A Message from Intermission’s Editors
May Antaki and Maija Kappler, co-founders and co-editors-in-chief of Intermission, are stepping down.
May Antaki and Maija Kappler, co-founders and co-editors-in-chief of Intermission, are stepping down.
Fiction about a real-world tragedy risks sensationalizing the events that remain painful for a lot of people. But they also provide the opportunity to explore human behaviour, to directly address the impacts of violence and trauma.
A playwright, an actor, a designer, and two theatre creators/performers talk about what it’s like working on a piece of theatre based, in some way, in reality.
“What do you do with desire in a marriage where you cannot fuck your husband without the consequences being disfigurement and death?”
Giants like Mirvish are able to bring shows across the country, and to attract other companies to Toronto. But other than the Fringe circuit, there are few similar opportunities for small performing arts companies.
“I wasn’t interested in telling a story as such, or having characters as such. For me it was about tapping into this kind of primal howl.”
“This is all I know. I’m not a lawyer, I’m not a doctor, I’m not a soldier. If the war comes, I’m fucked.”
“I had a little break before Shaw rehearsals started, and so my husband and I went to France to do the Joan pilgrimage.”
I’ve moved on. But the weight of what I am and who I am is still informed by something I’ve never talked about publicly.
The National Theatre School is implementing a four-year growth plan that will add a new artistic direction program, expand its Indigenous artist-in-residence program, and develop programs for young people.
“If you’re offended, that’s good, because I’m offended. This stuff in this play—the stuff in all my work—it turns my stomach. That’s why it’s compelling to me.”
Punch Up has “got a pretty dark premise, unless you tell it like a joke,” Kat Sandler says.
“I used to recite Shakespeare in my spare time. I was a strange child.”
How do actors cope when it feels like the world is ending?
What Will You Fall For?
Mike Pence could learn a lot from Hamilton, if he bothered to pay attention.
When actors are trained they are asked to wait: when one is finished, then the second will go. I had no training, so I kept interrupting.