a bunch of writings and thoughts on theatre:
some are articles i've written for other publications.
some are director’s notes from past work.
"postcards from berlin" is an exercise i invented for myself to digest a bunch of work i was seeing at the time.
there was also that time i went to serbia to see a 24-hour meat orgy and ended up with a lot of facebook watching along with me.
et cetera.
the other day philip geller, the assistant director for every little nookie, commented that this rehearsal hall was one of the queerer rooms they’d ever been in. neither of us were quite sure exactly how we got here, though thinking back it was certainly part of our queer agenda (—oh yes, there is a queer agenda).
Read Morepodcast conversation with tim cynova (work. shouldn;t. suck.), sedina fiati, and kristina lemieux about generator’s leadership search.
Read Moreperi-pandemic roundtable conversation with sascha cole, mel hague, kimberley rampersad, and jenna rodgers.
Read Morein july 2020 i was invited by driftwood theatre to take part in a dialogue with the always-brilliant jani lauzon about the question of canon and how we can dismantle and disrupt our assumptions about what makes theatre “classical.”
Read MoreWhen I retreated to my house after COVID-19 struck down the show I was supposed to open on March 18, a show in many ways about the AIDS epidemic, the first thing I did was hunt down my volume of Czech writer Karel Čapek’s plays.
Read Morevideo series documenting the work of the stratford festival’s 2019 lab ensemble program, curated and facilitated by ted witzel.
Read Morewe all saw the look on trudeau’s face right after he said the words “speaking moistly” in a press briefing.
Read Moresaturday is teen night at the Y. groups of teenage boys flock in the weight room, laughing, ragging on each other, pushing each other around, and one-upping each other: practicing their nascent manhoods.
Read Morewhen did the arts stop being ‘fun’? we’ve found ourselves shouting into an echoing void telling an increasingly unhearing public that they don’t know what’s good for them.
Read Morethe LULU plays are massive, dense, and strange, expressionistic nightmare-orgies spawned in freud’s hysterical womb. the plays have it all: prostitution, homosexuality, violent sex crime, paedophilia, a circus, and a hell of a body count by the end.
Read Moresome thoughts about meat orgies, the kickstarter economy, and where the hell we'll find an audience again.
Read Moredelirious posts from a 24-hour orgy of glitter and dicks and raw meat everywhere.
Read Morethis is an exercise i invented for myself to process a bunch of work i was seeing while based in berlin a couple years back.
these aren’t reviews by any means.
they’re freewheeling reflections
Read Moremost people only have the energy to be political about x number of things in their lives. we are a mess of contradictions, the result of prioritizing our politics.
Read Moreno comedy of shx’s so explicitly and so anxiously insists upon its happy ending, and few are as difficult to steer toward that ending than all’s well that ends well. for a romantic comedy it’s pretty unpleasant.
Read Morea long-form piece about segregating "emerging" voices from the "established."
Read Moredo we need a bout of stalinism to happen to us before we start to think that theatre could be important of impactful?
Read Moredoes an abundance of infrastructure and lack of suffering involved in a piece’s creation fundamentally undermine its integrity?
Read Morei take it as a good sign when people on a show i’m directing hook up.
Read Morehow do we convince audiences and artists that it’s ok to feel confused, conflicted, maybe even a little bit dumb, or bigoted, or helpless?
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