When telling the story of the Holocaust, one effective way to overcome our sheer inability to comprehend the scope and scale of such atrocities is to zoom in on one or two stories: share one particular experience, in all its brutal specificity, and we have at least a small way into the event—the small details illuminate the larger whole.

One theatre company from the Netherlands, Hotel Modern, takes a related approach in KAMP (CAMP). The production depicts a typical day at the Auschwitz concentration camp, but instead of zooming in into a closeup, it shrinks everything down, literally, into miniature. It’s the accumulation of thousands of small details that has the impact in this case.

Eleanor McMahon thinks it’s time to change the conversation around cycling in Ontario.

McMahon is the founder of the Share the Road Cycling Coalition, who will be hosting the fifth annual Ontario Bike Summit this week in Toronto. She says that we need to stop talking about things like bike lanes and other bicycle infrastructure as a zero sum game between cars and bikes.

“We do polling, and our polling tells us that 89 per cent of Ontarians are both drivers and cyclists,” she says. “The notion that it’s cars versus bikes is overblown, and it’s really not working anymore. Deciding to change the conversation means going out of our way to poke holes in that idea and say from the get go ‘We don’t buy into that philosophy, and just because you say it, doesn’t make it true.’ ”

Even with the success of acts like Lonely Island and Flight of the Conchords, people still tend to view musical comedy with some suspicion, and not without reason. Those high-profile success stories aside, at the club level, musical comedy is too often the province of people who aren’t quite good enough to make it as musicians, but not quite funny enough to make it as comedians.

Two local comics, Robert Keller and Rush Zilla, are out to change that perception with their show, Off Key Comedy, which features a wide variety of acts whose only commonality is that they combine music and comedy in one form or another. The third edition of the monthly show will take place on May 23, at Comedy Bar.

Despite the fact that the last show in Buddies in Bad Times Theatre’s 2012/2013 season is titled Of a Monstrous Child: A Gaga Musical, Lady Gaga herself takes a secondary role. There are no homages to raw-meat dresses and gold-plated wheelchairs here. Instead, writer and director Alistair Newton uses the House of Gaga as a pathway into the history of the notable performance-art stars that came before her in the pantheon of queer iconography, and how she is and isn’t a construct of all of them put together.

HEAR/HEAR 18 reading series goes down at Supermarket tonight. Photo courtesy of Jah Grey.

MUSIC: The Toronto Summer Music Festival Fellows are putting on a lunchtime performance for the general public, as part of the three-week-long festival of classical chamber music. Catch Ann Okagaito, Chloé Chabanole, Veronica Lee, Ariel Carrabré, Nicholas Pappone, Leslie Ting, Emmanuel Francois, Eli Weinberger, Christopher Whitley, Laura D’Angelo, Rory McLeod, and Ashton Lim. Call 416-395-5639 to reserve seats. North York Central Library Auditorium (5120 Yonge Street), 12 p.m., FREE.

FILM: The NFB presents Free Favourites at Four. Today’s pick: Prosecutor, which follows Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo through the first trials at the International Criminal Court, formed by treaty in 2002. Both a hero and a menace, Moreno-Ocampo investigates the world’s worst criminals for some of history’s most heinous crimes. Based in part on Erna Paris’ The Sun Climbs Slow: The International Criminal Court and the Struggle for Justice. NFB Mediatheque (150 John Street), 4 p.m., FREE.

READING SERIES: HEAR/HEAR 18 is a reading series with a goal in mind. Not only does it feature performances by Progress, Mahlikah Awe:ri and James from the Songs, it also raises funds for Operation Springboard‘s young offender workshops. Participants in the program will be reading their work. The Supermarket (268 Augusta Avenue), 6:30–8:30 p.m., PWYC ($5 suggested).

THEATRE: It’s 1692 and Salem, Massachusetts is being torn apart by accusations of witchcraft and spiritual possession. The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s retelling of this tumultuous time, starts tonight. Young Centre for the Performing Arts (50 Tank House Lane), 7:30 p.m., $22–$68 (cheaper for students and those under 30).

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