For months, the frank theatre company and SFU have been planning a queer theatre conference called Q2Q: A Symposium on Queer Theatre and Performance in Canada. Check out the line-up. It’s phenomenal.
The conference, which runs at SFU Woodwards’ Goldcorp Centre for the Arts from today, July 20, to July 24, features a number of two-hour roundtable discussions. Subjects include, “Acts of Faith”, which is about religion and secularism in queer theatre, and “Across Generations”, which will explore forms of queer kinship.
Each of these roundtables will feature six or seven presenters, and the talent pool is more like a talent lake. Local playwrights Shawn MacDonald, Berend Mackenzie, C.E. Gatchalian, and Dave Deveau will all be there. National figures including d’bi.young anitafrika, evalyn parry, Sky Gilbert, and Brad Fraser will also contribute.
There will also be a series of play readings called “Clean Sheets”. All three of those offerings look fascinating.
In Camera Obscura (Hungry Ghosts), playwright Leslie Ewen, who used to call Vancouver home but now lives in London, takes Vancouver visual artist Paul Wong as her protagonist.
In Andre and Xavier BB for the First Time, writer Chris Lam spins a tale of murder and ghosts.
And, in Dinner at Le Fag & Dyke, Sky Gilbert and Sarah Garton Stanley, who have both headed the hugely influential Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto, challenge the idea that a fag and a dyke can’t relate.
See? Phenomenal: a queer scholarly wet dream.
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