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Would you save the Sodomites?

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Everyone knows the official version of what happened when God got pissed off with Sodom and Gomorrah but is that what really happened? Old Soles Theatre Collective’s God Save the Sodomites, by Aliyah Bourgeault and Emmet Logue, playing in Native Earth’s Minogitoon Workspace Giizis Studio, gives us a different version. God wants Sodom (and Gomorrah… look we all know what the Sodomites were up to but what’s with Gomorrah?) smited/smitten? whatever but Abraham has nagged God to save Lot; the one righteous man in Sodom (maybe?) and God is fed up of arguing with Abraham (who wouldn’t be). So he sends the Angel of Wrath Af (Emmet Logue) and trainee Angel of October (and genitals) Barbiel (Aliyah Bourgeault) to do the smiting with the proviso that if they can find five genuinely good Sodomites they can spare the city. Af is unwilling to complicate matters and argues for instant smiting but Barbiel persuades him to at least look for the five worthy Sodomites.

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March 2025

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So what looks fun in March?

  • March 1st (Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant) Apocryphonia have a “classical meets punk” concert called Brews, Beauties and Brawlers at St. Olave’s Anglican Church at 7.30pm.  PWYC.
  • March 5th Canadian Art Song Project have their annual gig at noon in the RBA.
  • Crow’s Theatre have a new adaptation of Measure for Measure in the Studio Theatre.  Previews on the 6th and 7th, opening on the 8th and running to March 16th.

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What We Carry

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I made a rare excursion into the world of dance on Friday evening to catch Barbara Kaneratonni Diabo’s one woman show What We Carry presented by Native Earth Performing Arts and A’nó:wara Dance Theatre.  Barbara is Kanien’keha;ka originally from Kahnawake and as well as being trained in classical and contemporary settler dance traditions she’s also a powwow performer in a range of dance disciplines.  She also has a pretty complex personal history.  All of this bears on what happens in the 45 minutes or so of this show.

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Rougarou

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Rougarou by Emily CooperRougarou is a work in progress written and directed by Damion LeClair for unnecessary mountain theatre.  On Saturday and Sunday it was given in a semi-workshop format in partnership with Native Earth at Aki Studio as part of Summerworks.

The format was basically a reading with one actor playing all the parts and a second person “setting the stage” as there were no sets or props, though the sound design, or at least part of it, was included.  I think the intent at this point is for the finished product to use two (or perhaps more) actors; one playing the main character Renee and another perhaps playing everyone else but I’m not sure of that.

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April preview

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april24Here are some upcoming shows for April:

Music

  • First, a late March Show.  Yu Dun and Royce Vavrek’s Pulitzer winning opera Angel’s Bone, about human trafficking, comes to Harbourfront Centre Theatre March 22nd to 24th.  More information here.
  • On the 6th the Happenstancers have a concert; Being Pascal Dusapin, at Redeemer Lutheran.  We are promised a “a portrait concert in palindromic form” featuring music by Dusapin, Kaija Saariaho and Samy Moussa.

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And so to September

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sept23The new season starts to ramp up in September.  My month will start at Factory Theatre on the 7th with Mary Beath Badian’s The Waltz; a coming of age drama set in Saskatchewan.  That runs until the 17th.  The following night there’s a screening at the Four Seasons Centre of Atom Egoyan’s new film Seven Veils that was created in conjunction with last season’s production of Salome.  A young woman is tasked with remounting her former mentor’s production of Salome.  It stars Amanda Seyfried, Ambur Braid, Michael Schade and Michael Kupfer-Radecky.  It’s a chance to see the film ahead of the official premier at TIFF.  More details and tickets here.

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Best of 2021

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1.boulotte sm2021 was another year of parts.  Pretty much no live indoor performances before September then a few chances to get to the theatre and now, well who knows?  So what stood out for me in 2021?  Here’s a round up by category.

Live Shows

Not much of course but there were some good shows, though opera didn’t really figure.  The Home Project from Native Earth and Soulpepper was a thought provoking look at the the idea of “home”.  MixTape at Crow’s Theatre explored the variegated nature of relationships through the medium of the once ubiquitous mix tape.  And on a more conventional note there was a rearranged at short notice recital at Koerner hall that showcased the extremely talented Davóne Tines. Continue reading →

The Home Project

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What is home?  Where is home?  The Home Project; a joint production of Native Earth Performing Arts and the Howland Company presented by Soulpepper, addresses these questions through three actors personal visions reflecting, in their own way, three aspects of the Canadian experience.  The stories are interwoven on a simple set of moving boxes and a few pieces of furniture.  The sound stage is more important than the physical stage and aural effects; well handled considering we are outside and there’s plenty of background noise, are crucial.

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This Is How We Got Here

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This Is How We Got Here is a play by Keith Barker that opened at the Aki Studio last night.  It’s about grief and how an event can affect multiple relationships at multiple levels.  It’s very cleverly crafted with a non linear time line so I am going to be somewhat evasive about the plot because spoilers would spoil it.

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Back half of January

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barber-1The second half of January kicks off with the COC’s revival production f Rossini’s Barber of Seville, this time starring Emily D’Angelo as Rosina.  There are eight performances running to February 7th.

.  Sunday 26th at 2pm there’s a concert in the Mazzoleni Songmasters series.  It’s called Sirens and features Leslie Ann Bradley, Allyson McHardy and Rachel Andrist in a suitably watery and alluring program.

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