January 8, 2008
Taking It to the Next Stage
Here's something to clear away your post-NYE doldrums: the Fringe, everyone's favourite early-summer theatre festival (don't worry, SummerWorks, you're our favourite late-summer theatre festival) has had a baby. Aw! Last Wednesday, something called The Next Stage Theatre Festival began at Factory Theatre. Next Stage really is like a baby Fringe: a smaller festival of only 8 shows running in rep at a single theatre, complete with a heated beer tent.
The plays, which run to the end of the week, include A Quiet Place and DON'T WAKE ME (both written/co-written by Brendan Gall); last summer's Fringe hit Conservatives in Love; the sure-to-be-sacrilegious Jesus Christ: The Lost Years; a musical about housewives and Godzilla called Moving Day; Random Acts of Love, directed by the very lovable Sanjay Talwar; something called The Corner, whose description on Next Stage's website confuses us; and BASH'D, which you may remember being not quite our favourite play at last year's Fringe. So, don't be sad, theatregoers of Toronto! You have plays to catch and beers to drain!
Photo by Eye Captain from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.
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The Corner is a fictionalized account of the events leading up to and surrounding the death of Jeffrey Reodica.
It occurs to me that theatregoers is one strange looking word.
Thanks for the post Torontoist...Next Stage is going extremely well...the plays are great and the beer tent is in full swing...
Come join aus at Factory Theatre
www.nextstagefestival.com
Check out our Next Stage facebook event profile:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=6163109887&ref=mf
Thanks for supporting Next Stage. I re-read the review of Bashed from last summer and I think you didn't get it; in fact I found the review somewhat presumptuous as to what a gay show should be.
I gotta be honest: I hate the "you just didn't get it" thing. It's basically the ad hominem fallacy, right? I got BASH'D, I just didn't like it. And my only expectation of any show (what is a "gay show," anyway? Is Angels in America a "gay show"? Is Twelfth Night?) is that it be good. I remember why I wrote the things I wrote in that review, and I stand by it.