Permission granted

July 14, 2011
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Creating Entropy

I’ve had this play, tentatively titled “Entropy”, rattling around in my head for a couple of years now. Last fall, I challenged myself to finish a draft during a gap in employment, and although I managed the feat, the results were sloppy. Finding the time to write something like a play can be hard. It [...]

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The passion’s the thing. Not the play.

June 19, 2011

The 15th Ottawa Fringe Festival is in full swing, and for the first time in a few years I’ve been able to attend more than a smattering of performances.  I wasn’t able to take in anything on the first day of the festival; in the subsequent two days I’ve seen six festival shows.  It’s been [...]

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It’s not the work; it’s the breaks

June 16, 2011

Often, actors find themselves with odd employment gaps. I’ve written about this before, but because it’s governing my life right now, I have to talk about it again.  I’ve decided to let a bit more of my personal life appear here, because my life and my career are too intimately tied for me to separate [...]

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A better context

June 13, 2011

For the first time in a few years, I was able to take in the Magnetic North Theatre Festival.  For a few reasons, I wasn’t able to submerse myself completely in the festival and the Industry Series, but I managed to catch four of the six plays presented during the week. My Banff/Citadel Professional Program [...]

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Paging political theatre

June 4, 2011

I don’t know Brigette DePape.  But yesterday, she was fired as a page for the Canadian senate after interrupting the speech from the throne in the House of Commons.  She held up a red paper stop sign, labeled “Stop Harper”, in a gesture of quiet defiance. She’s paid with her job, but Ms DePape is [...]

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Return…?

June 1, 2011

As occasionally happens, I took a break from writing here; not due to a lack of things to write about, really, but due to the scale of the work I was doing in Edmonton… coupled with irregular access to my laptop and the ‘net.  But I’m back. It’s quite difficult to succinctly sum up the [...]

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Nominated!

February 28, 2011

I’ve had my head in the snow in Edmonton for the past few weeks, so I didn’t even know the latest batch of Rideau Award nominations were due out today.  I just checked the press release, and my year in the theatre is VERY well-represented! Facts (Great Canadian Theatre Company) — Arthur Milner’s world-premiere play [...]

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Citadel video go-go

February 15, 2011

You may not have run across this, if you haven’t been looking, but the Citadel Theatre has a YouTube channel.  A terrific volunteer (whose name rhymes with Calm Hood) has been regularly interviewing the Banff/Citadel participants as well as the team working on Three Musketeers & Little Women, and he’s been posting video blogs like [...]

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Love contusions

February 15, 2011

Today was the first day off since we started rehearsals on The Three Musketeers and Little Women.  When I got up this morning — later than usual — the sun was shining into my humble basement-apartment window (normally I’m up at 6:30AM to get to the gym every day before rehearsal starts, and it’s still [...]

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Behemoth

February 10, 2011

Rehearsals for Three Musketeers and Little Women have begun, and as of yesterday the full scope of both projects hit me like a freight truck. Yes, it takes an army to create a large piece of theatre; yes, the Citadel is one of the largest regional theatres in Canada… but after the acting company got [...]

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