2020 Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award Winners Announced
The Toronto Theatre Critics’ Awards announce the winners of the 2019-2020 season and set the date for the online awards ceremony.
The Toronto Theatre Critics’ Awards announce the winners of the 2019-2020 season and set the date for the online awards ceremony.
Here at Intermission we strongly believe that providing a platform for theatre artists to elaborate on the ideas behind the work they are making is important to establish a dialogue with current and potential audience members. This March we entered our fourth year, so we’re revisiting some of the work that has most spoken to our … Continued
It’s just interesting that the size of the theatre and the size of the budget is a deciding factor. Stratford has yet to have a woman lead the theatre in a solo fashion. And that day will come, I have no doubt.
Martha never thought she would be a director. As far as experience had taught her, directors were men. There were a few female directors that she was aware of, but it wasn’t the norm […] Directing jobs at The Grand and Tarragon followed, and Martha felt she always had to get over the initial hurdle of colleagues accustomed to only working with a male director. Technicians made fun of her if she asked what they felt was a stupid question, or ignored her if the question was smart
Though feminism had of course been around for years, it had become a pressing topic for their generation at that time. And as women working in the theatre. “We were trying to establish ourselves as people in an industry that usually looked upon us as less than,” says Martha, “and as adjuncts, and as supporters, and subordinates.”
“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.”
“We shouldn’t take ownership of something that’s publicly funded.”
I want to know what a director wants to see me do in a scene but not tell me how to do it.
Contemporary feminism is as complex, as diverse, as rich, and as paradoxical as are the humans who practise it.
I remembered each poem so intimately, so clearly, it was as if the play had etched itself into my heart and my brain ten years earlier; as if I had never put the script down since first touching it.
When you speak, Weyni follows your words like a map, as though she expects you to be profound, as though she believes that the next word you say might hold the key to an elusive treasure.
“Whenever we do disagree and negotiate, we’re able to do that in a way where things don’t just die.”
Actor-Turned-Director
Novice mountain climbers don’t usually start with Everest, but—in a way—that’s just what Jonathan Goad is doing.
“You think the writer’s going to go away and come back with blue, red, and green. But this is where art happens, because they come back with something plaid and on fire.”
What was it like to grow up with theatre artists as parents, and then make the choice to get into it yourself? Tyrone Savage and Tanya Rintoul tell all.
The Company Theatre’s John
We have the exclusive on The Company Theatre’s newest production: John, on stage in early 2017.