The first weekend of Fringe is in the books! And with cooler weather to make being outside more bearable, it was certainly a great weekend to check out some shows! My fiance and I saw another three shows, including two of the musicals featured in the Alliance for Canadian Musicals line-up at Theatre Passe Muraille.…
Phew! Thankfully the rain finally broke the nasty heat wave we’ve been experiencing! And in time for the first weekend of Fringe! This weekend also marks the halfway point in the festival for those of us who are reviewing, so now it’s time for the final sprint! I’m always excited for the weekends during the…
The content warnings for Vitals on Factory’s website are: “This play contains explicit descriptions of violence, gore, sexual assault, animal and child abuse and self-harm including suicide. It is not recommended for younger audiences.” As such, my review will also be touching on these topics. If you’re planning to see the show, please heed these…
For those of us who have never moved away from our home country, the immigration system is an enigmatic hypothetical we know we’ll never have to encounter. But for millions of people it’s a frustrating and impossible to navigate labyrinth seemingly designed to take people in and spit them out again right back where they…
The development of AI feels like it’s been happening at a break-neck speed with more and more new information being released all the time. What most folks forget is that the more we use the internet, and the more we’re forced to interact with AI, the more it learns about us. This eerie mutual learning…
On the largest scales, black hole mergers pluck notes on the fabric of spacetime itself, while vast pressure waves span galaxies over aeons. On the smallest, molecules and atoms vibrate trillions of times per second. And sitting squarely in between the gargantuan and the microscopic is humanity. Us. Why should we not suspect that sound…
What would you sacrifice for someone you love? Would you risk getting shot, stop your studies, give up your marriage? Would you travel across oceans, across countries, across The Green Line? Makram Ayache’s The Green Line, translation by Hiba Sleiman, is a heartbreaking story of queer romances and familial ties which span generations. A pointed…
God needs better representation, or at least Monica certainly thinks so. She’s been under the impression that God hates queer people, but when she finds out that God made her a lesbian, her whole world shifts. The Cunning Linguist, written and performed by Monica Garrido Huerta and directed by Beatriz Pizano, invites audiences to journey…
April once again proved to be an exceptionally busy month, and May is likewise shaping up to be full of fabulous things to see! With a long weekend in the mix, there’s even more time to get out and see some theatre! Wicked Nix – Young People’s Theatre In the world of the fairies, Nix…
Robots taking over our jobs, and sometimes our lives, has been the stuff of science fiction as long as the genre has existed. Yet it seems that more and more, those visions of the future are becoming closer to reality. Graham Isador’s TRUCK takes those anxieties about job loss and widespread automation and makes them…
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