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There's a moment in Small Wooden Shoe's Dedicated to the Revolutions, which opened last night at Buddies in Bad Times Theate, where Erin Shields talks about the Scientific Method as she remembers it from her high school education: Hypothesize, Experiment, Observe, Report. For Small Wooden Shoe, this show represents their own version of the "Report" stage. In 2006, the company began work on a series of shows, each devoted to one of seven scientific/technological revolutions: Gutenberg, Copernican, Newtonian, Industrial, Darwinian, Nuclear, and Information. This new show is a culmination of those other shows, bringing together everything they've learned about how these revolutions have shaped our society with the help of dry-erase markers, some string-cup telephones, and a ukulele.

For years, SummerWorks has been kid sister to the Fringe. Smaller, shier, not quite as well-known (if often more reliable thanks to its policy of juried play selection as opposed to Fringe's random lottery). But there comes a summer in every kid sister's life when she starts going through some "special changes" and suddenly all her older sibling's friends turn their heads when she walks by the pool in her tankini. We already started to discuss the direction in which new Artistic Producer Michael Rubenfeld has started to take the festival, which has now been re-branded as "Toronto's Indie Theatre and Arts Festival."