The queer GGs
It's a good year for queer artists at the Governor General's Awards: FOUR queer artists were honoured when the prizes were announced on Tuesday—and two of them are from Vancouver. Jordan Tannahill, who's based in Toronto, won in Drama for Age of Minority: Three Solo...
Hey lady, got a play? Send it to Ruby Slippers
Are you a female playwright? Want to get a public reading of your script? Then you should know that Ruby Slippers Theatre, in conjunction with the Vancouver Fringe Festival and Equity in Theatre have got a little somethin' goin' on. It's called "Advance Theatre: New...
Go see Saint Joan
What to see this weekend? That would still be Saint Joan, which is on at the Stanley until November 23. Don't wait until the last minute though; if there's any justice in the world, it will sell out. Director Kim Collier brings the intelligent but talky text to vivid,...
Jordan Tannahill writes plays for and about queer youth
When I interviewed young queer playwright Jordan Tannahill about Late Company, which Touchstone is presenting at the Firehall November 21 to 30, he also told me about Age of Minority, the trilogy of plays that earned him a GG nomination this year. All three solo plays...
Two great shows to see this weekend
They're really different and they're both really good: Saint Joan at the Stanley and Hunter Gatherers at the Havana. Saint Joan is a great big show loaded with serious talent and serious ideas (George Bernard Shaw-size ideas). I've been getting flak on straight.com...
What to see this weekend: The Rainmaker, and Our Town
The best shows running this weekend are both American classics: The Rainmaker and Our Town. The Rainmaker's script is odd: naive and sophisticated at once. It's the poetry that makes that combo work—that and Pacific Theatre's elegant, warmhearted production. The...
The Cultch, your theatre destination this weekend
This weekend, the Cultch has the two best shows in town: Ronnie Burkett's The Daisy Theatre and Deanna Fleysher's Butt Kapinski. Butt Kapinski is a participatory clown show. Don't be a wuss. Show up and play. You'll feel liberated. Fleysher sticks her hand into gender...
Save the English language: learn the difference between “to lie” and “to lay”
When I'm working as an editor, one of the mistakes I see most often is the misuse of to lie and to lay. I'm a substantive editor in the publishing world and a story editor (same thing) in the movie world. I help writers to build and shape their narratives. Grammar...
Watch your Butt
You know how laughter sometimes just keeps spooling out of you, like it's this great, long silken rope and you can't believe how much of it there is? Like you just sit there helplessly and shake while it keeps unraveling? Kids laugh like that all the time. And that's...
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