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Urban Planner: September 7, 2011
In today's Urban Planner: watch WORKhouse Theatre present a play about youth set in post–First World War Vienna, catch a free documentary about people doing great green things around the globe, and listen to a discussion and music about Canadian cult favourite Hard Core Logo.
Lauren Commeford, Carrie Hage, Danielle Bossin-Hardy, and Sarah Illiatovich-Goldman in Pains of Youth. Photo by Fahad Khan.
THEATRE: Starting tonight and running until September 17, WORKhouse Theatre is presenting Pains of Youth. The play—Martin Crimp’s adaptation of Ferdinand Bruckner’s work—is set in 1923 post-war Vienna, focusing on “six sexually entangled medical students” in a generation where youth is diagnosed as a sickness. Unit 102 (46 Noble Street), 7 p.m., $15–$20.
FILM: With the arrival of September comes many things (school, TIFF, cooler weather), but it also marks the return of NFB Mediatheque‘s Green Screens Series, which showcases eco-friendly films. The first film of the season is Earth Keepers, a documentary about innovative green projects taking place around the globe. NFB Mediatheque (150 John Street), 7 p.m., FREE.
DISCUSSION: Hard Core Logo is a Canadian film favourite about a punk band taking its final shot on a reunion tour. Muhlenberg College’s director of film studies, Paul McEwan, has analyzed the phenomenon in his book Bruce McDonald’s ‘Hard Core Logo.’ Tonight, in celebration of the book’s addition to the University of Toronto Press/TIFF Canadian Cinema series, a discussion and show-and-tell on the classic film will take place with the associate director of TIFF’s Canadian Programming, Steve Gravestock; Hard Core Logo screenplay writer Noel S. Baker; and McEwan. Two acts—Choir! Choir! Choir! and White Suede—will perform and pay tribute to the movie’s musical hits. The Garrison (1197 Dundas Street West), 8 p.m., $5.
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