WalkLeft, the Podcast

The 2011 Toronto Fringe Festival featured Queer Bathroom Monologues, a play written by Sheila Cavanagh, which was based on based on interviews conducted for her award-winning book, Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality and the Hygienic Imagination.

The script has undergone further dramaturgical development and makes its mark, bearing its new name, on this year’s WorldPride calendar.

More information is available here. Tickets are available via the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Box Office.

This conversation with Tracey Erin Smith was going to focus on this year’s second-ever SOULO Theatre Festival…

It quickly turned into an examination of what a one-person show is and some of the philosophy behind her courses and workshops which have helped people from all walks of life to create their own plays.

But don’t worry, the festival schedule and all the other details you’ll need about it are right here. The SOULO Theatre Festival is presented in partnership with the Crow’s East End Performance CRAWL.

Fly on the Wall Theatre is remounting its critically acclaimed 2013 Toronto Fringe Festival production of Owen McCafferty’s one-man play.

Director Rod Ceballos and performer David Mackett discuss their process through the production’s history and the play’s challenges.

Tickets are available online. A limited number of discounted rush tickets are available on Sundays.

This year marks the third for The Playwright Project.

The directorial quartet for this year’s scripts, Matt Gorman, Carly Chamberlain, Alec Toller, and Sarah Kitz, gathered to talk about each of their plays(A Number, Vinegar Tom, Drunk Enough to Say I Love You?, and Three More Sleepless Nights, respectively) and the playwright responsible for them. It’s the longest and zaniest episode of WalkLeft since the last time Matt was a guest. Coincidence?

All the details you’ll need to secure your tickets can be found here. And there are more details on the project’s website.

What better technology to discuss Thought For Food‘s upcoming production satirizing office-based crises than a speakerphone?

Helen Juvonen, Paul Rivers(via telephone), and Tyler Seguin talk about putting the office world on stage and exploring bureaucratic dynamics that are no less flawed today in Canada than they were in Communist Czechoslovakia.

Tickets to the Canadian premiere of Paul Wilson’s new translation of Vaclav Havel’s play are on sale now!

Julia Nish-Lapidus and James Wallis are bringing their talents to a pair of scripts that are more modern than what one might consider their usual fare.

What was originally conceived as alternating performances of two plays by Neil LaBute has, due to a recent serious injury suffered by a cast member, been adjusted to a six-performance run of reasons to be pretty, with a matinée reading of Fat Pig.

The show must go on! Ticket and performance details are available here.

Almost a year has passed since Carly Chamberlain was chatting about an upcoming project here. This time her energies are focussed on directing a favourite from the Canadian theatre canon for a Toronto theatre institution.

The final play of Hart House Theatre‘s 2013/2014 season is Ann-Marie MacDonald’s award-winning Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet). Carly recounts her relationship with the play, shares some thoughts on its feminist aspects, and provides insights on adjusting from “wearing multiple hats” on a production to focussing on directing.

Tickets for the production are available for online purchase here.

Judging by this episode’s energetic guests, I think it’s safe to presume No Porpoise Productions‘ take on the classic stories of Lewis Carroll will be one zany show.

Playwright/producer Katie Leamen and directors Lynne Griffin and Sean Sullivan talk about the playful collaborative rehearsal environment and the unpretentious appeal of this freely adapted presentation: a perfect fit for the company’s objectives.

Tickets can be purchased online or by contacting the company via e-mail. More details are available at the company’s website.

Theatre Double Take‘s new production imagines the life of the heroine of Edmund Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac two years after the events of the classic play.

Playwright, director, and the company’s artistic director Grace Smith reveals her play’s origins and the inspirations involved in creating the new work. Her academic approach is certainly thought-provoking.

Tickets for the performances at lemonTree {studio} are on sale now.

Toronto Laboratory Theatre presents this new multi-tiered adaption of a 19th century Ukrainian-Russian novella.

Art Babayants, the production’s director, discusses the process and challenges of assembling and rehearsing a show that combines non-traditional lighting design, narrative text, and live classical piano.

Tickets are available online and you can contact [email protected] for more information regarding discount tickets, group rates, and companion seating for patrons who are visually impaired. More details are also available on Facebook.