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It's almost August, and some of us know that means it's almost SummerWorks. The juried theatre festival has taken a bit of a different turn this year, under the new artistic leadership of Michael Rubenfeld, and is branching out into music and performance art. In a shockingly tech-savvy move for the Toronto theatre community, it also has a blog. Last week, the blog started posting viral videos, including one where veteran Canadian actor/playwright Michael Healey yells for someone to "fuck his wide ass," and the video featured in this post, titled "Expression." In the video, playwrights Hannah Moscovitch, Tara Beagan, Claudia Dey, Rose Laborde, and Linda Griffiths discuss the travails of being "hot playwrights." The video, which culminates in a pillow fight, has already sparked a comments war on the fest's blog about its feminist implications.

Photo by petite corneille.

Necessary Angel has just announced a totally cool event planned to take place on March 3, 2008. Three playwrights will be given the opening lines for a new play. Each playwright will have 4 hours in which to write said play, after which three different teams will have 5 hours to rehearse the works. When those 5 hours are up, the plays have to be performed at Necessary Angel's annual gala at the Capitol...

But back to boxes, and books, and Basement Records, where one of the characters in Golda Fried's book works. The book tells the story of Alice, a naive young McGill frosh. She hides out at the film society, and pines for a boy who wears black eyeliner. Sounds very good indeed.

Well, fear not! You're just a hop, skip and a jump away from Super Queen Market, the convenience store located at 596 Queen St. W. Conveniently close to both Theatre Passe Muraille AND Factory Theatre (still showing Claudia Dey's faboo Trout Stanley), Super Queen Market is one of a dozen or so places where Western Canadian immigrants and the men and women who love them can procure Old Dutch Chips in Toronto. A full list of these stores follows, but it should also be noted that you can order a box full of Old Dutch chips online at www.olddutchfoods.ca and get it delivered right to the door of your basement apartment.

Of all the shows that have opened in Toronto in the past week or so (Bea’s Niece, Little Dragon, Swimming in the Shallows), none have received as consistently good notices as Trout Stanley, the new play by Claudia Dey on at Factory Theatre. "It's like meeting a spellbinding person at a party and finding that you can't get them out of your mind the next day," writes Richard Ouzounian in the Star. (And that’s one of the less positive reviews, see: Globe and Mail, National Post.)

And speaking of Canuck women and theatre, if you happen to be popping by London, England, in the next little while, Kim Cattrall is about to star in a play about euthanasia called Whose Life is it Anyway? directed by British stage legend Peter Hall. Casting the actress best known as Samantha from Sex and the City as a paralysed woman who has no feeling below her neck has got to be the ultimate in casting against type, no?

the target audience for this let's-discover-Sondheim cabaret.)But wait! That's not all. Come January, Holmes is shuffling over to Factory Theatre to direct Claudia Dey's Trout Stanley.