t expect the drama, spectacle, and competition you see onscreen onstage.
Writing a Land Acknowledgement for Dummies, I mean Settlers
- Industry
- News
Land acknowledgements have become too ritualistic, like eating three meals a day or having sex with your wife. I fall somewhere between the first and second generations on this land, and flat on the understanding that this land was not meant for me. The prosperity of my family follows the promised immigrant livelihood of playing by the rules, of keeping your head down and your foot forward. My acceptance into […]
Through (cyber) space and time – Ways of Being
- Festival
- Kick & Push Festival
- Kingston Theatre Alliance
- Review
On a Saturday morning, I was handed a chair. By the afternoon, I was sitting on the floor. Every audience member arrives with something different, and Clayton Lee and Michael Rubenfeld are asking for it. Ways of Being, the last addition to this summer’s Kick & Push Festival, is a performance project in-progress “made in the moment, with whoever is in attendance.” Two artists, two time zones, two audiences—how lucky […]
Escaping escapism – Studio 013’s ‘Cranz and Bernardo’
- Festival
- Kick & Push Festival
- Kingston Theatre Alliance
- Review
- Storefront Fringe Festival
- Theatre Kingston
n’s Storefront Fringe, supported in part by the Kick & Push Festival, with their misguided attempt at existential absurdity created and directed by Tyler Mathews. Although Cranz and Bernardo goes places, and with fervour, it does so in no specific direction.
Music as a lifeline – ‘Beneath Springhill’ at the Six Feet Festival
- Festival Players
- Review
Created and performed by Beau Dixon, Beneath Springhill: The Maurice Ruddick Story follows the story of Maurice Ruddick (or “the singing miner”), an African-Canadian who survived the 1958 mining disaster when an underground earthquake hit Springhill, Nova Scotia. Originally premiering at the Thousand Islands Playhouse, this multi-award-winning play (directed by Linda Kash) now marks the return of the Festival Players’ Six Feet Festival at the Eddie Hotel & Farm’s BMO Pavilion.
Of loss and listening – Theatre Passe Muraille’s Speculation at FoLDA
- Festival
- FOLDA
- Review
- Spiderwebshow
Fn (dir. Alex Bulmer and Tristan Whiston) reflects on how Ting comes to terms with her and her mother’s respective urgency to be understood on their own terms, in conversation with the lives and works of composers John Cage and Beethoven.
Good Things To Do is technological poetry
- Festival
- FOLDA
- Review
- Spiderwebshow
Good Things To Do is an immersive virtual experience “blending dreamy sonic landscape, solitary physical environment and an unexpected use of technology” in order to explore the softness within ourselves the world demands we abandon. From its initial workshop implementing digital design into the live installation at foldA in 2018 to its adaptation for COVID-19 today, Good Things To Do’s full embrace of a computerized form is the very thing that potentiates the theatricality of dream logic.
Watershed’s New Works Showcase dives in head first
- Festival
- Queen's University
- Review
- Watershed Festival
The Watershed Festival continues to explore how and who exactly are the artists examining and developing music theatre as we know it. The New Works Showcase featured a series of upcoming projects at various stages of development from artists across the country, followed by a live Q & A with the creators.
Leading Ladies: Musique 3 Femmes at the Watershed Festival
- Festival
- Queen's University
- Review
- Watershed Festival
In a time of creative and collective upheaval, the inaugural Watershed Festival examines the integration of music, drama, dance, and design as musical theatre or opera, exploring those boundaries in order to revitalize the ways those artforms are practiced and understood.
Queen’s Players makes Cultural Studies scholars S[CREAM]!
- Queen's Players
- Queen's University
- Review
Turn on any device, log onto any platform, and you will immediately feel how saturated digital content has become. It’s near impossible to escape the overwhelming monotony of endless scrolling, nostalgia culture, and algorithms predicting your tastes before you even develop them.
Expressions of the electric – Digital Debris Festival 2020
- Festival
- Review
- St. Lawrence College
semester showcase illustrating what exactly the students are interested and capable of creating. The works we witness have been made by artists who are unseen outside of their work.
Old form, new frontiers – The Soundcastle at the Shortwave Radio Theatre Festival
- Festival
- Review
- Shortwave Radio Theatre Festival
In her new radio play The Soundcastle, Sarah Emtage explores what happens if a tree falls in a forest and somewhere, rather than someone, is around to hear it.