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Playwrights Guild of Canada (PGC)
and
Expect Theatre
present live and intimate interviews with:
d’bi young,
Judith Thompson,
Keith Barker,
and
Daniel MacIvor
at the
Red Sandcastle Theatre
in Toronto, Ontario. Each interview will be recorded live with an
audience and later featured on the
PlayME Podcast
as the
PlayME Monologue Series (PlayMe Mono).
PlayME
has more than half-a-million listeners in 80 countries and has been
rated as one of the Top 20 Performing Arts Podcasts in the
world.
PlayME Mono
zooms in on one monologue of the playwright’s choice to uncover the
inspiration, the character’s intentions, and some surprising
subtext. Triple Dora Award winning playwright
d’bi young
will dive into her monodrama,
Mami Wata,
with us on March 6th.
Highly regarded with an Order of
Canada,
Judith Thompson
will share her inspiration behind a monologue from the
mighty
Palace of the End
Native Earth Performing Arts Artistic
Director,
Keith Barker,
plans to take us on the journey of Liset’s compelling monologue
in
This is How We Got Here
Finally, we will get behind-the-scenes with
Daniel MacIvor
and the ingenuity of his one-man show
Who Killed Spalding Gray?
Expect Theatre’s
Laura Mullin
says,
"PlayME
Mono
will take audiences on a deep dive into the minds of some of our
notable writers who will share the challenges and triumphs of
writing monologues that are riveting and provocative."
Judith Thompson - March 15th, 2018
Keith Barker - April 23rd, 2018
Daniel MacIvor - May 14th, 2018
All interviews begin at
7pm.
Red Sandcastle Theatre
922 Queen St E, Toronto, ON M4M 2J5
Pay What You Can
at the door.
Expect Theatre
is an award-winning, Toronto-based company dedicated to producing
cutting edge, original, multi-disciplinary productions that explore
modern urban life. Formed in 1998 by co-Artistic Directors Laura
Mullin and Chris Tolley, Expect has a long track record of creating
integrated theatre works, radio plays for CBC, viral videos and
site-specific performance art installations. Works include
Romeo/Juliet Remixed, Static, Awake,
CBC Radio's
Tunnel Runners,
AWAKE
the film, and the annual urbanNOISE festival. Mullin and Tolley
launched PlayME - an online portal presenting audio podcasts of
Canadian plays and related content - in 2016.
PlayME
is supported by the
The Ontario Arts Council
and
The Canada Council
as well as SpiderWebShow
Performance,
Playwrights Guild of Canada
and the
Toronto Fringe Festival.
Playwrights Guild of Canada
is a registered national arts service association mandated to
advance the creative rights and interests of professional Canadian
playwrights, promote Canadian plays nationally and internationally,
and foster an active, evolving community of writers for the
stage.
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