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‘Brown Butter’ Heals from the Inside Out

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  • Review
  • Uncategorized

Something is brewing at Agnes Etherington’s former home. Correction: something is rising, proofing, marinating, braising, and burning at the Agnes.

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In conversation with Mariah Horner: SPAF, Neighbourhood, and the Macarena

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  • Festival
  • Interview
  • News
  • Skeleton Park Arts Festival

“If I hear another friggin’ theatre thing where someone tells me that we’re all family, I will just run, turn the other way and run. The interesting thing: I was not met with that kind of language with SPAF, but I was definitely met with the actual feeling of being a part of the family. The amount of people that lived around the park that actually offered me their actual bed to rest in during the festival, or their bathroom to use, or food to make like—I have never been a part of an arts event, a theatre event, that extended that kind of awareness of neighborhood.”

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What do technology, absurdism, and game shows have in common? Find out with PeerLess Productions.

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  • News
  • Peerless Productions

We’re All in Jeopardy is PeerLess Productions most adventurous show yet. The unique mixed-abilities theatre company returns with this multimedia comedy that was birthed from collective creation. An inter-disciplinary performance, a fictional group of local celebrities compete on a rigged game show to support make believe Kingston restaurants that have been impacted by the pandemic. The surreal spoof, directed by Kathryn MacKay with music by David Archibald, features more than […]

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Contracts as Dialogue, as Conversation. Contracting as Maybe, Possibly, Ethical.

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  • FoLDA
  • Industry
  • Kingston Theatre Alliance
  • News
  • Spiderwebshow

I was once told that a contract is meant to be a conversation, and hopefully, a dialogue. Yet it is rarely treated as such.  In reality, a contract often brings up feelings of fear. Perhaps these anxieties regarding contracts come from a worry that one may misunderstand the legal jargon, or maybe it comes from an understanding of a history of manipulation and deception. Contracts as we know it, and […]

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Now Hiring: Producer of SWIRLS

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  • Kingston Theatre Alliance
  • News
  • Single Thread Theatre Co
  • Spiderwebshow

Project Description: SWIRLS: a series of workshops held around Kingston as a collaborative setting for meaningful engagement to improve artists’ digital literacy and enhance their capabilities in using AR/VR as an art form. In-person and virtual workshops will bring together a wide array of artists working within different artistic disciplines. The workshops will be experiments in providing learning opportunities while creating a context that makes for creative sparks to happen. […]

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Now Hiring: Associate Theatre Critic

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  • Kingston Theatre Alliance
  • News

The Performance Blog is a primary resource for audience members, artistic collaboration, critical dialogue, and industry contacts. Our platform consolidates events, news, artists, and organizations in the Southeastern area in an accessible and accountable manner that the region has never seen before. Led by the Editor, the writing team is looking for passionate individuals who are committed to questioning who and what criticism is FOR. Job Description The Associate Theatre […]

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Black History Movement and the Importance of Framing

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  • Review

While some pieces of theatre find their footing in fiction, others find meaning and shape in the staging of true events. In the last stretch of this past Black History Month, an example of the latter came in the telling of an essential piece of American and Canadian Black history. JOSIAH, co-created by director Charles Robertson and sole performer Cassel Miles, was a multi-disciplinary dip into the life of Josiah […]

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TLDR: PXR Was Cool

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  • PXR Symposium
  • Single Thread Theatre Co

[TLDR is an abbreviation for ‘too long; didn’t read’, usually followed by a brief synopsis] If the pandemic has taught us anything in the last year and a half, it has been how to adapt. While an inability to gather has seen the closing of countless theatres, some companies have turned to the internet as a means of staying afloat. By broadcasting performances and moving programming online, digitizing became a […]

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Writing a Land Acknowledgement for Dummies, I mean Settlers

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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 […]

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Reclamation and Celebration in the County

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  • Festival Players
  • News
  • Review

Somewhere in the vast Prince Edward County (located west of Kingston and spanning roughly 1,050 square kilometres), a tented proscenium theatre stands before sprawling fields and a signature red barn. In addition to offering a decadent cheeseboard or glass of vino from one of the county’s many wineries, this space also recently offered a contemporary dance festival, and with no less flavour. Performed at The Eddie Hotel and Farm’s BMO […]

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Now Hiring: Assistant Theatre Critic

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Aitch Arr: Queen’s Students Present Innovative and Entertaining Opera Digitally

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  • News
  • Queen's University

When we imagine opera, we think of majestic, luxurious theatres revolving around an artistic tradition that has spanned since the 16th Century. Rarely would we imagine opera to present itself as five-minute iterations presented digitally.  Yet, on March 16th, the Musical Theatre Ensemble at Queen’s University, a course facilitated through the Dan School of Drama and Music, digitally presented Aitch Arr, a mini-opera created by Afarin Mansouri and Donna-Michelle St. […]

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