Monday, May 17-21, 2021.
| The Wee Festival ( Arts and Culture for Early Years and their parents). |
WeeFestival Begins Streaming May 17! Make WeeFestival a special part of the week ahead or your May long weekend! In between outdoor adventures in the park, quiet time and playtime, make time for you and your children to drink in any or all of the sparkling performances from around the world! From puppetry, music, dance, and installation performance to dance films, sensory films and audio storytelling, the WeeFestival is screen time you can feel good about! Follow our suggested schedule or choose your own adventure. Pick-Your-Price-Passes on sale now! |
Monday, May 17-20, 2021
The Theatre Centre presents its
Spring Residency Sharings.
Give a listen/look at what their Residency Artists are up to:
Monday, May 17 // 12:30-1:45 p.m. Neema Bickersteth & Nikki Shaffeeullah (Black Paris) Anand Rajaram (The Monster from Inside the Third Dimension) Rimah Jabr (Broken Shapes) Tuesday, May 18 // 12:30-1:15 p.m. Nehal El-Hadi (Untitled) Stewart Legere (The Unfamiliar Everything) Wednesday, May 19 // 12:30-2 p.m. Victoria Mata Soledad (Cacao | A Venezuelan Lament) Milton Lim & Patrick Blenkarn (asses.masses) Thursday, May 20 // 12:30-1:30 p.m. PJ Prudat & Jonathan Seinen (À la façon du pays) Lorena Torres Loaiza (Pandora in the Box) Adam Lazarus (Bouffon) Click to RSVP |
Monday, May 17, 2021, 7:30 pm
The wonderful Red Bull Theatre has a free benefit:
| An Online Benefit Reading SEJANUS, HIS FALL by BEN JONSON Adapted and directed by NATHAN WINKELSTEIN MONDAY, MAY 17, 2021 7:30 PM EDT | LIVESTREAM First performed in 1603, the start of the Jacobean era, Ben Jonson’s tragedy of epic proportions is an incisive portrayal of political cronyism, sycophancy, and power. Tiberius is the Emperor of Rome. Sejanus is his right-hand man. But—in a society where books are burnt, “knowledge is made a capital offense,” and free men have become “the prey of greedy vultures and spies”—factions are forming behind each of these charismatic leaders. Jonson’s linguistically rich play has startling significance today in its exploration of treason and totalitarian tyranny |
| Adapted and directed by Nathan Winkelstein, this online benefit reading will feature Shirine Babb, Grantham Coleman, Keith David, Manoel Felciano, Denis O’Hare, Matthew Rauch, Liv Rooth, Stephen Spinella, Emily Swallow, Raphael Nash Thompson, Tamara Tunie, James Udom, and more. FIND OUT MORE |
| ABOUT THE PLAY by HENRY S. TURNER Ben Jonson’s Sejanus (1603-5) is a play written against a backdrop of conspiracy and domestic terrorism. In Tiberian Rome, rival factions negotiate a city ruled by the whims of a tyrant, who has delegated his authority to his new favorite, the violent former soldier Sejanus, and retreated to his beloved pleasure and torture chambers at his coastal villa in Capri. The play opens with ineffectual politicians whispering in a corridor about the fast-rising Sejanus and his shadowy crowd of enablers; it ends with savage images of a violent crowd storming the Capitol to tear Sejanus and his children limb from limb. In Jonson’s hands, tragedy becomes a remarkably modern exercise in political horror, as the play discloses a world governed only by a relentless will-to-power and the human capacity for betrayal. Spies hide spider-like on ceilings, and private speech circulates with alarming speed in a public echo-chamber of conspiracy theories, fear, and self-promotion. Mob violence has replaced representational politics, a new generation of leaders who might restore the liberal legacies of Rome are assassinated one by one, and suicide has become the only possible act of individual resistance. KEEP READING |
Wednesday, May 19, 2021.
From Soulpepper’s series: “Around the World in 80 Plays.
From India:
HAYAVADANA
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DON’T MISS HAYAVADANA (PREMIERES MAY 19)
Hayavadana. by Girish Karnad. In Association with Why Not Theatre.
Love is imperfect, identity can be deceiving, and perfection is dangerous. Padmini is in love with two friends, Devadatta, a poet, and Kapila, a blacksmith, but the familiar love triangle is turned upside down when the men’s bodies are mysteriously switched. One of India’s most popular plays of the 20th Century, Hayavadana reinvents an iconic myth into a powerful search for wholeness. Read the Playbill.
> EXPLORE THE 9 OTHER PLAYS FROM INDIA TO ROUND OUR YOUR AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 PLAYS EXPERIENCE
Tickets are Pay-What-You-Choose, and audiences enjoy unlimited access to the audio drama from the premiere date until June 30, 2021. You will receive an email on May 19 with a link to log into your account and listen to an embedded audio file through your computer or device. To purchase a Passport Subscription and enjoy all eight productions, CLICK HERE.
Complimentary access for Front Line Workers and members of our Free 25 and Under program sponsored by Sun Life.
Friday, May 21, 2021 9:am -10 am
On CIUT FRIDAY MORNING, 89.5 fm
I’m interviewing playwright Brad Fraser on his memoir: “All The Rage”.
Brad is one of the fierce stalwarts of Canadian Theatre. His memoir grabs you by the throat and the heart. Give a listen at 9 am.
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