Praxis Theatre
Praxis Theatre is currently working on an original, open-sourced, interactive production, titled Section 98. More details on the web: praxistheatre.com, and via Twitter: @praxistheatre
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Praxis Theatre We are officially in HATCH week. In this post, I show you what an 8 hour day of tech looks like in under 2 minutes and Aislinn Rose wants to know why you don't go to the theare (and is offering free tickets to entice you)!

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We’re here on Day Three of HATCH at the Harbourfront Studio Theatre, preparing for our work-in-progress presentation of Section 98. Some of you are familiar with the nature of “Tech Day”, but part of the ...
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Praxis Theatre Engaging the trolls(ish): Aislinn Rose's response to "Omar Khadr" posting in her comment section and how Section 98 is choosing to deal with it.

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On February 24th, I woke up to find an email from Section 98’s director Michael Wheeler, saying “have you been following my conversation with Omar Khadr?”. I’m sorry, what? Now, I think it says a lot ...
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Praxis Theatre Come see Praxis Theatre’s Section 98, an interactive work-in-progress on civil rights in Canada. This collective creation invites the audience to interact with and inform the artistic product. This open source creative model solicits audience feedback and participation prior and following the presentation, through prax...istheatre.com. During the show, there will be opportunities to participate via text message, so bring your phone!

Tickets are are $12 or $10 for students, seniors and arts workers and are available by phone at 416-973-4000, in person at the York Quay Box Office or through www.harbourfrontcentre.com/hatch. The performance will be followed by an artist Q & A.

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Workshop Presentation for HATCH: emerging performance projects
Time:8:00PM Saturday, March 13th
Location:Studio Theatre, Harbourfront Centre
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Praxis Theatre This post combines two of my favourite things: hockey and Margaret Evans. And winning. Yes, winning is good, too. Where were you for this?

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You can see Margaret as Eugenia (Jim) Watts in the workshop presentation of Section 98 on March 13th @ 8pm as part of HATCH in The Studio Theatre at Harbourfront.
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Praxis Theatre Okay, Facebook Fans, the challenge has been issued, the gauntlet has been thrown down: Here is your golden opportunity to contribute directly to our open-source creative process. Write a scene for Section 98, submit it, and we will incorporate one or some or pieces of many into our upcoming HATCH production. GO!

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The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games are over, and although there was some protesting and censoring, it seems to have come off as a relatively controversy free affair. For this creative process we’ve ...
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Praxis Theatre An invite from our friends at BeautifulCity.ca to Torontonians invested in the arts.

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Note the event will be moderated by Variation on Theatre #7 and Theatre Why Not Artistic DirectorRavi Jain. Note that those involved in the budget process are likely sizing up this whole situation to see how much trouble it’s going to be to just sweep this under the rug. ...
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Praxis Theatre Will the coming of the Pan Am games to Toronto spell funding cuts for arts and culture? Signs so far are not in our favour. Don't wait till 2015 to weigh in on this...

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Does the possibility of Toronto City Council abandoning the Beautiful City initiative, the 93% cuts to BC culture concurrent with the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and the coming 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto mean bad news for Torontoians who value art and culture?
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Praxis Theatre Michael Wheeler introduces us to his adventures as a Director in Training at Tarragon Theatre. How is directing theatre different when you have time and money?

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Throughout 2010 I will be engaged in a Director in Training program at The Tarragon Theatre funded by The Canada Council for the Arts. The premise of this program is that although I have significant experience ...
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Praxis Theatre When it comes to civil rights, “the right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for
right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.”

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Ever since our most recent workshop in January, my research has been focussed on ways in which we can incorporate wireless and cellular technology into our HATCH work-in-progress. In particular, we’re ...
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Praxis Theatre One of my favourite regular features: Out and About, Greta Papageorgiu's Celebrity Theatre. This week we take a peek inside the glitz and glamour of an opening night at Factory Theatre.

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It was a fabulous opening night for George F. Walker’s And So It Goes at the Factory Theatre. Celebrity Theatre managed to sneak in where Marc Bendavid was all about talking to the press. Rosemary Dunsmore didn’t seem so sure.
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Praxis Theatre Introducing the official Praxis Fan Page Sheriff and Tweeter, me. Now you know who is rambling on here.

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A few weeks ago Michael Wheeler put me, Brittney A. Filek-Gibson, affectionately known as BFG, in charge of Praxis Theatre’s social media strategy. By which I mean he gave me the password to the Twitter ...
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Praxis Theatre Michael Wheeler's take on the role of critics in theatre and the state of the Toronto theatre community. A must-read.

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We asked Kelly Nestruck if he would provide a picture of himself - he said he would prefer to be represented by this picture of Gilles Duceppe eating a whole fish.
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Praxis Theatre Greta Papageorgiu brings us another fabulous edition of Celebrity Theatre.

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Now that the Princess and the Handmaiden has wrapped up at Lorraine Kisma, rumour has it that Princess Regan Thiel is looking to buy some property….
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Praxis Theatre Tim Buck, the Musical! A look inside our Fringe Festival TRANZAC drinking song approach to quickly imparting a lot of background information.

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More than 5000 people greeted him upon arrival at Union Station. Men shouted his name, women swooned, and some even reached out to touch the hem of his coat as he walked past. Later he greeted a capacity ...
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Praxis Theatre "I have this game I like to call 'let's find out how ignorant we are.'" Melissa explains the details of the October Crisis by matching game.

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“I have this game I like to call ‘let’s find out how ignorant we are.‘” And with those words from Melissa we set out to complete the task she had prepared for us.