Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'frankcoxoconnell'
November 27, 2007
Look at how cute the cast of The Drawer Boy is! And yes, that is the much-ballyhooed inflatable cow in the background. Have you continued to miss your chance to catch this new Canadian classic? Well, somebody must keep seeing it, because it's already been extended a couple of times and now plays until December 2. But if that somebody wasn't you, don't despair! The lovely people at Passe Muraille have decided to give......
Continue Reading "FREE Drawer Boy Today!"October 31, 2007
Passe Muraille has been pushing its remount of the hugely popular Michael Healey hit The Drawer Boy with considerable fanfare, including leaving giant, inflatable barnyard animals outside the theatre for a few days last week. And why not? It's the most successful play to ever come out of that theatre this side of The Drowsy Chaperone, which has definitely grown a bit too gigantic for a return trip. But The Drawer Boy, with its......
Continue Reading "Pigs is Pigs, Plays is Plays"October 23, 2007
This weekend, Passe Muraille kicks off its new season by remounting one of its most successful shows ever: Michael Healey's The Drawer Boy. To celebrate the seminal piece of theatre's homecoming, Passe Muraille will be displaying a two-story-high inflatable cow outside the theatre tomorrow at noon. The cow is a reference to Daisy, a stressed-out milk machine who is integral to the play's plot (although no actual cows appear as characters in the play).......
Continue Reading "Tomorrow Afternoon: An Inflatable Cow (For Real)"March 30, 2007
On Wednesday night, One Reed Theatre remounted last year's SummerWorks hit Nor the Cavaliers Who Come With Us. (Side salad: this year's SummerWorks line-up gets posted on their website this Sunday - who's excited?) Their run last summer was sold-out, and if opening night's full house was an indication, this looks to be another well-attended run. And with good reason. Nor the Cavaliers Who Come With Us is a collective piece created by the......
Continue Reading "One Reed Theatre Gets Postcolonial"January 12, 2007
Wave Two of Buddies' experimental 2006/2007 season is called Audience Relocation and starts this weekend. As the name suggests, this part of the season is dedicated to finding new ways of defining what an audience is - and where it is. Don't expect to sit in a chair watching a Well-Made Play. Kicking off Audience Relocation is a show called Connect the Dots by theatre company Small Wooden Shoe. Connect the Dots is the......
Continue Reading "Small Wooden Shoe Walks The Information Super-Highway"