“Is there repetition, or is there insistence? I am inclined to believe there is no such thing as repetition.” – Gertrude Stein When we began to talk about bringing Gertrude and Alice back to the Buddies stage, I felt it …
“One day when Picasso was to lunch with us I decorated a fish in a way that I thought would amuse him. I chose a fine striped bass and cooked it according to a theory of my grandmother who had …
My friend Sasha once invited a group of us over to his apartment to read Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons from start to finish, the kind of intellectual social exercise that works better in theory than practice. Only knowing Stein by …
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 …
Trying to establish a view of the history of feminist theatre in Canada can often become a numbers game, and with good reason. The Fraticelli Report on the Status of Women in Canadian Theatre, which came out in the 1980s, …