No One’s Special at the Hot Dog Cart

Charlie Petch’s No One’s Special at the Hot Dog Cart is a one man show about his experiences as a hot dog vendor in Toronto and his subsequent life working as a 911 dispatcher, on the front desk of an ER and as a hospital bed allocator.  It’s currently being presented by Theatre Passe Muraille and Erroneous Productions.

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Collage and poster design by Emily Jung | Pictured: Charlie Petch

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Medusa’s Children

Medusa’s Children is a location shot opera film recently released by Opera Q; a Toronto based collective “dedicated to amplifying queer and trans voices”.  I think this is the company’s second production following the live staged Dido and Belinda in 2019.  This new piece; music by Colin McMahon, text by Charlie Petch, is also on a classical theme.  In fact it follows Ovid pretty closely (at least for the back story) and of course there’s a queer twist.

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