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Join lemonTree creations as we interview key players from the gay liberation movement.
These queer history-makers will share a story about the seminal newspaper The Body Politic
and Nick Green will write a series of scenes or monologues
to be performed live on the spot.
Check out playwright NICK GREEN describing the performance:
Beyond Body Politic [the artistic processing of historical fact]
This event is FREE and lasts about 3 hours.
Audience is welcome to come and go as they please.
Feb 12 6-9pm El-Farouk Khaki
Feb 13 Noon-3pm Mystery Storyteller!
Feb 14 3-6pm Sonny Mills
Pink Triangle Press*
2 Carlton Street #1600
Toronto, ON
*The contemporary home of the historic queer publication.
About the Company
lemonTree creations is a company in residency at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre currently developing the play BODY POLITIC by Nick Green. BODY POLITIC tells of the creation, existence and eventual demise of the seminal queer newspaper The Body Politic.
Part of The 35th Rhubarb Festival
Buddies In Bad Times Theatre presents
THE 35TH RHUBARB FESTIVAL
Raw. Radical. Performance.
February 12-23
Festival Director Laura Nanni
Festival Sponsor TD Bank Group
Media Sponsor NOW Magazine
For two weeks, artists transform the Buddies neighbourhood into a hotbed of creativity and experimentation, sharing new ideas in contemporary theatre, performance art, dance, and music with adventure-loving audiences.
Photo: Cover of The Body Politic for November/December, 1971.
2014-02-11
Toronto: lemonTree creations contributes to the Rhubarb Festival with scenes from "Body Politic"