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It’s an immersive take on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar set in a contemporary Canadian frat house. Over 80 minutes, the audience is free to wander the two-storey building, witnessing pieces of the drama in whatever manner they choose.
The Mississauga Multilingual Fringe Festival is run by SAWITRI Theatre Group, who for over two decades have platformed performing artists from the South Asian community.
From a dancer becoming a canine to a shy theatre director practicing his swordsmanship, the shows I’ve seen so far use performers’ bodies to dramatize defiance.
International theatre and dance will play at the downtown venue alongside live music, free cinema, exhibitions, and more.
Theatre of the Beat selected four producers under the age of 30 to receive paid mentorship from Toronto theatre-makers. From August 20 to 22, each member of the cohort mounts a new one-act Canadian play.
Handwringing over popular fiction is hardly a thing of the past, as present panic about Romantasy attests. Unsurprisingly, both genres have a reputation for attracting women readers. Tyler J. Seguin’s Northanger Abbey displays how legitimate literary criticism can devolve into worrying that women are having too much fun.
Why shouldn’t a thane wear gaiters if he’s out in the mud?
In addition to its lineup of full productions, Factory will host work-in-progress presentations of Provisions and Ghost River Theatre and Macromatter's Soft Squishy Things in its Studio Theatre during the SummerWorks Performance Festival, running from August 6 to 16.
For the past 26 years, Eldritch Theatre’s director of the uncanny has given ghoulies, ghosties, and long-legged beasties of all kinds a spot in the limelight, in productions that serve up puppets, magic, and a crumbling castle’s-worth of uncanny influences, including schlock-horror B-movies, Shakespeare at his bloodiest, and the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.
“You have so much license to be so silly. There are so many stupid jokes in this show in the absolute best way," says Isaiah Kolundzic.