Blog and thoughts

Not “no”, just “not now” – Artists, you know
Could it be, perhaps, that the very volatility we fear is what will shatter our modus operandi, so that we may be better attuned to the present?

The play’s the legacy
Theatre – art – is our legacy, our cascading contribution to humanity, our transfer of memory at the cellular level.

Enjoying the patient uprising
Time is never a luxury in crafting theatre, but here we breathe a little. Trial, error, adjustment, and repetition are the tenets of the cycle of progression.

The artist, the critic, the whole
Too often I hear from industry folk that “you should only be an artist if you can’t do anything else.” I respectfully disagree. I find choice and agency to be far more empowering.

Hearing, finding, translating Kiyoko
We could hear the tone and tilt and burst of her voice but no one understood Japanese. Except Ayumi.

Let us not wait for the historians
It is no mistake that Marie-Josèphe Angélique is barely even a footnote in most Canadian history books.