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Spawning opportunities

Spawning opportunities

Spawning opportunities Camila Fitzgibbon June 14, 2021 Fifth and final in a series of blog posts by Apprentice Artistic Director Camilla Fitzgibbon I remember graduating from theatre school 2 years ago in the summer of 2019 with all the idealism of youth despite then...
Keeping the curtain up

Keeping the curtain up

Erratic is one word to use to describe François Legault and the Québec government’s approach to developing and implementing public health measures throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Unscientific, unsettling, and authoritative also come to mind.  The speed and intensity...
Jelena Djukic: theatre as a ‘weapon’ of mass construction

Jelena Djukic: theatre as a ‘weapon’ of mass construction

First in a series of blog posts by Associate Artist Jelena Djukic as part of her internship with the company It’s been more than a year. More than a full year since our lives got shattered and never really got their pieces back together. Not yet. Since I can remember,...
Why we chose to protest, play

Why we chose to protest, play

Tableau D’Hôte just today staged a covert outdoor En Pointe protest play on what was, coincidentally, the nine-month anniversary of the pandemic. I knew full well that my small act of civil disobedience would ruffle feathers, but after weeks of incoherent lockdown...
Code red

Code red

Fourth in a series of blog posts by Apprentice Artistic Director Camilla Fitzgibbon as part of the Conseil des arts de Montréal’s DemART-Mtl program Sunday, September 27th, 2020: The ninth and final episode of En Pointe closes the play series in Montréal....
Me, the voice in my head, and the fight

Me, the voice in my head, and the fight

First in a series of blog posts by playwright Anna Burkholder, recipient of the 2018 More than a Footnote commission for her play The Caravan Me:  It’s May 11th, 2020.  A special day.The voice in my head: Huh? A special day?Me: Yup, a special day.The voice in my...