Raising Money for SummerWorks—With the Play that May Have Lost it Government Funding

Ten days ago SummerWorks, one of Toronto’s major annual theatre festivals, learned it wasn’t going to get government funding as it usually does, allegedly because it included a controversial play called Homegrown that didn’t sit well with Stephen Harper last year. Canada’s theatre community is responding: by staging simultaneous readings of said play across the country, as a fundraiser for SummerWorks.