by Buddies
on November 2nd, 2015
in Columns, The Road to Paradise
An interview with star actress from Pakistan, Samiya Mumtaz on her experience acting in The Road to Paradise: You’ve now been working as an actress both in Canada and Pakistan. What are the biggest differences between the two industries? There are …
by ted witzel
on November 2nd, 2015
in Columns
i want so badly for this to be a manifesto. i want so badly to be the one to finally answer to our big crippling question. i want to offer a strategic plan, a series of tasks we can systematically …
by Catherine Hernandez
on October 6th, 2015
in Columns
About two winters ago, I made a horrible mistake. Perhaps now is a good time as ever to rationalize this mistake. Perhaps I could remind you that it was that winter with the devastating ice storm in the middle of the holiday season. I could make up stories about how the power outages that occurred as a result of this ice storm had me malnourished and hallucinating within my lakeside house whose door and windows were sealed shut by the sheer weight of crunchy snow. For good measure, I could pretend I had lost power. Or better yet, I did NOT lose power, which is why I was locked in my house suffering from a Netflix-induced stupor.
by Naomi Skwarna
on September 25th, 2015
in 20th of November
I saw The 20th of November the other night, attended by an audience so sparse I felt a pang of sympathy for performer Sina Gilani, who smiled from the far end of the Chamber as we trickled in. The play …
by Mahdi Ganjavi
on September 25th, 2015
in 20th of November
This piece is also available in Farsi. “Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground “20th of November” by means of deploying the technique of Brecht’s “Alienation Effect” places us, the audience, before a …
by Tanisha Taitt
on September 23rd, 2015
in 20th of November
It is the first day of Spring. On the afternoon of March 20, 2015, I sit down with Brendan to discuss the possibility of coming onboard as Assistant Director of his next production. At the time I have no idea …
by Brendan Healy
on September 21st, 2015
in 20th of November
It is the morning after the opening of The 20th of November. I find myself in a doctor’s office. It’s not just any doctor’s office. It’s my cancer doctor’s office and, having gone through testicular cancer a number of years …
by ted witzel
on June 16th, 2015
in Columns
this winter, i spent several weeks rehearsing my rhubarb piece in a tiny art gallery that was only a few degrees warmer than the frigid february we were having. buddies supported us with rehearsal space as much as it could, but outside those hours we had to find outside space. we rehearsed in coats and mitts, and most of our blocking was done in a space a quarter the size of the stage floor…
by Catherine Hernandez
on May 25th, 2015
in No Strings Attached
Back in the summer of 2013, Sunny Drake and I got together to host A Hot Mess. In the salon walls of Unit 2, we invited a selection of queeroes whose opinion we respected to give feedback on our newest …
by Lisa Aikman
on May 22nd, 2015
in Gertrude and Alice
Born in Pennsylvania in 1874, Gertrude Stein grew to be a literary innovator of the Modernist movement, best known for a writing style that broke the conventions of linear narrative, and for an extensive art collection. The youngest of 5 …