The joys of editing—and getting thanked for it
Full disclosure: this post is essentially an ad for my substantive editing services. You've been warned. 🙂 But, you know, read it anyway; you never know when you're going to need a good editor. Okay, here goes. I'm not one of those guys who gets all self-effacing...
Being reborn the Radix way
This is another note about my experience of Radix Theatre's TBD, which was inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It's over now, but it was an immersive theatrical experience in which participants were guided through an imaginary process of dying, negotiating the...
I was dead for 17 days and I have been reborn for 2
I really like this dying thing. I've been participating in TBD, Radix Theatre's immersive theatrical experience. It's based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which is all about guiding the soul through death to rebirth. Every day for 21 days, folks from the theatre...
Get yourself a writing mentor through Vancouver Manuscript Initiative
Hey writers. Through a program called Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, you can get yourself a personal mentor. And the mentors are pretty great. They include: Karen X. Tulchinsky (screenplays), Claudia Casper (novels), and Shaena Lambert (novels and short stories). The...
Heather Redfern: yay!
I want to give a shout-out to Heather Redfern, the executive director at the Cultch. Already, this fall, I've seen three remarkable shows in Cultch venues. The Australian acrobats who performed A Simple Space at the York reminded me of the wild joy of being in a body....
Cock and Nirbhaya provide vastly different experiences
I've got two very different shows to recommend this week. Mike Bartlett's Cock is a comedy about an existential crisis of sexual identity. John has been living with M, an older man, but falls in love—much to his surprise—with W, a woman. John can't choose, so he keeps...
Story structure is liberating. Really!
Hot tickets going fast. BUY NOW for A Simple Space.
As I write this, there are just a few seats left for the remaining performances of A Simple Space, the fantastic acrobatic show from Australia. A Simple Space closes this weekend. The last shows are on October 24. So go to the Cultch's website right now and SNAP UP...
A Simple Space will make your body sing
A Simple Space is all about pleasure in the body. Gravity & Other Myths, the elegantly minimalist acrobatic troupe from Australia is so playfully athletic that the kids in your life will totally—and innocently—dig their show. And A Simple Space is so essentially...
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