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February 2012

Wednesday February 22, 2012
Confessions of the Other Woman - Shadbolt Centre for the Arts

Thursday February 23, 2012
Talking Stick Festival presents In a World Created by a Drunken God

Friday February 24, 2012
Galiano Literary Festival - 2012

Saturday February 25, 2012
red diva projects - Marie Clements, Michelle St. John, Women from DTES Centre

Tuesday February 28, 2012
The Leisure Society - Trafalgar Studios - UK

March 2012

Thursday March 1, 2012
Fred Wah - Versefest in Ottawa

Thursday March 1, 2012
The Kranky Reading Series - Raoul Fernandez, Jordan Abel, and Gurjinder Basran

Thursday March 1, 2012
Gordon - Morris Panych - Revue Stage

Thursday March 1, 2012
Where the Blood Mixes - Kevin Loring - Remai Arts Centre

Sunday March 4, 2012
In Absentia - Morris Panych - B Street Theatre

Tuesday March 6, 2012
The Leisure Society - François Archambault - Infinithéâtre

Friday March 9, 2012
Ms Thing - Vancouver Women in Film Festival - Embracing the Darkness

Saturday March 10, 2012
How To Write A Poem For The Queen: a workshop with the Parliamentary Poet Laureate

Wednesday March 21, 2012
BellaLuna's Fresco - Lucia Frangione - Shadbolt Centre and Cultch

Friday March 23, 2012
Words on the Water - Campbell River Writer's Festival 2012

Saturday March 31, 2012
Visual Poetry Presentation with derek beaulieu - A B Series

April 2012

Friday April 13, 2012
Bordertown Cafe - Kelly Rebar - Toledo Repertoire Theatre

Thursday April 19, 2012
Down Dangerous Passes Road - Michel Marc Bouchard - Encore Theatre

Tuesday April 24, 2012
The Real World? - Michel Tremblay -Tarragon Theatre

Monday April 30, 2012
M.A.C. Farrant at Banff Centre in 2012

May 2012

Tuesday May 1, 2012
Carmen Aguirre's Blue Box at The Cultch

Tuesday May 8, 2012
King Lear - NAC English Theatre Production

Wednesday May 23, 2012
The eh List Author Series: Michel Tremblay and Sheila Fischman

July 2012

Thursday July 19, 2012
Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival - 2012

September 2012

Tuesday September 18, 2012
Chickens - Lucia Frangione - Chemainus Theatre

Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje and Daniel Brooks - Theatre Passe Muraille

Divisadero: a performance

Produced by Necessary Angel
Produced in association with The Film Farm

Text by Michael Ondaatje
Directed by Daniel Brooks

Songs written and performed by Justin Rutledge
Featuring performances by Liane Balaban, Maggie Huculak, Tom McCamus, Amy Rutherford & Justin Rutledge

February 8th – 26th, 2012

Theatre Passe Muraille
16 Ryerson Avenue
Toronto, Ontario

Click Here to Buy Tickets or call 416 504 7529

Michael Ondaatje collaborates with Daniel Brooks to adapt his Governor Generals Award-winning novel, Divisadero. Following a highly successful run last season, this is Ondaatjes first full-length work for the stage in over two decades. Divisadero: a performanceis a violent and passionate narrative about how a single event powerfully shapes the lives of two sisters. Examining themes of memory, identity, love and the grip of the past on the present, it is an exploration of the intimate relationship between the speaker and the listener and of language’s ability to weave a magical spell. The production features original music written for the piece and performed by Juno-nominated singer/songwriter Justin Rutledge who is part of the ensemble cast which features Liane Balaban, Maggie Huculak, Tom McCamus, and Amy Rutherford. Divisadero: a performance is designed by Andrea Lundy, Alexander MacSween, and John Thompson.

Floating Up To Zero: Wheels Turning

Claudia Lapp gives a glowing review of Ken Norris’ Floating Up To Zero:

Inseparable from the writing life is the personal library: “These books that aren’t mine fill up the house…Sometimes I welcome them into the work itself. You must understand that I consider books as sacred. So much human life has gone into them.” (These Books). Diverse feminine portraits abound – a list of ex lovers and wives, their names “street signs of the road I had not taken”…

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End of Days: A Local Glimpse of Götterdämmerung

A look at Robert Lepage’s Ex Machina production of Richard Wagner’s Götterdämmerung (Live HD broadcast from the Met):

Strangely, in this century of globalized sweatshops and rampant economic crises, the themes in this opera are even more timely, as the musical drama revolves around the renunciation of emotion in favour of mineral extraction, which is the inception of the curse that enslaves others. The luxurious wealth of the powers-that-be come at the price of many labourers, and this leads to a kind of Freudian psychosis among the gods. Even the security of their dream home Valhalla has been established upon the mythical equivalent of subprime lending.

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Suffragette City: The Fighting Days

(Marina Stephenson Kerr plays Nellie McClung, on one side of an ethical split within the suffrage movement in Wendy Lill’s The Fighting Days)

In the play, Francis Beynon, who is passionately antiwar, clashes with Nellie McClung over military conscription, and over McClung’s position that the vote should be withheld from “non-Empire” immigrant women during the war.

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How to Bank Your Life on Speculative "Futures"

Jonathan Ball interviews Garry Thomas Morse about various speculative “futures”:

In two volumes of The Chaos! Quincunx, I use what William S. Burroughs called the “fold-in” method, which feels rather like battering some batter in a bowl. This process is exciting, because of its sense of immediacy. I’m never quite sure what the characters are going to do next!

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