Twitter’s obsessive. Difficult to keep up with. Great for having conversations. Great for reading other people’s conversations. A universe with its own etiquette, but no order whatsoever. A great waster of time. A great source of useful and useless pieces of information. A collection of witticisms. A collection of absolutes. Here are some recent finds dug out from our Twitter feed:
PuSh Festival announces its 2012 lineup. (One of the shows presented at PuSh this year will be coming to The Theatre Centre right after – to be announced shortly!)
It seems that Halloween costume idea No 1 this year is Steve Jobs. Not sure how to react to it. Not sure how to react to Halloween, but here are some bits and bobs I thought I’d share to fit in with the spirit of the festival:
Also from Torontoist: appropriately themed round-up of theatre pieces to “shock, titillate and unsettle”. I particularly like the ‘secret location’ trend that seems to be happening.
Trick or treating extravaganza in our own West Queen West on October 29.
And – for your viewing pleasure – a video of paranormal investigation of The Great Hall and The Theatre Centre. And I am definitely not saying that I believe those meters!
On to something different: yesterday I attended an interesting discussion on how the online media influence theatre criticism. The conversation featured 4 different perspectives: a critic from a national daily (J. Kelly Nestruck from The Globe), a critic from a Toronto weekly (Glenn Sumi of NOW Magazine), a representative of an independent theatre company that maintain a strong online voice and experiment with online media in their artistic work (Aislinn Rose of Praxis Theatre), and a creator and editor of an online theatre publication (Megan Mooney of MooneyOnTheatre), with moderator Michelle MacArthur and students from UofT theatre criticism course. Some very interesting and valid points made, great anecdotes shared, but the most exciting part for me was to watch the conversation go beyond the walls of Robert Gill Theatre, via Twitter, and see it continue in various forms a day after, when I am writing this post. Do check it out.
And since I mentioned Praxis Theatre, I thought I’d tell you that they are Occupying Bay Street next Friday, November 4th. In the true spirit of the times, and yes – on Bay Street – there will be a 1930s-themed party to celebrate the premiere of Jesus Chrysler and help support a theatre company with an active voice. I think you should be there. A little music video from 1930s about jelly, depression and unemployment to inspire (disclaimer – I do not like jelly and have never heard of the company the video is a commerical for):
